Old Circumforaneous Blog

Here are all my previous blogs, mostly covering our caravanning around New Zealand and Australia and some post-caravanning adventures. The first 3 have been transferred to a new Blog heading. So have some family history stories. If I can work out how to delete these I will do so!

  • Another book

    I have not posted any blogs for some time but am keeping this going in the hope that we will once again be able to do some travelling when the Covid situation has sort of settled down (insofar as it ever will). In the meantime I’ve been concentrating on family history. I’ve published another book….… Read more

  • I’ve Published a Book….

    Based on my diaries and profusely illustrated with slides. 151 pages. Read more

  • Three Matrons in the Family

    There were three nursing matrons in my related families, of different generations and widely different experiences. None married. They were: 1. Elizabeth HUNT  born 1820 in Pendock, Worcestershire and died in 1893 in Sydney, NSW. 2. Adela WADE born 1868 in Invercargill NZ and died in 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria. 3. Nancy Elizabeth “Betty” D’ARCHY… Read more

  • Adela Wade – a School Matron

    Adela, the second eldest daughter of Frederick Wentworth Wade and Adela Macloskey, was born in Invercargill in 1868. She never married. Like her elder sister Annie Theresa she may have been taught at home initially, but then went to Southland Girls’ High. She left Invercargill in 1885 when she was only 17 to go to… Read more

  • 227. A Significant Birthday Adventure – Ziplining!

    When i turned 50 I was a fairly new Brisbaneite, and some of my new friends organised a wonderful birthday dinner. When I turned 60 I was again in a new place, this time Christchurch NZ, and treated to another dinner with more new friends. When I turned 70, I decided dinners were all very… Read more

  • 226. A Wedding in Russell; visits to Devonport and Mt. Maunganui

    First – the Wedding. With a capital W. The most glorious affair in fabulous surroundings. It was admittedly a hot day – so the ushers thoughtfully handed our paper parasols as we all waited in the grounds of Pompadour House. Meanwhile the bride was descending the magnificent staircase at the ‘Duke of Marlborough and riding… Read more