tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776281256905648887.post3850161669182997583..comments2024-03-29T08:11:17.619+11:00Comments on GeniAus: The Book of Me - Prompt 5 - Your Childhood HomeGeniAushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09074874999181040071noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776281256905648887.post-13285783228959670912013-10-07T16:47:16.538+11:002013-10-07T16:47:16.538+11:00Valerie, Turramurra is not too far from my home. I...Valerie, Turramurra is not too far from my home. I am a member of the Ku-ring-gai Historical Society that has Turramurra in its area.Small world!GeniAushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074874999181040071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776281256905648887.post-22964544786914680422013-10-07T16:27:17.512+11:002013-10-07T16:27:17.512+11:00Thank you for that wonderful blog! I travelled to ...Thank you for that wonderful blog! I travelled to Sydney September 2011 to visit an elderly cousin who had said if I didn't come and visit him soon we'd never meet. (Long story about how we came to be in contact but it was very precious to me.) So off I went and it was fantastic. He lived in Turramurra, his daughters lived nearby and they couldn't have been nicer to me. I saw quite a bit of Sydney and environs. I know I haven't seen "Australia" but as the reason for the trip was to be with Jim, that's okay. Maybe I will go back one day!! Jim died a year later by the way.Valeriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292577135815252352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776281256905648887.post-89353811093962144802013-10-07T11:44:24.387+11:002013-10-07T11:44:24.387+11:00I could have written so much more, Alex. Some of t...I could have written so much more, Alex. Some of the Art Deco buildings in the Cross are amazing. I am quite familiar with the locations you mention as I spent my first 40 odd years in the Eastern suburbs. I miss the water but not the crowds and congestion.GeniAushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074874999181040071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776281256905648887.post-1692200814111939152013-10-07T07:54:37.839+11:002013-10-07T07:54:37.839+11:00Jill, I tried to comment on this yesterday but for...Jill, I tried to comment on this yesterday but for some reason my iPad decided to flip out and I lost the comment...so...Hoorah! was what I wanted to say....someone who lived in a unit. At last! I love the look of the apartments at the Cross. There are so many great buildings in the Cross aren't there? When we were looking for somewhere to live in Sydney I remember looking at a great apartment in I think Double Bay - from my very foggy memory it was probably mock Tudor or some such...lots of dark timber and I have memories of a very swanky old fashioned bathroom. But we went with Glebe instead. When I was very young we did live in a block of units at New South Head Road Bondi I think - across from the golf course and right next to the fire station. I will always remember the lift and the smell of other people's cooking in the corridors :) Oooh and the fascination I had as a child with the waste disposal chute on every floor!Alex Dawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05083753053051713061noreply@blogger.com