ANZAC Day and the Battle of Passchendaele

This week has been a very moving one for our family.  A “Memorial Scroll” commemorating the sacrifice of the life of my great uncle, LIONEL EUSTACE PARKINSON (aged 20 years) at the Battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 has finally found it’s way back home.
The scroll has lain buried behind a print in a picture [...]

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Creativity runs in the family

Well, the new website’s finally finished – yippeeeeee!  I estimate I’ve worked on it for about 6-8 hours per day (after work, into the wee hours…) for over 2 weeks, so you do the math…I’m too scared too!  But, it’s up and running and looking pretty spiffy too.  Thanks to all who’ve left me comments [...]

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1.36am and only 68 bracelets to go….aaargh!

Well, I’m almost done updating to the new website.  I only have my bracelets section to go…and it’s got 68 bracelets in it – eek!  Never mind.  It’s taking ages cos I’m taking new pics as I go, so that slows things down abit.  I’m starting the bracelets tomorrow (partly cos I do procrastinate when [...]

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Would you like fries with that?

At this time of the night/morning, I’m wondering what on earth I was thinking, building a new website…
Yes, it does have a whole lot of features that my current site doesn’t have, but man – it is REALLY hard work!  I estimate I must’ve spent a good 30+ hours on it already, and I’m only [...]

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