Greetings Central Coast,
Spring is finally in swing and with it I’ve been thinking about seasons. The natural seasons where barren limbs sprout new leaves, but also the personal seasons of life. Both of our sons celebrate their birthdays this month. Abraham is in the double digits turning 10, and Aristotle turning 6.
It’s true that the days are long but the years are short. It feels like it was just yesterday that they were testing out their first solid pieces of banana and dropping oatmeal off their spoons on the way to their mouths. It feels like those first wobbly steps were a moment ago even though they’ve been running with ease for years now. Each of these young stages come with new things, the joy that is found in their excitement over bubbles or seeing a butterfly is truly priceless. These days I get to watch as their minds grasp bigger concepts as they figure out how to add and multiply numbers. I get to hear them learning to play piano and their laughter as they make up jokes.
Time has always felt elusive to me, but now it’s gauged the passing of time by the years evident in my kiddos, of how much they’ve grown. For as much as I’ve grown my internal landscape, they’ve grown their externally.
It’s such a pleasure to get to be their mom in this beautiful season of life. A special Happy Birthday to my darling boys Abraham and Aristotle. I love you both infinitely. You both make me a better person because I get to be your mom.
All the very best always,
Jennifer
Pen to Paper, or EMail?
You don’t need a “computer” to write an article in the newspaper, we are very happy to receive news via the mailbox at APEX House, 3 Gollan St, Ulverstone. Feel free to drop anything in that you think would be of interest to the community.
We can even receive an article by Text Message, feel free to send a text message to my Mobile on 0412 458 477 and I’ll copy it into the newspaper. If you have a photo, you can try sending that too and I’ll let you know if its ok to print.
Looking forward to your community news,
David Robinson
Jilly – Roaming Editor
It is with gratification that the news of community activities is increasing as we transition to a newspaper worthy of the successful businesses and representing the wide diversity of media and culture of the Central Coast.
Your editor, Jilly is currently touring Victoria visiting friends and favourite places from her Melbourne days finding many interesting scenes.
Photos show this Wage Sheet retrieved from a large collection from my friend’s childhood home, (now being ready for sale). The once important job of a Wire Drawer included a number of spiked skewers each a different size. The wire was prepared by shrinking the beginning of the wire by hammering, filing, or rolling. so that it fitted through the die (pictured bedside the spikes), the wire was then pulled through the die.
Another set of photos shows the early blossom on an old crab apple tree in the Central Highlands of Victoria at Daylesford and the views obtained looking across Daylesford Lake, a flooded gold diggings constructed during the 1930s. A boat house allowed popular rowboat outings on the lake. The red roofed structure is the memorial to the many Chinese who were denigrated when they tried to join the gold diggings causing them to cluster in their own isolated camps to avoid conflict with white men.
This picture shows a Cape Barren Goose with her 4-day old chicks protectively hissing a warning. They are on Phillip Island where the Bass Strait Coast is a vast rugged coastline of reefs and headlands.
