Poem by Spike Milligan

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A Collection of Memories
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au November 15, 2019March 7, 2024

We all have some possessions, collected through the years; Some bring happy memories, others bring the tears. Not many from our childhood, we didn’t bother then, We were far too busy learning and counting up to ten. When maturity came through we started to collect. Some we threw away later, the special ones we kept….

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A Boy and His Horse
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au June 22, 2020March 10, 2024

Picture this. It’s 1932 and Australia was in the grip of the Great Depression. One in three workers were unemployed Decrepit shanty town hugged the outskirts of the big cities. A scrawny rabbit, caught in a trap, would feed a family for a week. Country roads were filled with broken men walking from one farmhouse…

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Peaches (remembering Len Beadel)
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au July 20, 2016March 20, 2025

In 1956 I was in the middle of the Simpson Desert attached to 1 Troop of 17th Independent Field Squadron Royal Australian Engineers as part of the advance party preparing the site for the intending round of Atomic bomb tests to be held later in the year. Towers were being erected and bunkers dug to…

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Colonial Canadian Exiles
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au June 21, 2016

Colonel George Arthur, after 12 years a Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, was appointed to a similar position in Upper Canada (now Ontario). His first task on arrival, in early 1838, was to clean up the remnants of a rebellion against the British rule which had been going on for some time in both Upper…

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Yaralla’s Royal Encounter
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au December 14, 2018

Yaralla House residents were invited by the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet to a meet and greet with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on Tuesday 16th October 2018. The Duke and Duchess were visiting Sydney to open and celebrate the Invictus Games. The Invictus Games is an…

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Santa Claus: The Many Faces Behind the Beard
Bysiteadmin@michel.com.au November 9, 2019March 7, 2024

Rick Steves’ European Christmas book (a companion book to the public television show), outlines the history and many European variations on Santa Claus. Here’s an excerpt: Our American Santa Claus — a plump, jolly old fellow dressed in red — is just one of many gift-giving characters who preside over the Christmas season. Depending on where you are…

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Poem by Spike Milligan

A Collection of Memories

A Boy and His Horse

Peaches (remembering Len Beadel)

Colonial Canadian Exiles

Yaralla’s Royal Encounter

Santa Claus: The Many Faces Behind the Beard

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