Every Day Life
A Return Visit to Puckapunyal
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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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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Another Day Exploring South Gippsland
Our explorations yesterday took us to the west of Inverloch and over to the area of Waratah Bay. This took us through some rich grazing land although we did find a few interesting places along the coast. At one point, we drove through the middle of the Bald Hills wind farm where fifty two giant […]
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Coastal Scenery Near Inverloch
There are some very interesting parts of the coast line between Inverloch and Cape Patterson. Yesterday, we explored the cliffs and beaches along the way. This area is located in the Bunurong Marine National Park. It has place names such as Eagles Nest, Shack Bay, Twin Reefs and The Caves and is ideal for photography. […]
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Driving to Inverloch
We’re having a few days at the RACV Resort at Inverloch, a coastal town to the south east of Melbourne. It took about two hours to get here although a couple of stops added to the time. We left Melbourne on the busy Monash Freeway, driving through the outer south-eastern suburbs passing Berwick and Packenham. […]
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Our 2026 Archibald Prize Visit
We spent a few days, just recently, in the regional city of Geelong and nearby Torquay to see this year’s exhibition of portraits in the Archibald Prize at the gGeelong Gallery. The Archibald Prize is Australia’s most prestigious award for portrait painting, established in 1921 through a bequest by J. F. Archibald, co-founder and editor […]
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Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance
The Shrine of Remembrance (generally just called The Shrine) is Melbourne’s War Memorial. It was built to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I, However, it now functions as a memorial to all Australians who have served in any war. It is a site of annual observances for Anzac […]
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Warning – Check Your Bank Details Regularly
A few days ago I was listening to a tech expert on the radio talking about electronic scams. One of the points he made was to check your bank details regularly – at least once a week. At the time I didn’t know how prophetic his advice would be. Last night I received a text […]
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Our Day at the Gallery
We had a very nice day during the week when we went to the Victorian National Gallery to see the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Exhibition. This was a display of over 100 paintings by French Impressionists from the late 19th Century. The paintings were on loan from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Because many of […]
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