We don’t go to the cinema that often. For one: it’s expensive these days. £27 just for 2 tickets, nevermind spending the same again on snacks if you want something to do with your hands during the trailers. But it’s my birthday weekend, so we’ve made the effort. We like Ryan Reynolds, and we’ve enjoyed the Deadpool franchise so far; it’s fun, action-packed, and Reynolds has that “look at how funny I am” schtick which somehow isn’t annoying....
Ipswich
We moved to Ipswich in the late 1970s. We’d bumbled about south-east Queensland after moving from New Zealand, until we finally settled on the outskirts of arguably Queensland’s second-most-important town (at the time, at least), in a caravan park in the suburb of Tivoli. It wasn’t a great caravan park, all told, but I was 5 or 6 so what did I care? Not long after, we moved to a house in North Ipswich, a suburb across the bridge from the main center of Ipswich City....
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