This week our readers looked at the differences in things like holidays and family outings.
Christine Rumley writes: Living in Canberra where the coast is a good 2 hour drive away means that trips to the beach are pretty special. As a kid, my family would make the long drive up to the Sunshine Coast every September school holidays to visit my godparents. Our annual visits to the beach are amongst my fondest childhood memories. My kids also get a huge thrill from trips to the beach and we visit the coast a couple of times a year. In Summer it's just a day trip but in Winter when accommodation is a bit cheaper and more readily available we stay for a few nights.
Agnus Kasprzak has beautiful memory recall of childhood holidays – we hope she has recorded them in hidden journalling somewhere in the layout! She writes: One of the things I looked forward to most as a child was our annual trip to the NSW Central Tablelands in search of forest mushrooms and wild blackberries at the beautiful Oberon pine forests during the Easter break. You had to time your trip just right, making sure there had been a good amount of rainfall followed by a couple of sunny days before taking the 2.5 hour journey to the forests.
It was so much fun to spend the day collecting bucket loads of the Saffron Milk Cap mushrooms that were often hidden under pine needles on the forest floor, making sure you didn't pick up the wrong sort which can be poisonous.
Another favourite were the wild blackberry brambles filled with deliciously juicy fruit that wouldn't even make it into a bucket because everyone just ate them straight from the bush! Several years ago we started making taking the trip with our children and they absolutely love it and also look forward to it every year.
Heidi Barclay has found this adorable photo of her on the beach as a child, and writes: As a child we would always go to the beach for our holidays, so when I think of a holiday, it always reminds me of going to the beach.
Finally, we love this photo of Rebecca Youngs daughter enjoying her first ‘bush bath’. Her journaling reads: "One thing that is common to both our generations, is that we've always lived in the bush, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. When I was growing up we would often travel to a local creek to camp overnight or have a BBQ lunch. Today, while we live in the Pilbara, we want to take you to experience the local waterholes and camping spots. It's fun to get out there and get dirty, have bush baths, sleep in a swag in a tent and eat every meal off the BBQ."
Rebecca has used MME doily stamps on the background and items from October Afternoon's Boarding Pass collection.
Thanks to everyone for contributing such great memories this week.
