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Sheep in the road detached house with a corrugated tin roof. The yard was on a slope and terraced with mango trees out back and a guava tree in the front. I must have noticed Brian crawling, walking, saying his first words … as I must have also observed Anne, but none of this is in my memory. Although, I do remember our first nights at the house in Manor view Road where we slept on mattresses on the floor as no furniture had arrived. Brian was always small for his age, my mother doted on him and called him ‘Binky’ making a fuss of his curly hair. We kids had our childhood illnesses and even spent time in Wentworth Hospital with scarlet fever, but Brian seemed to suffer illness more than either Anne or I … he also had polio and meningitis. With his slight build, sorry … I think I enjoyed teasing him as when he got fighting mad I laughed as he pummelled me, making him madder. I was just another cruel child. This is not going to be some weighty account, but as befits the limited information its going to be a bit flighty with things I remember, things I have been told and bits from his letters, but maybe thats enough? I am trying to fathom why I don’t have any sharp memories of Brian. When I left home proper he was 14, he went to Glenwood High School where he played snare drum in the school’s marching band. As children, he accompanied me in our forages into the bush around the houses we lived in, he was a party to the collection of crabs, he never did have a pet (Anne and I both had dogs at some point) … he just seemed to be there. Umkomaas to stay with my mother’s sister, our aunt Ivy. She had 2 sons and a daughter too … anyway, rather than have family versus family in the games we would play, I partnered up with Guy, Brian with Clive and Anne with Janet … I’ve never wondered about this until now, but was this engineered by adults or did we so egalitarianly choose this arrangement? After leaving school, where he matriculated, he drifted a bit, seemed to have a couple of dodgy jobs, was in the SA army for compulsory service, went to Tech but left without diploma. He seemed to have good politics. He liked music by Jethro Tull, CSNY, James Taylor, King Crimson, Traffic, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Band, Jimi Hendrix amongst others, and read books by authors like Ken Kessey, Herman Hesse, Charles Reich, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Scott-Fitzgerald … He worked in a graphic studio, had an exhibition of his art along with our cousin Guy, lived in a flat with others including Guy, never made the visit to us that he often talked of … and died on 29 May 1977, probably due to all those childhood illnesses. Other than the teasing, memories of which I have been forced to admit so they do come to mind, he was just my brother – we shared a bedroom, sometimes we were dressed identically for special occasions by my mother, we played together. Every summer we kids were packed off to 90
On the Beach, 1953 As I mentioned, I recently found some letters from him, rereading them makes me quite sad as I think, were he alive now, it would be the most wonderful thing and we would chat and chat … I miss him. 91
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