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Thread: My dad's old plane
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21st June 2019, 10:35 AM #16
True, Tom, I think it was probably so. Certainly the timing fits, & he may have told me the reason at some stage, but I can't remember (along with quite a few other things ).
And indeed, my dad was very keen to see all his children educated, too, including his daughters, which was a pretty enlightened attitude for his time & place. Most of us ended up completing some sort of tertiary education in the end, which I think gave him much satisfaction. I can only imagine how disappointed he must have felt when I became a rebel without cause in my teenage years & dropped out of school. I actually started an apprenticeship too (radio tech.), but in a twist of fate, it was Mr. Menzies "credit squeeze" (another recession we had to have) of the early 60s that ended that and started me on my 'wandering' years.
As they say, life is what happens to us while we make other plans....
Cheers,IW
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When I was very young in the sixties (I am 71 this year) my paternal Grandparents used to visit every Sunday afternoon and stay for dinner. Afterwards we would all sit around and Pa used to tell stories of his nomadic life living and working on properties as a carpenter and blacksmith in Western NSW, he was born in 1901. It is to my eternal regret that somehow we could not have recorded those conversations and stories for posterity. Some years later Dad found out that Pa was not his father at all, Dad was born in Sydney, Nana had been kicked out of her home in Geelong after she fell pregnant but she never spoke of it and refused to reveal the details and Pa was her first cousin. It was quite common in those days for cousins to marry so they got married and had two more children. Pa was still working in a hardware store yard when he died at 73 and he never really owned anything beyond a car, his tools, a small rowing boat and the furniture in the house.
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