(C) Julie Boyd Ainsley Harriott is an African-English chef. Last night on TV I watched him trace his family history back to the time of slavery. It all seemed a little surreal until I looked at some dates that were important to him, and suddenly realised they were also important to me. My son had […]
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1833 – A Personal History
April 22, 2011 by Julie
Filed Under: Australian Stories Tagged With: ainsley harriott, ancestry, History, Tasmania
My Dog and I Have Matching Tumours.
April 3, 2011 by Julie
© Julie Boyd My dog and I have matching tumours. We first met ten years ago, just after one of my closest friends had died. She had been dealing with an unusual abdominal tumour which was growing daily, looked like a pregnancy, and was inoperable. At the time, I had several tumours in various female […]
Filed Under: Australian Stories, Jorge Dog Stories Tagged With: Byron Bay New South Wales, Kidney, Near death experience, New South Wales, Queensland, Shire of Noosa, Tasmania, Tumor
The Aussie Mateship Gene
(C) Julie Boyd Why is it that Aussies are so good in a crisis, but then we forget? Is there a mateship gene we have that gets triggered by a disaster, then turns off again as soon as it’s all over? Many of us have watched in horror over the past couple of weeks as […]