Australian Bush Poetry

June 9th, 2010

A New South Wales customer rang today and told me what a caning they’d had over the last ten years or so, and that today they were drafting up sheep to send them off on agistment. To many false starts, too many times plants have germinated and not received the follow-up rain required to ensure […]

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Sandy Thorne – bush story teller, poet, entertainer & public speaker

July 19th, 2009

For the first 7 months of this year I’ve been trapped in the office tackling mountains of administration every day (that’s literally every day, not public-service ‘every day’; i.e. it has been the best part of 7 days a week, including public holidays; except for a couple of days over Easter and a trip away […]

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