FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th Aug 2021

 

Edwin Stockqueler (1829-1900) - Public Domain An Australian Gold Diggings, oil on canvas

* GENERAL INTEREST

Family Tree Frog..    Game On ! Be sure to read this post NFHM!

**See posts re NFHM below

One big change at Ancestry The Legal Genealogist

Ancestry.com and Your Ancestry Member Tree Genea-Musings

Historic organ tells tale of WA shipwreck, settlement and the life of pioneer Sophia Dent - ABC News

Iconic Brisbane restaurant Mama Luigi's set for removal under revised development plan - ABC News N.B. It has been moved to Toowong and restored.

Queensland State Archives facility closed due to lockdown

* Now will remain closed until 9am Monday 9 August

During this time, we will not be able to provide copies of records.   However, we can still help with research, so please send your enquiries through to info@archives.qld.gov.au.

NOTE:   ArchivesSearch will be undergoing maintenance from 5.00pm Friday 6 August and will be unavailable until 1.00pm Sunday 8 August. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Other services such as Flickr and Q-Album will continue to be available.

During the lockdown period you can still search the collection through ArchivesSearch, enjoy images and snippets of Queensland history on Facebook and Instagram, and we have many great archival videos on Youtube. You may also enjoy our latest online album that showcases over 900 digitised glass plate negatives from the wonderful Queensland Rail Heritage Collection.

NOTE: it's worth subscribing to the QSA newsletter... there is always lots to learn. The latest one has lots of news including...

#Last month Rose Barrowcliffe, the inaugural First Nations Archives Advisor, commenced at QSA.

# Queensland's Rail History incl. restoration of 900 glass plate negative images     See the collection on Flickr.  

# Coming to Queensland a webinar Friday 27 Aug 10.00-11.30am  Register now     

The seminar will focus on:

• legislation including an introduction to assisted immigration records
• types of passage, and immigrant
• immigration records and resources at Queensland State Archives.

# Latest releases..    Police administration files       Mining lease files

Opening lands for prospecting files

GSQ Blog... What Discovery Means To Me ...Shauna Hicks

National Archives Australia newsletter incl.  

 The dark side of the Roaring Twenties.. mugshots, + lots more

From 3 August, the research centre will be open at our temporary location in the Peter Durack Building in Mitchell. You will need to book a visit and request records at least 5 business days in advance.
We expect to reopen the refurbished research centre at National Office, ACT, in mid-September. 

National Archives UK newsletter incl.   'Dude, where art thine quill?

Events and activities    Archive Jigsaw: Great seal

Archive Jigsaw: The quill

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl. Vietnam Veteran's Day

The Stone of Remembrance   Explore the Long Tan Cross in 3D

The ScriBbler news from Stella Budrikis.. interesting notes re workhouses plus lots more..

How to Read Books Online For Free: 5 Best Websites

Clare Men & Women Great War 2 Download .pdf Clare library, Ire

IGP Clare Genealogy Archives- Records

Sweeping historical Irish American drama with Laois roots thrills 

Leinster Express

Black Prods, Beige Prods and little Papes   Reformation and finding Presbyterian records    John Grenham

**National Family History Month blogs..

Crissouli National Family History Month August 2021 Issue 1

Carmel's Corner Use your voice for Family Stories

Family History Across the Seas  Aunts, Uncles and Cousins

Geniaus  Genealife in Lockdown

FamilyHistory4u: Genealife in Lockdown Blogging Challenge - ANFHM

Sue Wyatt   Quarantine in Quebec

Isabel Flynn  Genea-life in Lockdown 1

Lillian’s Tree  

Genealife in Lockdown - NFHM Blogging Challenge - Part 1.

Genealife in Lockdown - NFHM Blogging Challenge  - Part 2.

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 1 August 2021         

Kanowna’s Boy Hero – James Sexton

When Temperance Issues Raged   Can I Shave you Mr Smiler ?

