Feedback and Requests.

Leave a comment here if you have something you want to share or a subject you would like me to write or look for an article about. Thanks!

34 comments on “Feedback and Requests.”

Rolf Grunseit on March 19, 2012 at 11:39 pm said:

Google these three web sites for Sir Henry’s history., Im new to creating a web site and some of the site may have fragmented but you will find a treasure trove of illustrated information about him.

Google
1. Sir Henry Browne Hayes The story of the first St Patrick’s day ceremony in the colony and the encircling of Irish peat around the house was probably his way of defying Governor King about about holding a Freemason ceremony.

2St Patrick’s Day at Vaucluse follows the original story written by John Lang and published in London in 1890.. There is also a section about the Cadigal s who lived there for probably between 2000 to 20 000 years and left their incised petroglyphs at the rear of Vaucluse House.

2 Vernon Mount in Cork .

Google Rolf Grunseit Cork City Library for some of my background.

Please feel free to use my materials as long as you credit me for the information.

Best Wishes and Go for it!

Rolf

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- metan on March 20, 2012 at 8:37 am said:
  
  Thanks for that, I’ll be sure to have a look 🙂
  
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J. G. Burdette on May 5, 2012 at 2:34 am said:

I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award here: http://jgburdette.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/the-versatile-blogger-award/

Love your history posts!

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- metan on May 6, 2012 at 5:35 pm said:
  
  Thanks for the nomination 🙂 I have put all the details over on my Stuff About Me page, and thanks to you I have now started a Blogosphere page where I can share the blogs I like the most. Thanks again!
  
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J. G. Burdette on May 7, 2012 at 3:19 am said:

I wonder if by chance you have come across clippings mentioning Fort Denison. More specifically that someone fired a canon and raised a Boer Flag? I’ve found these:http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=fort+denison&l-publictag=C+H+Lightoller , but was wondering if there was anything that named the culprit, Charles Lightoller (later Titanic’s 2nd Officer), by name.

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- metan on May 7, 2012 at 8:11 am said:
  
  For some reason it had put you in the spam folder both times! I will have a look for this tonight.
  
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  - J. G. Burdette on May 7, 2012 at 8:12 am said:
    
    Great thanks!
    
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    - metan on May 7, 2012 at 4:58 pm said:
      
      I found one re-telling an article from another paper with the story of the cannon being let off and the flag being flown. Lightoller called it a ‘crazy prank’ to stir up the madly patriotic Aussies 🙂
      It was in The Sydney Morning Herald (page 10) on the 25th of Feb 1936. I am not sure if the link will work, they are quite temperamental….
      http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17318969
      
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J. G. Burdette on May 8, 2012 at 12:40 am said:

The link worked fine, the article was extremely interesting. Lightoller’s wife was Australian (NSW), I wonder if she was anywhere nearby when he played his prank. Thanks for the link!

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- metan on May 8, 2012 at 8:14 am said:
  
  You’re welcome. Perhaps she was nearby, trying to impress a woman is often the reason men do silly thigs, isn’t it! 😀
  
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acflory on July 1, 2012 at 1:25 pm said:

Metan! Candy asked me to let you know she’s nominated you for a Dr Horrible blog award 😀
http://candysmonsters.com/2012/06/30/dr-horribles-blog-award/
-grin- I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with the world :p

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- metan on July 1, 2012 at 2:03 pm said:
  
  Thank you for letting me know, and thank you Candy!
  
  I have been sadly neglectful of awards recently, I have a few others I really need to fulfil my obligations to. They are hard work when my spare time starts at 1am! 😉
  It is lucky the kids are on school holiday now, that means I am too. I’ll have time to catch up on them!
  
  What I do with the world? Hmmm…I have often thought of this and now I have the task of whittling my evil plans down to one single idea. A tough one!
  
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  - acflory on July 1, 2012 at 11:07 pm said:
    
    I know, awards are a mixed blessing but well worth the effort because of the new people you get to meet. Besides, how often can you indulge a bit of megalomania with impunity?
    
    Enjoy 😀
    
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nanacathy2 on July 13, 2012 at 3:04 am said:

Fascinating blog! I love history too and also old documents, churchyards etc. Have traced my own family history and did have some relatives go to Australia circa 1920-1930. Let me know if I can help with stuff from the UK.

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- metan on July 13, 2012 at 11:01 am said:
  
  Thanks for commenting! I’m glad you are enjoying it. Old documents are incredibly fascinating aren’t they? Especially when you can connect it to your own family, even if it is by the slenderest thread… 🙂
  
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acflory on August 1, 2012 at 8:53 am said:

Metan!!!! I just had an amazing thought, well a series of thoughts actually. I started out by thinking you were a writer without a novel [yet] and then I started thinking about what sort of novel an historian would write and suddenly it hit me! You should write the Alternate History of Oz. The real history, so to speak is so… boring but in your articles and posts you’ve made a whole era come alive and it’s not the sanitized era we all know and dislike from school days.

