Here are Some Things About Dad I put together for Ian Bradshaw's 80th birthday on 21 June 2021. Dad took on the farm at 21,...
DebraJuly 15, 2020
Here's the Little Book of Memories I put together for Pam Bradshaw for her 80th birthday on 14 August 2019. My friend Denise...
DebraJuly 14, 2020
Nana Thomas (Mum's mother) gave me these stories about family life in her household of bringing up five children. Pam is my mother,...
DebraFebruary 22, 2020
Helen Thomas (nee Watts) was my grandmother (my mother's mother). Here's the story of her early days before she married Allan Thomas. More...
DebraFebruary 18, 2020
Zelda Bradshaw was my Nana (my father's mother). When I was a journalism student (back in 1992) I asked her to share her...
DebraFebruary 24, 2017
Allan Thomas (Poppa) was born in 1909. He grew up and farmed on Thomas Road. Here's some more background about his early life....
DebraFebruary 20, 2017
I sat down with Dad in the early 1990s to capture some of his life story. I had recently learnt shorthand at Journalism...
DebraFebruary 16, 2017
Here's Mum's story (up until around 1992, when I sat down with her to record her memories). I was born in Morrinsville on...
DebraFebruary 14, 2017
The first thing I remember as a child is that secure feeling. If Mum was rattling around the kitchen I always felt that...
DebraFebruary 13, 2017
