I was fortunate to have been born to two fascinating people who had arrived in Australia with their families as refugees from the mid-century war in Europe and met at university.
My father was a scientist and musician who had studied both piano and violin to concert standard and (among other things) had built himself a telescope from an old brass shell casing, grinding the lenses by hand and building the supporting tripod from salvaged timber.
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