Family Tree Frog

I have a feeling that in the old world - the pre-Covid world - it would have been round about Wimbledon tennis time now. But this isn't the real world, this is the Sepia world and therefore we can still have tennis if we want it. Or we can have sports, or women in long dresses or pavilions or whatever you would like. The Sepia world is rather like that, you can make the rules up as you go along.  So says Alan Burnett from Sepia Saturday. Here are some photos of my mother, her mother (I think, she was an identical twin so it's always difficult to be sure), her cousins and assorted friends. I think they are playing on tennis courts somewhere around Hamilton, Newcastle, Australia.  If you recognise the scenery, please enlighten me as there are quite a few tennis courts around Hamilton.  Not all the photos were taken on the same day.  My mother Barbara is a bit smaller in this first photo and in a different outfit. Isn't it great how the horizon is a bit tilted in this p...

Today's Sepia Saturday photo prompt gives us an opportunity to identify what catches our eye in this photo and what photos we may have in our collection that reflect the same objects or sentiments. What gives us joy?  A great hat?  A puppy?  New togs?   Are we looking for a sailor suit?  A dog?  A matron with a magnificent hat?  A verandah? I've brought out a couple of photos for inspection.  I've chosen to focus on dogs. I am hard pressed to find sailor suits or matrons with such magnificent millinery. My sister-in-law brought over some tiny photos a couple of years ago...more treasures I think from her mother Fay's room.  We loved this one of my husband.  It's almost a trio but not quite. 2.5. Although if you count the budgies I guess we're looking at 4.5. Robert Dexter Daw We're not sure where it's taken...maybe Gran and Father's place (Robert and Pat's grandparents' place).... Robert William Daw (my husban...

Marilyn aka Little Nell from Sepia Saturday says: The 4th October is the date in 1941 that Norman Rockwell launched a series of Saturday Evening Post covers depicting Willie Gillis. Rockwell described Gillis as “an inoffensive ordinary little guy thrown into the chaos of war”. Willie made his debut carrying a food parcel and suddenly everyone wanted to be his friend. No chaos here this week; Alan is on holiday and I’m reasonably organised. All you have to do is choose a theme suggested by the prompt picture: the little guy, parcel from home, food package , followers, magazine covers or whatever else you see. Post your own old images, sometime around Saturday 4th October, with a link back to Sepia Saturday. I seem to be finding it increasingly difficult to match the Sepia Saturday prompts of late, so I do apologise for my absence.   Gladys and Cecil Maloney with small girl carrying basket of flowers on board ship c. 1960s Okay, so this is a picture of Gladys and C...