History of My Life
This is something I've been meaning to write for many many years, and now that I'm probably permanently unemployed (story for another time) I've finally decided to put some notes down. It will be an ongoing creation, subject to rewrite, editing, revision, deletions and otherwise modifications for many many months. So let's start. Birth I was born in 1959 at 2 Underwood St Paddington (I tried to find a photo of it but it's now a butt-ugly block of flats). My parents, who were 21 at the time, had lived there with my paternal grandmother ever since they had married, as my paternal grandfather had "disappeared" soon after returning from World War II service, so I never met him. A little more on that. I started trying to track him down several years ago and found a few interesting things. He and my grandmother originally came from Balarat in Victoria, and moved to Sydney before my father was born. I managed to uncover the usual voting enrolments with their add...