Family
Meet Orin Sugiura-Wilson
We spent last weekend being introduced to our newest grandchild and first grandson, Orin Sugiura-Wilson, in a visit to see David and Yuki in Perth, WA. We flew over from Melbourne but stayed in town as we didn’t want to be too much of an imposition on them as a new mum and dad who […]
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With our Grandchildren in New Zealand
We’ve having a very good time in Wellington, New Zealand with Cathy and our two grandchildren We arrived here last Thursday and have had an active time with mild, but very windy weather. This city has really been living up to its name of being ‘Windy Wellington’. Yesterday we saw a woman literally holding on […]
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2014 – My Year in Numbers
It’s fun to look back at the end of the year and see just what you have accomplished. This year, I tries to quantify some of the things that have happened in my life. The attached infographic doesn’t include everything; just those things that are easy to measure. This was my year in 2014
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Christmas is Over
This year is just about over and it’s almost the New Year. We have packed away our Christmas decorations and our house is back to normal again. This Christmas was a little different for us but very enjoyable. We began by attending the carols service at our church on Christmas Eve. It was a speculator […]
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The End (of the year) is Nigh!
It’s obvious that the year is drawing to a close. We seem enmeshed in a series of frenetic ‘wind-up’ activities – each one is very pleasurable, but they just seem endless in their frequency. The school that our grand daughter, Audrey, attends has just had a very successful fair as an end of the year […]
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Cathy’s Move is Finished and We Are Away
Right now we are flying at 38,000 feet over southern India on our way to London. We are happy that Cathy and the girls are settled in their new house and we are taking a few weeks off. Before we left, we had, at Audrey’s invitation, joined in an open house party to celebrate Cathy […]
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A Day Off from Moving
It’s now just over 18 months since our daughter Cathy has been on her own with her two girls, but this week everything seemed to start to come together for her in a much more positive way. We are so happy for her and very proud of her ability to handle stress, difficulties and c. […]
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Commemoration of Grandpa Wilson’s WW1 Service
We have just begun four years of commemoration of those who served in WW1. It seems a bit quaint these days to think that these Australians fought for ‘The British Empire’, but that was the feeling of patriotism at the time. My grandfather, Walter Wilson was a Sergeant in the 57th Battalion 1st AIF and […]
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Some Good Family Times
At the moment, I am very happy that we have caught up with our family and everything seems to be going well for us all. The good times began a few weeks ago when Cathy joined me for lunch on Father’s Day and we had a very nice meal at a new restaurant called ‘Dine […]
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Monkey Business
When our children were at school, we had many occasions at which we attended school concerts, ballet, speech nights and other related activities. While it was always good to see our children in action, I must admit that by the time that they both finished school, I was quite thankful that these types events were […]
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Our Little Artist
When I was a boy, I used to belong to the Sunbeamers – a club for kids that had its own page in the Sun News Pictorial newspaper in Melbourne on Saturdays. They had puzzles, colouring competitions and games that you could enter into each week. Prizes consisted of a series of different coloured certificates […]
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Wilson Christmas
In this week before Christmas, we are busy finishing our shopping, planning Christmas menus and looking forward to having our family with us for the festive season. A week or so ago, Jill and Audrey set up, and decorated, our Christmas tree on the coffee table (with little Violet’s help). Our tradition has been to put […]
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