One of the things I love about old letters is the language that plants them in the past. Things like "the blinking b battery", "thingamajig", "going goodo", "oh gee", "a fair cow", "cheerio", "the old mob".
Category: social life
What’s a Wool Press?
Is it any surprise then that many Australians in the nineteenth century, especially those newly arrived, saw opportunity in sheep farming? Little labour (most of the year) and big returns.
Charbon Township – Vision and Reality
Overwhelmingly I felt a sense of sadness for a once-thriving village.
No Water, No Life
The "Wishing Well" piques childhood enchantment but perhaps I was always too focused on the present or future to stroll down a leaf-littered path into the past.
Roaming Around the Long Paddock
It might surprise you to learn that TSRs are part of Kandos history.
