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1970s Kitchen Tapes Music Recipes

The Fourth Kitchen Tape

3 people at the Perth Airport
Helen, Bob and Trenna near the Orbit Inn at the Perth Airport January 1976. Helen & Trenna were both 18 years old.

Recorded 13 April 2018

Before we Start

[GM: As the title suggests, this was the fourth of 24 recordings done at our kitchen bench in Kensington, Western Australia. As part of the preparation for putting it on this website, in February 2022, I asked our friend Helen to read through this transcript and the one from 7 June 2018. Below you will find some of Helen’s comments interspersed. My thanks to Helen for doing that.]

GM: OK, so it’s the … Read the rest ... “The Fourth Kitchen Tape”

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The Recce-Vite

Trenna at an art gallery
"Freo Arts Centre - Tired Tren, Poster & Drum Trio" 3 August 2013 - a very enjoyable recce-vite

A little bit of fun is better than none

by Greg

Trenna became aware at some point around 2010 that she was getting out of the house less and less – it was often pretty hard. But she didn’t want to lose touch with the city in which she lived.  And she wanted some recreation and a change of scenery.

So, she invented the “Recce-Vite”. She was using French words to describe a quick look around somewhere.

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