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stormfour · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:21 am Post subject:

Hi Margaret
I am so exited,I was looking at photos of you the other day with our Linda,she found some photos that she didnt know she had and there you were,you were lying in the water with my Mum and Olwyn Gillett I think.It is absolutely fabulous to here from you,I got a message from your Caroline today,also from Pat Heaney,I am beside myself,I cannot wait for this reunion,Caroline is exited about it too. Laughing

kayfrancis · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

Hello all, I am Kay (was Simonds), Carol's (Sagittarius) sister and I have finally managed to log myself into the forum. The talk of the reunion is making me (and Carol) want to come but it is a long way from England!! I was only 5 ot 6 when I was at the hostel so my memories are a bit vague. I do remember being in the canteen and it was a really hot day and the thing that sticks in my mind is the chef being so hot and dishing up the food with sweat pouring off his brow and it dripping onto the food! Things like that do stick in the mind! I can also remember Mum putting me on the school bus and I screamed and cried because I didn't want to go!! Just things like that I remember but I can't remember people or faces that well, only Angela which Carol mentioned. It would be nice to get in touch with her again. Anyway speak soon. Carol and I will get those photos on when we work out the technology!! Kind regards. Kay p.s. I have called myself Twinkle because in one of the photos we have at the hostel is one of me holding a photo of a cat and for some reason I remember he was called Twinkle (I think he was a cat we had in England)!

aussietrekker · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:57 am Post subject:

Kay, it's great to hear from you- this forum just gets better every day!
I well remember you chucking a hissy-fit going to school each day, you were quite miserable. You used to play with our Colette, who was the same age as you. I used to see Angela Hanslik all the time for years in the Star Trek club , but haven't seen her since about 1996 whan we were at a Trekkie christening. I'll keep my ear to the ground, I think she still lives out Northcote way.
Loved the description about the sweaty old cook. We were exposed to a great deal of grossness in those days!

Phyl · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

Don't think the Manager would have been very happy about a cook sweating like that.They had to wear hats the band of which could keep the sweat from pouring too much. Of course if you were only six years old it may have looked worse. Confused

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aussietrekker · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:26 am Post subject:

They definitely didn't wear them all the time, they can't have done- because I remember some of them having HAIR Laughing

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stormfour · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:11 am Post subject:

Hi Sue,you take it right ...Carol here,this is going to be some reunion Laughing

stribe · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:45 am Post subject:

I dont have any photos I think we were too poor or mum just wouldnt spend the money on photo's she has passed away now and I am going to go through her album, she had a couple taken with women she knew on the hostel. I must say Doreen Griffin looks exactly the same today as she did then, you would recognize her so easily.
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stormfour · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:47 am Post subject:

I have found MORE photos,my scanner is not working but I will give them to mt daughter and get her to scan them and then I will send them to Len..Sue there is also a photo of me & you !!!!!!
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Susan Gillet · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:00 pm Post subject:

Wow, I don't believe it. Seems I was really there after all. hehe.

Looking forward to seeing that one. Smile

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jillbac · Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: Baby photo

Hello everyone! I'am Jill Myerscough.
The picture of the baby is my brother Paul Myerscough! Hes 45yrs now and much better looking now than then!! I will try and find some shots of the Myerscough family days in Altona 1963 - 1966. Mum Doreen & Dad John sister Julie Brother Paul. We all live back in Liverpool U.K now but often talk and remember our time in Aus! In fact Mum & dad are there now on holiday but wont be able to attend the reunion as they will be back in UK then.
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Wonderful happy memories!