Way back on January 17 I met a really nice woman, a thoughtful woman. She had offered me information on the history of Darnum so I drove up to Warragul in fairly heavy rain, got subdivisionally lost, used my GPS and arrived at exactly the appointed time, more by good luck than good management.
Barbara Hedley opened her garage roller door as I arrived so I was able to park out of the rain. How thoughtful is that? She also had a very nice morning tea ready. There should be more people like Barbara.
There was a book – it is more than a booklet – produced for the centenary of the Darnum State School (er, Primary School) in 1881, and she had a copy for me, because I had said in an earlier column that I knew little about Darnum.

The book opens with the several stories about the name but it seems to