Month: August 2009
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Jo’s new job
If a husband and wife with the family name of Page owned a bookshop, what would they call it? Pages and Pages of course! And that’s where Jo has just started a new job. It’s a rather ambitious decision as it’s full-time, the shop is the other side of Sydney and she has also just…
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New arrival in the Tapia home
Yes, the Tapias have a new Kydd and Carlo showed it off last Friday night at the Sticky Bar. A Kydd is an upright electric bass. It’s fretless, just like a double bass, and sounds just like a double bass too. The big difference is size – it’s just a stick with strings and weighs…
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The blessings of aging
Some have said I’m a “glass half empty” person. But I’m not so sure. Brushing my teeth this morning I remembered a conversation I had a few years ago while in the dentist’s chair. Looking up at Dr Tan I said, “I don’t seem to be getting as many cavities as I used to. Is…
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We were so poor…
Only age allows the possibility of boring the younger generations with stories about how bad, or how good, things used to be. Just a few days ago I was telling my son-in-law Carlo about my father being offered a block of land in Strathfield in the late 1940s (not a bad address even then) for just…