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1980s Featured Love and Marriage Snippets and Vignettes

The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg – Part 1

A smiling Trenna and Greg
The 70th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution tee shirt. This photo taken at McDonalds at Observation City in Scarborough. We were there for some family event. 8 May 1988. I had grown the beard back by then. (I don't know what we saw in those acid wash jeans!)

How We Got Together


by Greg

Relief

I can still remember it clearly, really clearly. I took Trenna’s hand and looked into those enormous brown eyes.

“Do you like me?” It sounds pretty stupid now but I had to find out what was happening inside that complex brain of hers. I couldn’t believe how well things seemed to be going between us.

She didn’t answer immediately. Instead she took a sip of her glass of Moondah Brook Chenin Blanc, her … Read the rest ... “The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg – Part 1”

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1980s 2020 Eulogy Mourning Music

I Was Wrong – It Wasn’t That Song!

The label on a 1973 LP Record
It was track 4 on this album that I dedicated to Trenna in January 1988.

By Greg

I’m very keen for this website to be an accurate representation, or at least sample, of Trenna’s life.

So if I become aware of an error, I will try to correct it.

I discovered one recently when I was working on a soon to be published story about Trenna and my earliest days together.

I was was telling the story of how I had dedicated a song to her when I was the guest presenter on a community … Read the rest ... “I Was Wrong – It Wasn’t That Song!”

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1980s 2000s Snippets and Vignettes Travel

9/11

Sexy looking Trenna leaning against a rail with a vague outline of the city behind
"Atop World Trade Centre". Trenna went to the top of the twin towers on 29 October 1981.

Trenna’s Birthday, 11 September

Trenna had no recollection of ever having a birthday party as a child.

I found that hard to take as my family always made a big deal of my birthday, even though it was just 2 day’s after my little sister’s birthday and just 3 days after Christmas.

So when I met Trenna I tried to make birthdays a bit special.

Where possible, and it almost always was possible, I would take the day off work … Read the rest ... “9/11”

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1980s 1990s 2000s Featured Heart and Lung Failure Snippets and Vignettes

“Better than sex” – Earl Grey and Other Favourite Drinks

3 bottles of booze
Three different drops that Trenna enjoyed.

By Greg

As I hope you know, one goal of this website is to get you to know Trenna a little better. So, I thought I’d provide some insights into the things Trenna liked to drink.

Spirits

Cine Cellars and Tia Maria

It would have been 1986 or 1987 when I first met Trenna, and it was in a downstairs bar called Cine Cellars near the corner of Hay and Barrack Streets in Perth city. She would regularly go there … Read the rest ... ““Better than sex” – Earl Grey and Other Favourite Drinks”

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1980s Love and Marriage Snippets and Vignettes Writing

The Newlywed Diary

an open diary
The diary Trenna started just after we were married, in October 1989.

In It’s Entirety – all 390 words

Intro by Greg, the Diary by Trenna

Introduction

Today I was looking for a different piece of Trenna history, when I stumbled across a lovely hard cover book I hadn’t seen for some time.

It was bought at Myer (department store) for $15 (which sounds to me like a lot of money, considering it was in 1989). It comprises 100 or so blank pages.

The very first page has Trenna’s writing on both … Read the rest ... “The Newlywed Diary”

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1980s 1990s Menus Recipes

The Menu Diaries No. 4

June 1992 Menu
June Menu Diary up to 25 June 1992.

June 1992

Bachelors’ Dinners and Fetta in Oil

For an introduction to what these Menu Diary posts are about, please click HERE. And for the reasons why you really should read this series, please click HERE.

Friday 29 May 1992. A date which will live in infamy. Our good friend Helen invited us to her pace for dinner with her and her then husband, David. I fell asleep at the table. Big Whoops! Helen and David were good … Read the rest ... “The Menu Diaries No. 4”

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1980s Featured Love and Marriage Snippets and Vignettes

A Burger with a Peace Rally, and a Watch on the Side

Trenna in the back garden
Trenna wearing the skirt she wore to the rally (she didn't wear my blue singlet to the rally!). She is pictured at my house (she hadn't moved in yet). The outside laundry and toilet are are on the right of the picture. February 1988.

By Greg

Palm Sunday, 27 March 1988

Here is a special bonus post, because it is Palm Sunday today. Neither Trenna nor I were religious, but there is a story related to this day that Trenna and I always remembered.

Setting The Scene

I got together with Trenna at the very start of 1988, so our relationship was very young. I’m pretty sure by that stage we hadn’t said the word LOVE in a sentence to each other.

The Cold … Read the rest ... “A Burger with a Peace Rally, and a Watch on the Side”