JUST A SUBURBAN BOY
The suburbs of Sydney have always been my home. To be a bit more precise, the western suburbs of Sin City are where I’ve kicked up a lot of dust. The closest I’ve come to an inner city postcode was in 1979 when I briefly lived at Darlington just behind Sydney Uni. But over the course of sixty years, my digs have also included Ashfield, Abbotsford, Haberfield, Auburn, Kellyville, Box Hill, McGraths Hill, Merrylands North, Merrylands and, finally, Greystanes. By far the two longest serving base headquarters have been at Abbotsford (for about twenty five years when I was growing up) and here at the ranch in busy Greystanes (for just over thirty years). I’m still not sure whether I’ve fulfilled all the requirements for displaying a mullet but, if I had hair, you’d think that most of the other crucial dot points would be ticked. The west is where I hang around and it’s where I usually have. That’s not to say that what is actually meant by the ‘western suburbs’ moni...