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yorkgum
Mar 14, 20228 min read
Feeding firefighters
There was one amusing incident in the otherwise ghastly affair of the 2016 Yarloop bushfire (in which a whole town was burned). A crew of...
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yorkgum
Mar 8, 20226 min read
Back from the dead - the Emu Point peppermint trees
In my book about the 1978 Cyclone Alby storm and bushfire crisis, there is a story about Albany trees. I like the story because it...
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yorkgum
Mar 7, 20224 min read
Another brush with fame
I have mentioned before in these chronicles those little episodes in my life when I brushed up against a famous scientist, author or...
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yorkgum
Mar 1, 20222 min read
One of Barry Wilson's yarns
On the long flight home from Kununurra recently, I was thinking about the recently departed Barry Wilson with whom I had worked closely...
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yorkgum
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Boring Jobs
“Who’d want to work in the bush?” a young bloke said to me the other day, “it’s too boring.” The young bloke was involved in something to...
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yorkgum
Feb 28, 20224 min read
A job for a King
The recent death of York identity Walter King brought to my mind a fascinating story told to me by Walter many years ago. I knew Walter...
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