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Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM (3 August 1920 – 14 October 2012) was an Australian children’s writer and journalist and a cousin; see https://www.bassetts.com.au/tree/index.php?route=%2Ftree%2Ftree%2Fbassett-sandry%2Findividual%2FX8271%2FMaxwell-Edgar-Fatchen
The SA Education Department has moved to quell concern over controversial peace studies in schools by distributing formal guidelines to principals. I wonder what this peace can be That causes so much rage, Affecting us, we’re led to think, At quite a tender age? What makes it such a battleground Where people glare and thunder? …
Adelaide’s namesake, Queen Adelaide, now has her own rose—a fine traditional pink bloom with hardy qualities which has been released by the Queen Adelaide Society for South Australia’s Jubilee 150. How shall we write it, singing verse or prose? Queen Adelaide has now her blooming rose, A gentle flush upon her petal brow, A regal …
Period costumes are becoming part of our Jubilee 150 celebrations, and especially period-costume balls. Strike up the tunes of yesteryear, to thrill us one and all For here’s chance to show your gear; the period-costume ball. So come adorn, in best of taste, this jubilee affair. There’s whalebone, love, around your waist and ribbons in …
I have always been told never to speak to strange children on beaches. This admonition was uppermost in my mind when having my first paddle for the season on a golden weekend recently. The first paddle is a solemn rite for an elderly man. We begin as paddlers at the sea and we end as …
I can’t understand what all the fuss is about with the proposed tropical conservatory in the Botanic Garden when I have offered our fern house as a gift to the State. I understand that the offer has already reached certain quarters and Drs Morley and Hopgood have gone into hiding. Our tropical conservatory occupies an …
Once it was enough for friends on holidays to send a saucy postcard of upblowing dresses on the esplanade or a picture of a fat man in bathing togs with the caption Sorry our correspondence is all behind. Or See you can stomach this. With, however, the keen electronic bent of our society, a new …
I read with interest that a visiting US psychologist says that exercise is for donkeys and people treat themselves like Jackasses when they go running. His view is that we should go back to basics and learn to move properly, freeing ourselves from poor walking, breathing and sports habits, We treat ourselves like a piece …
It comes as no surprise that the word “obey” will not be uttered by the Royal bride. Such words are outmoded in this liberated world. But one young married woman I know said that she was interested in obedience trials. She said: “First I started sending my dog, but now I send my husband” And …
INCOMPLETE It had the sound of doom about it. “We are going fishing with you today,” the women said. They said it with their beads high, with an anything-you-can-do-we-can-do-better demeanour and an air reeking of suspicion and equal opportunity. “We don’t believe your stories and we want to see what you get up to,” they …
Be just to children. Watch them in the playground and you’ll learn a lot about them They will test you but years later they come back as adults and thank you… This is the philosophy of Mr James Lord, 83 of Rose Park, who has seen society and education change but who has retained his …