It seems strange doesn’t it, that there should be people in your own family that you grew up with but never really got to know. Alan was seven years older than me, and...
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Auntie Ruby, (actually Annabella Stuart Dale) died in Palmerston North in 1928, after a "tragically brief illness" according to her obituary, but the cause of her...
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The first car I owned was a 1931 Singer that i bought for L25 from John Fowraker the Botany professor's son. It had had some fairly advanced features in its day: - a four speed...
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Gentleness and eccentricity, - that's how I remember Auntie Pearl.
Actually she had a bad start in life. Her mother wanted this, her first born, to be named Margaret...
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Picnics as I think of them are a kids’ thing and mainly a family thing, though of course there are school picnics, and Sunday school picnics, and staff picnics. I suppose...
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