My third trip to Queensland in as many weeks, and now I’ve seen all my grand nephews and nieces. Nephew Tim and his wife Yuki recently returned to Australia from Japan with 3¾ years-old grand nephew Jake and his little sister Leah. Niece Emily and Michael have a 1 year-old son Hugh, whom I hadn’t …
My mother Connie feigned ‘regal, stiff-upper lip’ moments . . . the one that is captured in this one-minute video is so typical. And classic! She would have been 83 years-old at the time. Like mother; like son? Thanks to brother Tony for the original footage.
My parents, Les and Connie, while still in their Twenties, moved to Redcliffe in Queensland from Sydney with their first son (my eldest brother), Tony, before the Second World War. I was born there in 1942 and suckled in an air-raid shelter, as the Japanese threatened to bomb the American Forces stationed in the area. …