Memoir Reflections
As a kid I used to love eating Colvan potato chips. You could buy them at any milk bar in Fitzroy. I usually bought my packet of potato chips from Nick the Greek's milk bar, next door to Eve's toy shop. If you were smart enough you could hang … [Continue reading] about Col-Van Potato Chips
As an adult walking down Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and looking at the buildings around me I can see interesting examples of 19th Century architecture. As a ten-year-old kid walking down Brunswick Street in the early 1960s these buildings … [Continue reading] about Fitzroy’s Mount Everests
This blue stone cobbled lane way is one of the many lane ways scattered around Fitzroy. As a kid I played cricket in our nearby lane way, used it as a short cut to get to my mate's place and as an escape route so as to avoid any ratbags that may … [Continue reading] about Down Memory Lane
About ten years ago I decided to write a memoir about growing up in Fitzroy in the 1950s and 1960s. I thought I could knock over this project within a few weeks of solid writing. But I soon realised it would take a lot longer to write a fair … [Continue reading] about The Story So Far