Lois

01 January

Stephanie, Steve, Jasmine and Maya have arrived for a few days.

Maya is growing up and doing well.

Jasmine under the watchful eyes of Stephanie.

05 January

A major family gathering.

Peter with the female descendents, from left daughter Stephanie holding Maya, Nakita (foreground), Alyssa (above), Jasmine and Kaylana.

Lois then hosts a tea party for the grand daughters.

Clockwise round table Lois, Nakita, Jasmine, Steve, Maya, Gregory, Alyssa and Kaylana.

01 February

Alyssa arrives for her first day at school.

07 September

Ben and Sarah marry on a glacier at the top of the Southern Alps, near Mt Cook, NZ. We were not there but it was a very happy occasion. Sarah and Ben met in New York and she comes from Charlotte, NC.

10 March

Peter visits Ben briefly in New York, where he is working as an engineer.

Here he is on the Brooklyn Bridge.

April

I am descended from two German immigrants, Emil Boehm and Christine Hein who married and settled in Mount Gambier in the 1850s. During past visits to Hamburg and Rostock friends there had helped me trace the Boehms in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) and the Heins in Hamburg (and earlier other places such as Luechow near Hanover). Through the help of my mother we discovered another family of Heins in Mount Gambier and I established in Hamburg that we were related. Their ancestor had been Christine Hein's younger brother.

As it happened my sister Susan from Adelaide and I were then invited to a family reunion in Mount Gambier, attended by about 150 descendents.

Meeting up, from left Hein descendent Sally McLean, now in the jewellery business in Brisbane, Lois, Susan and Don Hein, an archaeologist in Adelaide.

On the first morning there were talks. I gave a talk detailing the links between their family and ours and the German heritage beyond. In the afternoon there was entertainment. It was amazing the range of talents which was revealed, in various forms of the arts. And to conclude, on the second morning there was a service and a tour of historic family sites, culminating in a visit to the key graves in the main cemetery.

Susan and I at the Boehm grave, which other members of the Hein family had impressively restored.

07 May

Lois and I move into our new 6th floor apartment overlooking Mt Ainslie and the two towers of the Australian National University's Fenner Hall. These towers were formerly the Commonwealth single persons' Gowrie Hostel, where Lois and I had lived and met in 1972, when I first moved to Canberra from Adelaide.

14 May

Maya Ruby is born to Stephanie. Here she is being welcomed on the day of her birth by big sister Jasmine.

05 June

Peter and Lois get to Adelaide and see Maya. Here is Peter with her.

July

I attend the IMO in Kazakhstan, attend a meeting in Leeds and go on to the WFNMC Conference in Riga.

On the visit to Leeds I get a chance to visit my cousin Michael Taylor, and here we are outside his Lincolnshire house with Jack the dog.

22 April

A complete family get-together at the farm before Ben leaves to take up a job as an engineer in New York.

Above are Gregory, Benjamin and Stephanie, while below cousins Jasmine and Kaylana are together.

04 June

Peter and Lois leave

the farm to move into the inner north part of the city of Canberra, renting a townhouse while looking for something permanent to buy.

22 December

The farm

has been sold and a new apartment on the 6th floor of a nearby property is bought. Below is the building containing the new apartment in Turner as seen from the rented townhouse.

January

Peter with brother John and sister Susan at Adelaide Oval during the cricket Test against New Zealand.

March

Lois, Jasmine and Peter.

September

Peter, Lois and friends Sally and Norman Bakker take their 4 wheel drives on an outback adventure. Here they are, from left Lois, Peter, Sally and Norman en route at the hotel at Wanaaring, between Bourke and Tibooburra.

Peter, Lois and Sally at Cameron Corner, where the borders of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales meet. It is true Outback west of Bourke, including Wanaaring (previous photo) and definitely Tibooburra. But here at Cameron Corner it is further into the Outback. Here there is a population of 1 (the publican). Timezones, postcodes, telephone prefixes and other things are spread among the three states. But quite a few people meet here, from different directions. A very good sense of humour prevails.

October

Alyssa, Nakita and Kaylana visit Peter's office.

February

Peter and Lois celebrate their 60th birthdays at a street party at their farm.

14 March

Jasmine Isabella Galluccio is born

Here she is on the day of her birth.

And here she is the following day with mother Stephanie.

