Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

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Who Remembers Wattle Day?
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au August 19, 2019March 7, 2024

The first day of spring is the little-known but uniquely Australian celebration – National Wattle Day. Wattles have always been part of our country’s landscape and the lives of its people. For Indigenous Australians, wattle trees were a source of food, medicines and wood for many different utensils and weapons. Indigenous peoples of Australia soaked the gum…

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Goddard’s Camerated Concrete Construction
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au October 16, 2018March 21, 2022

Camerated concrete construction is hardly a conversation stopper at a barbeque, but this method of building houses attracted worldwide attention at the start of the twentieth century. In 1905 Concord builder, Henry Arthur Goddard, patented a method of using aerated reinforced concrete that was less dense than regular concrete, but retained its structural strength. This…

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Literary Speaking
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au June 10, 2019March 7, 2024

Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine …. A man’s home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu – the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating – always use condiments. Shotgun wedding – A case of wife or death. A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy. A hangover is…

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From our Collection
BySally Jerapetritis October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

Sugar Scuttle This was a table silverware item for holding and serving sugar. Always in the shape of a coal scuttle with a slanted body open at one end and sitting on a pedestal foot, together with a matching serving spoon or tongs. These were hung either on a handle or on the scuttle lip….

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Whittaker Street, Mortlake
BySally Jerapetritis July 5, 2022March 10, 2024

Peter Whittaker was born in 1868 in Altrincham, Wilmslow, England. He arrived in Brisbane in March 1891, where he joined the Royal Australian Artillery the following year. In 1904 he resigned with the rank of Corporal. He married Blanche Bushell in 1898. They had four children – two sons, Eugene and Norman, and two daughters,…

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My mother used to say . . .
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au December 8, 2017

If you cut too many corners you’ll just keep going around in circles Your problems are only as big as you make them The trouble with living alone is that it is always your turn to do the dishes. The problem with trouble is it always starts out as fun. Experience is the name everyone…

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Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

Who Remembers Wattle Day?

Goddard’s Camerated Concrete Construction

Literary Speaking

From our Collection

Whittaker Street, Mortlake

My mother used to say . . .

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