"Old memories. New excitements." - It happened 29 Sept., 2011.
The Dutch Australian Cultural Centre was there, demonstrating the fun that CAN be had, without needing any electricity!
Shuffleboards are used for “Sjoelen” as the Dutch word for shuffleboard, is sjoelbak.
Willoughby City Council organised an afternoon of: “Old memories. New excitements” demonstrating the way different cultures play games. A lot of fun was had by young and …
Ozcloggie is afraid of the stairs.
Lost in The Rocks, last night, I looked down the “Windmill Steps” and grabbed the railing, feeling slightly dizzy but, by now, running late and it had to be done.
I obviously looked distressed enough to have some kind people, who’d told me where the stairs were, drive around to the street below, to ensure that I’d landed safely, in Hickson Road.
I had flashbacks to looking…
We both came aged about 12. We both became teachers. (At Mascot P.S..)
Another group of Japanese students, from Sydney University was doing a tour of some locations, in Sydney’s outer western suburbs, where something could be learnt about the ethnic input into the Australian community. The Dutch Shop, ( " ‘tWinkeltje’ " ) was, once again part of that excursion.
It was Wednesday, 29 December, and as, now, the chairman of the D.A.C.C., I f…
"But you can't!!" (......go back).
Months of quiet, calm retirement and, SUDDENLY, too much to do!
37 years I taught primary school children.
I repeat that so often now.
In my fifth year of teaching it all came to a first plateau!
At Riverstone P.S., my first appointment, 1964-1966, I’d found my feet. The executives there had got used to my Dutch-ways of doing things and come to appreciate my input in art, dance, music, etc.. …
"The school children-- Australia-wide- must be taught the truth about the events that preceded settlement in 1788 instead of the myths concocted by the colonisers."
I question that statement, on page 13, of the current Holland Focus magazine, that “The school children— Australia-wide- must be taught the truth about the events that preceded settlement in 1788 instead of the myths concocted by the colonisers.”
No!
School children – Australia-wide- must be taught how to SEEK OUT the FACTS and be taught the skills to assess the validity …
Love of cars from the maternal side. Music and video..............
……….I reckon, from my side!!!
Take a look:
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What do you think?
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(One of these fellows I’ve known since he was a lot shorter!!)
The mystery of The Stolen Prince, caused a sleepless night!
In 1957, I spoke little English and therefore I was cast as the Chinese wife and mother in the play: “The Stolen Prince, a fantasy, in one act, by Dan Totheroh."
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The next year, still at the South Sydney Boys Junior High School, I was cast as a butler, with one line to remember (announcing the visitor’s arrival), and the year after that we’d been transferred to the brand-n…
The beautiful game - football ( played by kicking the ball, with the foot).
During the winter. in the late forties, early fifties, every alternate Saturday, my father and I would join the men, on the dike, walking towards the grounds, of the Football Club, called Gouda.
My mother would wait for us, at her parents’ place.
Looking up from my grandparents’ house towards that dike, please imagine one of those old black and white movies in which a whole bunch of p…
I am Ozcloggie, MrJoop, Joop Mul and Jo Mulholland (Was Mr M.)
Gosh! Filmstars and authors and others have done it, why can’t I?
When I was born, I was named: Johannes Martien Mul. Named after my father who was named after his father and an aunt. My father’s name: Johannes Maria, which he always, right to the end, at 92, felt he had to justify. Like that song of years ago, about: My Name is Sue. To make it a little less feminine, he spelt it: M…
43rd Arts Alive Prize 2010- Club Marconi - 1st Prize, Traditional!
