Old Days, Old Ways
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Old Days, Old Ways

Stories From My Radio Days in the Bush

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eBook - ePub

Old Days, Old Ways

Stories From My Radio Days in the Bush

About this book

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.
'Alex Nicol's Old Days, Old Ways evokes and celebrates those unmistakeable national qualities that set us apart and that reside in the common man and woman.' - Ian 'Macca' McNamara, Australia All Over

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Information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781760870775
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. TITLE PAGE
  4. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  5. DEDICATION
  6. CONTENTS
  7. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY
  8. DEAR OLD M
  9. THE FIRST TIME
  10. TOUCH AND GO
  11. TECHNICIAN MAGIC
  12. SHINDY’S
  13. THE FABULOUS FOUR
  14. SPUD LUMPING
  15. WHO YOU KNOW
  16. AROUND THE WEST
  17. BURRUMBUTTOCK BREKKIE
  18. BLACK BEAUTY
  19. CARINDA CURRY
  20. THE GRAZIER’S NEW WIFE
  21. DUNLOP
  22. THEY’RE RACING
  23. A PARTING GIFT
  24. WATER WAR
  25. SLEEPER CUTTERS
  26. TINY’S DEAD!
  27. POONCARIE STOPOVER
  28. DRIVING WITH MISS MURIEL
  29. SOMEONE MUST CARE
  30. TROUBLES AT THE CHOOK HOUSE
  31. ALL WAYS ON SUNDAY
  32. GIVE ME A HEAD OF . . .
  33. GOLDEN MEMORIES
  34. THE LIGHTS OF COBB & CO.
  35. CHINESE GOLD
  36. HARBOURMASTER
  37. BUSH PILOTS
  38. BROKEN BLADE
  39. OUR HENLEY
  40. MAN WITH MULE
  41. LIGHTNING FAST
  42. JIMMY HEREEN
  43. TED EGAN
  44. OLD BROOME
  45. MAREEBA RODEO
  46. NEVER SAY NEVER . . .
  47. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
  48. FILM STAR
  49. THE COFFIN
  50. STEP BACK IN TIME
  51. COOKTOWN CEMETERY
  52. RUM DOES FOR LASSETER
  53. A LAND FIT FOR HEROES
  54. THE GLOUCESTER TREE
  55. THE BREWER’S TALE
  56. THE HILL
  57. THE LITHGOW FLASH
  58. THE POSSUM
  59. THE DEDICATED WHARFIE
  60. TWO SPLENDID FISH
  61. GIFT COLLECTION
  62. THEY’RE OFF!
  63. THE ROCK
  64. A VERY OLD-TIMER
  65. ANAKIE
  66. BREAKFAST AT ALICE
  67. CAMEL CUP
  68. A NEAR THING
  69. THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN FUNNY BONE
  70. THE SEARCH GOES ON . . .
  71. RUSTY
  72. MILITARY CONFLICT
  73. OLD MICK
  74. THE AUCTIONEER
  75. THE MILKY BAR FAIRY
  76. THE RIGHT THING
  77. BEST ON SHOW
  78. THE DOC
  79. THE DOGGER
  80. A RUSH OF BLOOD
  81. THE DEMO SATELLITE DISH
  82. THE RIDGE
  83. BROADCASTING ON THE MOVE
  84. A PUNCHY INTERVIEW
  85. RAIN AND POWER
  86. THE BLUEY
  87. PRESIDENT BUSH
  88. ON THE OUTER
  89. THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’
  90. LET’S DRINK TO THE NEXT MAN TO DIE
  91. THEY’RE GROWING WHEAT AT MOUNT HOPE
  92. COUNTRY FOOTBALL’S GONE TO BUGGERY
  93. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  94. PHOTO CREDITS