Tag: Channel 8

Categories
1990s Darwin Snippets and Vignettes Writing

The Darwin Letters No. 5

A big bird of prey and its handler
"Ready to fly". The birds of prey demonstration at the Territory Wildlife Park really was impressive. 14 January 1995.

If you’ve missed it, this series starts here.

Tuesday 17 January 1995

20/288 Casuarina Drive
Nightcliff NT 0810

G’day Mum and Dad,

Sorry we missed you on Sunday, Mum. How did you and Deb do at the Markets? Is this the first time you have sold stuff there? I can’t remember if we ever did get around to going to the Cannington Markets, I know we had intended to. How do they compare with other markets?


Greg’s going very … Read the rest ... “The Darwin Letters No. 5”

Categories
1990s Darwin Writing

The Darwin Letters No. 3

Boxes of books waiting to be unpacked into Billy Bookcases
We had quite a few boxes of books taken up to Darwin. This is during the unpacking. We put them into our Billy bookcases. The bookcases survived but the humidity gave the long shelves quite a bow (IKEA redesigned them in later years). The VCR sitting on the state of the art TV proved to be invaluable for entertainment in Darwin. 28 November 1994.

The Actual Letters…

or at least the first of them

If you’ve missed it, this series starts here.

Welcome to the third instalment in this series.

I’ve changed my mind several times, wrestling with how best to present this series of stories from when Trenna and I lived in tropical Darwin.

I’ve now decided I will do it by publishing, in the order they were written and sent, the letters Trenna wrote to my Mum and Dad.

We later … Read the rest ... “The Darwin Letters No. 3”