the first draft

for Josh & Ella

Blog Articles - 2024

Growing Up Non Indigenous in Australia
8th January
 My Mum once made a passing remark about my son’s girlfriend (now wife) being ‘foreign’. The remark wasn’t intended as criticism. To my mother it was just a fact because my future daughter-in-law’s mother came here from Sri Lanka.
Changing Names
28th February
 Both of my Mum’s grandmothers were called Sarah Jane.
Weird Good or Bad
21st September
 Growing up I always felt different to the people around me; a bit weird.
Brief Lives
15th November
 A remark made between two of my dad's cousins had caused me to assume that my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Henderson may have died from dementia. The comment - "oh, isn't she the one who went mad" - was passed on to me by my mother, who was notorious for getting things wrong when it came to my dad's family, so I thought I should investigate it a bit further.

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