Buckshot Bear

Bit of salt, some malt vinegar and lunch is ready

Vegemite ......#3 is about perfect.

Moving the Big Merino

More than a century after he enlisted in World War I, a young Ngarrindjeri soldier was at last brought home to rest at Raukkan 24 March 2017. Mack Miller served on the Western Front and died from tuberculosis in the Spanish flu quarantine Hospital in the exhibition building in Adelaide in 1919.

My sons were on a fishing trip in the Northern Territory last year and there were some Aboriginal kids jumping off the pier and there was a croc around that size. The kids would throw a big rock in and the croc would go after that and they'd jump in the other side and quickly clamber out. Sons said to a local that they couldn't believe what they were watching and got told that the kids do it all the time.

THE MARBURG HOTEL - 1886 Exterior view of the Marburg Hotel. A family group poses on the verandah, including Otto Sakrzewski who was the proprietor of the hotel 1886-1914. His wife Auguste is seated, holding a baby.

ESSEX TOURER - 1929 Essex Tourer made by the Hudson Motor Company of USA. Car pictured was and Australian body on an imported chassis. This model known as The Challenger. Tourer has rear curtains in place. Extra curtains between rear and doors could be added in wet weather.

Aussie in Rome

Big Platypus at Broken River Eungella QLD.

Normie Rowe - A popular recording star who served in Vietnam. A celebrity among many of the young men of his age who faced the prospect of conscription, Rowe was among those called up for army service. Norman J. Rowe, AM (b. 1947) Normie Rowe began his popular singing career while a young teenager and gathered a youthful following. After producing his first record in 1965, he quickly rose to national fame, becoming Australia’s King of Pop in 1968. He had a number of big hits, including “It ain’t necessarily so”, and “Que sera sera”. Rowe’s career was suddenly interrupted when he was called up to do National Service. The press followed his military service, but it was no substitute for the attention he had received as a touring and recording celebrity. He was duly sent to serve in Vietnam with A Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment. In Vietnam he commanded an armoured personnel carrier, describing the work as, “out on the highway, protection for vehicle convoys and land-clearing teams … taking in infantry, and things like that”. Following his year’s active service he was released from the army. After his discharge Rowe found it hard to take up his career where he had left off. Nevertheless, he gradually re-established himself in the entertainment industry and later moved into television, theatre, and recording. In 1987 he had an important role in the stage musical Les Misérables. He closely identifies himself with Vietnam veterans groups and actively supports them. Rowe has said of his National Service days: “You can look at your life and say that wasn’t fair and that killed your career … or you can look back and take out of that segment of your life whatever was good. The best friends that I’ve got are Vietnam veterans.

I present to you.....The Lamington

Tupperware | First Party The first Tupperware party in Australia was held by Mary Paton in her mother's home in Camberwell in 1961. Mary's sister Ruth became the first Australian Demonstrator. Craig and Mary Paton were living in California when Craig met Tupperware International President Hamer Wilson at a convention in the late '50s. Twelve women attended the first ever Australian Tupperware party, held at Mary's mother's home in Camberwell. Among the number was Mary's sister Ruth, who went on to become the first Australian Demonstrator.