Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, Pat Walsh has re-discovered the street in Melbourne where he's lived for forty years. Sondering like a teddy bear, he's been treated to glimpses into lives, vivid and complex like his own, that have scrolled past on the screen of his front window. His appreciation is a mix of history, anecdote and whimsy, both serious and playful in tone and laced with humour. COVID-affected, he reveals that he innocently imported a Russian virus to North-cote. But then comforts ...

150 YEARS OF THE WALSHS OF WALSHS ROAD SOUTH PURRUMBETE Milking Our Memories is a memoir of the tribulations and triumphs of two Irish teenagers and their Australian descendants. Set in the context of their times, it is both a window onto some of the great upheavals of the last 150 years and the day to day fortunes of one Australian family in country Victoria. Sometimes sad, often funny, it is a tribute to all the Walshs who have farmed, lived, and thrived on Walshs Road, South Purrumbete, and ...

In Jakarta to edit a painful human rights report on Timor- Leste, the author sought relief by hanging out with ordinary Indonesians and enjoying the excitement of discovering the everyday activities and places that they find commonplace. Over two stormy wet seasons he learned how to cross a Jakarta street and live to tell the story, catch a glimpse of Jakarta's rich but neglected colonial past, navigate men's toilets, sink into sleep after a cream bath, read the Koran and much ...