by Bronwen Whyatt | Jan 23, 2018 | Travel
There are several reasons I am grateful for growing up in South Australia. Not least, because I grew up with Keep South Australia Beautiful or KESAB, Tidy Towns and 10c container deposits. Having lived in the eastern states metropolises of Sydney then Melbourne I was...
by Bronwen Whyatt | Jun 23, 2017 | Travel
Staying at Naracoorte for a three week holiday earlier this year, I took the opportunity to go and visit my cousin, Graham, who now runs the farm at which I spent many of my childhood holidays. Not much has changed, except the pine trees out front are taller. Out the...
by Bronwen Whyatt | Jun 23, 2017 | Travel
For the past several weekends, by some twist of fate, the quest for gainful employment has resulted in me traipsing the near East of Melbourne city in a combination of train, tram and foot. There has not been one day so far where some part of my journey has not been...
by Bronwen Whyatt | Mar 30, 2017 | Travel
From a diary entry 10th December, 2013: London One of the joys of international research is that often you get to have quite lengthy email back and forth discussions with the managers charged with gatekeeping collections. Sometimes all the way down in the Antipodes,...
by Bronwen Whyatt | Mar 29, 2017 | Travel
Diary entry 30th December, 2013: London On Saturday, I made my debut at the British Library by requesting two books in French that contain details about our Hemer (Mathews) ancestors, the Pilleaus and Pezes from Le Mans. As I was standing outside at 9.30am in the...
by Bronwen Whyatt | Feb 15, 2017 | Film reviews, Travel
After 25 years driving the picturesque Mount Gambier to Adelaide road, and seeing the familiar brown Bool Lagoon sign just shy of Naracoorte, today I decided to turn off the road and see what it was all about. It was reportedly flush with birds after the past...
