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An Ordinary Boy... mostly. Volume 1: The Big, Pink Place on the Bend Kindle Edition

by Mike Cavanagh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Milk was delivered in clinking glass bottles to your door, you went to the ‘outhouse’ to go to the toilet (even in mid-winter), you wandered anywhere with your mates until your tummy told you it was teatime, and the only ‘webs’ were ones on the ceiling your mother took a broom to every Monday.
An Ordinary Boy... mostly. Volume 1 is a light-hearted, yet also honest and revealing, telling of what it was like for one ‘mostly ordinary’ boy growing up in the 1950s and 60s. At the centre of events is the ‘big pink place on the bend’ – the large, three storey house that was concrete edifice, rabbit warren, dance hall, and a good place to bang things with hammers. It was also where tales of jungle drums and cannibals were woven through humid, summer evenings and mighty concrete steps lay in wait for the unwary. But above all, it was home, and one like no other.
At its heart, this is really a timeless story about growing up and learning one of life’s fundamental and hardest lessons: you don’t miss the water until your well runs dry.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B8YML99R
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11.4 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 235 pages
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  • Book 1 of 1 ‏ : ‎ An Ordinary Boy... mostly
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Mike Cavanagh

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Mike Cavanagh is now in his sixties and has no idea how that happened. He lives with his wife, Julie, and two black cats in Bateman’s Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Three adult children, mostly left home, complete the extended menagerie. The house Mike and Julie live in is quirky and in need of regular maintenance, as are its owners. Mike writes poetry, plays guitar and composes music, is doing research on rock-wallabies, and spends far too much time playing computer role playing games. None of these very well, necessarily, but he does them. He thought he knew who he was until a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome in his sixties gave him pause to rethink who he thought he was, and how he got here. Having no real idea how to proceed from there, he wrote a memoir. It was not the memoir he thought he was going to write. So he wrote another one, as you do. Ex-cellent!

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  • fabulouschrissie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Just an ordinary boy....
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2022
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    Having read Mike's memoirs of his adult life, I was interested to find out about his younger self. Yes, he's more or less an ordinary boy, but I was fascinated to read about life in late 50s, early 60s Australia. I was impressed with Mike's recollections of the places he visited, knowing I wouldn't be able to give such rich descriptions of places from my childhood. Definitely an enjoyable read, and looking forward to the sequel.
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