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Beautiful Like An Animal

The house was on the corner. A dead motorbike bike swung on a cable from the tree out the front. There was a six foot high timber fence that ran around the property. A rope thick as an anaconda hung in loops across the top. When I walked past, links of chain clanked and a dog crashed towards me. It barked like it was insane. Its face slathered, all teeth and red gums, in the gaps between the fence posts. A pit-bull. I would stand on the block that might become my block and touch the rough trunk of the…
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MY ENVIRONMENTAL GROWTH TOGETHER WITH THE BEAUTIFUL REDLANDS

As a young 7 yo child from a family of 8, we lived on a small property at Belmont and we would regularly travel to the Redlands for picnics and swimming at many places including Tingalpa Creek Capalaba (near the Greyhound grounds), Wellington Point and Thompsons Beach Victoria Point The drives through the Redlands with all the farms growing vegetables from the rich soils were what I remembered the most from those early years of the Redlands at that time.  These areas included farms at Wellington Point, Ormiston, Cleveland, Victoria Point, Redland Bay, the strawberry farms were the most favoured…

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