Edward ‘Doo Dah’ Sullivan – grave tales

Find My Past

Scotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893

Scotland, Parish Births & Baptisms 1564-1929   

 

Scotland, Parish Deaths & Burials 1564-2017    Search all newspapers

Anglo-Celtic Connections

British Newspaper Archive July Additions    Sunday Sundries

TheGenealogist adds to East Suffolk Parish Records

Internet Genealogy Magazine: August/Sept 2021

Family Search Blog

Monthly Record Update for July 2021 numerous records added

Beginning Your Middle East Family Tree

JStor Daily

Emily Brontë's Lost Second Novel       Vaccine Hesitancy in the 1920s

How Pigeons Helped Fight World War I    

How Oysters Became a Food Fad Way out West

Atlas Obscura

Snakes Near a Plane    Kitchen Computers  Boathouses of Ine      

Into Italy’s Musical Woods     The Laurel and Hardy Museum

Leftover Star Wars Sets     World’s Oldest Food    The Boiling River

Cathedral of Salamanca's Astronaut  Vedanta Society's Old Temple

Storm Chaser, Wedding Photographer  Hairy Competition

Jal Mahal India  Prehistoric ‘Proto-Cinema’  Olympic Ruins

Zion–Mount Carmel Tunnel   The Salt Fit For A Pope

Watergate Fountain   Glove-Making Traditions Grotte di Osimo Italy

Meet ‘Firebows’  Italy’s ‘Museum of Abandonment’  

New England’s Stone Walls  Food Truck Fit For a Prince

Normaal Amsterdams Peil Amsterdam Ha Ha Tonka Castle Ruins

India’s Touring Tent Cinemas      Caldwell-Lake George Library  

Yeast-less Bread   World’s Most Wondrous Vegetarian Eateries   

Giant's Causeway Pillar Dino-Sized Mystery  Stephen King’s House 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in Irish History | 2 August:

The Gentle Author

John Minton’s East End    At London Trimmings 

The Foundling Of Shoreditch   In William Blake’s Lambeth

At Embassy Electrical Supplies  

Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club

Genea-Musings

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 to 31 July 2021

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 2 August 2021

Webtember: All Genealogy, All September Long - 30 FREE Classes!

Humoring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Volcanoes    Faerie Paths — A Toast

I Am Smiling … Aren’t I?  Opals  Unusual Flower Arrangements

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Pablo Picasso

Repost — The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day, August 2021 — Opposite Day — Deep in the Heart of Textiles

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Daniel Libeskind

The Frugal Family Historian

Free in September

The Legal Genealogist

A Moore unmoored  Tracking back…

allenrizzi

A Pocket Full Of Miracles  The Big One That Got Away

There Is A Place For Us

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Learning about Trees – the Rowan Tree

* IRISH CENTRAL

How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924

Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger celebrates men and women who risked it all

WATCH: Women rowers claim first medal for Team Ireland at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Ireland reaches 72 percent vaccination rate, passes Britain

Wicklow's Military Road, built to capture a rebel captain

Snowflake by Louise Nealon announces an exciting new Irish novelist

Ireland's Olympic rowing heroes return home after taking gold and bronze in Tokyo

Irish Government digitizes O'Donovan Rossa's 19th-century Fenian newspaper

Belfast poet Louis MacNeice's Irish heritage was close to his heart

Connemara Heartlands Gaeltacht, Galway

Irish "hidden gem" is one of the most photographed trails in the world

Another Olympic medal for Ireland as boxer guaranteed at least bronze

Haunting new video of JFK in Ireland discovered after 58 years

8th-century holy well and ancient farmhouse at center of Tipperary motorway row 

Lodge at Ashford Castle - there’s nothing quiet about Cong

Maureen O’Hara’s marriages and loves: The good, the bad and the ugly

Beekeeping, lace making, Wren's Day - Eight of Ireland's cultural practices get state recognition

