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Lisa recalls her first experience with the Australian health care system - just after her family arrived in Australia.
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Joyce talks about her first job in Adelaide after having moved down from Peterborough.
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Pat talks about her first paid job....
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Lisa spent her early years in Italy. She was one of 10 children and they shared everything, including the clothes they wore. She tells an amusing story of the day she and one of her sisters went to pick broccoli from the family vege patch.
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Lisa recalls her primary school years, especially travelling to and from Virginia Primary School....
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1951: Brooks and Rena, shortly after their wedding My husband's paternal grandparents, Brooks and Rena, have now been married for 62 years. One of my favorite stories that Brooks tells is the one of how he and Rena got together. Brooks grew up in a valley 120 miles east...
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Lisa talks about her early life in Italy and how her family emmigrated from Italy to Australia, paying their own way and coping with the notorious "White Australia" policy. She talks about her parent being gaoled in Italy for opposing Fascism and how she and her siblings lived off the land...
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Graham recalls the battles with his father over what a well dressed teenager in the 1950's should be wearing. This is well worth the listening....
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This week's topic is Childhood Routines and Graham, like many others, chose to focus on bathtime which was usually a weekly occurence.
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Household routines are part of growing up and they change with each passing decade. From times when washing was done by hand in the copper and squeezed through a mangle to the autmated washing machine sof today. Ruth talks about the routines of her childhood.
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This week Ruth talks about her childhood and, in particular, her pets from that time.
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Bill has always had friends and in this story he talks about the important people in his life, his friends. A schoolteacher - George Williams - and the two friends he went sailing with every Saturday in summer for 25 years.
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Joyce talks about visiting family in Adelaide while they were living in Peterborough when she wasyoung - before the fmily moved to Adelaide in 1948.
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