It’s 1957 and Barry has been sent to stay with Nan and Pop during the school holidays while his mum waits for the new baby. Barry is six and-three-quarters and 22 Miller Street - the last house Pop built on the West Preston street - proves full of novel experiences: there’s going shopping across the Hump at dawn with Nan (‘good isn’t it, height,’ she says, advising him ‘you can look at the stars for nothing’); keeping Pop company in the shed, where he goes for his smoko; sharing a bed with great aunt Bess (whose Anzacs are ‘an indestructible mixture of oats, molassess, wheatgerm and pure will’).
It’s 1957 and Barry has been sent to stay with Nan and Pop during the school holidays while his mum waits for the new baby. Barry is six and-three-quarters and 22 Miller Street - the last house Pop built on the West Preston street - proves full of novel experiences: there’s going shopping across the Hump at dawn with Nan (‘good isn’t it, height,’ she says, advising him ‘you can look at the stars for nothing’); keeping Pop company in the shed, where he goes for his smoko; sharing a bed with great aunt Bess (whose Anzacs are ‘an indestructible mixture of oats, molassess, wheatgerm and pure will’).
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