Aran Islands ranked among best islands in the world

Kylemore Abbey and Victorian Walled Garden, Galway

* INTERESTING BLOGS

In the tracks of Cobb and Co: The Winton-Boulia route Judith Salecich

The Dangers of Fruit Peel  The Dusty Box

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker

Book Review: The Golden Book by Kate Ryan

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green  READ MORE

A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe  READ MORE

Cave Diver by Jake Avila    READ MORE

The Inheritance by Gabriel Bergmoser   READ MORE

Double Deal by John M. Green   READ MORE

Podcast: Campbell Mattinson on Using Writing to Break Down Barriers of Love and Loss

Podcast: Shannah Kennedy on Allowing Ourselves to be Happy with Plan B

Podcast: James Phelps on His Research into the Australian Prison System

Penguin Books 

Once There Were Wolves       Charlotte McConaghy     READ Q&A

A Football Story Like No Other  Majak Daw

CSI Told You Lies  Meshel Laurie        WATCH BOOK TRAILER

The Noise James   Patterson and J.D.Barker

Twenty Years Later   Charlie Donlea

and from my blogs...

THAT MOMENT IN TIME

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30 JUL 2021, Highgate Cemetery-great photos, ancient supercontinent found ?, Scotland civil deaths  burials, Coastal passenger lists Australia, migration to Australia, Peter the Great’s Beard Tax, space medicine, deadly wallpaper, 

Flying Saucer Homes, Irish Convicts, Pentathlon’s Dangerous Origins, the Kalamazoo gals, book reviews and a whole lot more…

Feel feee to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/07/friday-fossicking-30-jul-2021.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

RETURN OF ASSIGNMENTS OF CONVICTS  1833 +  Trove Tuesday 3rd Aug 2021, some transfers, further details on some convicts, extra sites to explore…

Feel free to share, the title is the link ..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/08/return-of-assignments-of-convicts-1833.html

AS THEY WERE

IGP ADDITIONS for JULY 2021

Cavan, Dublin, Clare, Fermanagh, Galway, Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives..

We thank the volunteers for all their hard work.

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2021/08/igp-additions-for-july-2021.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 20th Dec 2019

Edwin Stockqueler (1829-1900) - Public Domain An Australian Gold Diggings, oil on canvas

* GENERAL INTEREST

Local historian Libby relaunches popular book - Seasons Aged Care

82 Vintage Cookbooks, Free to Download, Offer a Fascinating Illustrated Look at Culinary and Cultural History | Open Culture

Murray State University dedicates Smith-Johnson Genealogy and History Room Murray Ledger and Times

Australia Calling: A look at 80 years of Radio Australia and ABC international broadcasting - ABC News

Bodhi Farm and other countercultural communities live like the 1970s never ended - ABC News

Ladies of the Land are delivering thousands of care packages to women in drought-affected areas - ABC News

Go trainspotting inside one of Australia's largest private model railway train collections - ABC News

Abacus making a return to boost maths skills and cultural connections for NSW students - ABC News

Margaret Hendry School's first year has been all about flipping the classroom on its head - ABC News

 Urunga RFS milk note saga has a post-script | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun

Andersons Creek fire is quiet but hotspots still detected | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun

 What archaeologists unearthed while Sydney’s light rail was being constructed  abc.net.au 

 At The Holidays, Make a Present of the Past with Genealogy Research   The Two River Times

 NSW firefighters desperate to contain blazes ahead of worsening conditions in heatwave  7NEWS.com.au

On the immeasurable value of local historical expertise | Traces Magazine

IrelandXO Insight - Old Irish first names and aliases | Ireland Reaching Out

The problem with cutting archives access  www.newsroom.co.nz

Tiny house win a godsend for fire victim | photos | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun

120 Years of History | The British Newspaper Archive Blog

IrishGenealogyNews: Summary of latest new & updated US record collections

DID YOU KNOW?

