Shaun Micallef

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Shaun Micallef |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

I was about four when I first heard my grandmother use this expression. She kept a couple of toy cars under the couch for her grandchildren to play with. I couldn’t find either of them the day I visited and so I wandered into the kitchen, where she was usually to be found, baking cakes. “Up in any room behind the clock,” was her answer when I asked where the cars were. Halfway up the hall to the spare rooms I realised that what I’d been told didn’t make sense.