Home internet – let’s look at how it all began! Australia joined the global internet 32 years ago on June 23, 1989 via a connection made by the University of Melbourne. It was mostly…
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Tongue Twisters. Remember when you were a kid and you felt such a supreme sense of accomplishment if you could master one? I do, and I thought I was pretty good at it too.…
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Image by Ogutier from Pixabay LOLLIES! When I think back to my childhood it’s impossible to not think of lollies (if you’re in the USA I’m meaning ‘candy’ of course). It’s not that I…
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Were you a little girl (or boy) fashion designer in the 1970’s like I was? Oh how I loved ‘Fashion Plates’. I’m not sure if it belonged to me, one of my sisters, or…
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It was 1 March 1975 that full colour TV service commenced nationwide in Australia. It was a big deal. Like WOW – such modern technology! Such inventiveness! How very futuristic! It was some time…
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It’s been a while since my last ‘I REMEMBER WHEN’ post. It was in fact earlier this year on 19 April and I was remembering when I could always find a Ladybird in the…
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I miss seeing Ladybirds in the garden. I remember as a child I could wander outside to the garden and always find myself a beautiful Ladybird. Nowadays, I go outside to the garden and…
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I recently shared a post from ‘Vintage Queensland’ on the Write of the Middle Facebook page. It was a picture of the inside couple of pages of one of the Dick, Dora, Nip and…
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Looking at the photograph above takes me right back to when I was a young girl sitting in my bean bag in the family room at my family home, probably snacking on something,…
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With it recently being 4th of July and Independence Day over in the USA where they celebrate at night with firecrackers, it got me thinking about when I was a kid and we used…
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It’s nice to take a trip down memory lane isn’t it? A bit of nostalgia feels good. It brings back happy memories, takes you back to another time and place, and fills you…
