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love the face in the window

I always imagined myself strolling with an elegant greyhound or afghan hound wearing something very stylish. Instead I have a beagle whom I walk wearing jeans and hair in braids. Fantastic photo!!

Wonderful.

Vivienne Strauss You or the beagle wearing jeans and hair in braids, Vivienne?? :)

me in braids and jeans :) Beagle just in harness - I need to find her a sweater soon though, it is getting pretty chilly now ;D

I just worked out that Marconi's first wife was my Irish maternal great-grandmother's half-sister. Tuning in with interest! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483987

beachcomber australia interesting, do tell more.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Marconi's first wife Beatrice, www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483985 , was the daughter of www.thepeerage.com/p1795.htm#i17941 , whose first child by his first wife was my great-grandmother, www.thepeerage.com/p28200.htm#i281999. It's complicated - they all seem to have married several times!

This is a contemporary description of the station: The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System, from Scientific American, 23 November 1907.

beachcomber australia Got it, you have a very interesting family tree. Marconi's Mother was also Irish!

Escape to the seaside For those Brisbane residents who have experienced the Bruce and M1 highway gridlocks at the start of holidays, the 1931 exodus to the seaside after a difficult year may seem all too familiar. An election and change of government, with Joseph Lyons and his United Australia Party elected, brought about a positive change to the state's mood, the Central Queensland Herald reported.After a "year of such depression as Queensland had not previously known", buoyed by the election result, residents turned out their pockets and went shopping, holidaying and camping. "On Christmas Eve there came a general exodus to the seaside and every resort within reach of the city crowds was thronged," it wrote. "By train and car thousands departed for the South Coast resorts ... the new toll bridge over the Logan Bridge reaped a golden harvest, and two traffic policemen were constantly on duty to supervise the unending rush of cars - and incidentally to guard against possibility of a raid by bandits intent on laying

violent hands on the toll fees, estimated at well over 1000 pounds for the three days," the Herald continued. And, much like this year, many people turned to camping along the beach, with "canvas houses, replete with every comfort, even to electric light, separate sleeping compartments, and spring mattresses".

Resource: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/how-brisbane...

The photo was published in Brisbane times 2020 by Lucy Stone: " How Brisbane celebrated Christmas through the years"