The Governor General Cleaned My Shoes

Even before I was born I was trying to do things my own way. I made life difficult for my mother Jess who was confined to bed for the last trimester of her pregnancy. I had disappointed my father Geoff by insisting that I be born a day earlier than his birthday and I had mercifully waylaid their plans to call me Elizabeth.. So begins my story that has me watching rockets going up at the Woomera Rocket Range beating the boys at marbles (and winning the prized milky white marble with coloured orange waves) nearly being run over in a toilet swimming with a snake on my way to inspect a very dead horse setting tongues wagging in Canberra in a Commonwealth car and eliminating plastic bananas from Australias entire eastern seaboard. And yes the Governor General did clean my shoes.