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Clonbrook Beach –   By Geoff Burrowes

        There was an air of suppressed excitement all week- everybody felt it! Our mothers talked in hushed voices on their black bakelite home phones (that’s all there was in those days – no one had ever heard of a mobile or cell phone)!

        It was in the background of every game of chaser or cricket and our fathers topped the oil in their cars and made sure the tires were properly inflated.

        Our mothers made sure that there was an adequate supply of mauby, ginger beer, sorrel and pine drink in the earthernware jugs in the kitchen and the kitchen was filled with the sweet odours of fudge, cake and sugar cake, both pink and white and brown chipped coconut!        Continue reading →