1950s Australia Children’s books
I learnt to read very early, and was soon addicted to books and reading. I don’t remember many individual books, but here are a few. I...
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Barbara Randell
- Jun 29
- 2 min
How I edit my own Novels
I use Obsidian to outline, and plot, for the whole novel. I also use it to name characters, and describe them. I describe localities, and...
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Barbara Randell
- Apr 19
- 3 min
THE BUSHMAN AND THE BEE
Once when I was a child, my dad Ray Redgen, had gone to the forestry reserve away to the north, to help fight a bushfire that was...
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Barbara Randell
- Feb 11
- 4 min
The Western Australian Goldfields in 1986
Australia has its share of ghost towns, some in surprising locations. In 1986, as a field botanist, I stumbled on a few. For example, in...
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Barbara Randell
- Jan 30
- 2 min
ANOTHER BUSH BALLAD --JACK of the BUSH
Here is another 'bush ballad' I wrote about my father, and a few of his many skills, learned over his life in the bush. JACK OF THE BUSH...
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Barbara Randell
- Jan 16
- 3 min
5 Free or Cheap Keyword Generators for Blog Ideas
Keyword generators help you home in on what your potential customers want to know. They scrape search engines and question-and-answer...
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Barbara Randell
- Jan 3
- 4 min
Women didn't work in the 1950s, did they
I read a comment the other day … from a man … that women did not work in the 1950s. How wrong he was. If he was a child then, then he...
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Barbara Randell
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Christmas in the 1950s
How different it was then. We always had a large family gathering involving my mother’s family. Lots of aunts and uncles, grandparents,...
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Barbara Randell
- Dec 13, 2022
- 6 min
Native animals on Redford in the 1950s
When I think about the native animals on the farm, kangaroos are the first things I recall. They did not usually come close to the house,...
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Barbara Randell
- Oct 30, 2022
- 5 min
2 Girls Driving North of Broken Hill, 1967
There was a time when I needed to travel through northwest of NSW, to look at the cassia plants growing in that region. I had planned a...
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Barbara Randell
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Travelling through South Australia in 1966
Continuing my story of driving from Queensland to Adelaide in 1966. Just before we left New South Wales, we were stopped at a ‘fruit...
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Barbara Randell
- Sep 15, 2022
- 8 min
1960s Australia . Travelling on the Old Ghan between Marree and Alice Springs
It was 1967, my second year living and studying in Adelaide. I decided that I needed to visit Alice Springs, to study the Cassia bushes...
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Barbara Randell
- Jun 19, 2022
- 4 min
Driving from Brisbane to Adelaide in 1966
Newsletter 3 In previous newsletter, I shared my student excursions through various parts of Queensland. Now it’s time to widen my...
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Barbara Randell
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min
Queensland in the 1960s
Hello everyone, I promised to tell you more about Queensland in the 1960s. After my first 3 years at University, I had become a full-time...
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Barbara Randell
- Jan 23, 2022
- 3 min
Graham at the Farm
Graham was born in the city of Adelaide, and lived his whole life here. But before we married in 1968, I took him to visit my family in...
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Barbara Randell
- Jan 6, 2022
- 1 min
A sad Christmas
I wanted to share with you my sad news. On December 19th, just 3 days before his 91st birthday, Graham, my beloved husband of more than...
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Barbara Randell
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
Cricket in the lounge room
Having so much cricket on the TV at the moment has reminded me of cricket in my childhood in the 1950s. My father was a keen sportsman,...
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Barbara Randell
- Oct 10, 2021
- 3 min
A Bush Ballad --Old Brown's Smart Mare
When Ossie died. the land he leased For twenty years or more, Reverted to the Crown’s control -- Which bureaucrats adore. They planned to...
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Barbara Randell
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
GOING TO SEE THE QÂÂÂUEEN
In 1954, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, came to visit Australia. They travelled to cities that were...
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Barbara Randell
- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
Australian Birdlife on our farm
Here is a chapter that didn’t make it into the book The Redgens of Redford There were lots of birds living around our house. The ones I...
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