I'm sure that I've mentioned this before but my first proper job after leaving college was teaching in a boys boarding school in Western Australia. It was interesting, 60 miles to the pub,but only 50 yards to the best beach I have ever seen.
The kids entertained themselves by shooting kangaroos and growing dope. The fall out from the badly tanned kangaroo skins that they insisted on having on their beds as trophies was actually worse than the dope problem....the whole town was smoking the dope but the flies found the roo skins and the smell was something else.
I was given a horse, which was fun - horses are cheap in those kinds of places, keeping horses is not so cheap, so the day after by visa expired my horse was shot.
I cried all the way home and vowed to go straight back and 22 years later I still haven't managed it!
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7 comments:
what are u waiting for
*manages to work out Lippy's age using the clues*
Did you eat the kangaroos?
Frobes - it says in my profile how old I am chuck!
And did eat kangaroo, but didn't like it much.
nyc taxi - kind of got distracted by other places...so I'd like to get to Marrakech and Istanbul and Dehli first
Come and visit me. I'll buy you a pony.
*thinks*
Actually, no I won't but I'll buy you a pie and a pint. Will that do?
It's no good going back.
The horse is dead!
There's nothing you can do about it, now or ever.
I can't believe they killed your horse!
Fuckkit - Yay of course I'll come and see you. Cousin from Perth was over this weekend, so got very drunk and maundered on about the good old days...where are you anyway - I'll go and look.
Yes I know the horse is dead!
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