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Penny F. Graham

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I was born in Perth, WA in 1942. My family travelled a lot during my childhood. In 1946, after the war finished, we moved back to Singapore where my father ran a very profitable import export business. My two brothers were sent to boarding school in Australia but I stayed with my family. From age 6 to 13, we moved a lot. My mother’s health had been deteriorating since not long after my birth. Later I was to find she had TB and had suffered from this for most of her adult life. Some of our moves were to find a climate that would suit her. During these early years, we lived in Singapore, Perth, Melbourne and England. My mother died when I was 10. After a very brief stay in Portugal and then England, my father brought the family back to Perth I was born in Perth, WA in 1942. My family travelled a lot during my childhood. In 1946, after the war finished, we moved back to Singapore where my father ran a very profitable import export business. My two brothers were sent to boarding school in Australia but I stayed with my family. From age 6 to 13, we moved a lot. My mother’s health had been deteriorating since not long after my birth. Later I was to find she had TB and had suffered from this for most of her adult life. Some of our moves were to find a climate that would suit her. During these early years, we lived in Singapore, Perth, Melbourne and England. My mother died when I was 10. After a very brief stay in Portugal and then England, my father brought the family back to Perth where I lived until I left home at 19. I had very little early schooling and I would characterise my childhood as both isolated and unusual.

I met my husband Lindsay in Canberra in 1962 and we married 3 years later After raising a family of 4 sons in Sydney and then Canberra, I worked first in ACT Health, then the Department of the Senate and finally at the Commonwealth Department of Health. My last job before retirement was the management of health promotion programs across Australia.

After I retired, I became involved with U3A (University of the Third Age) where I ran history courses, digital photography courses and a current affairs group. I am a keen cyclist and ride with a group 3 times a week. My other interests include writing, walking, history and current affairs. We travel a lot and of course during the writing of this book we spent time in many parts of the world, including Singapore, Malaysia, Europe and Russia.

I now live in Canberra with my husband. We travel regularly to Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and France to visit our sons and daughters-in-law and 9 grandchildren. Our family is like a mini United Nations. We have Japanese, French, Indian and Australian daughters-in-law. And our grandchildren – well, they are gorgeous.
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