A few snaps taken from my mobile phone of ‘old Fitzroy’. Although they are current photos of Fitzroy I took only shots that reminded me of ‘old Fitzroy’ during the 1960s, my old stomping ground. A difficult job as every where you look now, modern Fitzroy has covered old Fitzroy with new shops and buildings, […]
Memoir: Voices in My Head
I like this Posie Graeme-Evans quote about writing from last Saturday’s The Age newspaper: ‘I sit by myself and hear voices in my head . They come out the ends of my fingers whether I want them to or not’. I have one voice in my head which is impatiently yelling, ‘get back to the […]
Fitzroy Baths: Aqua Profonda
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 […]
A Pebble Memory
The memoir is coming along nicely as I’m writing each week day at 7.ooam. The other day I was working on ‘The 1930 Penny’ vignette and decided to google this iconic Australian penny. As soon as I saw a photo of this rare coin it triggered many more memories. Of my time as a ten […]
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