English – she’s a funny language

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I Remember, do You?
BySally Jerapetritis October 20, 2023October 22, 2023

I remember when the loo was a dunny,And the pan man came at night;It wasn’t the least bit funnyGoing out the back with no light. The interesting items we perusedFrom the newspapers cut into squaresAnd hung from a peg in the outhouse –It took little then to keep us amused. The clothes were boiled in…

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What’s in a Name?
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au November 11, 2019March 7, 2024

Why do we give our houses names? In the past it was a way of connecting with our roots – a way of identifying with an English, Irish or Scottish background. Names such as “Alban” the Gaelic name of Scotland or “Erin” for Ireland were widely used, as were names that incorporated the word “Rose”…

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The street where you live: Zoeller Street
BySally Jerapetritis January 26, 2025March 20, 2025

Daniel Zoeller was born in Darmstadt Germany in 1831. He emigrated to Australia in 1856 with his wife Katherine and their first child Elizabeth. They settled in Ada Street Concord, at the home called “Pine Cottage”. (NSW Government Gazette p1448 1883) Daniel was naturalised an Australian citizen at Government House, Sydney on 11 April 1866(NSW…

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Maps Tell us Stories, not Facts
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au July 13, 2017

Historians use historical maps for several purposes: as useful tools for reconstructing the past, to the extent that maps provide records of features, landscapes, cities and places that may not exist anymore or that exist in dramatically transformed form; and as a representation of the “worldview” of the mapmaking culture, and how that culture saw…

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Great Great Grandmas’s Special Fruit Cake
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au October 22, 2017

Get ready for Christmas now – it’s closer than you think. (Read instructions carefully) 1 cup butter 1 cup sugar 4 large eggs 1 cup dried fruit 1 bottle whisky 1 teasp. baking soda 1 cup brown sugar 1 tabs lemon…

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Edward “Ned” Trickett – World Champion Sculler
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au May 17, 2019

Beginnings of a national identity? “… the first man not bred in England to win the great prize of the championship of the world who had won honour for the people of the whole of these colonies”. Words of praise from the then Premier of New South Wales, the Hon. Sir John Robertson… In 1876, Australia…

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English – she’s a funny language

I Remember, do You?

What’s in a Name?

The street where you live: Zoeller Street

Maps Tell us Stories, not Facts

Great Great Grandmas’s Special Fruit Cake

Edward “Ned” Trickett – World Champion Sculler

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