Way back when I was much younger than the 18 years I profess to be, we used to visit the Drive In Cinema at Tooronga on the on corner of Toorak and Tooronga Roads. Back then it was a shopping centre and drive in but now it is a much bigger shopping centre and the home of the Coles Headquarters, commonly called Battlestar Galactica. We didn’t have a lot of money so entertainment like this was a must, it was reasonably cheap so we could all go and there’d be no fights as to who would be left behind. My aunt used to live at the back of the drive in and we could see the screen from her driveway which meant we were able to relive the video for nothing, the audio track was non-existent but it was better than nothing.

One year they were showing Around the World in Eighty Days written by Jules Verne one of the founding fathers of science fiction. We were very excited to be going along but we only managed to see 60 days as Dad got so upset with the noise in the car he drove off early. There was a reason the car was so noisy. One of my sisters is very short sighted and she apparently couldn’t actually see the screen so she kept asking questions and other sisters spent a lot of time telling her to be quiet so Dad lost his temper and we left early. It’s funny how she and I got glasses very shortly after this movie.