* A little more time  The Legal Genealogist  URGENT

* Forming consent  The Legal Genealogist

* Win a Free RootsTech 2020 Pass  Fran Kitto

* 45 places you can download tens of thousands books, plays and other literary texts completely legally for free – nothing in the rulebook

* Whatever happened to Hindenburgh McHugh?  John Grenham

* The brand new Western Australia Museum is completed...Read more about the New Museum for WA… you can keep up with all the news and events .. Like our new Facebook page

* Templates, the Hidden Gem of Evernote | Evernote | Evernote Blog


NEWSLETTERS

I Love Bello Shire incl.  The Quiet Achiever- Libby Park 

Visit Brisbane incl. Brisbane International   Brisbane Comedy Festival

FAHS Newsletter  Family of Australian Historical Societies

Visit Britain incl. Top film and TV locations in the Highlands   A Last Christmas festive tour of 
London


Family History Bulletin registry of BDM, QLD ....

Saying “goodbye” to the beloved and well-worn old family history research service was never going to be easy. For 7 years, it has been of great value to so many in their search to complete their family tree.

On Wednesday 1 January 2020, the old service will be closing—so join the family tree researchers using the updated service, visit www.qld.gov.au/familyhistory.
New records

The new year means new records! 
We will be releasing the following years:

• 1920 Births
• 1945 Marriages
• 1990 Deaths

These will be available from midday on 1 January 2020.

 Just a sample of the stories you can find in the newsletter... 

Kate Doran: the anguish of an Irish immigrant

NEW TO QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES  

 Administration Files This series documents some of the major functions of the Police Department between 1870 and 1996.

Registers of Letters Patent  The letters patent include Commission's of Appointment to Governmental office such as the Executive Council and other positions including Commissioners, Crown Prosecutors and the judiciary.

Opening Lands for Prospecting Files _ Files contain correspondence between applicant, district Mining Warden and Mines Department regarding granting of leases within areas of mineral potential

Specifications Civil and Mechanical (Queensland Rail Heritage Collection)

Maryborough Leases (Queensland Rail heritage collection)

Parcel Stamps issued by rail stations (Queensland Rail Heritage Collection)


FIND MY PAST

Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions               Scotland, Renfrewshire Death & Burial Index

Scotland, Stirlingshire & Perthshire Burials 1755-2019   PERiodical Source Index - Update

Search all newspapers  

ANGLO-CELTIC CONNECTIONS

A New Home Children Research database from BIFHSGO  Sunday Sundries

The Mystique of Money: Tax Culture and ‘Race’ in Two Centuries” 

OGS Webinars for 2020     Did Your Ancestor Have a Tattoo?  Sunday Sundries

Minister of Canadian Heritage Mandate Letter   Free MyHeritageDNA upload ends soon

CWGC burial at Beechwood Cemetery: Alfred Hardie  

2019 Genealogy Publications at the Ottawa Public Library

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC

The Dracula parrot: intimidating much?     Ladybird washups: what causes them?

Aussie threatened birds declined by 59 per cent over the past 30 years   

The secret world of bird baths   Flying far: the largely forgotten 1919 England to Australia Air Race

The South Coast Track is a bushwalker’s dream  Australia is the real home of mistletoe 

Meet moss maiden Ilma Stone   17 incredible Australian women in botany

These ocean drifters are full of the Christmas spirit 


JSTOR DAILY

Is It Ethical to Grow a Brain in a Petri Dish?      Only You Can Prevent Useless Gifts

The War Documentary That Never Was    We've Hit a State of “Seed Emergency”   

The Reindeer Games  We're Living in a Post-Antibiotic World

Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts-Hughes and the Eidophone

FAMILY SEARCH BLOG

The Significance of the Battle of the Bulge in WWII    All about English Pancakes

Brazilian Dual Citizenship and Brazilian Nationality   Are You Related to British Royalty?

Getting Started with the Irish Census


ATLAS OBSCURA

Picking Up the Pieces Aleppo, Syria  Found: Civil War-Era Hair Dye  Surviving Towers Rhode Is.

