hilaryd

My parents bought a house in Wattle Road, Jannali in 1966 when we came to live in Australia from England. Originally only supposed to stay for three years, as my father was on a contract for that time, but we ended up staying. Although I didnt personally live in Jannali with my parents for that long as I went back to the UK for five years and on return lived elsewhere - I made numerous visits to the suburb . Of course it has changed out of sight since those days and never in my wildest dreams did I think I would come and live here, but am now happily ensconced in one of the four townhouses on my fathers old block. It is quite strange really! But it is a great place to live for many reasons and especially with Covid now, we feel a lot safer than where we used to live in the inner city - too congested and no infuriating plane noise every day, which we endured for 12 years! I can see the appeal of Jannali, although in the early days it was much less sophisticated, for want of a better word. My father, who lived here for almost 50 years loved Jannali and used to say it is the centre of the universe! , which made us all laugh.