The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

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Great great great great Aunt Ida?

Are there skeletons in your closet too?
By the way I mean no disrespect to the religious amongst us. The anthropology of it fascinates me.
Maybe there is some of the family history buff in me?

Anzac thoughts

I watched a lot of television yesterday: the ANZAC day coverage. Moved and annoyed.
My grandfather was an engineer during WWI – on the Western Front. He came back and married my grandmother sometime later. He lived to 91. It might be hard to argue that his life was shortened, but as I sat there watching [...]