Blue Mountains – latest article

  • Collage of Blue Mountains Birds.
    ‘THE STUDIO’ AT ACER CORNER
    The Studio was home for myself and my partner Rob  while we built our new house at Blackheath, in the beautiful Blue Mountains. Now that we have moved out we have decided to let the detached property to birdwatchers, bushwalkers and nature lovers on a short stay...
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History – latest article

  • THE RYAN MURDER AT WYCHEPROOF
    THE RYAN MURDER AT WYCHEPROOF
    Martin Ryan  owned  a grazing property at Thalia, a few miles from Wycheproof in the region of Victoria known as the Wimmera. Ryan had originally purchased a modest holding at just 30 shillings per acre.  Over the years  he increased  his property to 3,000 acres. By 1928...
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Humour – latest article

  • FRENCH KNITTING NOSTALGIA
    FRENCH KNITTING NOSTALGIA
    French knitting is sometimes called spool knitting.  I wonder whether kids still do this?  My sister and I loved it. Tasmanian winters are long and cold and this  fireside occupation was perfect. Little boys enjoyed it too. My cousin Frank grew up in Deloraine and told me...
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Travel – latest article

  • Collage of Blue Mountains Birds.
    ‘THE STUDIO’ AT ACER CORNER
    The Studio was home for myself and my partner Rob  while we built our new house at Blackheath, in the beautiful Blue Mountains. Now that we have moved out we have decided to let the detached property to birdwatchers, bushwalkers and nature lovers on a short stay...
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Latest Blog Posts

  • ERIGERON - SEASIDE DAISY
    ERIGERON – SEASIDE DAISY
    Erigeron karvinskianus is commonly known as Seaside Daisy. It’s a hardy perennial that can cope with wind, heat and salt spray.  Now this  doesn’t sound as if it should grow in the Upper Blue Mountains of NSW, but it also copes with frost and snow, and thrives...
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  • CLARICE TUCKER - A LETTER FROM HOME
    CLARICE TUCKER – A LETTER FROM HOME
    In April 1920, Clarice Tucker  (nee Thomas) was a young married woman living at Edenhope in western Victoria, not far from the South Australian border. Her family were from the small town of Inglewood, near Bendigo. It must have lifted Clarice’s heart when a letter from her...
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  • Beatrix Potter - Remembered Pleasures
    Beatrix Potter – Remembered Pleasures
    Beatrix Potter was born in 1866.  She experienced  a stultifying. genteel London childhood that caused her to withdraw into her own world. It was a world  that would later be made magical by her artistic talent and love of  nature.  We, and generations before us,  have been...
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  • A CICADA SPRING & AN URBAN MYTH
    A CICADA SPRING & AN URBAN MYTH
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