Category: Growing up in Mallacoota

The home now owned by Joe and Joanne Peel in Betka Road was originally the home of Bill and Suzie Maddison. Bill had travelled the...

The end of Winter fires usually determined the commencement of ‘Spring’ cleaning, a very important event on the household calendar. If the season had been...

One of the early families who ventured into business in Mallacoota, were Alex and Bella Smith and their children, Grace, Eric and Dave. Alex worked...

Today when we purchase milk from the supermar­ket, we have a choice of full cream, skim, or a se­lection of low fat varieties, each claiming...

There are many people throughout the coun­try who have gone back to the simpler way of living. It was done from necessity in the 1930s....

I think the first commercial product I remem­ber my Mother and Aunts using was Pond’s Vanishing Cream which I thought as a child was a...

The home owned by Joey and Joanne Peel was built in the early 1930s by Charlie Kiernan and his son, Ray for Bill and Suzy...

Not many women today are familiar with the ritual of ‘white-washing’ as modem homes do not require the procedure; but in my child­hood it was...

It is strange how memories of one’s child­hood are quite often associated with the sense of smell. For me and my sister, Mione, it is...

Perhaps my earliest recollection of Gabo Island was the booming of the rockets warning passing ships of the nearness of the Island. It was an...