tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post591408249280031430..comments2023-03-30T03:30:10.912+11:00Comments on The Mother Load: The Happiest Of Happy Days...The Mother Load (Australia)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17184903707604495342noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post-55159650652507745602017-09-12T01:32:06.324+10:002017-09-12T01:32:06.324+10:00nice postnice postlizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06035184100892779826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post-47845603062702493772014-10-21T09:28:45.118+11:002014-10-21T09:28:45.118+11:00Love this comment, Gaeton. Funny how family and es...Love this comment, Gaeton. Funny how family and especially the involvement of grandparents can conjure up the happiest of memories. I too have many similar to yours above. Gotta love the 70s and 80s. Thanks for sharing. XThe Mother Load (Australia)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17184903707604495342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824498722063465184.post-12931210836599589082014-10-20T19:02:15.327+11:002014-10-20T19:02:15.327+11:00Christmas time
Up in cobram on my grandparents orc...Christmas time<br />Up in cobram on my grandparents orchard. The house was so full we would sleep on fold out beds on the veranda. There was so much food and drink that we would store it in the orchard cool rooms and would go down to re supply at different times during the festivities. Going with my grandfather to turn on and off the irrigation (all other work was on hold). Swimming in the pool. The pool was 33m x 20m and over 5m deep for the diving boards and a bit scary to swim in by yourself but great at Xmas cos everybody was in there. Gazebos and peach drinks.<br />Point lonsdale with dads side was fun too. My grandparents house was a labyrinth of rooms and a bungalow out the back but the house could be so full that I was on a fold out bed somewhere! Lots of food, lots of noise and laughs. My grandmother would always fall asleep after lunch and despite whatever new toys we got , we would always end up playing shuttlecock/badminton.<br />Point lonsdale has so many great memories for me. I grew up there, as much as anywhere. Learning to swim and surf, nippers and surf life saving, okonuhis, trashy beach bike, 50c for minimum chips after surfing. Easter king tide, the lighthouse, 'the tracks', daring swims with papa off the back of the rock pools, the peir, under age drinking and hi jinx, fires in the sand dunes, foam esky type drink bottles of cordial, the shore break, rainy day trips to other parts, movie night in the church, abalone, old gun/military bunkers, the fog horn, blasting the rip, 1c lollies, double dragon arcade game........hmmmm. <br />Thanks for the post TML, I needed to go back to those happy times now.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06079487597473004729noreply@blogger.com