HEARDBeth LellaSeptember 29, 2007
Peacefully at Kareena Private Hospital Caringbah, late of Sans Souci. Beloved wife of Robert (deceased). Much loved mother and mother-in-law of Robert, James and Jane. Adored “Dibby” of Max. Dear sister of Eric, Keith and Jean (all deceased), Neil and Fay, Roy and Kay. Loved and sadly missed by their families.
A dedicated [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family stories’
9 Oct
Sad
Posted by Neil in Events, Personal. Tagged: family stories, milestones, teachers. 2 Comments
30 Sep
Salmagundi
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Current affairs, Education, Events, M, Personal, Surry Hills, blogging, my sites. Tagged: environment, family stories, reminiscing, Sirdan, teachers, teaching, The Shire, US politics. 1 Comment
Now there’s a word to look up! It describes this entry perfectly.
Shire nostalgia
On Occasional rambles of a retired teacher, that excellent new blog of mine on Blogspot on the old Floating Life address which more of you should visit, I am about to write* the next in the inspiring teachers series based on Teachers Who [...]
13 Aug
May have been, very possibly…
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Indigenous Australians, Jim Belshaw, OzLit, Reading, writing. Tagged: Best Read of 2007, family stories. 2 Comments
Substantial additions have been made to this post, thanks to Adrian.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville (2005). Grenville has also written one of the best books on writing that I know. (Australian historical fiction)
As I said last week:
I mentioned in my comment on Jim’s post that I am at last reading The [...]
12 Aug
Sunday in Illpah
Posted by Neil in Personal, Surry Hills. Tagged: family stories, Sirdan, South Sydney Uniting Church. Comments Off
That is, as you may recall, the Aboriginal name for Waterloo*. Church was good today; unusually I propose a whole entry for that. Afterwards Sirdan and I had lunch at Chinese Whisper in Surry Hills, and then I went to PK’s for the afternoon. A good day.
6 Aug
James O’Brien on Surry Hills
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Education, Indigenous Australians, Multiculturalism and diversity, Personal, Surry Hills, blogging. Tagged: family stories, meet a blog, South Sydney Uniting Church. 5 Comments
James has a good post on my neighbourhood — you can follow some of his walk on the masthead image above!
He refers to Cleveland House, which is, some say, the oldest house still standing in Sydney, perhaps even older than Cadman’s Cottage in The Rocks. It is amazing to think it was there and around [...]
17 Jul
Another Surry Hills blog!
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Observations, Personal, Surry Hills, blogging, my sites. Tagged: family stories, meet a blog. Comments Off
I have found someone else on WordPress who uses the Surry Hills tag: jamesobrien.id.au, and what a good blog it is too! Do visit it. For a start we have in common not only Surry Hills but an interest in colonial and family history. And we both have convict ancestry.
17 Jul
Three hot issues
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Current affairs, Films, DVDs, TV, Indigenous Australians, Jim Belshaw, Multiculturalism and diversity, News and Current Affairs, Politics, climate change, immigration, racism. Tagged: culture wars, family stories, Miranda Devine. 22 Comments
No pun intended in the first case…
Hot issue 1: Climate change
I received a lovely email after commenting on another blog which had been (I thought) unduly impressed by that rather scurrilous documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. Consequently I have updated and expanded the post to which I have been directing people from that [...]
10 Jul
Transcript of Sunday’s Compass now online
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Films, DVDs, TV, Indigenous Australians, Multiculturalism and diversity, immigration. Tagged: family stories. Comments Off
It was a two parter: see Part 1 and Part 2. I have in mind Bruce’s post on this topic as well. I share with Bruce (and his first commenter) some disquiet about our recent growth of US-style patriotism, and I have addressed that several times before, for example Frothing at the mouth over the [...]
9 Jul
It’s July 9
Posted by Neil in Diversions, Events, Marcel, Personal. Tagged: family stories. 2 Comments
6 Jul
Indigenous affairs
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Brendan Nelson, Current affairs, Indigenous Australians, Jim Belshaw, Personal. Tagged: culture wars, family stories. 2 Comments
I have just had a long conversation with my Aboriginal nephew in Queensland. I had been hoping to, in view of recent events. Naturally I asked him about those events. He doesn’t know Noel Pearson personally, though he does live not far from Pearson. What he did say, and I think it is true, is [...]
23 Jun
Bookmarks while you wait — expanded
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Current affairs, Indigenous Australians, Jim Belshaw, Kevin Rudd, News and Current Affairs, Politics, Reconciliation. Tagged: culture wars, family stories, Miranda Devine. 5 Comments
The need to re-embrace TRUE RECONCILIATION has never been stronger than it is today.
The issue I and many other Australians are wrestling with right now is best thought about after reading The Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse. The complete Northern Territory Government Report can [...]
11 Jun
During the day…
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Personal, my sites. Tagged: family stories, Sirdan. Comments Off
Why would someone from the European Parliament in Luxembourg be reading this blog? But they have been for the past five minutes.
27 Apr
Late Anzac Day thoughts
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Films, DVDs, TV, Indigenous Australians, Jim Belshaw, Personal. Tagged: family stories. 2 Comments
I didn’t do a special post on Anzac Day, letting last year’s serve, and a few people did Google to it I notice. However, two good programs on ABC-TV last night have inspired some reflections, not so much on the day and its significance — important and solemn rather than sacred as far as I [...]
24 Apr
One of our stories well told: Radiance (1998). Stephen Page on Talking Heads
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Films, DVDs, TV, Indigenous Australians, Jim Belshaw. Tagged: family stories. 1 Comment
Louis Nowra adapted his stage play Radiance for film in a collaborative process well discussed in the DVD extras. (Nowra has received a bit of publicity recently for his small book Bad Dreaming which I included in my best reads of 2007: see Worth more than 200,000 blogs?) The movie is consequently a bit [...]
27 Jan
Teaching: generational change
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Education, Events, Indigenous Australians, Surry Hills, Web stuff, my sites. Tagged: ex-students/coachees, family stories, Rabbit. Comments Off
The next year or two will see a massive generational change in the teaching service as the Boomers retire or fall off the twig. I began my career way back in 1966, forty-one years ago. Not many teachers with that length of record were still in the service when I started, and once I moved [...]
26 Dec
A multicultural Surry Hills morning
Posted by Neil in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Faith and philosophy, Indigenous Australians, Multiculturalism and diversity, Surry Hills, immigration. Tagged: culture wars, family stories, Islam. 2 Comments
It’s Boxing Day here in Surry Hills. “Boxing Day is a holiday of peculiarly British origin, but in most years it falls on the same day as the Feast of St. Stephen (St. Stephen’s Day – 26th December).” Well, it always is the day after Christmas, even if the actual public holiday might move a [...]
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