Sepia Saturday 406 - Those Carrett girls
Manly Swimming Pool Queensland 1936 Sepia Saturday this week encourages us to explore: obvious theme possibilities of swimming and water available, but you might also want to investigate the possibilities of standing around and - like the child at the end of the diving board - hanging around. It's difficult to know where to begin with this blog post. I've been sitting on it for at least 24 hours. In those 24 hours, I have managed to list just about every article/listing I could find about my paternal grandmother's swimming feats as found on Trove as well as those of her sisters. This is no mean feat - using the search words "Carrett AND swim*" I found 792 results. Of course, not all of them are relevant but to give you some idea I now have the following lists and number of items for each sister: Daisy - 70 items Ethel - 130 items Millie - 166 items Nora - 94 items Rene - 258 items Moi - obsessed? Just maybe! I have blogged about the...