I am now one of the 120,000 people worldwide who has set up a blog today. Add this to yesterday's 120,000 new blogs and the mind boggling number of blogs that have been set up already this year alone it is highly and that is a lot of blogs. Clearly this means that unless I force my kids to read this blog then it is highly likely that I will be the only person reading it.

I might as well try to make it interesting to write then.

The Gargie being reclaimed in the title refers to my Great Grandfather who died a couple of weeks before I was born. Gargie was born in 1887 and died in 1960. I did not even know of his existence until I started researching the family history. I have tracked down his unmarked grave in the pauper section of the Ballarat cemetery and have started looking into his life, which was an interesting and eventful one.

It is difficult to comprehend, from a comfortable 21st century life, how different life could be during the period of his life. I plan to post some information to this blog about life during Gargie's time. I hope you find it interesting.