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Melbourne: What Is It?

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Can you guess what this is? If you’re from Melbourne, Australia, and don’t know what it is then shame on you :)

Filed Under: Bits of Nonsense Tagged With: Melbourne

Fitzroy Layabout

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We were in Fitzroy recently showing an international friend of ours around my old stomping ground. We popped into a cafe in Fitzroy Street to have a cuppa. Of course Sue had her super duper exotic coffee and I had my ususal ‘something different’ cappuccino. After a bit of a walk I rested my weary […]

Filed Under: Bits of Nonsense, Humour Tagged With: cappuccino, Fitzroy

Fitzroy Baths: Aqua Profonda

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I read in the recent Saturday’s Age newspaper section of Your Week about a sign at the Fitzroy Baths that read “Dangerous Deep Water” and under that was written “Aqua Profonda” According to the article the sign was created in 1953 by Fitzroy pool manager James Murphy who ‘was regulary pulling ‘new Australians’ out of […]

Filed Under: I remember when ... Tagged With: children, Fitzroy Baths, Signs, swimming pool

Memoir: Not Just a Memory

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Well, it’s been a very hectic year and I was hoping to have a narrative draft of my memoir by now but it hasn’t happened. And it’s not due to laziness. I was getting up at 5.50 am each weekday to work on the memoir, but one hour a day is not enough to write […]

Filed Under: Random Thoughts Tagged With: Memoir, writing

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Roy Boy

My memoir about growing up in the working class slum of Fitzroy during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sabres Basketball eBook

Sandringham Sabres – The First 25 Years – 1974-99

Fast break your way through 25 years of history of the Sandringham Sabres (now known as Southern Basketballl Association)

In this e-book, snippetts, stories, photos, raw prawns, stats, results, awards, articles, reveal a community of dedicated basketball enthusiasts who shared their dreams, achievements, frustrations and disappointments to help create a large basketball association where 1000’s of children and adults now play in a eight-court stadium.
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Chris Chats .. about the good, the bad, the sad & the funny - selected short posts - vol. 1 Chris Chats Volume One

Books I’ve Read

Chris's bookshelf: read

Beau Geste
5 of 5 stars
Beau Geste
by P.C. Wren
Jaws
4 of 5 stars
Jaws
by Peter Benchley
Fahrenheit 451
4 of 5 stars
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 of 5 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
5 of 5 stars
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
by Alex Kershaw

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Current Writing Project

A second memoir. Roy Boy was my first published in 2023.

Other Projects Planned

1. Screenplay
2. Books on street photography
3. Podcast
4. And many more – stay tuned :)

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