Seventy seven years ago - on 11 October 1943 - I was born in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough; the first child of Katherine (known as Kaye) and Alfred (known as Alf) Shippam. Within eight years three siblings had arrived - Karen in 1946, Stuart in 1947 and Charlotte in 1951. Over the years - having lived in Sydney since 1966 - I've made many holiday trips back to the UK and various other overseas places, especially New York when Kerrii, Seb, Grace and Rupert lived there for about five years; Tokyo, Japan and now Kanagawa which is the home of Ross and Natsumi and Copenhagen, Denmark where Katherine, Thomas, Sienna, Evie and Isabella now live. But, since the arrival of Covid-19, all overseas and interstate travel has ceased for the time being. And while,
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