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Dad
My father features so largely in my life that many of the stories of my past are really his stories or make some reference to him. However the early part of his life needs to be written up, just to complete the picture, as far as that can be done from the scraps of anecdotes he left us. He was born in Westport in 1894, and seems to have...
Alan
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 though that doesn’t seem to mean much now, when you’re a child it makes a world of difference. When I started primary school in 1934, (I was six then, but Mr...
Murray
Jerome K Jerome, whom most people older than me will remember as the author of “Three Men in a Boat”, also wrote an essay on shyness, and in it dwelt on the burden that shyness can be to those, like himself, who are stricken with it. He claimed that babies would burst into loud cries of rage and anguish at the least sign of attention...
Pearl
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 Frances, but her father, who happened to work in the Post Office, and to have the function, among other things, of registrar of births, deaths and marriages, wanted her named...
Ruby
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 death remains a bit of a mystery. Family legend has it that she fell ill after a day's gardening, and it was believed that she had suffered some poisonous insect bite, or...
Terry
These things I have tried to learn from Terry; that it is possible to be effective without being aggressive, and to be kind without being a wimp. He was a beautiful child. There’s no getting away from it. With his fair hair and twinkling blue eyes he would have been attractive in any case, but he had also inherited the fine and regular...
Hilary
Our generation of Dales was almost devoid of females. My cousins were Jack and Jim and Tom, and Terry and Doug, and my brothers were Alan, Barry and Dion. We have done better in the next generation with Adrienne and Judy, Jenny and Christine, Dib, Jo, Anna and Hennie, Viv and Bronwyn, and Jackie in Paris. That's eleven, against only ten...
Frederik Christian Dale: A Brush with History
I wouldn't want to make too much of this, but Richard John Seddon has impinged on my life more than chance should have allowed. I've already told you Uncle Murray's story about King Dick's trip down the West coast with Lord Onslow, but perhaps I haven't mentioned his other story about Seddon's typically corrupt use of power to help some yobbo...
Daniel Ferris
The family legend has it that he was born in Ireland, perhaps somewhere near Belfast, and that as a rebellious teenager, he came home late one night to find the door locked. There is no mention of alcohol being involved, but his subsequent behaviour seems to suggest that it might have been. He went up the hill behind the house and dislodged a...