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MEMOIRS


Yes, yes... while the idea of writing's one's "memoirs" does come across as a bit pretentious, I wrote this semi-accurate story of my life as a celebration and tribute to growing up in an era long forgotten, an era of afternoon street tennis, dragster bikes, Batman and Gilligan's Island, of ABBA and HUSH, cocky-laura 1-2-3 and school shoes that had a compass in the sole, of Dymo labellers and footy cards and 5-for-1cent lolly bags. That was before the internet came and buggered everything up. 

And besides, I had nothing to do that summer and I was in a creative mood.

So if you have nothing better do (really?), feel free to meander through the recesses of my past... well, the first ten chapters anyway...

  • CHAPTER 1: CAMPERVAN IN THE SNOW
  • CHAPTER 2: THE SWINGING SIXTIES
  • CHAPTER 3: WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA
  • CHAPTER 4: ONE SMALL STEP
  • CHAPTER 5: THE EARLY YEARS
  • CHAPTER 6: END OF AN ERA
  • CHAPTER 7: LORD OF THE MANOR
  • CHAPTER 8: FAIRIES UNDER THE BED
  • CHAPTER 9: THE START OF SCHOOL
  • CHAPTER 10: B.A.R.
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