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Some random thoughts of 60 years ago ….
November 29th, 2009 | 
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Have you noticed that shopping in Kiveton Park has changed greatly over the last sixty years? Well of course it has, you reply, sixty years is a long time. There were no supermarkets in the village at that time anyway. But, I say, it goes much deeper than that. Shopping was just … different.
I base [...]
Vale Leslie Hilton Vagg
Leslie (Les) Hilton Vagg passed away on Monday 23rd November 2009 at his home in Dandenong, Victoria, aged 84. The funeral ceremony will be held on Friday 27th November at 10.00am at Le Pines, Princes Highway, Dandenong, and there is certain to be a full house to help Les on his way.
Yesterday …..
According to the calendar, yesterday was Thursday 5th November, but to my mind, it was that most important day of the year, Bonfire Night. Bonfire Night sticks in my mind because a few years ago, when I was between the ages of, say, six to 14, it was that special night when we kids had [...]
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Perhaps this is the last post, on Our House, Our Street.
As of today’s date, this should be the last report on our roadworks on our street, as the actual work has moved well away from our house, but we still have to do a bit of ducking and weaving to get in and out.
This photo was taken last Wednesday(not this Wednesday, 3rd November, but the [...]
Another Our House, Our Street.
Today’s input contains a lot of photos, and that may be the end of my pictorial story. We start with the frame in place to pour concrete for the 3rd hole.
Of course, there is a lot to do around this hole yet; the concrete has to be poured around the frame, for a start, and [...]
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Dennis Street - a legend in his lunch time!
Dennis, from Kiveton Park from a mining family emigrated to Australia in 1963 with his new bride, the local Bobby's daughter and his in-laws. Now retired he enjoys time on the internet, volunteering at VMR, reading and learning more about his family history. The blog is the lighter side of the goings on of his life now and tales of the what he remembers of the good old days in Kiveton.
Wendy Preece - Boss the Younger
Wendy, Dennis' eldest daughter, computer and internet buff is the driving force behind getting her dad busy on the internet, all of the building of the website and blog is done by her (he just adds the content, but she's managed to teach him how to do a blog post). She will add some comic relief now and then as well as report on our day to day life at times. In Wendy's words "everyone is fair game! And someone needs to fill in the gaps when dad gets slack!"