Old days, old ways: stories from my radio days in the bush

✍ Scribed by Alex Nicol

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 304 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Australia,Australia.
• ISBN: 1760870773

✦ Synopsis

Welcome to the family -- Dear Old M -- The first time -- Touch and go -- Technician magic -- Shindy's -- The fabulous four -- Spud lumping -- Who you know -- Around the west -- Burrumbuttock brekkie -- Black beauty -- Carinda curry -- The grazier's new wife -- Dunlop -- They're racing -- A parting gift -- Water war -- Sleeper cutters -- Tiny's dead! -- Pooncarie stopover -- Driving with Miss Muriel -- Someone must care -- Troubles at the chook house -- All ways on Sunday -- Give me a head of... -- Golden memories -- The lights of Cobb & Co. -- Chinese gold -- Harbourmaster -- Bush pilots -- Broken blade -- Our Henley (NT) -- Man with mule (NT) -- Lightning fast -- Jimmy Hereen (NT) -- Ted Egan (NT) -- Old Broome -- Mareeba Rodeo -- Never say never... -- Something old, something new -- Film star -- The coffin -- Step back in time -- Cooktown Cemetery -- Rum does for Lasseter (NT) -- A land fot for heroes -- The Gloucester tree -- The brewer's tale -- The hill -- The Lithgow Flash -- The Possum -- The dedicated wharfie -- Two splendid fish -- Gift collection (NT) -- They're off! -- The Rock (NT) -- A very old-timer -- Anakie -- Breakfast at Alice (NT) -- Camel Cup (NT) -- A near thing -- The great Australia funny bone -- The search goes on... -- Rusty -- Military conflict -- Old Mick -- The auctioneer -- The Milky Bar fairy -- The right thing -- Best on show -- The Doc -- The Dogger -- A rush of blood -- The demo satellite dish -- The ridge -- Broadcasting on the move -- A Punchy interview -- Rain and power -- The Bluey -- President Bush -- On the outer -- The times they are a-changin' -- Let's drink to the next man to die -- They're growing wheat at Mount Hope -- Country football's gone to buggery -- Acknowledgements.;"Alex Nicol takes us back to the old days in the bush, when booking into a country pub was likely to turn into an adventure, and when radio was the glue that held far flung communities together. Full of colourful characters and making do with what's at hand, these stories are classically Australian. There are the wartime mates who helped each other build farms on their soldier settler blocks, and the "Adelady" keeping the farm running after her husband died. There is the young woman who ran down water buffalo in the Northern Territory, and Possum, the legendary bush hermit who lived off the land on his own for 60 years, quietly doing jobs for farmers without being asked. There is the neighbour caught "fishing" in the chookyard with a long line and a small hook baited with bread, and the little girl who swallowed a sapphire she found on the side of the road. With a bush yarn, it's all about the way you tell it. As the voice of rural Australia for over two decades on ABC radio, Alex Nicol can tell a yarn with a punchline that will keep you grinning for the rest of the day." --

✦ Subjects

Australia