Secret Ancient Cave Israel  This Song Is All Nonsense   Mojave Megaphone    State Linguistics

Abandoned Football Stadium sad history A Magician’s Dog Scotland  Corn Seen From Space

21 Overlooked Buildings   A Bridge for the Elite Mexico   To Unroll a Scroll

These Cakes Are a Big Deal   Japan   Cold War Memories  What Is ‘Treasure’? Ask the Coroner

The Curious, Unfinished Quilt    Abandoned Airport Florida    Enchanting Pearls
 
Brain Freeze   Antacrtica  New York's Disappearing Sunken Forest  Video   Hotels for Seahorses

A Seafaring Cat Sydney  Great Train Graveyard Bolivia  Mystery Solved  sea lilies

‘Living Bridges’  India         The Shifting Stone Argentina



OUTBACK FAMILY HISTORY

Not Just the Presidents Wife – Lou Henry Hoover        Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – Miners       

Sisters of the Church High School:      When the Children Come Home – by Henry Lawson

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Legal Genealogist

2019 alphabet soup: T is for …   An unusual record group  Warranting distress  

The Gentle Author

Graffiti At The Tower Of London  At Burley Fisher Books    Some Old London Trade Cards

Julie Price’s Christmas Cards   Remembering Scars Of War  The Streets Of Old London

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

Ladies at the Race Tracks: 1890  It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story: 1891

Novel Ways to Distribute Christmas Gifts: 1911-12, 1921

Genea-Musings

Seavers in the News - Mrs. E.F. Seaver Dies in Wyoming in 1914  

Genealogy News Bytes -- Friday, 13 December 2019

Genealogy News Bytes -- Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 8 to 14 December 2019

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 8 to 14 December 2019  

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 15 December 2019

2020 Webinars Sponsored by Board for Certification of Genealogists

allenrizzi

Winter Wine Brulee 

Wanderlust Twins  images

Cedar Creek Grist Mill, Washington Derek Kind    Castle View, The Highlands, Scotland

Seaside, Amalfi Coast, Italy    wanderthewood:“ Mizen Head, Cork, Ireland by -Terrier-”

Two Story Treehouse, Wisconsin   Spiral Staircase, Genoa, Italy     

Elevated view of Paradise Valley / Greenland

Chand Baori, one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India, served as a location for films such as The Fall and The Dark Knight Rises

Deep in the Heart of Textiles

Company Manners   

Claudia

Faerie Paths — Believe   Crystal   Revel in the Arts   Faerie Paths — Look


Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Ella Goldschmidt Sigmund’s Last Three Children: Henrietta, Joseph, and Mollie

It’s Time for Romper Room! Do You Remember the Magic Mirror?

The Frugal Family Historian

Free Apps for Family History On The Go!

Eltham District Historical Society

OTD: Farewell Eltham, Happy Birthday Nillumbik; 15 Dec 1994

OTD: “The game’s on!” Wild Gunfight at Commercial Bank, Eltham, 15 Dec 1949

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in Irish History – 16 December:

Backtracking

Sepia Saturday: 500 weeks

Anne's Family History

Trove Tuesday: 1905 Bushfire precautions | Anne's Family History

Pauline Connolly

DECK THE BOUGHS....LEURA CHIC v OLD SCHOOL BLACKHEATH 

The Irish Story

The Army Mutiny of 1924 and the Opening of the Army Inquiry Papers

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Saving & Writing Family History, BDA Online Update & Other News- Genealogy Notes 22 Nov - 14 Dec 2019


* IRISH CENTRAL

State-of-the-art visitor center opens at Newgrange just in time for the Winter Solstice

WATCH: Irish Canadians react to discovery of Famine-era bone fragments in Montreal 

Saoirse Ronan lights up the screen in delightful "Little Women" 

WATCH: Niall Horan gets in the Christmas spirit with Jimmy Fallon 

Why Scorcese’s The Irishman disappoints 

What did the Irish google in 2019? From Brexit to pansexuals 

The history of Irish Christmas traditions 

Dublin photography hot spots to discover in 2020

A hard Christmas it was in London in the 1960s 

Irish Famine artifacts sought for 175th anniversary Dublin exhibition 

11 things you probably didn’t know about Ireland during the holidays 

Spectacular Irish 19th-century church goes on the market for $190 

Irish photographer captures wintertime in Ireland like you've never seen it before 

