My Extended Family

My Extended Family
Graham tells the Life Story Circle about his extended family - on both sides...
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My Preschool Years

My Preschool Years
Ruth recalls growing up in Adelaide in the 1950's, in particular her preschool years.
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My Extended Family

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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My Extended Family

My Extended Family
Margaret talks about her extended family - from the past aand extending into the future.
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My Early Childhood

My Early Childhood
Pat spent the first three years of her life in the norsery of the orphange where she had been put by her mother - Nazareth House, Plymouth, Devon. Pat shares this story with the Life Story Circle.....
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My extended family

Helen's extended family lived in UK when she was young.  She became penfriends with two cousins during her childhood and one of their father's work mates became their adopted Uncle and Aunty - Clarrie and Fay Maynard. Eventually one of her father's brothers emigrated to Australia and settled in Wollongong.  Helen...
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The Name Game...

This week's prompt is about Nicknames, so I thought I'd write about my family's given names and nicknames. My given name is Sandra Jean Smith. Jean was my mother's middle name.  When I got married, I became Sandra Jones . How common and boring can you get.? I should have at...
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My Mother, Ivy Tilbrook

My Mother, Ivy Tilbrook
Jill talks about her mother - Ivy Mary Tilbrook (Left) - seen here with her sister, Jean Tahmindis in 1980
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What's in a Name?

Prompt:  What nicknames have you had? Who knew you that way? How did the nickname come about? Which nicknames do you like or dislike? As I look back over my lifetime, my earliest nickname was "little sammy".  Some of my father's friends called him "Sam" and I don't know who or...
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A Family in Flux

A Family in Flux
A family in flux.  In the last year my family has been in flux.  Through this time family history has been a recurring thread.  On my Mothers side there is a tapestry being created.  On my Dads side that same tapestry is unraveling.  With my daughter, the tapestry is weaving a...
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On Getting the Right Attitude

  On Getting The Right Attitude ...           No one can make you happy, or unhappy.  You may become that way, but trust me, 95% of the time, you will shape your happiness with your attitude.  And it is only a matter of convenience just how offended you can be about...
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A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican

A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican
  On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A Very Strange Bird Is The Pelican Having a short name with only 6 letters didn’t limit the number of ways his family name was mispronounced or misspelled. In junk mail, in particular, it...
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Under the WiliWili Tree

Under the WiliWili Tree
On the road …again!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Under the WiliWili Tree   Starting just as soon as it gets light, you can see one or two people stooping over to pick something up from the grass under the WiliWili Tree.  Local residents,...
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My Sister Janet

My Sister Janet
Joyce talks about her childhood and her younger sister Janet and her arrival in Joyce's life.  
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My Brothers and Sisters

My Brothers and Sisters
Judith talks about her siblings. She begins with the story of her walking out when her mother brought home her baby brother. The fuss over the first born son annoyed her so much that she staged her first protest!
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My Parents and Siblings

My Parents and Siblings
Bill recalls his parents. His father was a butcher by trade and Bill was born in Riverton South Australia before moving the short distance to Tarlee where he lived in the house that is now the Grasshopper Roadhouse.  
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My Mother

My Mother
Continuing her story of her parents, Ruth recalls her mother.
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My Siblings

My Siblings
Graham recalls elder sister Joy who baked great rock buns and looked after her younger brother.
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My Siblings

My Siblings
Alice recalls her childhood growing up in an extended family. Her father had been married before so Alice inherited other siblings.
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My Siblings

My Siblings
Margaret recalls her brothers and sister and her happy childhood.
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