I do understand your take on this - putting aside the English went through massive bombings back in WW11 - the Blitz you'd think that...

The Masons carried out the corporal punishment at my school, caning on hands, back of legs even the bum with only underpants for...

Please explain. I found, firstly no longer having a father then no mother when she took me to the school and left me at just 7yrs...

Graz, or Grazor, do impart more of your growing years. The early posts offer plenty of substance for a response.

probably the most accurate I've seen of what it was like (compare to that awful movie jo jo rabbit)

I'd like to watch that. See if I can find it online.

yeah there was one featured in melbourne (the book thief) that reminded me of my family. My wife thought the author might have known my...

Ditto. War films have been scripted along the same narrative in which your grand parents found themselves Grazor. They were strong and...

Half germany half poland. Was quite a story My family came from east prussia and in the interwar period changed their name from a...

I used to ride trail bikes up and down the length of Lighthouse Beach at Port Macquarie for hours on holidays as a 8-14 year old, we...

Good to read your contribution grazor. Sounds like a great upbringing in the tropics. Oma being your grandmother? Wasnt Prussia once...

Grew up in Cairns the creek in our back yard connected to the local park and used to visit the park regularly when 6-12 when my parents...

You looked like David Cassidy?!

Not me, an online pic I found. Tho I wore my hair that length and wore disco heel shoes and even tried winkle pickers but preferred...

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