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The Godfather: Peter Corris on swimming pools

The Godfather: Peter Corris on swimming pools

by NRB | 15 Jul 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

We’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 rented for a year when we moved to Byron Bay. It was of a good size but it was old and had some...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Byron Bay

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Byron Bay

by NRB | 6 Mar 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

In 1999 Jean and I found ourselves living in Byron Bay. It hadn’t been planned. We’d made our sea change from Sydney to the south coast some years before, but we’d taken it into our heads to go north – for a change, for the warmth. Friends told us of a small sand...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on the cat in his life

by NRB | 9 Aug 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 3 comments

For I will consider my cat Jeoffry.                                                  For he is the servant of the Living God …  Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno The 18th-century ‘mad poet’ Christopher Smart is not the only writer to have celebrated a cat. Raymond...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on past pets

by NRB | 31 May 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 4 comments

There were no pets when I was growing up. My parents deflected the pleas from my sister and myself for a dog or a cat by saying that children grew too attached to pets and were upset when they died. It was typical of their attitude of avoiding all the realities of...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on all his houses

by NRB | 25 Jan 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Jean Bedford and I have owned ten houses together – one in Melbourne, three in Sydney, several in the Illawarra. We had a kit house built for us on Coochiemudlo Island in Queensland and later bought a house in Byron Bay. We have rented ten others – in all the...
             

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