25 April 2010: I enjoyed the “Culture’ piece – it makes the whole history site more what I believe history to be: a series of views of our past, often competing, that are taken out, dusted off and examined openly and honestly from time to time. Well done! Funnily enough, I took my youngest son to his new school recently here in Darwin and met a young woman – another parent – with whom I got chatting. It turns out she was from near Dover and I mentioned that I’d been to school at DYRMS. She was flabbergasted, because her father and uncle had gone there. She was even more astonished when I said I had known them both. As we got to talking, she admitted that she hadn’t seen her father since she was a young girl because of his brutal and grotesque conduct towards her mother. I said both brothers had been notorious as bullies, which didn’t surprise her in the least. They were in fact the boys I was thinking of when I wrote about Roberts – the younger brother was the one who kept trying to drown me in the pool. It brought home to me the six degrees of separation theory.
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