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Melbourne is my home. I never had any desire to go anywhere else, unlike my parents, who left Birmingham in the UK, along with my older sister and I. My parents wanted a better life. I was two [...]

I am a middle child and was born in Geelong in 1975. I didn’t meet my paternal grandfather who was a banker but remember my maternal grandfather who was a perfectionist. He was a mechanic and did [...]

“I was born in Glasgow and lived there till I was 18. Mum and Dad separated when I was two, so my mum moved back in with her mum.  Granny Meek had a hard life, bringing up six kids on her own, as [...]