I have decided to start at the start!
I'll tell you a little about my growing up in Nelson Bay, a small seaside town 100 miles from Sydney, NSW, Australia.
It is in the Port Stephens area, a beautiful coastal town, with remarkable bays, inlets and beaches. The fauna was abundant, with Wombats, Kangaroos and heaps of Galahs, Cockatoos, Rosella and other birds, but the most prevalent animals were the Dolphins, Sharks and Tourists!
My father was in the Air Force and we lived quite a long way from the base, so, we were neither fish nor fowl, so to speak.
We were not the 'airforce brats' that you hear about since we never went near the Base, but we were not 'locals' either, therefore, the fish and fowl came into play again!
The town was a really nice place to be brought up in, however, if you were in any way different, and we were - different, having a father who was half Chinese and half Australian, again, fish and fowl!!
It is funny, what you think about when you are growing up and how things that seemed to you to be so insurmountable, go on to be 'blips' in life's story.
I will write some more tomorrow.
Goodnight.
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