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Nostalgia Ain’t What it Used to Be

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Over the past 12 months I have been re-visiting the past and it has been a fascinating journey. One of the trips down memory lane occured while I was editing and compiling a 25 Year History ebook on a basketball association, in which I was a foundation member. 403 pages, dozens of photographs, newspaper articles, […]

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Memories of a ‘Roy Boy

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I am sitting outside a café sipping a cup of tea, watching people of different ages and nationalities walk past my table. Cars, bicycles, vans and trams are noisily zipping up and down Brunswick Street. The houses, shops, cafés, and the pub across the road are a mixture of old Fitzroy and new Fitzroy. Wherever […]

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Books I’ve Read

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Beau Geste
5 of 5 stars
Beau Geste
by P.C. Wren
Jaws
4 of 5 stars
Jaws
by Peter Benchley
Fahrenheit 451
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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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