I wrote a post about 'Gravy Day' back in 2021 when ironically a lot of Australians were locked-up ... or locked-down -
It’s “Gravy Day,” all because of a lyric in one of the most unlikely Christmas songs ever written.
“How to Make Gravy,” written by singer Paul Kelly, has become a holiday classic in Australia over the past few decades."
“How to Make Gravy,” written by singer Paul Kelly, has become a holiday classic in Australia over the past few decades."
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| How to Make Gravy (2024) |
I know because I watched it a few days ago and will be watching it again tonight with my youngest son when he comes home from work, as he is yet to watch it.
On the subject of the similarities to 'Boy Swallows Universe', I listened recently to the podcast episode below about Trent Dalton's real-life stepfather Gary Lawrence, who was the head cook in the Boggo Road jail for many years.
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| Universe swallows a street fightin' man |
Because his stepfather Gary was a cook in the men's prison around that time, too.
Funny thing to my ears is that Andrew Rule mentions in that podcast that Gary was a bodyguard for Malcolm McGregor Lowndes.
My father was a cabbie and told me that he drove his mother around Brisbane a lot because she would always ask for his cab number if he was working, as she said he was her favourite cab driver.
I remember meeting her one night in the mid 70s when my father took me and my younger brother to the Mac's Drive-in at Eight Mile Plains, which they owned.
She said to my father that he had beautiful daughters, because we both had long hair back then like the kid in 'Boy Swallows Universe'.
Small world it seems in Brisbane in the 70s.
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