Ross
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:00 am
G'day all and sundry,
I am a self employed Sparkie from Alice Springs, I was born in the riverland in SA, Mum and Dad lived on a sheep station and the nearest Hospital was Wakerie so that is where I was born. I started my apprenticeship in 1970 and have stayed mostly in the industry since that time, I have had a go at a few other things along the way, farming, truck driving, bar work, and pretty much anything that would bring in a quid. I dappled in a bit of opal mining (unsuccessfully I might add) worked as an underground sparkie in a copper /gold mine but mostly I have been a sparkie in the bush. I have worked in the outback over most of SA and the NT and as you can imagine come across a lot of characters that lend themselves to Australian Bush Poetry fodder! I have written one book of poetry ( 'course I'm Bloody Dinkum!) which has been quite successful, it is not technically very correct but I have sold around 2,500 copies so not everyone cares about technical correctness by the look of that! It is illustrated by a good friend Teresa Ramsey and possibly the pencil drawings are the reason it sold as well as it did! My mate Sheryl is my wife and we have two kids and two grandkids...(and a son inlaw and daughter inlaw)...coupla dogs and a cockateel. I enjoy the interaction on this site and believe my writing has improved somewhat because of it. a few years ago I travelled to Beaudesert and stayed with Glenny and her husband at the time, Marco and his daughter Grace, Trisha and Carol and sundry others, it was for the annual poetry championship where I also met Manfred and quite a few other poets from the Eastern seaboard. Though I have never actually met many people on this site I feel I know most of you well.
Ross
I am a self employed Sparkie from Alice Springs, I was born in the riverland in SA, Mum and Dad lived on a sheep station and the nearest Hospital was Wakerie so that is where I was born. I started my apprenticeship in 1970 and have stayed mostly in the industry since that time, I have had a go at a few other things along the way, farming, truck driving, bar work, and pretty much anything that would bring in a quid. I dappled in a bit of opal mining (unsuccessfully I might add) worked as an underground sparkie in a copper /gold mine but mostly I have been a sparkie in the bush. I have worked in the outback over most of SA and the NT and as you can imagine come across a lot of characters that lend themselves to Australian Bush Poetry fodder! I have written one book of poetry ( 'course I'm Bloody Dinkum!) which has been quite successful, it is not technically very correct but I have sold around 2,500 copies so not everyone cares about technical correctness by the look of that! It is illustrated by a good friend Teresa Ramsey and possibly the pencil drawings are the reason it sold as well as it did! My mate Sheryl is my wife and we have two kids and two grandkids...(and a son inlaw and daughter inlaw)...coupla dogs and a cockateel. I enjoy the interaction on this site and believe my writing has improved somewhat because of it. a few years ago I travelled to Beaudesert and stayed with Glenny and her husband at the time, Marco and his daughter Grace, Trisha and Carol and sundry others, it was for the annual poetry championship where I also met Manfred and quite a few other poets from the Eastern seaboard. Though I have never actually met many people on this site I feel I know most of you well.
Ross