After all these miles I have nowhere left to go. The Story of Reg

Cafe’s Locked Out Mailing List · May 6, 2026 · 19m

NOTE: AUDIO ONLY, REG WAS NOT UP FOR BEING FILMED.

From the front of the condemned house, you could see the bay where the Anzacs had left to reach the shores of Gallipoli.

Reg

He was sitting on a camp chair when I entered. The room was lit by the weak afternoon sun and he was full of cancer. He had a great story that he couldn’t see. He was Boxer from Animal Farm.

A working-class man who’d been working ever since he was five or six, when his father, a farmer, taught him how to drive the tractor.

He left school in Year Eight with two As and a B for everything else. Remarkably, he first got his…