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1980s Love and Marriage Marfan

Engagement and Wedding

By Greg

My four-part series on The Earliest Days of Trenna AND Greg received a lot of positive feedback, so I thought I would follow it up with the tale of how we got engaged and then married. Well, actually it didn’t really get much feedback, but I liked it, so wanted to tell the rest of the story.

You can also read a little about it in the post The Newlywed Diary.

There are tales to tell in … Read the rest ... “Engagement and Wedding”

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1980s Heart and Lung Failure iPad Knowledge Love and Marriage Marfan Snippets and Vignettes

1989

Trenna’s Diary Summaries From Her iPad (with photos)

Intro and extra clarifications by Greg, the rest by Tren

As I’ve said previously … In Trenna’s iPad she has written summaries of each year. As you will see from what she has written she has gleaned the information retrospectively from a wide range of sources.
As I reproduce them on this site I’ll take the opportunity to clarify and expand on some of the stories. Trenna wrote these summaries (and there Read the rest ... “1989”

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1990s Menus

Menu Diary No. 6

August 1992

Camping at Dwellingup, and Off to Hospital

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.

Tuesday 28 July. “Basically” with the “Basic” underlined. I’m sure it would still have been good.

Wednesday 29 July. Trenna remarks that penne is a good choice of type of pasta. As long as I can remember, which is obviously not … Read the rest ... “Menu Diary No. 6”

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1980s Love and Marriage Snippets and Vignettes Writing

The Newlywed Diary

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”