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Aussie humour
Par R. K Sadler, Hayllar, T. A. S. 1982
A bit of a dag: tales of a shearing gang
Par Judy Harrison. 1985
A light-hearted look at the funny side of life in a shearing gang. For Judy, life with the gangs soon…
became second nature and she developed an intimate knowledge of their ways, sharing long hours on the board and the warmth of a shed full of sheep.The thrilling true stories in this book include the wreck of the Batavia and its nightmarish aftermath, the cannibal convicts…
of Van Diemen’s Land, the penal death camps and an assortment of demented murderers. On a lighter note are such quirky ‘Ripping Yarns’ as the adventures of the fiery dancer Lola Montez and the story of the eccentric composer Percy Grainger - and his taste for flagellation.Laid back in Washington
Par Art Buchwald. 1983
Selection of the author's syndicated newspaper columns, 1978-1980. The topics are broad, ranging from TV in the courts to the…
MX missile, from the Super Bowl to autograph hounds and the humorist - spares no one.Riddles ancient and modern
Par Mark Bryant. 1983
Seen by many as a childish pastime, riddling was once a serious business. There have even been times when a…
man's life hung on his ability to answer a riddle successfully or to invent one that could not be solved.Up the duff: the real guide to pregnancy
Par Kaz Cooke. 1999
A humourous guide on how to prepare for pregnancy and the baby; crying, eating, weeing and working; blokes, bosoms, busybodies…
and bunny rugs; nausea and other 'side effects'; choosing an obstetrician and a midwife; tests; what they're like and who they're for; the best services and books on everything; stretchmarks; maternity and baby clothes; childbirth classes, travel, safety, baby names and how to be rude to complete strangers; childbirth and pain relief; what to expect in hospital; breastfeeding; what it's like with a newborn baby.A bunch of poesy
Par Michael Leunig. 1992
In over sixty poems, the author looks at the fragility of all things wonderful. The book is divided into three…
sections: Life and circumstance; Doom and gloom; and Seasons and celebrations.Bedside cricket
Par Christopher Martin-Jenkins. 1981
School days of a Methodist lady: a journey through girlhood
Par Jill Sanguinetti. 2014
In 1958, Jill left her home in the Victorian town of Kyabram to attend Methodist Ladies' College (MLC) as a…
boarder. In this coming-of-age memoir she interleaves her MLC story with lively vignettes of her early school years, the family newsagency, church, and country community life. This is a deeply personal account of teenage struggles with parental and sibling relationships and with MLC's discipline, study demands, tough living conditions and rigorous religious education. Jill's daily life as a school boarder, her rebellions, emotional highs and lows, and encounters with Dr Wood, MLC's charismatic principal and pastor, are described with honesty, hilarity and sharp critical insight.A prescribed life: royalty, romance and medicine
Par Tony Atkinson, Lynn Smailes. 2016
Tony Atkinson spent his early days suspended in a cage outside the sixth-storey window of his family home in 1920s…
London. So perhaps he was always destined to see the world differently, and to land in ridiculous, hilarious situations. There was the time he came between Winston Churchill and his bowel movements (an accident that required a parliamentary explanation) or the high-society shenanigans he witnessed after accidentally becoming footman to Queen Elizabeth. Tony and the love of his life came across the pond as 'ten-pound Poms'. While he forged a successful career as an anaesthetist, his greatest gift may be for telling rousing tales. A Prescribed Life is a warm and engaging chronicle about love, medicine and royalty spanning almost a century of great change.How to walk a puma: my (mis)adventures in South America
Par Peter Allison. 2012
Not content with regular encounters with dangerous animals on one continent, Peter Allison decided to get up close and personal…
with some seriously scary animals on another. Unlike in Africa, where all Peter's experiences had been safari based, he planned to vary things up in South America, getting involved with conservation projects as well as seeking out 'the wildest and rarest wildlife experiences on offer'.From learning to walk - or rather be bitten and dragged along at speed by - a puma in Bolivia, to searching for elusive jaguars in Brazil, finding love in Patagonia, and hunting naked with the remote Huaorani people in Ecuador, How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of his adventures and misadventures in South America.Don't look behind you but...: tales from an African safari guide
Par Peter Allison. 2009
