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October 24, 2025

Project progress: Life Trove


2025


Family research

  • Family research on mum's side
  • Myburghs past 3 generations
  • Myburghs (1600 - 1800's)
  • DNA test: Regions & traits

All Cape Town visits in order

  • Duration & details (Sheet and in South Africa)
  • Highlights intro text and photo collages

Friends

  • Photos of Russell

Suno songs

  • For mum
  • For Jo
  • 2 spiritual songs
  • Song for Chris's sister

Transcribe

  • Dad's letters to Jo (x2) while Jo overseas
  • Jo's letter to Gramps on 80th birthday
  • Gramps letter to Jo before wedding
  • Matt's history project of Mike during war
  • Poppa George's story

Nostalgia

  • TV shows as kid
  • Music as a kid
  • Asterix
  • Dragons
  • Yoys: Lone Ranger & Tonto, Lego, Army men
  • Labrador puppies
  • Mike's stamps
  • St Georges Cathedral
  • Discovering the joys of birding

Index (List of labels)

  • Dynamic list from feed (Thanks ChatGPT)

Sort out redirect issue


Movies

  • ChatGPT analysis of my movie diary



2024


Books

  • Books read by year with images
  • Fiction & non-fiction

Movies

  • Favourite movies by year with poster images
  • Priceless moments: Add movie collages of favourite movies

Affirmation and encouragement

  • All treasured Life Trove comments added to a page, categorised.

Spiritual dairy

  • Add Spiritual journey pages to side navigation
  • Spiritual Diary label
  • Spiritual Journey overview moved to Sheets. (Allow links in text)
  • Remove document title from top (for Life overview too)
  • Add Nic hypnotherapy session
  • Teachers and role models (Mandela, Attenborough, spiritual teachers & quotes, Nic, Geraldine quotes, Mr Cannon, Jenny Mallett)

Compass & Wisdom Trove

  • Add mindmaps

Scanned family photos

  • Dad, Gran, Gramps, Mum, Ally, Gramps war & acting
  • Plays, beach, pool, UK visit, mum's London visit, horse riding, matric dance, graduation, Fab 4, Jo boyfriends, Playing in the garden, Matt, Youth
  • Share family photos on Whatsapp: Gramps acting, Dad's trains, Gramps war stories

Family

  • Jo and family 2019 - 2024 from Jo's Facebook

Music

  • Favourite musicals playlists

Milestones

  • Milestones → Family milestones + Friends milestones + My milestones

Code

  • Add pencil edit code

Year highlights

  • More categories in index list

Travel

  • Custom maps (Sydney, Australia, Cape Town, Africa) with photographed places added
  • South Africa visits: Add details and in order
  • Custom Maps: 30 new maps
  • Add "Exploring the World" with country labels to left side

Hiking

  • Add new hiking collage

Nostalgia

  • Computer games
  • Tain set
  • Stamp collecting: Add British mint stamps
  • Rugby world cup photos
  • Technology: Computers, Screens, Phones, Software, Headphones, PDA's, TV, HiFi, DVD

Home life

  • Labels for Willow Road, Hammersmith Grove, Brooklands Court, McMahon's Point, King Street

Matt's 21st

  • Matt speech videos & photos

Role models

  • Role models, teachers & healers: Intro, books, quotes, insights

Blog tagline

  • Under Blog Title "A celebration of treasured moments"

Design formatting

  • Blog Header space equal for Life Trove & Wonder Trove



2023


Overviews

  • Life Overview and Spiritual Dairy now easily editable (Doc & Sheet)

Travel

  • Interactive maps (Antarctica & Nepal)

Music

  • Music with Spotify embeds (Childhood & teens, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's)

Hiking

  • Hike dairy and stats in embedded sheets

Movies

  • All movies I've ever seen added to list in Sheets.
  • Movie diary & stats in embedded sheet.



2022


Design

  • Removed link underlines (and from images)
  • "Up to top" icon improved visually

Surprise me

  • Surprise me - checking tags etc.
  • Change "surprise" me to "random memory"

Search

  • Add search field

Content

  • Add content (school photos, teachers, spiritual moments)
  • Video content
  • Add "Ode to things I love": Mountains, beaches, ice cream, river swimming
  • Arctic photos
  • South Africa bird photos
  • Add more priceless moments
  • Birding & Hiking in order

Stats

  • Add Clicky

Spiritual diary

  • Going through spiritual journal by year and honing and adding.

