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Celebrating in Style – An Anniversary in Sydney

March 3, 2021 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 38 Comments

Monday 22nd February was our wedding anniversary, and we celebrated with a night at the Sofitel Darling Harbour in Sydney. We masked up and braved the train - our first journey on public transport for months - arriving to a warm welcome around 11am, where we ditched our bag and went off for a walk … Continue reading Celebrating in Style – An Anniversary in Sydney

THANKFULNESS

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 33 Comments

I recently saw a joke on Facebook that went along these lines, that cute toddler offering you a biscuit is not an adorable child. It's stomach flu. Despite the absence of biscuit-bearing toddlers - cute, adorable, or any other flavour - I managed to get a gastric virus recently. I was one very sick puppy, … Continue reading THANKFULNESS

Of Chimney Sweeps and Other Urchins

January 26, 2017 / Garrulous Gwendoline / 8 Comments

Derrick Knight's recent post on child labour and chimney sweeps prompted me to re-read my copy of Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. I must have been around eleven when I last read this book. We didn't have television, and I didn't have a sibling near my age, so I was a voracious reader. Books were precious to me. … Continue reading Of Chimney Sweeps and Other Urchins

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Garrulous Gwendoline

Garrulous Gwendoline

Australian writer who grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. Her memoir, I Belong to No One, is available in Paperback, eBook, Kindle and Audio. Published by Hachette Australia and Orion Books UK.

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