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1980s Music Snippets and Vignettes

Eric Bogle and Slim Dusty – Two Concerts We Remembered

By Greg

Slim

We were always going to feel a little uncomfortable in this environment. But I felt it was something we had to do – and Trenna was prepared to go along to prove that I was wrong!

It was a Slim Dusty concert at the Perth Concert Hall.

I cast my mind back to our house a month or two earlier.

“Hey, Tren. Slim Dusty is doing a concert at the Concert Hall”.

“So?” Those two letters were … Read the rest ... “Eric Bogle and Slim Dusty – Two Concerts We Remembered”

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

1988

Trenna’s Diary Summaries From Her iPad

Introduction

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 are many of them) to help her and I recall our many experiences. It was probably … Read the rest ... “1988”

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1970s GFS Kitchen Tapes Marfan Visually Impaired

The 23rd Kitchen Tape

Recorded 20 June 2018

The Brown Towel Caper

GM: Today is Wednesday the 20th of June 2018. Trenna Mahney will be speaking. 

Tren, we’ve talked a bit about your time at Girls’ Friendly Society in Adelaide Terrace? It sounds like an interesting period to do a bit more discussion.

[GM: phone call interrupts us]

I think we should look a bit more at this time at Girls’ Friendly Society.  The sort of things you did.  If we get … Read the rest ... “The 23rd Kitchen Tape”