Mayling Hargreaves and Sam Burgess

 Sam & Mayling

We are an Anglo Australian couple who came to Sydney, Australia from London in 1985. We enjoy food, wine, music, travel, and are interested in transport, architecture, industrial archeology, history, biography, science fiction, computers and in recent years health.

Via this site you can find:
Collection of Humourous Verses and Jokes
Mnemonics
Puzzles/Mental Gym
Aged Cyber Aunt's PC Advice
A Near Disaster - Ants in Mayling's Desktop PC


Interests:

Artificial Kidney Research

Artificial Kidney Research

Architecture and Industrial Archaeology

National Trust of Australia (NSW)
National Trust, UK
Was Kew Bridge Steam Museum, UK now Museum of Water and Steam, UK
Historic Houses Association, UK
Historic Houses Association, NSW, Australia

Zig Zag Railway

Transport

Helston Railway, Cornwall, UK
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Devon, UK
Zig Zag Railway, Lithgow, NSW, Australia
Wolgan Valley Railway, Lithgow, NSW, Australia
First Zigzag Railway Website, Lithgow, NSW, Australia
Zig Zag Railways of the World
Australian Railway Historical Society / NSW Division
UK Railway Preservation
National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club, UK

Gardens

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia
Royal Horticultural Society, UK
The Eden Project, UK


Travel

A friend and I travelled to China in 1988, and to Burma in 1990. Photos were Agfa slides later scanned into digital images.
These can be seen on Flickr at China and Burma pictures.

China sets are: Peking & Environs, Shanghai, Xian & Environs, Guilin & Environs, Hangzhou.
Burma sets are: Rangoon, Kalaw & Pindaya, Taunggi & Inle Lake & Heho, Mandalay & Amarapura & Sagaing, Pagan.

In 1992 we went to Pakistan, pictures - again Agfa slides later converted to digital:
Lahore 1992
Lahore Fort 1992
Lahore Mosques 1992
Lahore Tombs 1992
Rawalpindi & Taxila 1992
Attock-Peshawar-Mardan-Mingora 1992
Khyber Pass 1992
Karakoram Highway 1992
Murree Hill Station 1992
Pair of Lorikeets

Some Friends:

A couple of young friends who used to visit our previous house balcony regularly: Rainbow Lorikeets.
Sometimes as many as 20 at a time. They prefer sunflower seeds to parrot mix!

A favourite saying ...... Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom time wasted

Created by Mayling Hargreaves
Updated Dec 2022