The Tumbrel Diaries

Nan (q.v.) took her special recipe for rock cakes to her grave, or, to be more accurate, the Springvale crematorium. However, reconstru...

Iona Heather Trumble, my paternal grandmother, was the daughter of Alexander Campbell, a director of the Broken Hill Proprietary Block 1...

Ian Gordon Robertson, 1935–2004, scholar, teacher, mentor, friend. I first met Ian in 1981, after a lecture at the National Gallery o...

Jean Mary Waller, 1914–1999, librarian, teacher, mentor, and friend. Jean was born on March 15, 1914. Despite having in infancy suffered fro...

There is a point early in vice-regal terms of office when, at times, either separately or in tandem, the incumbent and his or her spouse m...

Country tours were a lot of fun. At that time, around 1988, the Governor of Victoria had at his disposal two vice-regal carriages which co...

Jane Pearson was the daughter of Sir James Campbell of Aberuchill, third baronet (1723–1812), and his first wife Margaret, née Ball, who w...