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Alison and Megan are Australian Gen-X women with a love of technology and all the comforts of a 21st Century life, but does it make their lives any simpler than that of their forebears?

Revel in the dodgy research and the use of their families as guinea pigs as they examine the skills and knowledge of the pre-1970 world.

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  • Alison
  • Megan
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Popular Posts

  • Australian Icons: The Lamington, a controversial history
    Lamington. Noun . A cake confection made by covering a cube of sponge cake in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut. [Apparently named...
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  • What's for lunch?
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  • Who sits where at your house?
    DINNER BEING ANNOUNCED, the host offers his arm to, and places on his right hand at the dinner-table, the lady to whom he desires to pay mos...
  • In our time: Grateful for the indoor, flushing toilet
    View from above of rows of timber houses with outhouses built by the Queensland Housing Commission in Norman Park, Brisbane, Australia aroun...

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Blog Archive

  • ►  2011 (17)
    • ►  December (5)
      • Is touch-typing relevant in the 'i' universe?
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: William Shakespeare
      • Wisdom on Wednesday - Lao-Tzu
      • The ancient gift of shortbread
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: Theodore Geisel
    • ►  November (10)
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: EB White
      • Blending in by standing out
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: Sydney J. Harris
      • TXT-SPK
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: Eudora Welty
      • Tips from the archives: Boiling an egg
      • The Triangle of Happiness
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: Samuel Ullman
      • Tips from the archives: Handling good china
      • Wisdom on Wednesday: Eleanor Roosevelt
    • ►  October (1)
      • Good things come to those who wait
    • ►  May (1)
      • Quinces re-heated
  • ►  2010 (7)
    • ►  August (1)
      • Colour my world
    • ►  July (1)
      • Who is responsible for feeding our kids?
    • ►  June (1)
      • Business Unwired
    • ►  May (1)
      • The art of small talk
    • ►  April (1)
      • How's it hanging?
    • ►  January (2)
      • Oz Day
      • Happy Slow Year!
  • ►  2009 (49)
    • ►  December (1)
      • How full is your letterbox?
    • ►  November (1)
      • RSVP grumpiness
    • ►  October (2)
      • The party dilemma
      • How many phone numbers do you remember?
    • ►  September (2)
      • High on Childbirth
      • Don't you wish you had staff?
    • ►  August (2)
      • Do those cents really add up?
      • Where have all the jumpers gone?
    • ►  July (2)
      • Gather round the box
      • Things my elders taught me: A Guiding Light
    • ►  June (6)
      • Where the streets have no name.
      • Who sits where at your house?
      • Marmalade as meditation
      • Which drawer down?
      • Quince of darkness
      • Incidentally...are you missing opportunities for e...
    • ►  May (5)
      • My button habit
      • A load of flummery
      • To honour all mothers
      • Modelling healthy body-types
      • Things my elders taught me: knitting
    • ►  April (9)
      • Diary of an E-Free Week: A week without TV, electr...
      • We will remember them
      • E-Free Week: a week without tv, computer or electr...
      • Things my elders taught me: sewing
      • What does your ironing say about you?
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2008 (40)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (13)
    • ►  September (5)
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