I have learned many things this week, including something that would have devastated - or delighted - my grandmother, revisited another family secret that has so many layers.
The Sunshine Coast in the Seventies was an event for us, and a week at Christmas very much anticipated.
School holidays were impossibly long, with 2 months of nothing to do (if you were a City Mouse) - or first needles, Christmas, branding, school shopping, covering books and naming clothes if you came from the bush.