While unloading some equipment from the van, I strained my back yet again. I really should have kept up those exercises for my back. While not in great pain it was very uncomfortable, so I booked in to see my physiotherapist. The earliest I could get an a...
The summer of 1972 was a scorcher. We were in the middle of a drought, every day the heat seemed to sear your skin the moment you stepped into the sunlight. You knew how a Vampire felt at sunrise. I was seventeen years old; it was school holidays and I wa...
After we had done a rough edit of the shots, Veronica said “Allora, mangiare." She went out to the kitchen and started to layout a large antipasti spread and opened a bottle of Italian red. "My Uncle makes this wine, it is called Terrano.” We sat on oppo...
Veronica was from Trieste, in the north of Italy. She had come to Australia on a working holiday. She was working at my favourite Italian restaurant, il Paradiso. At first, I thought she was from the eastern bloc. Her voice was husky, possibly from too ma...
