Double futon, wooden base, deluxe mattress, AAA+++ condition, $280 ono. Brunswick. Ph 934*****. Yep, that’s my ad in the next edition of Melbourne’s Trading Post. I’m moving out, packing up, going on the road. There’s a lump at the back of my throat as I write this. Anyway, if you know anyone who wants a [...]
A shortage of basics like bread, cereal and milk means I’m eating breakfast out for the second day running. I’m sitting here at Mule in Sydney Road listing to Radiohead, Verve and some other britpop bands. The whoosh of the espresso machine interrupts madly. There has been heavy rain over night so the gutters are [...]
All the way up to Confest at Gulpa Creek, near Echuca on the Murray River, we expected to see a line of slow moving Combi vans and housebuses. But there was no sign of either a queue nor many hippy vehicles. Rattly, mobile wrecks were outnumbered by new Holdens, suburban assault vehicles (SAVs) and the [...]
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