It shouldn't be fun to be chased by an animal that outweighs you by a factor of seventy, but Peter…
Allison gets an odd thrill every time an elephant charges his beaten-up jeep or a peckish crocodile looks at him sideways. And now our favourite safari leader is back with more crazy, incredible, endearing and laugh-out-loud funny tales from his time guiding unsuspecting tourists through the African bush. By now you'd think he'd know his way around. You'd be wrong. From avoiding territorial hippos and half-starved lions to dodging landmines and getting lost on the unforgiving savanna, Peter Allison has had his fair share of close calls. Yet, despite a growing suspicion that it is trying very hard to kill him, he just can't shake his love of this remarkable land, its animals and its people.The inflammable Adams
Par Phillip Adams. 1983
This jumble of history, philosophy and whimsy caters for interests, ranging from the sexuality of male tigers to the gravestones…
of Kew - "temperance, restraint and decorum are not strong points of our author" as Justice Kirby states in his foreword.Whatever you do, don't run: my adventures as a Botswana safari guide
Par Peter Allison. 2007
Peter Allison was only nineteen when he left Australia for Africa, thinking he might travel around and see a bit…
of the country before going home to a 'proper job'. But Africa worked its magic, and Peter ended up falling, quickly and completely, in love with the country and its wildlife. Landing in a game reserve in the wildlife-rich Okavango Delta, he became a safari guide and, some twelve years later, his short holiday in Africa isn't over yet. Whatever You Do, Don't Run is his guide's-eye view of living in the bush, confronting the world's fiercest animals and, most challenging of all, managing herds of gaping tourists. Like the young woman who rejected the recommended safari-friendly khaki to wear a more 'fashionable' hot pink ensemble, or the Japanese tourist who requested a repeat performance of Allison's being charged by a lion so he could videotape it, there's not much in the African bush that Peter hasn't seen, photographed or been chased by.Laughing stock: one man's battle with sex, work and a son called Batboy
Par Richard Glover. 1993
A selection of the author's best writing for the "Herald's" Agenda page. Glover poses as a "Sensitive New Age Guy"…
who regularly grills himself, ego and all. It's funny, and it's a living!Bridge burning & other hobbies
Par Kitty Flanagan. 2018
One of Australia's favourite and most multi-talented entertainers, Kitty Flanagan, provides hilarious and honest life advice in this candid collection…
of cautionary tales. Kitty Flanagan has been locked in an industrial freezer in Western Australia, insulted about the size of her lady parts in Singapore and borne witness to the world's most successful wife swap in suburban Sydney. It's these valuable lessons from The University of Life that have taught her so many things, including the fact that cliches like 'The University of Life' are reeeally annoying. In these funny, true stories, Kitty provides advice you didn't even know you needed. Useful tips on how not to get murdered while hitch-hiking, how to break up with someone the wrong way, and the right way, why it's important to keep your top on while waitressing, and why women between the ages of thirty-seven and forty-two should be banned from internet dating.Little theories of life
Par Peter Fitzsimons. 2007
"Why does the dominant partner in any sexual relationship usually sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door?…
Is there a direct relationship between the length of hemlines and the state of the national economy? Are odd numbers evil? And why do drivers with hats drive 40 kilometres per hour slower than those without? These are the big questions of life, and it takes a brave man to tackle them. The Italian versus Australian theory of traffic lights; who gets the spare armrest between areoplane seats; why do men fall asleep after lovemaking ... In Little Theories of Life Peter FitzSimons is your ideal guide to the weird world of the popular theory, the urban myth, and the land of 'did you know ...?'."--On fly leaf of front cover.Mostly Max: the musings of Max Fatchen
Par Max Fatchen. 1995
The delights and drawbacks of suburbia, country cousins looking for rain or a yarn, wily and wise children, frustrated fishermen,…
diet dodgers and dreamers ... these are some of the ingredients in the columns Max Fatchen has written for the 'Advertiser'.What the dickins!: a symposium of pieces from the low life
Par Barry Dickins. 1985
Barry Dickins, the true Australian funny man, stumbles his way through such topics as: gourmet's delight, sartorial elegance, pulling the…
pin on health, Pat Malone, boots and all, sink the slipper, getting through, and take-away world.