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A blog about the life of an Australian teenager growing up in the 1970's. It looks at Australian,Global Environmental Women's History
We're Having Brains For Dinner
2022-03-02 03:58
An odd smell was coming from the kitchen. Sweet. Mysteriously meaty. Caramelising in butter. But it wasn’t fish. Or chicken. Or steak. Or any of Mum’s Dutch concoctions. What was… Read More
I'm Catching The Cobb And Co!
2017-12-29 08:49
There was a time when my young life was one long endless holiday, punctuated only by the blur of food, bedtime stories, and Mummy’s cuddles, as the little human sponge that I was, mean… Read More
I'm Catching The Cob And Co!
2017-08-13 07:00
There was a time when my young life was one long endless holiday, punctuated only by the blur of food, bedtime stories, and Mummy’s cuddles, as the little human sponge that I was, mean… Read More
There's Bushfires All Over The Place!
2016-12-29 03:09
There we were, carrying on with our new expat life in Holland, when a radio newsflash came on about Australia. Catastrophic bushfires were devouring their way through the Blue Mountains and… Read More
I Got The Job!
2016-07-16 11:49
I don’t remember how old I was when I became the household maid, but by the age of fifteen I am well and truly over it. My desperation to break free of the shackles of domestic duties… Read More
2015-12-30 02:41
Sport was a huge part of my teenage life. It was an especially handy excuse to escape the ‘slavery’ of house and garden chores at home. Me and my girl peers played so much sport… Read More
2015-08-28 05:30
We girls usually know when we are in danger. The scary creep following me in his panel van one day when I was walking home from school, was obviously not our trusted Mr Whippy. I knew that i… Read More
2015-05-02 09:08
Koala Road was up in arms. Jaws were dropping lower than the red bit of a red bellied black snake. Breasts were ballooning bigger than a Great Frigate bird in mating season - and that was ju… Read More
2015-05-02 08:48
The great thing about living in the Blue Mountains was that we had no sharks. No Great Whites hunting the powerful Nepean River, no Bull Sharks preying the muddy bed of Delarion, no Tiger Sh… Read More
2015-05-02 08:16
We had an abundance of natural beauty to play with in the Blue Mountains. But even though we scaled the walls of our rocky edifices on foot and on bikes, and abseiled back down them using ro… Read More
2015-05-02 06:56
Little did I know growing up that there was more than just crust and mantel lying under the dense forest that carpeted our mountains. Could it be that our soaring escarpments and corrugated… Read More
2015-04-07 23:44
Since the beginning of human time, the world of earthlings was divided in two. There were adults, and there were children. Teenagers did not exist. Adults ingeniously managed to avoid having… Read More
2014-12-17 06:12
A few months ago I was watching 60 Minutes with my three children. "I used to work for 60 Minutes you know", I told them. My 13 year old son answered cheerily and with a lovi… Read More
2014-07-18 00:07
Thirteen is a number burdened with ancient symbolism and much evil. Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky day - and it really was on Friday October 13 1972, when Uruguayan Air Forc… Read More
2014-07-17 23:49
Plato famously said "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." Not that we were taug… Read More
2014-07-17 23:45
Koala RoadWe lived at 40  Koala Road Blaxland, in the Blue Mountains. Not Smith Road or Jones Road. Koala Road. A road named after our iconic cuddly cutie pie of a Koala, when Koalas we… Read More
2014-07-17 23:25
At 13 years of age the world around me was a confusing place. I was in an in between zone: still very naive but trying to make sense of daily occurrences that knotted up my mind and chipped… Read More
2014-07-16 14:13
How frustrating were the 1970's for a talkative teenager. No mobile phone, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Twitter. No Privacy!! Once we were home from school, that was it. Our lives belo… Read More

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