Re: Some tales of our early life in Aussie
Continued from last postRe: Some tales of our early life in Aussie
PART.1A A. 1 This is not what they had expected,however within 10 minutes of arriving at the new abode they had the bikes off the trailer & headed for the surrounding bushland to explore coming back a while later to tell us that this was the best place they had ever been to.the other family arrived shortly after which consisted of mum dad,two boys of around the same age as our mob & a very young baby,we sorted the accommodation with our family split between the dodgy old caravan & the house while the other family squeezed into the house owing to having the young baby.I can remember even after 40 odd years details of the house,it was your typical corrugated iron roof with weatherboard timber exterior walls with most of the paintwork peeled off by the weather conditions,a covered verandah went down 3 sides of the house,toilet separate from the main building,standing on its own down the block (definitely a torch in hand job after dark).the inside of the house was just about the same condition as the outside but hey!!! $5.00 a week who cares,surprisingly Patricia & Kaye the other good lady excepted it without a moan or a groan to be heard they just got stuck in & had the place looking homely in no time at all,the other feature in the interior of the old place was in most of the rooms there was timber panelling halfway up the walls which was finished off with a timber moulding on the top of it almost like a small narrow shelf,there is a reason for Ole Simmo going into this detail as you will see shortly.From the narrow shelf up to the very high ornate ceilings the walls were covered with pressed tin which had an embossed pattern pressed on it,quite common in the pioneer type homes.Well all settled in the new home so time to pop out & get a couple of coldies plus some stuff from the general store,get the kids enrolled at the tiny school,in fact with all of our school age kids we almost doubled the population at the school in one sweep.The next episode in the house came very quickly,on returning to the old place after sorting everything out we were met by a couple of anxious women namely my Patricia & Kaye...problems!!!,the house has come alive with mice..not just a few mice but dozens of them,we had wondered why there seemed to be o lot of mouse traps around the place,i must admit i have never seen so many of them ever,the narrow shelf i explained earlier was almost a continuous stream of mice, we went back to the local store to get a heap more traps & methodically put them in every room from then on all you could hear
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