• BITS OF MY DASH

    A collection of real life stories and flashbacks by
    Graham Lyle Ross

    28.03.1951 - xx.xx.20xx

    This is a collection of stories, anecdotes, events that reveal a snapshot of life growing up in Australia in those terrible/wonderful dull/amazing years. Something for everyone in this collection, please read and tell me if you have similar experiences during those boomer years.

    The following was inspired by the poem "I'm Glad You’re In My Dash" by Linda Ellis. When all my...
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    Let’s go hunting. Great idea, got the .22 rifle, got the ammo, called the farmer and he said okay...
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    This is a scary story! Don't read it if you are superstitious and believe that dreams are more...
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    It is 1956 and I have started school and in those days we were expected to man up when the going...
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    The true story of a boy's love for his dog, discovering the loss of death, the unsatisfying...
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    This story takes place in early 1972, I remember because that year was the year that I was...
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    The year is 1966 and we are living in a suburb of Ipswich Queensland called Booval. I always...
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    There are so very few memories that we get to keep of our early childhood but I have one that...
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    Following on from the Saturday night at the pictures story, and fast forward about 4 years, and...
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    I am just turning 7 years old, and on a Sunday, while mum and dad were still preoccupied with the...
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    In August1962, Australia sent its first contingent of military personnel to South Vietnam to...
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    This is just an AI generated image of something like the scene that changed the lives of...
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    I was four years old in 1955. That was a magical year with songs like Rock Around the Clock from...
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    INTRODUCTION One of my earliest memories of a "life lesson" came when I was ten years old. The...
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    During my early teen years, I was working as an apprentice hand compositor in the printing...
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    While growing up in Australia in the 1950s we were introduced to a host of imaginary...
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