***Reminiscences. ++ Real stuff***

OK this one of things that really ocurred, a sort of documentation of things I have done.
Or things that have happened and my thoughts about it.
The real stuff as distinct from the right stuff.
This is not a definitive history, something solidly researched through.
But it is as close as factual as things are likely to get.
It is as I recall things, & I am running on memory for a lot of this, and we do at times wander a bit off topic.
However I at least think my recall of things is good, so I shouldn't have too many bits wrong.
It is the way I remember things as being. The way I saw things at the time, or that's what I am trying to get to.
I have mixed feelings about this so it may all dissappear or be discontinued abruptly
I am also interested in any corrections of fact, that is any glaring errors. This includes stuff that makes me look bad too.
Chronologically the oldest or first entry is at the top of the list
So if you came via my Facebook post you should be looking at the bottom of the list
Also, saying it again, this is all very subjective and should you have any issues or dissagreements with my recall please drop me a line and
frankly I would love to maybe readjust things in the light of new info
of course if you have your own story then tell it, but adjustments and insights are welcome here.

THE LATEST ON IS DOWN THE BOTTOM, just check the numbers

1. A very brief overview of life up the end of primary school.
2. My rememberances of the family hardware store.
3. Family fishing and holidays shacks.
4. Port Gibbon, the jetty and ketches etc.
5. Farmers,farming and some of the ways farmers deal with things.
6. The cars of my fathers.......oh.....my parents autos?
7. Entertainment. Radio in the 50's TV in the 60's and the pictures on Saturday night.
8. Waste and what not: Rubbish tips of my youth. Deposit bottles.
9. Bicycles: My history on pedalled devices.
10. Motorcycles: My history on put your feet up devices.
11. Illness: My childhood and not so childhood pains.
12. Pets: My pets, starting and ending with dogs and other stuff in between.
13. Primary school: 1950-56, the early years.
14. Ancestors: Grandparents is what this one is about.....
15. The Hardware store: 1953-1955 As traced through adverts in the E.P. Tribune.
16. CE Padgham. From the pages of the Tribune, up to 1946.
17. Flight: My recollections of me and light aircraft.
18. leaving a gap here.......
19. Lawns: The growing & the mowing. Am I kidding about this as a subject?
20. Wood fires: Something that I was good with once.
21. Gambling: My recall of gambling from when I first knew about it.
22. The Island: Entrance island, how we had it for a while.
23. Adelaide trips: Occasionally as a kid I got to go to Adelaide, long drive. Short story.
24. The family home. A history of the first house, while we had it.
25. Barnyard animals. Chickens & Goats and the back yard animals.
26. SAHT: Grandma and I, at different times were renters with the Housing Trust.
27. Early employment: My young days, prior to becoming a full time worker.
28. Home delivery: Before takeaway, they came to you.
29. Mondays: The washing day, how come and how did it work?
30. Water: Precious in the country where there was often no enough.
31. The Commerce in the Main street: A tour down the Main street as it was in the 50s.
32. The 2Rs: An education reflection, Reading and wRiting.
33. Summertime: A bit of a ramble able Summertime.
34. Cowell 1943: A snapshot from then, what I see in it
    
    
35. The Shell agency: A reminisce of the old days, with a map.

This is an ongoing thing and bits are being added slowly so there is a bit more [but no much] to come yet, keep in touch.