Seasons greetings

To lovers of the baby cheeses everywhere!

Seriously ...wishing all a safe & happy holiday season :)

Woodland Goddess

The prints of J.H. Lynch were a ubiquitous part of the 60s/70s. Strangely though, for an artist who's work was reproduced by the thousands, his identity remained a mystery. That was until Mario Klingemann set up www.jhlynch.org, and managed to track him down. His site remains one of the best sources of information on Lynch prints to-date.

As luck would have it, I manged to pick up my "Woodland Goddess" in Ballarat for $30 back when Lynch prints were selling for $80 in Melb. Last I saw (Lost & Found Market) they're up around $200 now!

"Woodland Goddess" by Joseph Henry Lynch, pre-1965

More Ballarat blogs!

Thanks to a lead provided by Ro over at DBE, I've stumbled onto another swag of Ballarat blogs that I'd not seen before. Up til now I've searched Blogger on location "Ballarat, Victoria, Australia", but there are also another 80 blogs listed under "Ballarat, VIC, Australia", cool!

iPod of the 60s

Here's an unexpected bonus I found in the draw of some secondhand furniture I bought a few years ago, a nice AM pocket transistor radio from the early 1960s. This Toshiba model 6P-10 still works, and even has it's original leather cover and earphone.

As a kid I had something similar (c1970), we used to call them "Trannys", but that term seems to have shifted in meaning since.....


Historical note: Transistor radios have been commercially available since the mid 1950s, but did not achieve mass popularity until they became more affordable in the early 60s. For more on classic transistor radios (1954-65) see jamesbutters.com