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Those ticket stubs and more

As you may or may not know, one of the greatest pleasures in my life is to sort things into piles and create lists. Make of that what you will. So when I recently came across those ticket stubs from the early 70s that I wrote about in one of my posts from Sydney, I got excited because it gave me a reason to create another list! And here it is. A chronologically ordered list of my Sydney ticket…

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What Kind of a Teacher was I, anyway?

My last post talked about me moving to Germany in 1978 to teach the children of British Forces serving in that country during the Cold War.

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I'm in the army now... 🎶

This might come as a surprise to you. After living the Gay Liberation/socialist leftie life in Sydney, London and Colchester from 1972 until 1978, I moved to Germany to take up a job as a Sociology/Modern Studies teacher in a secondary school for – wait for it – the children of the families of British military who were stationed in Germany. My decision did not go down well with some of my Gay…

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