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We used to go camping at Nelson, New Zealand every Christmas holidays (from Christchurch). We had a small boat and motor and would go water-skiing when the tides were right. But between tides we would be at the camping ground where there were LOTS of people drinking beer etc every night and...

My surname is spelt Bullivant

Well I am Vernia ... named after a shipwreck. Apparently the Cunard Liner "Ivernia" was requisitioned as a troop carrier during the 1st World War. My Great Uncle, Jack Stokes, was on board as a soldier when the ship was torpedoed off the coast of Greece on New Year's Day 1917. Uncle Jack...

Doesn't everyone have hydrogen peroxide in the cupboard. We always had it in the medicine chest to clean wounds and even in recent years when the Blue Nurses came to the house to tend to my father's open wounds after an operation, they cleansed the wound with peroxide (though it's a lot more...

Oh dear - you wanted our Australian memories and these photos were taken in N.Z. We moved to Australia to live about ten years later.

Ok - I'm taking you back to December 1955. We had never heard of water-skiing but my Dad had a little boat and a 15 h.p. motor and he rigged up not just one, but three, flat boards with handles and announced we would go aquaplaning. This first photo shows me, Vernia Bullivant, aged 11 years...