It was the 80’s and Santa had delivered the best present ever….. A boom box and the cassette soundtrack to our favourite TV show Fame. We had to visit family in Toowoomba on boxing day and we were not leaving the city without our newest gadget. Dad bought 4 massive batteries and loaded them into the back of the boom box, and we were ready for our road trip out west. The memory is as fresh as yesterday. My sister and I with Sarah the golden cocker spaniel in the back seat of the old Peugeot with the boom box between us. Lots of grooving and singing along in excitement and lots of forwarding and rewinding to get to our favourite tracks till the batteries eventually went flat (to our parents’ delight). I still have the cassette despite having no boom box to play it on. It’s an object full of those happy road trip memories and tunes that get stuck in your head.