tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post8668808851213714179..comments2023-07-02T19:23:47.154+10:00Comments on scuze i: memory laneFruitCakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-58547232662959167072011-12-25T11:15:29.953+11:002011-12-25T11:15:29.953+11:00Thanks Dina. Change can be a challenging thing, an...Thanks Dina. Change can be a challenging thing, and astonishing in retrospect.<br />I do remember the old woman was terribly distressed about her "change". The shopkeeper was both sympathetic and frustrated, but he couldn't afford to set a precedent by giving in, I guess.<br />Christmas so far has been wonderful. Aunty joined in the excitement of checking out Santa's gifts, and is now off to spend some time with her children and their families for a few days- including a stay along the Great Ocean Road, in a house right on the ocean.<br />I hope, in turn, that you, Jack and Tim and all your friends and family are having a safe and happy holiday season!FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-55800045215048638562011-12-25T02:39:12.842+11:002011-12-25T02:39:12.842+11:00AWESOME post. I shall need to read it at least t...AWESOME post. I shall need to read it at least twice so I can ingest all the goodies. <br /><br />I love the old women's line about changes. That's too funny. <br /><br />I hope you and your other have a wonderful Christmas!Dina Roberts https://www.blogger.com/profile/05558115658079175456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-89158310324625754312011-12-22T23:30:38.146+11:002011-12-22T23:30:38.146+11:00A childhood in Fiji sounds fascinating, Red.
Can&...A childhood in Fiji sounds fascinating, Red. <br />Can't tell you how much your surprise means to me - thank you!<br />Merry Xmas to you and Pilchard too. :-)FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-70631164772379037532011-12-22T11:59:21.262+11:002011-12-22T11:59:21.262+11:00I vacillated wildly between 'those were the da...I vacillated wildly between 'those were the days!' and 'those were dark times'!!! The needles thing resonates - I spent part of my childhood in Fiji - so every time we returned to OZ, we had (what seemed like) dozens of injections! But we got to keep the syringes to 'play' with ... <br /><br />There's a special Xmas surprise for you over on my blog in my 'Sunshine' post! Enjoy, and Merry Xmas!!!Red Nomad OZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020668094026661054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-23134477177058734222011-12-21T22:38:03.214+11:002011-12-21T22:38:03.214+11:00Hi Rubye,
I'm very brave now about needles, bu...Hi Rubye,<br />I'm very brave now about needles, but that might have a lot to do with me being much bigger and the needles being much much smaller. It just occurs to me that as a child I was able to "live in the now" without realising it - e.g. crying after those polio shots.<br />I do sometimes wish I could somehow tell people - like that nice Italian lady - that even if I can't remember names there are lots and lots of kindnesses people have shown me over the years, and each one comes back to me from time to time. It would be nice to think the remembering gave something back to those people.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-4257355481593833482011-12-21T04:19:57.928+11:002011-12-21T04:19:57.928+11:00Having lived most of my life in the U.S. there are...Having lived most of my life in the U.S. there are some things here I don't relate to but they are all so interesting. What I take away from your post is my agreement with how most people really are kind.<br />Oh yeah, and those polio shots, I remember them all too well.Rubye Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02511953177053448513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-20990163859704516632011-12-20T20:10:43.481+11:002011-12-20T20:10:43.481+11:00Hi Diane,
I had started to read your book before y...Hi Diane,<br />I had started to read your book before you went on your wildflower trip [of which I'm awfully jealous]. Your first chapter not only gave me a chance to experience life on one of those immigrant ships, it gave me a peek at a picture of you as a tin lid. Can't wait til the distractions of Christmas are over and I can get back to it!<br /><br />Sometimes I am shocked at how the pace of technological change is escalating, and then other times I am shocked at how <i> much </i> changed <i> before </i> computer technology started changing everything in a different way.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-18778941530031838462011-12-20T16:46:08.461+11:002011-12-20T16:46:08.461+11:00A great jaunt down memory lane. You have a good me...A great jaunt down memory lane. You have a good memory. I can remember the chip heater and ice box and kerosine fridge and heater. We also had kerosine lamps for a while. The dunny man visited once a week. When we first came to Australia we lived in a tent and mum cooked outside on a wood stove sometimes holding an umbrella. I have written this story on m blog it is on my side bar under Migrating to Australia.diane bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002292118984909883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-58588411762102213052011-12-19T22:05:37.737+11:002011-12-19T22:05:37.737+11:00Hi Andrew,
I was chuffed after the Longford Gas Ex...Hi Andrew,<br />I was chuffed after the Longford Gas Explosion to read that people had been rigging up chip heaters. Took very little wood to heat a decent amount of water. [Though taking a bath in "pee soup" after half a dozen others is something I'd not like to go back to.]<br />I think the Mark 4 business is much the same as the flame height business. No thermostats to guarantee oven temperature, but sample marks to help with the flame height. I've always been impressed with the way people could regulate the oven temp of wood stoves - most of which had no built in thermometers.<br /><br />Levels of 'progress' seem to have differed all over the city/country. People my age often pooh-pooh my talk of outside toilets, chip heaters etc because they grew up in newer areas, and because they didn't move constantly like we did, so I'm glad to hear about your chip heater.<br /><br />Hi Windsmoke,<br />If I remember correctly the BP servo was on the corner of St James St... ?FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-47614931240635836502011-12-19T08:01:37.513+11:002011-12-19T08:01:37.513+11:00This is what i call a blast from the past because ...This is what i call a blast from the past because everything you describe i can relate to as i lived in Moonee Ponds at two locations the first one was an easy walk to Essendon Station and had a bp service station on the corner with Mt Alexander Rd and the other one was behind Puckle Street where Moonee Ponds Market used to be :-).Windsmoke.http://windsmoke.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-91942903316448476472011-12-19T00:07:22.814+11:002011-12-19T00:07:22.814+11:00Connect with pretty well everything you had mentio...Connect with pretty well everything you had mentioned. You lived in luxury with a gas geyser when most of us only had chip heaters to heat the bath water. I wonder if the height from the gas flame connects to something that puzzles me, the English settings on stoves, mark 4.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com