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Pics from the Past | Picnics and Kodak Brownies

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Family adventure: Val, Gordon and Wendy (baby) Bamford enjoy a picnic in 1959. Photo by Contributed

I grew up in Maryborough, Victoria, in the 1960s, and the surrounding bushland and farmland was a young man’s paradise waiting to be explored. I can recall many times just getting Mum to make me a few ‘sangas’ (sandwiches) to eat while spending the day ferreting for rabbits or building a hut in the bush. As a family, we would often go mushrooming or getting firewood together, and Mum would pack a picnic basket of sangas, biscuits, a thermos of tea for her and Dad, and cordial for us kids.

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