Nostalgic Saturday

Christmas holidays, early 1960's. My cousin David spent his holidays with us for a few years as his parents ran a milk bar- takeaway at Dee Why beach, and were fullon at this time of the year.We used to do a lot of things that kids did then - build billycarts, flying foxes, and the like.
Photo - me, cousin David with Ginger the cat, my sister.

Humour

Nostalgic Saturday

Just going back to the "Golf" theme of a couple of weeks ago - this is my (maternal) Grandfather doing one of the things he loved. This photo would have been taken late 30's to late 40's

I never knew my maternal grandparents, other than what my mother told me and my sister about them, but the memories of looking through the various photos, newspaper clippings (my grandfather was in charge of the Sydney Cricket Ground from late 20's till after WW11, and was mentioned in a lot of the articles that were on cricket tests etc at that venue) and other memorabilia from that time, which was kept in an old Gladstone bag with my mother remain.

Sadly, there are a lot of the old photos that we now have no way of putting names to the faces - which nurse out of a group of nurses was my grandmother ? or is it one of her sisters who is the family connection in that particular photo etc . a lot we know, but equally, there are a lot we dont as well

Friday Foto Challenge - Texture

Late again - had a camera (operator) malfunction on Thurs night, and had to go back after work Friday and try again. :-)

My Paternal Grandparents 50th Wedding Anniversary (1964)

First pic ; Norman and Hilda (with A- youngest g/child{adopted})

Second pic;Uncle R, my father S, Aunt H, Uncle N, Hilda (Grandmother) Norman (Grandfather) , Uncle L. There was a natural daughter who died at age 3 - Aunt H was an adopted child.

Third pic; All the grandchildren (+a ring in - the girl standing between my grandparents was being fostered at the time, and was in the process of being adopted , but something happened and it never eventuated)

I do remember these times as one where you had to be dressed up ( including a tie - yuk), that there were certain formalities that were followed (starting with the Royal toast and Grace), and that you could do a function such as this on a limited budget with help from nieghbours. The only pic that was missed out on was all of the sons and daughters by marraige (ie my mother, my aunts and uncle who married into the family.

Nostalgic Saturday

This is a photo of my Uncle 'Paddy' and my cousins on holidays at Budgewoi on the central coast.
They used to come up from Wagga every year, and was the only time that we got to see them, us travelling to Wagga back then was just not practible. The car is a Standard 8, that he had owned from new - about this time, he was looking into upgrading, but when he was offered 10 pounds ($20) trade in - kept it and "drove it into the ground" for another 8 years or so.

He was an avid golfer and part of the reason for this trip was to participate in the country week of golf around the Sydney courses. I always remember him as a laconic, cigar smoking (it wasnt frowned on then!!) contact lens wearing ( glasses werent much good in the rain playing golf :) )
and competent person.

He was my Godfather and my mothers only brother, and these visits to the central coast meant that we got to go to the beach - which was a novelty back then other than to my grandparents.

Work - Stress and Tension

In my workplace , there is an ongoing problem with stress and tension.

The industry has a band of doctors who are specialists in resolving these issues, and for the smaller firms, there are doctors on call who are employed by one of the major suppliers of the specialist equipment that we use. they are located in areas across the state and might be responsible for an area covering 400 kilometres or more.

They are usually needed every 3 - 6 months, tho if things go wrong, may be neeed in a lot less time than that.

The specialised nature of their work, and the ease that a good one can achieve the desired results with, has led to a smattering of "wannabes" who can often achieve the results, but with a lot shorter durability - or some who simply are taking money under false pretences. Also, there is a couple of newer methods that are available, tho the results are dependent on the skill of the doctor, even with these, as we have found at work this week.

Pictures are
Top : The operating table(anvil), instruments (hammers -he has 6 more, some heavier - they have specially shaped faces to enable him to stretch or shrink the metal to get the right tension into the saw -if the tension is in the wrong place, or the tension is lost from overheating, then the saw will not "stand up" and it is nearly impossible to cut straight and true timber)
He uses a series of 'straight edges' to check the results and to do his diagnosis

Center; A cured patient, the marks are from the heavier blows to achieve the tension, there are a lot of lighter blows used to get the saw back to a flat surface

Bottom: The next patient -the ring marks are from the rolling method that was used when making the saw -these saws have only been used once as the tension was in the wrong area, and wouldnt "stand up"

Friday Foto Challenge - Nature

Magic Moments

My magic moments consist of time with the kids - limited to 2 days/ fortnight with 4 at the moment, and had very little with No 1 till the last week or so since the New year.
He offered and then came out to help with the cattle work ( but the kickers were 1he eats a lot- lol and 2 he wanted to introduce a mate to the blood and guts side of cattlework)
So here he is , knife in hand, doing what he is good at,and Im cursing flat batteries - cause i couldnt get any more pics - but hes a bit bigger than the cream covered urchin a few blogs back now :-) {Big J in orange shirt, his mate L watching}

Now I have to work for a fortnight to replenish the larder - lol