On a family holiday to Oz when I was 10 a visitor turned up to our Sydney hotel.
He was quite chatty and knew some really keen card tricks which my Mum wasn't keen on us learning.
It turned out that my mums Dad dies when she was six. The four kids were farmed out for a few years to various rellies - my Mum lived with her grandparents.
Then my grandmother got the family back together again in a new home complete with a boarder. This was quite the sensation back in the 1930's especially as the 'boarder' was a Jew.
Our visitor was my Uncle David, the result of the boarder and my grandmothers 'flatting arrangement'.
David had fled to Oz in the early 60's to escape the NZ Police. Obviously not serious enough to be extradited, but he was a definitely a wide boy. Very flashy. lots of cash. Most interesting for a young lad the model for the nude model at the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains was his girlfriend.
He was shot dead two years later in a gang related incident in west Sydney, so that was the only time I met the guy.
