Following our presentations on ‘Women and Children on the goldfields’ at the Castlemaine Alchemy of Gold conference in May 2025, the moderator, Dr Katrina Dernelley asked the audience for personal stories about their own Victorian goldfield’s ancestors. After hearing these fascinating stories, Dr Katrina commented on the importance of recording these stories. Both Dr Katrina […]
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David’s Backstory
The following story was a contribution to my book TAILS by Brett. I made the association after David’s brother Chris mentioned Brett being one of (Tomo) David’s friends. Brett is a friend from the Melbourne Sharps’ days. We are trauma bonded after both Brett and my boyfriend Skeeta were attacked at Ringwood station one night […]
David’s Story
A short story by David Thompson written by his brother Chris from transcripts found in abandoned house reliving his days of his youth whilst in government care as a ward of the state. After various stays at several government boys’ homes David at the age of 11 was sent to Kilmany park. A farm stay […]
The Mole Patrol
The boys in my neighbourhood were dicks. My bestie JJ and I were teased and had railway rocks thrown at us. However that all stopped when I started going out with the toughest boy in Croydon. But that is another story (RIP Thomas T Tucker) Two boys in particular were annoying, I can’t even remember […]
A long time between blogs
Friday, April 25, 2014 The following was my last blog post, written over 10 years ago when I was blogging regularly on http://hungryheartcafe.blogspot.com. I didn’t post after that because the interesting things in my life were my clients and it isn’t ethical to blog about clients. It’s time to start writing again.