11 August

Benjamin graduates in Engineering (with Honours) and Arts at the University of Melbourne.

Here he is with Peter and Lois.

11 September

Nakita turns 5 and visits Peter in his office.

16 September

All four grand daughters are together in Canberra. From left Alyssa, Kaylana, Nakita and Jasmine, with Stephanie.

04 March

Stephanie and Steve are married. Here the bridal party prepares for departure from an Adelaide hotel.

They are married at Blackwood, a suburb of Adelaide. Here are Ben, Peter, Steve, Stephanie, Lois and Greg before the reception held afterwards at Clarendon, in the Adelaide Hills. Welcome Steve!

Late March

Gregory and Natasha separate.

29 July

In July Lois and I undertook a long trip involving the ICMI Study 16 Conference in Trondheim, the IMO in Ljubljana and the WFNMC Conference in Cambridge, all held consecutively. At the end of this we had the opportunity to meet for the first time my English cousin Michael Taylor, with whom my sister Susan had by email re-established contact, and his wife Lisa. Michael is a retired teacher and school principal who also taught for many years in Hong Kong, and now lives back in Lincolnshire. Actually Michael is my father's first cousin. His father, Uncle Harry had stayed behind when my grandfather migrated to Australia with his parents and other siblings in 1912. I had met Michael's mother in 1978 while on study leave in England.

On 29 July Michael arranged a lunch in the Conservative Club at Long Sutton, a former ancestral home where his father and my grandfather had lived and been born. Also there were Michael's older brother Maurice, who my father had met, Michael's son Timothy, a doctor in Somerset with his wife Margot and daughter Katy (son William was unable to attend) and Michael's daughter Robin with her husband David, both graphic designers living in London.

From left Peter, Lois, Maurice, Margot, Katy, Timothy, Robin and Michael.

13 April

Stephanie and Steve Galluccio announce their engagement. They are shown here a few weeks before on our property.

07 July

Alyssa is born. Here she is being welcomed by sisters Nakita (left) and Kaylana.

Well, Nakita looks as though she's playing the piano.

Kaylana getting into the swing of things

13 March

Elly dries down her calf Bruno shortly after giving birth. Bruno is a paternal grandson of Australia's premier Murray Grey bull, Temar Lotus, and goes on at the age of 18 months to get 19 fertilities in a paddock of 19 cows.

03 October

Nakita welcomes arrival of sister Kaylana.

15 December

Stephanie graduates with Honours in Medicine, University of Adelaide

11 September

Identical twins are born to Greg and Natasha.

They are born prematurely and commence some months in post natal intensive care. Pictured on the day of their birth are Nakita (915g) above and Lani (545g) below.

12 September

Overshadowed by the previous day's events, Ben turns 21. Here he is with Greg and Stephanie at his party.

08 October

Lani passes away after failing to recover from an operation two days before, having suffered infection complications.

03 December

Nakita is released from the intensive care unit at Canberra Hospital, weighing 2145g and goes home. Here she is at home with Peter's mother, Peter and Greg (making four generations). She still needs a little oxygen support for a little while but has progressed very well in her last month before discharge.

30 December

Lois with cows Doris (left) and Elly (right) and Doris' bull calf Blue while Blue was about to go up the race for his first vaccination.

We move to a 47 acre property 40km from Canberra.

The vineyard and house (above) and with some Murray Greys (below).

Greg and Natasha are married in Queanbeyan on 15 January.

Stephanie is in third year medicine at the University of Adelaide. She is seen above with her "Stephoscope" and below giving brother Gregory a checkout.

Benjamin has completed Year 12 and is spending 2000 working and back-packing in Europe before commencing study in Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 2001.

December

Gregory graduates from the University of Canberra with Bachelor of Education.

Gregory is into the third year of an Education Degree (Primary Teaching, with major in mathematics) at the University of Canberra.

Stephanie commences first year studies in Medicine at the University of Adelaide.

Benjamin goes in to Year 11 at Canberra Grammar School.

Stephanie was anounced as Joint Dux of Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School.

In this panel Stephanie is photographed at her Graduation Dinner with Lois (above) and me (below).

Benjamin, Stephanie, Lois and Gregory, On top of Mt Hotham, Victoria, January 1996

Peter, Greg, elder son, then 4 months, and Peter's father Jim Taylor.