Phil & I, in Mum’s Red Datsun
After Ralph McTell performance
At Macquarie University.
Late, tired.
Suburban route navigated
Finally finding home stretch
The route home – Suburban Roads then F4.
F4 sweeping off GWH near Blacktown.**
Phil, I’m tired, you’ll have to drive the rest! Can you?
Phil, fourteen.
Yeah, course I can!!
Early driving lessons pay off.
Home safely.
Note & Extra:
* This Memory is a couple of years after I’d completed school. Phil would have been in lower Higher School and he could drive better than most adults. I noticed a news article a few weeks ago where a bloke landed in all sorts of bother and a big PR mess because he allowed a car to be drive by an early teen.
** The M4 was known as the F4 (Freeway) and it’s most eastern limit was near Blacktown where it joined again with the Great Western Highway (GWH), the suburbs there now are Arndell Park & Huntingwood.
This is Ralph McTell on Top of the Pops in 1975 introduced by Jimmy Saville whose reputation has recently been severely tarnished.
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