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Saturday, February 8, 2014

On the far side of the cover

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This is my final cover design for the family history of my mother’s people in Australia, which is about to be published by Gamone Press in...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Waterview folk: Howley and O'Shea

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I've often thought that some of our greatest friends in Waterview (South Grafton, Australia), in the late 1940s, were the Howley family....
Monday, May 14, 2012

Land

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When I was a schoolboy, we were expected to learn an assortment of curious old units of weights and measures. One of the strangest of these ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

A river and a bridge

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My mother’s eldest brother, Eric Walker , liked to point out in his typical loudspoken manner that I was conceived under Bawden’s Bridge , l...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Bush humor when I was a Waterview kid

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This is the cover of a famous Australian weekly magazine, Pix , dated 23 September 1946 (the eve of my 6th birthday). The woman is the US ac...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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