Groovy Young Things

Whatever your opinion on Groovy Young Things, one thing is clear: they generally don’t live around my ‘hood. Traditionally, our suburb – although less than 10km from the city – is populated by aged persons and young families. It’s just how it is. It’s a bit like Perth: most of the population between the ages [...]

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Girls Who Wear Glasses

I am A Girl Who Wears Glasses. Moreover, I am a girl who wears ‘Personality Substitute Glasses’. All my young life, I was referred to as ‘That Mousy Girl’ or ‘The Walking Wall of Beige’. It comes from having the colouring of a  brown paper bag and never bothering to make cosmetics my friend. The [...]

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Beard Man

As young girls, my sister Belle and I both had bedroom windows that faced a block of flats. In one of the flats, there lived a man whose only discernible feature was that he had a beard. We rarely saw him but when we did he was doing extraordinary things like closing his blinds and [...]

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