CANBERRA A.C.T. THE NATIONS CAPITAL, You guys may not condone being described as part of my BORN IN THE BUSH chronicle of bush schools and you would be correct. Telopea Park High had a certain cosmopolitan content with, no doubt, many "Pollies kids" enrolled and some Diplomatic kids also, I don't remember any names what so ever. As an aside this name problem haunts me to this day, I love people and I hate myself for my inability to place the face with an oneness. Having got that of my chest, Telopea Park was a multi denominational, non sexist, co-educational school and how brave is that when all of my schools followed the same principles, the exception was "Darlo". There were many BUSH kids at Telopea Park back then. Maybe you guessed it and you'd be right, the committee elected to making life miserable for new boys burst into action on day one and at appropriate time I was escorted into the boy’s rest rooms and introduced to an impromptu wash in the big sink. You will notice "I no complain", maybe dislike and disgust were present, but karma is good they will repent. Canberra was and is a wonderful BIG country town you must go and see. Commiserations to all of the unfortunate families who suffered in the recent BUSH fires. Following stories as I remember. Actually, I will use this page to add memories as the brain matter clicks in and jolts me back to the past, and also add thoughts and recent experiences. Guess we could reflect on who we really are and who gives a rats, I made the comment to the negitive in relation to "ordinary bloke", thats me, you like me have every right to expect a quality of life, we have the possibilty of gaining wealth and happiness and yet it seems beyond our capacity to have both. What if we had a silver spoon jammed into our mouth?. 2007-10-04, just returned from seeing my family including one son who had a health scare. Big Davo's fishing adventures has been placed on standby for the time being. He is my big boy and a hard worker, his wife Belinda is pregnant with her second child and here is a little story; Zack is my only grand child (yet!), we spent some quality time together over the last week. So in company with David, and Michael, and Belinda, and Zack and his little brother KYE, he is the yet!, we ate, went shopping, ate some more, visited our extended family at Mona Vale and generally had a good time. The big story involved finally discovering the gender of the new baby. IVF, AND THE FARLEY FAMILY  Little Zack. IVF TIMES 3, A LA NATUARL AND ZACK IS CONCEIVED! IVF TIMES 3, A LA NATUARL AND KAI IS CONCEIVED! No need to go into too many details, Zack was born to us, he is my first Grand Child and he has proud parents and a proud 'Poppy'. All of the above for Kai, except; Belinda had an ultra sound in the early pregnancy days, her doctor indicated a girl baby was 99% possible, sooo; out go's the new mom and at great cost proceeds to buy out the stock of all the baby shops in the greater Wyong area as mom's do. The little baby girl was to be the best dressed in town, after much soul searching and discussion a suitable name was arrived at: Lillee Shirley Farley, Lillee for Lillee, Shirley for her Grand Mother, Farley for Me. Just as we had accepted this preety name for our little one another ultra sound indicated a profound reversal in the sexual disposition of the baby, an appendage has been added, so folks, there is a moral here; NEVER COUNT YOUR LILLEE'S TILL YOU SEE THE WILLEE, or; ISABELLA IS NOT A FELLA, or; SHIRLEY AIN'T NO GIRLEE. I will bet some of you mum's have been down the same path, had reservations then planned for the big day. So where to now, baby shop thats where, the new name; Kye Michael Farley, you good thing Belinda, love ya. Michael's happy, Dad's happy, the father's happy, Zack would have accepted a sister, just. You may detect a little bit of digression, seem to be tooing and frowing? Or is that backing and filling?