Brown Snake?
Oct 29th 2013, 8:19 pm
#61
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Re: Brown Snake?
I grew up on a sheep farm on the Darling Downs, Queensland - "the bush", but not "The Outback", as you probably know - or at least your wife will know.
Oct 29th 2013, 9:13 pm
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Re: Brown Snake?
Plenty of Aussie Bush Chicks are like this.
What do you expect when you grow up on a outback sheep station with 5 brothers as your main influence.... Like the times they used to get "Shags" wild birds that is, and make her put her hand down their throats to get the fish out..... dozens and dozens of stories like that. Then there's the sheep marrow...
I'll stop now though
What do you expect when you grow up on a outback sheep station with 5 brothers as your main influence.... Like the times they used to get "Shags" wild birds that is, and make her put her hand down their throats to get the fish out..... dozens and dozens of stories like that. Then there's the sheep marrow...
I'll stop now though
Start a new thread for it.
Nov 2nd 2013, 8:45 am
#64
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Re: Brown Snake?
I'm game, Eagle. To start the ball rolling, here's a reminiscence I posted on my blogsite a year ago. http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/20...-part-two.html
I grew up on a sheep farm on the Darling Downs, Queensland - "the bush", but not "The Outback", as you probably know - or at least your wife will know.
I grew up on a sheep farm on the Darling Downs, Queensland - "the bush", but not "The Outback", as you probably know - or at least your wife will know.
Nov 2nd 2013, 9:54 am
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Re: Brown Snake?
Turning leeches inside out, especially after getting covered in the bloody things after walking knee deep through a flood. Playing around the roots of trees near the edge of the lagoon and poking the tiger snakes with sticks just to see them fire up... Watching one of her brothers get his head knocked out on the back swing of an axe when her father was chopping wood... Then dealing with the situation when your at least 180 mins from the closest medical help.
Driving "Paddock bombs".... Thats cars to you and I and rolling them at age 9...
Seeing her ole man completely lose it one day and pick up the gun and start firing indiscriminately at things he shouldnt have been shooting and close to people..... Not too many cops out the back of Parkes NSW
Driving "Paddock bombs".... Thats cars to you and I and rolling them at age 9...
Seeing her ole man completely lose it one day and pick up the gun and start firing indiscriminately at things he shouldnt have been shooting and close to people..... Not too many cops out the back of Parkes NSW
Nov 3rd 2013, 2:06 am
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Re: Brown Snake?
I was going to stay are you stupid or what? Then I remembered the day I found this on my lawn... and poked it with a stick to watch it fire up... Actually I should say my dog found it first, she was lucky that time, not so lucky with the Tiger Snake :-(
It's a Mouse Spider, venomous and related to the Sydney Funnel Web.
It's a Mouse Spider, venomous and related to the Sydney Funnel Web.
Nov 3rd 2013, 2:33 am
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Re: Brown Snake?
Off on a bit of a tangent here, but I once read a report that an ABC newsreader had misread the words in front of him and had announced, "Today a woman in [some Sydney suburb] was bitten on the funnel by a finger-web spider". Can anybody tell me whether that was a true story or a fake?
Nov 3rd 2013, 2:48 am
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Re: Brown Snake?
I was going to stay are you stupid or what? Then I remembered the day I found this on my lawn... and poked it with a stick to watch it fire up... Actually I should say my dog found it first, she was lucky that time, not so lucky with the Tiger Snake :-(
It's a Mouse Spider, venomous and related to the Sydney Funnel Web.
It's a Mouse Spider, venomous and related to the Sydney Funnel Web.
Nov 3rd 2013, 4:46 am
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Re: Brown Snake?
Off on a bit of a tangent here, but I once read a report that an ABC newsreader had misread the words in front of him and had announced, "Today a woman in [some Sydney suburb] was bitten on the funnel by a finger-web spider". Can anybody tell me whether that was a true story or a fake?
Nov 3rd 2013, 4:59 am
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