Christmas miracle for cancer-struck Irish families with thanks to anonymous donations 

Galway-Mayo students top Ireland's iTunes Christmas chart charity hit 

Irish cat miraculously escapes after being trapped in glass jar for five days 

Feel the Christmas time magic in Dublin city center 

LISTEN: Ed Sheeran's cover of The Pogues' Fairytale of New York 

Montreal Mayor refuses to consider honoring Irish Famine dead with REM station 

The Irish who dug the tunnels for New York’s subway system 

Only in Ireland! Hiker hospitalized having been struck by falling sheep 

The best places in Ireland to celebrate Christmas 

Irish pub wins Christmas with sweetest pint-delivering drone ad 

A glimpse inside Ireland's historic ghost villages 

Why I’m no longer staying quiet about my battle with prostate cancer 

Is Maureen O’Hara’s Miracle on 34th Street the greatest Christmas movie ever? 

UNESCO recognize traditional Irish harp music as a unique art 

The ten best Irish Christmas food and drink treats  

Roz Purcell's Christmas nutty mince pie recipe 

How to make homemade Irish cream 


* INTERESTING BLOGS

‘A Hopeless and Thankless job’ The Dispensary Doctor in Ireland    The Irish Story

Almond Bread (Biscotti) - Love in a little black diary

Best toy ever  The Legal Genealogist

Telling the Story of You  kindredpast

Preparing Your Family History Records for Handover – Month 1 progress report | Shauna Hicks History Enterprises

Cobbles  Shelley

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

15 Best Books of the Decade… according to me 

I've only read two, with four others on my list T.B.R.  How many have you read?    
Read..The Good People ....Hannah Kent (also Burial Rites ....Hannah Kent) and Light Between Oceans..M.L. Stedman..

On my T.B.R. list are Becoming Mrs. Lewis ... Patti Callahan   The Wild Girl ...Kate Forsyth
We are all made of Stars... Rowan Coleman   Euphoria... Lily King..   none in my library as yet.


Book Review: Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke

Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Top Reads for 2019

#aww2019 Wrap Up

Better Reading

Joy to the (Book) World! Our New Website has Launched

Book of the Week: The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper

The Lost Summers of Driftwood by Vanessa McCausland

The Drover's Wife by Leah Purcell

Podcast: A Powerful, Moving Conversation with Christos Tsiolkas

Podcast: Joy Rhoades on Living Overseas While Setting her Novels in Australia

Podcast: Tara Moss Talks Life, Being a Private Investigator and her New Novel, Dead Man Switch

Liz Gauffreau

Adelaide Authors: Review of Redlined



and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Human Books, when snakes had legs, Cornwall burials, 2 chances…Win ROOTS TECH pass, 800 libraries closed, Scottish Irish ties, likely mass graves in Cherbourg, authorities to control household solar systems?, UK deaths 2007-2017, Don’t bury the family bible, more Irish Graves, The ‘Sistine Chapel’ of Egypt, Valley of Death - Russia, Don’t Play in the Bubbles, several Christmas stories, great blogs, so much more to enjoy… Feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2019/12/friday-fossicking-13th-dec-2019.html


Headlines of Old

UNCLAIMED LETTERS.. DEC. 1847 ,  TROVE TUESDAY Dec 16, 2019, hundreds of names, some have details such as ‘convict’, ship’s names, occupations…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2019/12/unclaimed-letters-dec-1847-trove.htm


As They Were

CAVAN HOMECOMING FESTIVAL FOR AUGUST 2020

Yes, this is a Bumper Issue… 

Friday Fossicking is taking a break for a few weeks..

I would like to thank you all for your continued support..since June 2011..I look forward to many years to come.

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.. and please spare a thought for all those who are missing loved ones, those who are battling ill health, disasters, loneliness and problems they don’t share.

We can give all of them the gift of a smile.. costs us nothing and lasts a lifetime..

Back in January!