Drifting through life

You're looking pretty good for this time of year. Sunny blue skies with a few clouds here and there, temperature around 30C, cool breezes. Very nice. Friday's are my day off, (weekends don't count, almost everybody gets those) and I usually sleep in a bit, potter around doing some washing etc, but not today. Today I had an appointment with the dentist. So I still had to be up and go catch a bus, then another bus, just like a work day. Because my dentist is right next to my workplace. After the dental torture was over (it wasn't so bad) I popped in to work and had a look at the photo album of my friends wedding. Such a pretty wedding! Held in a park, with the bride looking all gorgeous (I made a joke with her and said "hey who's the pretty girl in the long white dress?") and the groom with hair. Last time I saw him he'd shaved his head. The bridesmaids were lovely in hot pink and the flowers were mixed bunches of white and hot pink roses. T...

....it was a very good year... Have you got that song in your head now? Good. Here's another.... Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams) Sixteen was also good, although it didn't start out so well. I'd just moved from Port Pirie, where I'd been living with my dad and sister, to Murray Bridge, to live with my mum. There was no job for me in Port Pirie, but mum said she'd lined one up for me in Murray Bridge. I was to assist in a hairdressing salon, doing absolutely nothing with customers, just sweeping hair off the floor and hanging out wet towels. It sounded easy enough and maybe I'd eventually graduate to shampooing or something... I went along to the interview and as soon as the owner of the salon saw me, she decided I was wrong for the job.  Having just come down from a summer on the Port Pirie beach I was quite brown... When she heard and saw my last name, I was  really wrong for the job. I just wasn't "Australian" enough. My name is Poli...