Month: January 2026
Activities Around the Turn of the 20th Century – Part 2
These images are the second group of photos that I found on the State Library of Victoria’s website. I have downloaded them, edited and colourised them as illustrations of life around the turn of the 20th Century. You can find Part One of these images here: https://www.wilsons.id.au/activities-around-the-turn-of-the-20th-century-part-one/ Boating on the Yarra River at Fairfield was […]
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Activities Around The Turn of the 20th Century – Part One
It’s another hot day (44C) with strong winds and many bush fires burning throughout the state. It seems a bit surreal checking my emergency app and listening to the radio messages telling people to evacuate from many places. I’m keeping cool again with the air-con on and following up my post of Old Mebourne with […]
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Old Melbourne – Using AI
On a day when it is 41C (107F) the best thing to do is to sit in an air conditioned room, watch the cricket and find a low energy activity. I’ve found that the State Library of Victoria has an extensive collection of historic photos and my photo editing software has an AI capability of […]
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Our New Year has Begun
We are not really into New Year celebrations any more and on New Year’s Eve we were in bed by 10.00 pm. Regardless of whether we were awake or not, Midnight would come and the calendar would click over to 2026. As expected, we awoke to find the new year had arrived and the newspapers […]
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