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Forum: Australia
Dec 19th 2005, 2:49 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Well, with so many of you looking forward to your first Aussie Christmas, I thought I'd tell you about mine!

DERBY, 1969
At the end of November, we'd been given the tenancy of a brand-new State...
Forum: Australia
Dec 18th 2005, 6:25 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

I've hesitated to write more because I realised it's become far more about me than about Australia, and that wasn't the objective when I started it!
Forum: Australia
Sep 24th 2005, 3:16 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Perhaps not surprisingly, my first question was "And what the hell am I supposed to do?" To which the answer was that I had two choices; stay where I was and do the best I could, or sell the car (a...
Forum: Australia
Sep 20th 2005, 2:40 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

I don't think I realised how dangerous the condition was. It was a case of "okay, I have cancer, I'm having an operation to cut it out, I'll be cured and that'll be the end of it". I certainly...
Forum: Australia
Sep 19th 2005, 5:26 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

After 23 years of Liberal government, labot was elected to power in 1971. Gough Whitlam, the new Prime Minister and a former academic, had a vision of Australia as "The Clever Country" and towards...
Forum: Australia
Sep 17th 2005, 2:52 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

23rd February, 1975 - I still have the clipping from the following day's West Australian, showing a group of students and tutors under a tree, anticipation showing clearly on all our faces.
being at...
Forum: Australia
Sep 17th 2005, 8:01 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Hopefully later tonight; have been to a seminar on Creative Thinking this morning, just got home in time to watch the Eagles kick Adelaide out of Subiaco Oval.
YEE - HAAAAAAA! We Won! (got to get...
Forum: Australia
Sep 13th 2005, 3:45 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Jane sat her exams and all her hard work paid off; she had the highest results in the State, outside the metropolitan area. I was very proud of her! Now it remained to be seen if she would be...
Forum: Australia
Sep 10th 2005, 2:45 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

I found Carnarvon quite a strange place to live. Unlike most small towns outside the metro area, it seemed to have no sense of community. There were the plantation people who in those days were...
Forum: Australia
Sep 9th 2005, 4:53 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Life became more 'normal' after that. For the first time since coming to Australia, I wasn't working weekends. And I was doing office work, again something I hadn't done for almost 10 years.
The...
Forum: Australia
Sep 8th 2005, 12:33 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

And after that, wouldn't you think I'd know better than to enter into any shared business relationship with M.? I should have done; but the hostel was 18 months behind us. The Q'land roadhouse had...
Forum: Australia
Sep 7th 2005, 6:10 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Denise, thank you for your kind and perceptive post; I've PM'd you.
But no, actually, it's so long ago and far away that ot almost feels as though it happened to someone else.



The job of...
Forum: Australia
Sep 6th 2005, 4:39 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

I'd found him curled up in fetal position on the bathroom floor, apparently unable to move or speak. By lunchtime he was in psychiatric ward of our local infirmary, where insulin shock therapy was...
Forum: Australia
Sep 5th 2005, 8:41 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

My favourite author once wrote:

"Things happen to you when you're young. And you think you know what it was that happened, but you really don't. Then later, sometimes years later, you suddenly...
Forum: Australia
Sep 4th 2005, 2:30 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

We'd been out of touch, of course, during our journey - no cell phones or email cafes in those days, kids! - and Alan had unexpected visitors from interstate. He had, however, arranged for us to...
Forum: Australia
Sep 1st 2005, 3:22 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

I've driven across the Nullabor several times since that first trip, but never stayed at Madora again. Maybe it's been upgraded recently (lol, like within the last 30 years!) but then it was one of...
Forum: Australia
Sep 1st 2005, 5:36 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

LOL!
More tomorrow, but there are other things I have to do....
Forum: Australia
Sep 1st 2005, 1:56 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Much of the journey is a blur; I know that M. drove till we passed Goondiwindi then I got behind the wheel for the first time and discovered to my amazement that the truck was actually lighter on the...
Forum: Australia
Aug 29th 2005, 5:05 pm
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

My ute was the first thing to be sold, but not the last. The truck was piled high with boxes of all we'd acquired in the previous 4 years and we disposed of all but the essentials. We'd be doing...
Forum: Australia
Aug 29th 2005, 4:39 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

M. had no qualms about leaving; in fact he was as keen as I to see the back of the place. He was also happy to go back to WA. But - and this was a major concern - under no circumstances would he...
Forum: Australia
Aug 25th 2005, 12:25 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

There was much to consider. Although we'd not been at the roadhouse for long, it was already obvious that it wasn't a paying proposition; it certainly couldn't support 4 adults and four children. ...
Forum: Australia
Aug 24th 2005, 2:22 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Thanks to all of you who have written and posted asking about this thread. I had long-lasting computer problems and had more or less forgotten about it, I'm sorry to say.
However, here goes;...
Forum: Australia
Feb 1st 2005, 5:43 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Fortunately the caravan was clean and well equipped with a new bottle of gas; fortunate too that I knew exactly where all our belongings were packed. It wasn't long before the billy was boiling for...
Forum: Australia
Jan 30th 2005, 6:59 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

Although as I've said, the relationship was a distant one (Amy being the SIL of my husband's nephew) we were greeted as family and warmly made welcome. But after dinner, when the children were in...
Forum: Australia
Jan 29th 2005, 5:05 am
Replies: 191
Views: 23,479
Posted By TheCrone

Re: It's been a long, long time!

From Charters Towers it was blacktop all the way to Brisbane. Pot-holed blacktop, washed-out blacktop, in places single-lane blacktop, where an oncoming vehicle meant driving with two wheels on the...
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