This site started out as a family history and an outlet for me. Think of it as a wall of pigeon holes, organised by date and theme, into which I can post things randomly as I come across them.
More generally it’s about people who, barring car crashes and other happenstances, don’t make the news. Ordinary people — real people — are at least as interesting as many of the people we gossip and read about. So if this isn’t interesting, sorry! Blame me.
… and me
Two good friends live in the Big End of Town. They always have.
I’d rib them about it. “The trouble with Remuera and Herne Bay is the neighbours,” I’d say. “We like West Auckland, where the real people live — I’m a Real People.”
But their doubt, and my own, led to my calling this Real People and Me. Also, Real People wasn’t available as a URL.
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Family history, pigeon holes, what and why, the coal miner and his son…