Aided by Raiders of the Lost Ark
Due to a major decision to move , Little Darwin, with the help of slaving family members, is sorting out - even culling !- its files , books ( one volume a forgotten copy of Anatomy of the Titanic ) , nibbled ephemera , photo albums , boxes of documents , old bottles dug up in the Northern Territory - amassed over more than 50 years .
At times , the Little Darwin normally cluttered den , overlooked by the bemused Mona Lisa painting , has taken on the appearance of an extension to Sydney's Tempe Tip during the sorting of the mountain of oddities , lost treasures , a lidded chalice and silverfish fodder.
A tiny amount , including heavy bound in copies of old Melbourne and Sydney newspapers, were reluctantly put out in a garage sale and it was surprising to see the interest they created . One woman , from Canberra, enthusiastically suggested several could be made into a glass- topped coffee table, an example of creative lateral thinking .
Fair dinkum, another woman who came to the garage sale announced she is a member of an organisation which gathers items about the Titanic sinking of April 15, l912, did we have anything related , especially in the old newspapers ?
More details of the Titanic clearance voyage will be posted .
