The nuns and the dispensary
I learned this much later. But when I was a child we lived on the roof top in a house[…]
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Sitting in a speed boat
Perhaps my only direct memory of Singapore. I am sitting in the back seat of a red speed boat. Next[…]
Read moreLee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew came to open our new house today (otherwise known as the new wing of Mount Alvernia Hospital).[…]
Read moreSailing to Singapore
We moved to Singapore. My mother does not remember the date, but it was after I was baptised. We went[…]
Read moreBaptism on Whitsunday
I was baptised in St Mary’s Church, in North Melbourne, by none other than the Reverend Peter J Hollingworth. I[…]
Read moreMount Macedon
Today we went up to Mount Macedon with mum, dad, Douglas, Eddie Shen and his girlfriend. There is a war[…]
Read moreMy Boomerang Won't Come Back
Well, this was the hit song in the first week of my life.
Read moreThe canals were full of rats
One of my friends today left a photo of canal barges in ice in Hamburg and reminded me of a[…]
Read moreAn unexpected sequence of events.
I read this on Wikipedia: Following Japanese attacks on Malaya, Hudsons from No. 1 Squadron RAAF became the first aircraft[…]
Read moreOperation Barbarossa
The Germans attacked the Russians expecting then to collapse like the French did. But they didn’t and the Germans lost.
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