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Stories at random

Boats

Yacht Designer and Builder Even as a young boy I was interested in boats and wanted one of my own, which presented difficulties as I lived miles from the sea and there was no navigable river close by The nearest water, other than a few farmyard ponds, were the canals So in my teens I managed to scrape enough cash together to buy the materials to build a canoe, with a trailer to fit behind my...

The Septic Tank

We had bought a block of land at Clare, a small town about ninety miles north of Adelaide It was four acres on a tree clad hill, the site of the former Station Master's house from the days of the railway Four railway cottages occupied a smaller block which had been cut into one corner The idea was to build a retirement home, but it needed a lot of work to clean it up before we could start work...