Good evening! In the course of ridding my parents’ house of its mountains of clutter, I stumbled upon this book:
Yes, it’s my rough copy book, from my days in 5/6L, Mrs Long’s class at Baulkham Hills North Primary School. Which if my elderly mind remains nimble enough for arithmetic, means this book dates from 1990. In it are some early attempts at creative writing, the green shoots, as it were, of what would become the mighty oak of my oeuvre. Here I shall present one of them. Bear in mind, before you pass judgment, that I was eleven years old when I wrote this, and eleven-year-olds are very stupid people. With that said, here is…
THE ZOO