Joyce Libke, Author at The Canungra Times

Joyce Libke’s hen took up a place on this chair on her verandah.

Do You Mind?

3 February 2022 Joyce Libke Comments Off

When we lived at “Glen Witheren” in the 1990s we had a feral Guinea fowl arrive, who took to attacking our hens. This hen took refuge on a chair on the front verandah for weeks […]

Agnes Curtis with Joyce Libke and their Plymouth car, circa 1939.

Petrol Prices Rising

9 December 2021 Joyce Libke Comments Off

Before we get too steamed up about rising petrol prices, let us go back seventy years to the years of WW2 (second world war 1939 to 1945) and up to 1950. During this time […]

Armistice Day Procession 1919 - “Worst Turnout” - Chas Taylor, Arthur Stringfellow and Mick Corcoran. Photo courtesy of Canungra Visitor Information Centre.

Armistice Day and the Spanish Flu

5 November 2021 Joyce Libke Comments Off

Text taken from the book Canungra Heritage 1879 – 1979 by M Curtis. The 1914 – 1918 War ended abruptly in November 1918 and the news was telephoned to Canungra. Such was the relief that people celebrated then and […]