Comments on: The Grafton Jacaranda Festival of Yesteryear https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/ Your muse is live in the city and the bush Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anne Skyvington https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-1147 Sat, 11 Aug 2018 08:01:42 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874#comment-1147 In reply to Narelle Friar.

Dear Narelle, Thank you for finding my blog and for commenting. Also, I see that you have actually subscribed. Great! I’m trying to slowly build up followers. Please keep in contact. I’m delighted to hear about your family, and to learn that you have bravely come through the hell of losing a sibling. My brother, Donny, also lost his life, late in life, due to an accident at the South Grafton Saleyards when he was eight years’ old. This had a profound effect on him, and he was never really well again. Can you send me some photos of you and/or your family, your house at Seeland,etc? I’ll tell my sister about this when I meet up with her for her 70th birthday celebrations soon. Where do you live now?

]]> By: Narelle Friar https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:43:14 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874#comment-1146 Your sister Susan was in my year at Grafton HIgh but we only came into contact in 4th and 5th year as we did English together.
I went to South Grafton Infants – traveling by bus in from the border between Waterview and Seelands – 6 miles from the Post Office in South Grafton.
I was the youngest of 5 – my sister and brothers went to the Seelands school as there was no bus for them – it was only put on around 1952.
My eldest brother was Max ( killed car accident Whitton NSW – the HIgh School gave a guard of honour at his funeral South Grafton ST Matthews), the my brother Owen, my sister Lynette, brother Allan then me – Narelle Friar.
It was lovely to ‘happen’ upon this blog – I was looking for photos of Grafton and it was conceled under a photograph of jacarandas.
Thanks for the memories – the smells of the earth, the trees, the animals – never leave you once the Clarence is in your veins.
Thank you for blogging and writing.
Regards
Narelle Friar

]]> By: Anne Skyvington https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-1054 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:37:43 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874#comment-1054 In reply to Roger Britton.

Thanks Roger.

]]> By: Roger Britton https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 02:30:49 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874#comment-1053 Liked the photo of you and your bike. Grafton mauve was a magic moment when we drove through. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Roger

]]> By: Anne Skyvington https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 Wed, 09 Nov 2016 04:08:54 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874#comment-1052 In reply to Rotwein Wanderer.

Thanks. Yes, we really are Down Under by comparison with the UK and Europe. Good luck with your ongoing blogging

]]> By: Rotwein Wanderer https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:37:43 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874#comment-1051 May Pole at the end of October! I once did some research on May Pole Dance etc in the UK, so this is interesting! Thank you for sharing your memory.
Good luck with your writings and see you some time later!

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