A video taken in the ruins of Kangaroo Inn on the road from Robe, SA, a stopping point along the route that the Chinese miners took to the goldfields in the 1850s.
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Researching The Boy with Blue Trousers – Video One
A video taken on location in Robe, SA, where the Chinese miners landed
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Bullock Teams and The Boy With Blue Trousers
In southeast Queensland in the 1920s, my grandfather worked as a timber cutter driving a bullock team on steeply timbered hillsides
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Of Tools and Implements in Old Nanjing
A writer of historical fiction dwells in the kitchens, barns, boats, farms, stables and workshops of many eras
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Old House in Fuqing
Fuqing was the birthplace of my partner’s paternal grandfather, who was born into a family of chopstick makers.
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Picture Books for Writers
You know the old saying, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’.
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Jade Archer Rings
It’s quite ironic that a tool of war evolved into a piece of statement jewellery.
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Southern China — Tulous of the Hakka
I love revisiting holiday snaps and doubly so when they help my research.
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Carol Jones 