The Godfather: Peter Corris on a year in Gippsland
In 1974 I held a one-year lectureship in History at the University of Melbourne. I hated it, from the physical setting to the teaching itself. When I was an...
Read MoreIn 1974 I held a one-year lectureship in History at the University of Melbourne. I hated it, from the physical setting to the teaching itself. When I was an...
Read MoreDo you remember the boot sale, when cars pulled up in municipal car parks and displayed items for sale at cheap prices from the back of the vehicle plus, perhaps, a...
Read MoreWe’ve had four swimming pools and I think it’s fair to say that we shouldn’t have had any. In one way or another they were each doomed. The first accompanied a house we...
Read More‘That’s disgraceful,’ a friend said when I admitted that Heath, my then seven-year-old grandson, could beat me at Scrabble. That was 18 months ago and he...
Read MoreIt is often said that people living cheek by jowl in the city do not know each other or, at best, have only a nodding acquaintance. This was not our experience in...
Read More‘Send me dead flowers by the mail’ – Jagger/Richards I am indifferent to flowers, although I was surrounded by them at home as a child. Where I grew up, in the...
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