On and off since I was 18, when you could afford a room in a flat for $65 a week. Nearly every flat I lived in before moving overseas happened to be in this area, so when I moved in with Matt seven years ago, it was like coming home. Matt grew up in Mt Eden, when Circus Circus was a bakery that sold those three-coloured, tiered meringue snowmen with a stale biscuit base. Then he left for the UK, was gone for 18 years, returned to a very different place serving bowl lattes and deconstructed lamingtons, and moved right back into his childhood
