April A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal

This is a month long challenge held in April with bloggers posting each day except Sundays using the twenty six letters of the alphabet. People choose a wide variety of topics so there is always plenty of interesting material to read.

In the past I have used various themes to complete this challenge. Some here on this blog, and some over on my other blog Carmel’s Corner.

2016 - Useful apps (some now very outdated, others no longer exist)

2017 - Life on the farm, remembering my childhood

2019 - My Mother’s handwritten recipes

2020 - Newspaper clippings about events in my husband’s ancestors lives

2021 - Resources of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) through Trove

2025 - Events of each day in April from ancestors’ lives

This year I have chosen to focus on just one year in our lives. It was March 1979 when we left Australia to spend a year in Kashmir. We lived on both sides of disputed line of control. When we returned to Australia a year later, our goods were left on the wharf in Brisbane for three months. Most were ruined by rain, so very few damaged photos survived. I am grateful to friends who had a similar posting in a previous year for sharing a few photos.

The A to Z format forces a pattern of remembrance. Here, with my husband’s help, I’ll endeavour to reconstruct some experiences from that one year. Living in Kashmir: A Year of People, Places and Memories.

How will you leave memories of your life for your descendants?

This post first appeared on earlieryears.blogspot.com by CRGalvin