The Curious Affair of Scuppers Bilgewater and the Lesser Speckled Dunk Island Scrub Hen
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In my earlier days I was quite the foolhardy young rake and had a great many outrageously wild and exciting adventures. This is not one of them.
Lindsay Johannsen
There's not a lot to tell really, though on reflection, looking back on it through the lens of one's recollections and memories, the whole business seems more akin to an extended Huckleberry Finn adventure, but set in the vastness of Central Australia. Born, raised and schooled in Alice Springs; taken from the leafy glades of learning mid-way through Year-eight to work at my father's remote little copper mine; later employed for some years driving his cattle-hauling road trains – him having pioneered road trains and the cattle hauling business (see "Kurt Johannsen: A Son of the Red Centre"). Married in the fullness of time; built a bush homestead on the northern edge of the Simpson Desert and raised a family there, all while running a small tungsten mining business and provisioning the hundred or so Aboriginal people local to the area who adopted us. Sold our mine and homestead a few years after the kids had flown the coop, acquired a forty foot (12m) touring coach, converted it into a big steel-wheel mobeel Palaise-de-passion motor home and took to the roads of this great land of Oz - in the main visiting our offspring (most of whom had moved to coastal regions), our grandchildren generally and a couple of great grandies - plus various friends and associates from years gone by. Then, as time went by, my Bride my Precious Lamb and Flower of the Early Mid Morning contracted dementia and, after a period of steady but inevitable deterioration, she passed away from its effects aged 85 - in June 2018. I don't write much any more, but I did convert a short fictional love poem written earlier into a summary of it all - our meeting, our life together and my current state of mind ... in 200 words. "Life Sentence" it's called. It's in the list below. Please feel free to read it, with my compliments. L.J.
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The Curious Affair of Scuppers Bilgewater and the Lesser Speckled Dunk Island Scrub Hen - Lindsay Johannsen
THE CURIOUS AFFAIR OF SCUPPERS BILGEWATER AND THE LESSER SPECKLED DUNK ISLAND SCRUB HEN
Published by Lindsay Johannsen at Smashwords
Copyright Lindsay Johannsen 2014
Smashwords Edition Licence Notes.
This piece of nonsense is so brief that no right-minded idiot would have the gall to charge for it. Nevertheless, I insist on maintaining my copyright, but with the rider that until such time as I become staggeringly outrageously famous and amend this notice please feel free to reproduce, copy, disseminate or distribute it amongst your friends and/or enemies in a non-commercial manner by whatever means you have at your disposal and to your heart’s content, provided the story remains complete and in its original form. My preference, though, is for you to recommend to others that they should download it from Smashwords themselves, so enriching my life with a warm glow of satisfaction in lieu of monetary reward. Thank you.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication Data:
Author: Johannsen, Lindsay Andrew
Title: The Curious Affair