CIRQUE DU DUCK – BLACKHEATH POND

CIRQUE DU DUCK -  BLACKHEATH POND

I live  just around the corner from the Blackheath duck pond, in the beautiful Blue Mountains. It’s undergoing a complete makeover and re-design right now. The long-necked turtles have been re-homed at The Rhododendron Gardens. Two metres of silt have been removed and will be used elsewhere.

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CORONATION 1953

CORONATION 1953

Celebrations in Australia for the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth were on a scale it’s hard to imagine these days. Every town and city in the nation strived to do the occasion justice. The Blue Mountains, where I now live, certainly stepped up. At Katoomba there was

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BUSH CHRISTMAS – A BLUE MOUNTAINS’ MOVIE

BUSH CHRISTMAS - A BLUE MOUNTAINS' MOVIE

In 1947 the movie Bush Christmas was filmed in the Burragorang Valley and the nearby Blue Mountains of New South Wales. As the caption of the following photo mentions, the Valley was subsequently flooded to create Warragamba Dam. There is now a controversial plan to raise the

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AGATHA CHRISTIE ‘DOWN-UNDER’

AGATHA CHRISTIE 'DOWN-UNDER'

Imagine Agatha Christie needing an introduction. 😎 The following article appeared below a small photo of her in Sydney’s Evening News a century ago. (1922). Wife of Colonel Christie, a member of the British Empire Mission at present travelling through Australia to spread the details of the

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