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Pat recalls her time as a swimming instructor..

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   A Buddhist Burial   Among the keepsakes we can expect to see in future years are digitized photographs and videos of funerals and burial rituals.  In our family, we have a lengthy video of the burial...

Judith recalls her early working life..including changing 17,000 paybooks into decimal currency.

Joyce recalls her early jobs in typing and retail - including walking around Adelaide wearing expensive jewellery..

Graham recalls the career advice he got from his father and his first job.  

Bill talks about the importance of railways in South Australia before the Second World War. He recalls all the different types of trains that passed through Tarlee and Hamley Bridge in the days before road transport took over.  

Annette tells the story of her parents in law and how they survived the Second World War in Germany...(5 second delay at beginning)

Alice remembers Isabel, her best and dearest friend for 20 years...

Cynthia continues her story about her day as a garbage collector - March 02 1984.

Still on the subject of work Ruth recalls some co-workers and colleagues when she worked in the typing pool of a government department.

Seventy years on Shirley remembers finishing her job at Myer and having to do war work in a munitions factory..

Margaret talks about her first job in the 1940's.  

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Working As A Career Sharing personal stories with family and friends about where we worked is an easy topic to open a conversation. Each of us has a treasure trove of stories locked away in our...

We hiked up to Sandstone Peak and completed the loop over to Inspiration Point and beyond to balancing rock. Sandstone Peak is the highest point in the Santa Monica Mountain and is on the Back Bone Trail! That you can also go over to Inspiration Point, and then the most improbable...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ORIN AUSTIN SEAGER     I was born September 14, 1872 in the little village of Tyrrel Hill, Trumbull County, Ohio, to Mary Emeline Tyrrell Seager. My father, Orin Barber Seager had died April 23, 1872 at the age of 29 of inflammatory rheumatism, five months before my birth....

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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia    Chronicles of a FootlooseForester By Dick Pellek    Forest Research Sometimes Comes To Naught After getting a small grant to research a few selected teak plantations in Central America, compliments of the Organization for Tropical Studies, the Footloose Forester chose Costa Rica, Panama and...

Alice continues the story of her husband Stan and the 18 other Polish migrants to Australia in 1949. All were in search of a home following the trauma of the Second World War.