Halloween. I love it. Apart from Christmas it’s my favourite celebration. I have celebrated it since having my kids. I wish I would have known about it when I was a kid and I would have walked around the neighbourhood in one of my mum’s sheets asking for lollies! Mistakenly, …
After Ned Kelly was hung, his head was cut off and people took parts as souvenirs. What was left of Ned was buried in a mass grave in the prisoners yard. In 2011 some scientists examined 34 skeletons and they identified Ned Kelly’s headless skeleton. The oldest convict transported …
My husband was told that he had to be related to Robin Hood as his mum was born in Nottingham. Wow, that’s cool hey! But it was wrong. The truth was that she was born in a suburb of London called Mottingham. That gave me a chuckle when I ordered …
I walked around and around in circles looking for my great aunts grave in the Maryborough cemetary. I thought I can’t have missed it, then I found the number marker. No gravestone. It’s so sad. Like they didn’t even exist. I took a picture of the grass just to somehow …
My 6 and eight year old young daughters talk about what it’s going to be like when they have kids. They ask me “Does Dad wish that he had a boy?”, I say “No, Dad is happy that your all healthy but of course he would have liked to have …
