Pauline Conolly

Sam Hood was a well known commercial photographer in Sydney for many years. During WWII he would take photographs of service personnel, which were naturally very popular with friends and relatives. In November 1941 H.M.A.S. Sydney was lost in an encounter with the German ship Kormoran. All...

I have been ‘decluttering’ and have come across so many bone china cup/saucer and plate sets. Those shown below belonged to my mother-in-law Jean, who lived in Hobart. On a dairy farm outside Ulverstone my mother had collected even more. Back in the 1950s and 60s this...

When I was a child growing up in Tasmania (1950s) there was a small green bowl sitting on the mantlepiece above our wood burning kitchen stove. It is human nature that an empty container becomes a receptacle for small objects, and our green bowl was no different....

When you finally decide to do some major de-cluttering, it’s often not the cost of an item that makes you decide to keep it rather than cull it. This humble little wooden apple corer must be well over 100 years old. It belonged to my mother Myra,...