Janet's marriage to Geoff in London in 1968 (with her parents Harry and Kitty)
With her beloved first dog: Penny
With me as a baby - the Rag'n'Bone man would swap clothes baskets like this one for old rags (and presumably bones)
With her parents
On my 18th birthday - truly days best forgotten.
In February 1983 my mother and I became Australian citizens. At the ceremony we were each presented with a tube-stock tree. The very colourful Tasmania-less cake above was baked by Barbara Hayes, our next door neighbour at the time.
My mother's parents moved to Australia to join us in the late 70s, into a house only a street away from us in Bass Hill. My mother was there for them whenever they needed her.
In Burradoo (about 2002), with Jayne
Before the Great Coming of Billy (see below) my mother was known as the Kookaburra Lady of Burradoo
Trip to Egypt and a Nile cruise - with Geoff in 'Sheik of Araby' mode
Janet spent a large part of her life looking after other people - including being the (geographically) nearest relative to Maisie and Keith Barcham (Geoff's parents) after his death in 2004
The Swinging 60s - in particular a job at Butlins holiday camp at Bognor Regis!
In early September 1939 the UK government evacuated 100,000s of women and children from areas around London in danger of bombing, in an operation called 'Pied Piper'. This included Janet's mother Catherine (Kitty) who gave birth to my mother a week or so later (on 24 September) far from home
With her father (Harry) on leave during WWII. Janet very proudly translated Harry's war diary from it's original Utter Scrawl into a typed-out version I could read
In the backyard at Bass Hill
On behalf of my mother: Good luck and a Long Life to you all!