Black & White Photo History

Its been about a year in the making but I have digitised every "older" photo I can get my hands on. As a general rule I have found that if you have a choice between scanning the positive or the negative, choose the negative.  The positives are often faded, damaged etc. the negatives can have there issues, especially if they haven't been stored very well.  I have cleaned most of them and cropped many others. There are 609 photos covering travels all over Australia, as well as many family shots at home. I have also plotted a lot of these travels on Google maps. There are originals from the 1930s but most are 1940s and 1950s individual negatives all before  the "roll film" era. This is a Black & White history. There are many other photos around including slides and other colour photos that are not part of this collection.

I have made a DVD of this history which is available to anyone who wants a copy.  It may work in a DVD player however a computer will let you see the annotations. Most have a comment about the photo, either who when or where.

Who's strolling down Puckle St?

Mothers

I am wondering what the collective name is for Mothers.  Maybe a Fertility of Mothers or a Bakery of Mothers in any case we had a gathering of Mothers yesterday four of them in total, so there was much mothering and much baking. Including sausage rolls, pizza, soup and 10 different cakes. I think the highlight may have been the Salami and Pumpkin pizza.



Cakes

Rolls

Breaking Bad

It has taken a while but we have viewed the final episode. Two years ago we started the show via Foxtel but then lost track after two seasons.  However we located a DVD box set that we had.  Yet another drug war saga with lots of shoot to kill. Most characters end up dead with just a few exceptions. A quirky writing style but still well worth the viewing time. Before GOT came along this was number 1 on the world watch list.  Now I have to find another DVD boxset.  Babylon 5.

Heisenberg

Official Beach Record

Yes another beach day was achieved although a tad cloudy, over at the Jetty beach area. Mark the calendar for May 7th. The ocean beach was having a king tide of 1.7 m at 1:00 pm so that was not going to work. 25 ° was too good to miss but the cloud did dominate.  We got there at midday and remained for three hours.

Pole Sitter

May swim with bird observers

 

Collendina Report No 2355

We saw the makings of a new van last time and the most recent  rules clearly state no cribbing forward on your site and no building of new vans ie just drop them in by crane.  So just down the way both of these rules are being broken. I guess they must be guidelines.

Two meter cribbage

On Site Construction

Heat

We have heat. The Stadt worked well for 25 yar give or take but now we have a Brivis and the heat is on.  Some of the ducting has been updated but mostly it was still in good condition.  I have uncovered another few hundred old negatives so when these are digitized the the B&W pictorial history will be ready. Some of them give me the creeps.

Where is thing?

Da Boys!

New York 1977

It has taken me a couple of months to finish reading "City on Fire".  This book needs concentration, and I did not read it in big enough chunks. It is physically heavy and the author's  skill as a wordsmith meant that I was always trying to lug a dictionary around, as well as the book itself. It would have suited me better to read an electronic copy with built in dictionary.  It is a complex story line and I am getting a bit tired of  "under achievers" and other "no hopers" being the subject of stories.  But I guess if they emerge better off ...

In an attempt to join the character dots