My Gardening Australia Article

If you have a private, contained garden space, which you are still allowed to use.(If not how about trying to find a way to plant some seeds or do what my parents did. They had helped us grow a plant from the top of a carrot placed in a saucer of water.) Now might be …

Boys and School

One of the greatest blessings in my life, is having a brother who is totally unlike me. I realised that today when I was thinking about my passion for encouraging children to love reading. My brother was not academic. In fact he hated school. He could not get out of there quick enough. It has …

Reggie Brown

Trying to locate the newspaper articles about John Panton today, I came across the following  essay from a boy called Reggie Brown. He was born in 1910.  I think it illustrates my point about including those who are not directly related in your family story. The teacher to whom I do happen to be related, …