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Finding an itch to scratch

October 13, 2021 by Martin Thompson

Avalon Beach, 1997

I can see it in my mind’s eye as though it was yesterday. I’m sitting alone in the dunes overlooking the sea in a small town called Avalon in the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia.

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Categories Diary Tags adventure, Australia, avalon beach, itch, mid-life crisis, scratch, sydney 13 Comments

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