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  The bottom line

  MUM was in hospital at the time and, initially at least, that was a bit of a worry. However, she was pretty...

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  Weak Whisky and Soggy Gauloise

  SOME visitors to this site may have seen Robyn Archer’s one-woman show at the Theatre Royal a couple of decades ago. She...

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  Fare cop

  DURING the nineteen sixties and the first half of the seventies we lived outside Tasmania — overseas and in Canberra and Melbourne...

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  Rubricitis

  I really must protest very strongly at the uninformed and inane criticism of the Eduction Department’s intelligent and innovative Essential Learning curriculum....

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  To the manners born

  MY daughter of some two score years and a bit is a feisty lass who is disinclined to call a spade a...

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  Gentle, into that good night

  I THINK it is the physical manifestations of growing old that first set the bells ringing. For example, there is the nose...

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  We are family

  MY FIRST clear memory of my mother — indeed, my first clear memory of anyone or anything — is of walking with...

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  A lifeless whiteness

  SHE was short and slight and, at least in profile, very attractive. Mid-twenties, I guessed. Close-cropped blond hair; a tiny silver stud...

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  Africa, Cry Africa

  AFTER a year of familiarisation and training I was informed in December 1960 that I would be posted in April, 1961 as...

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  The brutal stepfather

  FOR ALLl the fun and freedom of my time at Hawley and Port Sorell, it was also a period which saw the...