1. My little red felt slippers with a little black beaded button fastener getting warmed on the side plate of a wood stove.
2. Climbing over the back fence to go to the bakery that was behind our house to buy fresh bread and cream buns.
3. Eating sugar cane from a patch that grew in our back yard.
4. Playing under the hose in summer.
5. Making mud pies and decorating them with flowers from the garden.
6. Getting into trouble for standing on the newly poured concrete path before it was set.
7. Eating fresh figs from our tree.
8. Being pushed around the back yard in the wheel barrow.
9. Being allowed to have the family radio next to my bed when I was sick. This was before television.
10. Having terrible tonsillitis and being visited by the local doctor who wore a suit and tie.
11.We always had fresh squeezed orange juice for breakfast.
12. Eating fresh bread torn into pieces and mixed with hot milk and sugar for breakfast. Occasionally.
13. Playing dress ups in my mother's old clothes, including her wedding dress.
14. Hiding in the broom cupboard every night and giving my father a fright when he opened the door. That went on for years. Mum would ask him to get out the broom as he came in the door after work.
15.The sound and smell of the pressure cooker whistling away on the stove.
16. My mum making coconut ice for fetes.
17. My mum polishing the wooden floors with an electric floor polisher.
18. My great uncle working in the yard.
19.The sound of steam trains in the middle of the night.
20. Going for a holiday to my cousins place and my bedroom being totally made over while I was gone. It was changed from a blue room into a pretty pink room with pink floral lino on the floor.
21. Looking longingly at a beautiful doll with long hair in a local shop window and being given the doll for Christmas.
22.Visiting my grand parents on a Sunday and eating fish and chips by the bay.
23. My father always servicing his own car.
24.The last day of the school year when we had boxes of plums, apricots, cherries, and watermelons to eat , and played games all day.
25.The westerly winds whistling during the night.
26.The kerosene heater in winter.
27 My father making jaffles in a jaffle iron.
28. My mum making mint sauce at Christmas.
29. My cousins coming to stay for holidays and us getting up really early in the morning and swinging on the double swing while we sang songs.
30. Playing school , and I was the teacher.
31. Playing with the neighbourhood kids and going from house to house.
32. Loving apples.
33. Our first family holiday to the Gold Coast. I was about 8, and we stayed in a flat at Currumbin.
34. Singing in Eisteddfods, and getting 1st place many times.
35. Sitting in my Grandparent's mango tree, eating mangos.
36. The local show, called the Ekka, and getting a doll on a stick on the way out.
37. Going to the city for the day with my Mum and Grandma.
38. Visits to my cousins place.
39. Leaving home at 4am with my Grandpa to drive to my Aunty's place in the country.
40. The smell of the pepperina tree at my Aunty's place in the country.
41. The smell of my Uncle's chemist shop in the country. I loved it. He sold not only pharmacutical products, but china, and jewellery.
42. Being given a sixpence to buy an orangeade iceblock and a small packet of juicy fruit chewing gum.
43. My first holiday to my Uncle's farm way out west, and waking up in the morning, and my Uncle giving me a mug of hot cocoa.
44. My Father owned a taxi, and the taxi company held a Christmas picnic every year. Every child received a present from Santa, and a free bucket of icecream, and a packet of chips.
45. Easter, and the local cake shop would have a display of beautiful sugar easter eggs in the window. Some of them were huge.
46. Looking out my bedroom window during a cyclone and seeing sheets of corrugated iron flying past.
47. Coming home from school at lunch time, and my Dad had bought me a puppy. My first puppy called Tippy.
48. The day I got my first bike.
49. Learning to swim.
50. Watching my Mother dampening down clothes with water sprinkled from an old glass cordial bottle that had holes drilled in the lid. She then rolled them up before ironing them.
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