'I now live in Perth, Western Australia.  Recently I was in Melbourne visiting my family...my mother still lives there as do my children. I am now 74 years old. I was in the neighbourhood of Elwood where I used to live in the early 1950s, when I attended Elwood Central School. I was walking along the banks of the Elwood canal and the smell of the wild fennel, which used to grow in abundance on the canal banks and pathways hit me.  Now only small patches of the fennel grow there but it t...
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