OPENING PANDORA'S BOX

SCHOOL REUNION                 At school I was bullied and was one of the most unpopular students at school – during both primary and high school. I didn’t feel I was attending school to gain an education, I felt like I was going to school to get emotionally abused. It wasn’t one person who was bullying me, it wasn’t a group of students who were bullying me; there were a lot of people who bullied me at school and it would have been impossible for me to be able to tell you who they were and their names (even at the time I wouldn’t have known all their names). It just seemed like I was the kid that people bullied and even students who I didn’t even know bullied me. Those kids had no justified reason to bully me – I had never done anything wrong to them or anyone else. They bullied me and they got away with it and there was nothing I could do about it. It just seemed like when one person did it and got away with i...

  Diary-Youth DAD’S VISIT South Penrith, 11 June 1988 This was written by my dad Well here we are visiting Julia and the Pain (Warren) and guess what? Autumn was there. Lucky really that was an effort, we had to wave a big mac in front of her to get her out of bed, but she didn’t budge. So out with the junior burger, well this required the ultimate, ‘mover’ THE LARGE FRENCH FRIES! She couldn’t resist it and out of bed like a shot and ate the lot, cleaned her teeth, got dressed and was sitting at the breakfast table before the lies fries went down. Then theres Julia, well she spends most of her time getting Autumn out of the cot, ‘Cone on Autumn!’ she yelled, ‘Snore, snore’ Julia couldn’t stand it anymore, she told the Prill that there was a gorgeous handsome boy at the door to see her, ‘snore, snore, snore’ ‘Who is it?’ she said rubbing her peepers, ‘It think it’s Alex Minogue or Kylie Papps or Don Lane’ Julia said. ‘Who cares, I’ll take three of them, giftwrapped.’ Julia w...