How about it? I know you don’t have the time but this would be a long term project anyway. You could chip away at it bit by bit. It’s just… this material and your unique perspective is too good to waste!

Ok, I’ll go back in my box now. Blame it on a rush of caffeine first thing in the morning 😀

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- metan on August 1, 2012 at 10:28 am said:
  
  Crikey! Did you have a triple shot Espresso for breakfast?!! 😉
  
  The Alternate history of Australia could be a very interesting thing 😀 I have often thought that the history we are taught in schools is so boring that it is no wonder kids generally aren’t interested. If we had an alternate/silly version it would be far more entertaining! The history of the people is very different from the history of the politics or government which is the thing we mainly read about.
  Thanks for the suggestion!
  
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  - acflory on August 1, 2012 at 11:13 am said:
    
    -cough- 3 heavy duty Nescafes in quick succession…
    
    Yes! History should be a living thing but ours would do justice to an embalmed mummy.
    
    If I’ve planted a teeny, tiny seed then my work is done and yours is just about to begin :p Or at least I hope so!
    
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    - metan on August 1, 2012 at 11:17 am said:
      
      Seed planted. 😀
      
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      - acflory on August 2, 2012 at 2:20 pm said:
        
        I shall bring out my trusty watering can at regular intervals :p
Candy Korman on October 18, 2013 at 1:51 am said:

Since I don’t have a direct email for you, I thought I’d use this to connect and tell you that I’ve nominated your blog (because it’s fun) for an award. I hope it will help both of us gain new followers. Be sure to check out the link ASAP.

http://candysmonsters.com/2013/10/17/my
-liebster-award/

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acflory on October 19, 2013 at 10:20 am said:

Oy! You’re allowed to go slow but not disappear completely! ET phone home. 🙂

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Emma Sarah Tennant on December 22, 2013 at 3:10 am said:

Wishing you a very happy Christmas and new year. I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog this year and looking forward to wise and wild tales next year xx

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Grace Walpole on October 13, 2014 at 5:10 pm said:

Hi!
I live in Melbourne, and I too have redback spiders in my worm farms (I have two). It makes feeding the worms a bit nerve-wracking… I have tried several times to get rid of them by increasing the moisture of the farms, spraying with insect repellant (I’m not sure how the worms coped with this) and a thorough clean of the farms, but they quickly come back. Any suggestions for eradicating them? Or are they endemic to my garden and I’m going to have to learn to live with them? My garden is otherwise organic and insects are welcome, but I’m finding redbacks challenging to cope with!

Cheers
Grace

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acflory on February 10, 2015 at 8:14 am said:

Didn’t want to make a big deal of it but… was lovely to hear from you again. 😀

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acflory on May 9, 2015 at 9:54 pm said:

Ok, favour time. IF you have the time, and inclination… would you be an Innerscape beta reader for me? The complete story comes to about 132,000 words which is like about 5 novellas. I know it’s long but… if you can I’d be rapt. 🙂

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- metan on May 10, 2015 at 4:58 pm said:
  
  I would definitely be inclined! It’s no secret that I love to correct spelling, so if you’ve left a few mistakes in there you’ll make my day. 😀
  
  Thanks for thinking of me!
  
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  - acflory on May 10, 2015 at 10:14 pm said:
    
    Relief! Joy! Dance 😀 Now, if you still have my email can you send me one coz I lost yours when my hard drive went some months ago. Also, what format would you like? I can do .rtf, .epub, .azw [old kindle], .axw3 [new kindle]. 😀
    
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    - metan on May 12, 2015 at 9:28 pm said:
      
      Email sent! Looking forward to reading it. 😀
      
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      - acflory on May 12, 2015 at 11:09 pm said:
        
        sry Metan, it’s gone AWOL. could you send again pls?
      - metan on May 12, 2015 at 11:21 pm said:
        
        Sent! 🙂
      - acflory on May 12, 2015 at 11:37 pm said:
        
        Success!
      - metan on May 12, 2015 at 11:42 pm said:
        
        Yay!!
Les Brown on March 22, 2017 at 5:37 am said:

Just finished reading “Hell West and Crooked” by Tom Cole, found it a brilliant book and hard to put down. Not only was he an adventurous spirit, but a humourous one and also a fine writer. If you want my copy, give me your postal address and I’ll send it on.

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