Last night we had tea at Adam's place in Noble Park. One of his friends cooked us some chicken, so we went around to her place to pick it up, and there is a bull on the vacant lot behind her house:
When we lived in Noble Park I remember there was a vacant block where some people had sheep, and when I was really little we had goats in our back yard.
This morning I caught the train down to Noble Park to help Adam move into his new house. We lived in Noble Park until I was almost 15, and I think Adam was about 12. Adam's moved back there to do stuff with Urban Neighbours of Hope.
I got there fairly early, so I had a bit of a wander around.
This is where we went to Primary School:
This is where we got haircuts, bought five cents worth of lollies and got fish and chips for tea:
This is the street we lived in:
And this was our house:
(When we lived there it had heaps of trees out the front, but the new people cut them all down.)
This is the UNOH van, which Adam used to move his stuff:
(The van was painted by the kids from Springstarz, which is a kids program that they run in Springvale.)
Adam's new place is on top of a shop, just off the main street, and he works at the Salvos across the road. Here's some pictures:
Tonight at the writers group we talked a bit about Australia's big cats. We also talked a bit about the possibility of diprotodonts in Western Australia, but they haven't been in the tabloid.
This bloke ^ from Noble Park (where I lived longer than anywhere else) reckons he shot a big cat near Sale. This article says it might have actually been a really really big feral cat.
