Another of my passions is the tv show Time Team. A big thanks to Romana for introducing me to this top show!!! While watching an episode I was thinking about the wonderful music on the show so what did I do but Google it 🙂
and came up with:
Download the title music by Paul Greedus
A bio on Ben Pringle
Here you can listen to Steve Day‘s music – titles such as Roman Britain, Ipswich Castle, and Rain Rain Rain. Pity there isn’t a cd of Steve’s music, I’d certainly buy it!
I read about Google’s new e-bookstore on Dick Eastman’s blog and went to check it out. The simple search of the word Australia gave me great results like:
Many of my ancestors came to South Australia in the early years of the colony, helping to shape it and make it grow so I’m hoping these titles may shed some light on their experiences. Charles Sturt is on this list because I’m a bit of a Sturt groupie and want to read more about his expeditions. I don’t get out a lot so these are a great resource to tap into online.
Google’s ebooks aren’t available for sale in Australia yet however there are many free and public domain titles to read such as the ones mentioned above.
I keep meaning to visit the South Australian Army Museum at Keswick Army barracks on Anzac Highway, Adelaide. I came across this article today, on the ABC Radio website, which makes me even keener to visit.
In one of the city’s oldest buildings, nestled alongside one of our busiest highways is one of Australia’s best military museums and one of Adelaide’s little known treasures.Boasting one of the country’s best war medals collections, valued at several millions of dollars, the Army Museum of South Australia is a collection of military treasures, and a treasure in itself.
Visitors can walk through the trenches of the Western Front, peer into a Gallipoli bunker, see the Kokoda Track pathways or immerse into the streetscape of wartime Europe.
I hope it will give me more information about my grandfather William Burnett Willison and other family members who fought in World War One and Two and the experiences they had.
Linnea Alice Percival was born on the 9th Jan 1915 in Richmond, New South Wales. I have found out little about Linnea’s childhood other than she was flower girl in her sister Elma’s wedding in 1925 and that growing up with a famous pilot brother, Edgar W Percival, she must have spent time around aeroplanes and pilots. There is much written about Edgar and his career as a pilot and aircraft designer.
In December 1939 Linnea’s engagement to ‘Buster’ Brown (Archibald Frederick Brown) was announced. Was this ‘Buster’ a dashing figure? I like to think he was. A commercial pilot, the well liked Buster, was employed in training RAAF cadets.
The couple were married on the 11th Jan 1940 at St John’s church, Darlinghurst. Archibald and Linnea chose not to go on a honeymoon as he said that, “every pilot instructor was needed to train cadets for the air force.”
Archibald Frederick ‘Buster’ Brown was killed on an instruction flight on the 22nd Jan 1940, just eleven days after their wedding.
I think of Linnea’s shock, and that of their family and friends. A newly married couple, yes during war time, but he wasn’t a soldier he was supposedly safe here in Australia not overseas.
My romantic heart thinks of love stories and movies, the hero dies, the heroine is heartbroken, will she ever love again?
Yes, in 1944 Linnea marries Edward Alan Cock. They had a daughter in 1946. Ted was also a pilot and served in the RAAF until 1950. They moved around in the airforce living in Queensland and New South Wales.
Nothing more has been found of their life together yet. I like to think that they lived happily ever after!
Ted and Linnea died within a few months of each other, Ted in April 2004 and Linnea in Nov 2004.
I found this site, Serna On Ubuntu, today when I was searching for information on codecs. It is a couple of years old but there are notes to help you where that might be an issue.
It has a great article on Using the Command Line If you’re new to Linux I think this is a must read! It’s also worth following the links in the article and reading each of these pages too – Entering Commands, Using The Terminal, Navigating Directories, Files and Directories, Working With Text Files, Piping And Direct Output and Background Tasks.
It’s been brilliant for me to read too as there are many gaps in my Linux knowledge and things I’ve forgotten as I’m no longer maintaining systems or a network.