Showing posts with label Childhood Memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Childhood Memories. Show all posts

Monday, 9 August 2021

Memories of Dogs and Dresses

Hello, dear people! Today I thought I'd take a take a delightful stroll down memory lane and recall the dogs I've loved and dresses I've worn. Why not? Incongruous perhaps, but that's how my mind works. Or doesn't work, as the case may be. Details. DOGSSamanthaMy devotion to dogs began early....

Monday, 23 April 2018

School Holidays Memories

It's currently school holidays in my neck of the woods. Except I'm not anywhere near woods. I live in suburbia. But you know what I mean.  So here's a lazy nifty bullet list of utterly random school holiday memories: The buzzy euphoric feeling at 3pm on the last day of term. For some reason...

Sunday, 8 October 2017

Waiting For Rain

There it was. That sound. I knew what it meant. That ominous wail slicing through the stillness. It always filled me with dread. It meant that bad things had happened and the villains responsible were out there lurking. I would edge my way through the shadows and end up at the side of my mum's bed....

Thursday, 29 August 2013

The Nerdiest Girl In The School

"LONG AGO AND OH SO FAR AWAY..." TIME: 1983 PLACE: Boganville High School, the main quadrangle.    Picture it.  A time when raging cases of TES were everywhere, (Tragic Eighties Syndrome). Bad perms, bubble skirts and Duran Duran....   Noise and activity flurried...

Friday, 12 April 2013

Sundays With Laurie

Linking up this oldie but goodie with Denyse for Life This Week.  Almost every weekend of my childhood, we all piled into the old Datsun 1200 and drove to the Inner West suburb of Leichhardt, and Leichhardt Oval, to watch the then Balmain Tigers play rugby league. We were 'Westies'...