Banner Image: Embroidered tea towel, Museum of Everything, Istanbul
The following comprise a variety of autobiographical writing including family history, children’s books poetry and memoir …
‘Lime in the Blood’: cover and endpaper Book design Mar Cruz
The Best Summer Ever and The Next Best Summer
By SSS and BSC. Illustrations by ARG, IRG and MRG.
LIME IN THE BLOOD 2021
‘Lime in the Blood, Salt in the Air, Land in Mind’- a family history/ local history, social history and memoir about the Nepean Peninsula.
Published March 2021
The book is available in person or online from - the Nepean Historical Society and Antipodes Bookshop, Sorrento at $50. All proceeds to the NHS.
There is no Index to the book however since publication, I have compiled this Finding Guide to ‘Lime in the Blood’ which includes all subject Headings and Photographs, plus Additions, Corrections and Questions that have since come to my attention.
The Will of Susan Spunner (2018)
A reading - historical and personal - of the will of my great great grandmother and namesake.
A talk presented to the Nepean Historical Society (NHS) at Sorrento in 2018.
“She hath done what she could” memorial window, Susan Spunner, St John’s, Church of England, Portsea Rd, Sorrento
Friendly Walk (Poem) (2012)
A parallel response to Julie Gough’s work Observance 2012 about my trespass on her maternal country, Tebrikunna, in Northern Tasmania.
The Contour Chair and footstool, 1951, Grant Featherstone
With good eyes to see (2003)
A short memoir of Sir Thomas a’Beckett Travers, opthamologist, who corrected my wonky eyes and simultaneously exposed me to Modern art and the Featherstone 'Contour chair.
A Pox on Christmas (1995)
A short story about family life and chicken pox at Christmas time, contracted in Darwin, infectious in Melbourne and soon rampant across the country.
‘Northern Perspective’, Vol 18, No 2. Wet Season. 1995.
Mosquito Coil box
CHEZ MOI
A Handy Renovation The Age 1997
How to rip off ‘lethal’ cupboard doors and create open shelves.
Mosquito Coils Remo General Store, Sydney c1993
A recommendation for the best brand of mosquito coils from one who knew.
In my kitchen Photo The Age
Juvenalia
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Things Not Worth Wanting
If you’ve just watched ‘Vanity Fair’, on the ABC, there was an earlier BBC version which prompted me to write ‘Westralia Fair’ a satirical reflection.
Our very own Becky Sharpe- Rose Lascon and Lang Hancock/ Rose the mistress of Prix D’Amour.