School years

  • Add school photos.
  • Add Jenny, Cannon, Mr Suttle



2020


Random link

  • Ability to see random post

Spiritual diary

  • Spiritual journey table and page

Overview

  • Life overview table

Screensaver

  • Screensaver shows my photos



2019


Wonder Trove

  • Add Photography club photo-presentation (Google slides)
  • Add wondrous places

Spiritual journey

  • My spiritual journey - idea to have it, developing it
  • Spirit Trove put into Life Trove - now integrated and cleaned up
  • Add gratitude, progress, grateful, proud etc.

Life unfolding

  • Extra details in sidebar of "Life so far”

Fotojet Collage


Strategy

  • Life Trove = Wisdom Trove = Compass (curation, truth = sacredness, inspire embracing of life, compass is Wisdom Trove applied, shared on Life Trove)
  • Life curation (idea and quotes)

Content

  • Add passion projects
  • Added Cambridge diary

Tags

  • Moved all tags on left into site


2017

  • Spiritual journal online (Spirit Trove)



2016

  • Lightroom Universe and printing of photos
  • Photos on my wall



2013

  • Mantra and quotes on site



2014

  • Poetry
  • Add many labels
  • Priceless moments per year
  • Using Facebook to promote my photos, blog and life. Connect to friends.



2011

  • New design with bigger pictures
  • Move over comments to Blogger
  • Sue’s blog
  • Comments transferred, top comments in one place
  • Ally memories on the blog
  • Sue safari video
  • Audio
  • Labels
  • Created blog for photography (Wonder Trove)



2010

  • Memories (childhood, university, Old Mutual, Cambridge)
  • Inspire mum's memories



2009


Photography

  • Viveza
  • Lightroom
  • Joined camera club
  • Photography site



2008

  • Photography
  • Start getting to know Lightroom
  • Working on images



2007

  • Old letters and journals typed
  • Letters to Jo typed



2006

  • Scanning old photos
  • Consolidating the blog in South America, combining separate photos
  • Dad memories
  • Mum and Jo memories on blog



Cambridge life: 2004 - 2005

  • Start Life Trove with blogger
  • Start photography
  • Ixus-i to start, then Canon Powershot for Canada
  • Capturing memories into Excel and Mindmanager (to later become part of the blog)
  • Picasa



London years: 2000 - 2003


Life Trove conception

  • Surfing blogs between work - the seed for starting Life Trove in 2004



Old Mutual years: 1994 - 1999

  • Keep 1996 & 1997 travel journal on PSION
  • Send travel letters and post cards home
  • Start collecting past memories in Udaipur
  • Compass on PSION (Mission statement, quotes)




People connected with


People connected with
  • Mum, Jo, Mike, Matt (including affirmations)
  • Trish, Keira
  • Ally (tribute)
  • Robyn, Ian, Carleen
  • Russell
  • Julian
  • Jane Culley
  • Sue, Michael (inheritance?)
  • Liz, Srini, Gavin, Elna
  • Aimee, Sharon, Shushann, Chris, Xenia, Jilly
  • Eva
  • Nicola
  • Volvo: Caroline, Andreas, Charlie, Tony, Andrew
  • School: Sean, Colin
  • Hamish, Pooja
  • Srini, Gavin, Rajesh

Inspired others to blog

  • Eva
  • Russell
  • Jo
  • Pooja
  • Hamish (NZ guy)
  • Mum write her memories

Wanted to

  • Matt
  • Liz
  • Shushann
  • Elna



Stats


Stats

  • 66 pages in 52 mins (Mermaid Pools) 42 pages in 33 mins
  • 63 pages in 73 mins (Barrington Tops)
  • 62 pages of blog in 70 mins. Another 32 pages in 45 mins.
  • 43 pages in 80 mins (Facebook with Le Perouse)
  • 24 pages in 70 mins (USA)
  • 145 pages in 4 hours 6 minutes !!!
  • Stranger 1 hour looking at Kruger, Pantanol and other travels. 25 pages.

Family and friends

  • Chrisel in blog for an hour
  • Matt in blog for 1 or 2 hrs when could not sleep.
  • Mum looking back
  • Elizabeth and blog. 140 mins, 40 pages. Poetry moved to tears (esp. The Child) Photos filled with hope, awe, wonder, all's right with world.


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