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Shirley Brown - My Early Working Life

Shirley recalls her working life from office work to a munitions factory and finally as a Land Girl in the family vegetable garden. The photograph below shows the cauliflower harvest. Audio starts after short delay.

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Pat Carlson - My favourite time during my working career

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Pat fondly recalls her time as a swimming instructor.......

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Graham Maskell - Enjoying my job

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Graham tells as why he enjoyed his working life as a public servant in South Australia...

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Lisa Calabria - Tough times on the land

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Lisa recalls having to find a job when a winery went out of businerss owing them a great deal of money.... short delay for audio

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Jill Sayner - Colleagues and favourite times during my working life - Part 1

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Jill begins a two part story about colleagues and favourite times during my working years..... short delay before audio begins

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Bill Corey - 1933 You took what job was going

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Bill never planned to be a butcher but in 1933 (during the Great Depression) you took what was you could get..

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Colt .44 Bandanna For Suburban Cowboys

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Colt .44 Bandanna For Suburban Cowboys Some thoughts for stories come out of dreams, and others come while mowing the lawn. After many years of evidentiary coincidence, it is time to conclude that; for the...

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Ruth Payne - Neighbours

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Ruth recalls her different neighbours in St Peters, an Adelaide suburb. Audio begins after a short delay.

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Nostalgia Is Easier To Do These Days

Dick Pellek

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Nostalgia Is Easier To Do These Days As computer technology advances, month by month, it becomes easier for everyone to capture and then ultimately re-live many things from the past. Photographs and videos make it...

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Global Warming...Or Not?

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Global Warming…Or Not? We hear it all the time…global warming is a hoax. That statement comes from the right wing of the political spectrum. It would seem that their agenda is to convince us that...

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Margaret Crowe - My First Paid Job

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Margaret recalls her first real paid job - at the age of 48!

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Lisa Calabria - My first encounter with Australian health care

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Lisa recalls her first experience with the Australian health care system - just after her family arrived in Australia.

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Pat Carlson - New Work Experiences

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Pat recalls her time as a swimming instructor..

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Tiger Dao's Burial

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Buddhist Burial Among the keepsakes we can expect to see in future years are digitized photographs and videos of funerals and burial rituals. In our family, we have a lengthy video of the burial...

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Judith Black - Life Experiences from Many Jobs

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Judith recalls her early working life..including changing 17,000 paybooks into decimal currency.

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Joyce Pounsett - My First Jobs

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Joyce recalls her early jobs in typing and retail - including walking around Adelaide wearing expensive jewellery..

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Graham Maskell - Career Advice

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Graham recalls the career advice he got from his father and his first job.

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Bill Corey - Railways in South Australia

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Bill talks about the importance of railways in South Australia before the Second World War. He recalls all the different types of trains that passed through Tarlee and Hamley Bridge in the days before road transport took over.