2023 Largs Scotland & Dubai
I decided in late May to travel to Scotland as my young brother was having serious health issues. I booked to be there for a month and left Perth on 2nd June. In no time at all I discovered how difficult it was dealing with numerous Government bureaucracies. And nothing moves fast. I am happy…
Read MoreMy DNA Journey Update November 2022.
I thought I was ready for the next phase and was wondering how my DNA and Genealogy findings would connect. I sent my Haplogroup information to the McLachlan Project. Boy was I surprised when they said they could not find any matches, and suggested I check out the Cameron Project The Cameron Project did find…
Read MoreMy Genealogy, followed by my DNA Story.
I have decided to write down an overview of what I know so far. The family history has been thoroughly researched by Linda, my wife. To giver her title, Dr Linda McLaughlan. Added to Linda’s research are some maps, shown immediately below, from My Autosomal DNA test, this test analysis your 46 chromosomes, 23 each…
Read More2022 Cruise holiday part 8 London
With the cruise over we flew back from Rome to London and caught up with two friends for a few days, before the long flight back to Perth WA Spitalfields area was originally established around 1638 it has been associated with the Silk industry from around 1685, when the Huguenots, French Protestants arrived. From the…
Read More2020 Armadale Highland Games
Kilt run I thought I would add some pictures from the 2017, 2018 & 2019 kilt runs with myself, Paul, Gavin, James and of course Rebus.
Read More2016 Karratha to Onslow
Just some photos from my last trip to Onslow. Started the trip up north to Karratha a 2hr flight. Karratha is 1,526kms north of Perth. Next morning it was an early start for our 3hour, 306km drive south to Onslow. It was a long day as I had 3 meetings to do on the Wheatstone site,…
Read More2016—Ten steps to improve your memory, and seven steps to remembering names.
10 Rules: 1 Make a point of increasing your original awareness by using your powers of observation and focus. 2 Concentrate on one thing at a time 3 Visualise what you want to remember. 4 Understand that the brain has unbelievable capacity to store information. 5 use the Association/Substitution process to remember intangible or abstract…
Read MorePeople have asked who is Rebus?
Rebus is my training companion. A Border Collie, with a fantastic nature. He is named after Ian Rankin’s fictional Edinburgh detective. He has enjoyed going out for our hikes and our runs, when I was trading to walk the Kokoda Trail. He really looked forward to our walks until last week’s 5…
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Les McLaughlan 