Have you ever wondered as to whether all the publicity about global warming can be taken seriously?
Well it’s all true – here’s the evidence!
On Saturday, I (along with my long-term mate Ken Wriedt) attended a service at Puckapunyal to unveil a plaque commemorating its role in training the thousands of young National Servicemen over the years from the 1950s to 1972. We always preferred to be called National Servicemen (shortened to its slang term of ‘Nasho’s) rather than […]
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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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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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Bob thought this highly amusing – mind you, his are stuck at around 1950.