Quick bits from a 30’s magazine

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Edit: This is actually my 100th post. Yipee I made it this far!!
Want to go back in time? Here is the front cover of a 1933 edition of The Australian Women’s Mirror. I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it on top of my washing machine for some reason. The miscellaneous modern paper [...]

Yikes a Meme

There is something about this house – found in Coburg.
Well, I have been tagged by the fabulous This Devil’s Workday to answer a few questions about myself so here goes…
1. What were you doing ten years ago?
Let me think. Ah, yes 1998 was a year of changes for me. I started a new Uni course [...]

A forgotten book, an australian Journalist and Hemingway

It is always intriguing to find something hidden in a book. Any fragment can become a clue to a past life, past place and past owner.
This brings me to the business card of a Mr. Noel Monks which was found in a book left for the rubbish tip, on a skip in Richmond, Melbourne. [...]

Useful highbrow explanation

multiplicia impedimenta, quae e gravibus temporibus in quibus vivimus inseparatibilia sunt.
The many impediments which are inseparable from the troubled times we live in.
I found this quote and thought it would be useful to use when the blog lies waiting, untended, dust gathering.
The quote was originally written as a note on page 310 of [...]