Some Very Old Game Pieces
Dec 2
Three thing I learnt during Nanowrimo, with annotated graph
1. I can write 50,000 words in 3 days. I didn’t think I could. That’s 16667 words a day for three days. My previous record for one day was 15,000, so there was no way I was writing 50K in 3 days, even thought I wanted to be done before I went to Hobart on…
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Nov 16
QVMAG: The First Tasmanians-Our story
I finally went into to this new gallery, but unfortunately a dark room with glass cabinets and lots of spotlights is not camera friendly, so I don’t have many photos. The label for the basket above says: Percussion method fire-making kit. Tinder sourced & pumili tirrina (basket) made By Vicki-Laine maikutena Green. French explorers recorded…
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Oct 17
New Launceston postcards!
Cnr of Brisbane and George Streets, Launceston. Blundells is on the corner that now has Holyman House (the big white place with the travel agents that isn’t the Flight Centre). This is before 1912. Larger version The two-storey building on the right is next door to the Princess Theatre which isn’t there (it opened 1911,…
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Oct 8
Colouring in the Colonies: numbers
This page has moved to a different blog! (This is just for bookmarks.) Find it here.
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Sep 24
Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
Some photos of the memorial outside the Ballarate Botanical Gardens. If you’re interested, there is a web site.
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Sep 23
Photos from plane: Launceston to Melbourne
Just after take-off and plane was headed south so that must be the east of Launceston. The Melbourne to Launceston photos are more interesting. There was much less cloud and the plane went a long way south over a landscape that is quite bizarre from above, also less bits of plane in the photos. (When I…
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Sep 18
A Paper Mache Village for Australia
(Room in a paper-mache villa) Building houses with cards has been a favourite pastime of many a past generation ; but it was reserved for the ingenuity of the present day to construct habitations of paper. Yet of this frail material is manufactured the “village” shown in the accompanying Illustration. Papier-maché has long been extensively…
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Aug 12
Kitchen, Kitchen & Kitchen
Narryna Heritage Museum, Hobart Three kitchens added to 432 Pages, so rather to decided which one to share, I’m linking to them all and you can pick on or two or even all three! Commandant’s House/Carnavon Hotel, Port Arthur Deloraine Folk Museum, with bonus cake mixer
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Jul 31
J. B. Mather and Son, Tailors, Clothiers & Hatters
Advertising, Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac 1873
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Jul 2
Bushranger Poem
The seven men apprehended by Mr. Humphrey at Ray’s were tried last Saturday, for Mr. Haywood’s robbery. They were all found Guilty, and sentenced to Death,–which awful doom, we understand, will be carried into effect early in the next week.–We have a full report of this interesting trial, which we are obliged to defer. In…
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