No Tern Unstoned booklet
Features some great stories I loved the Willie award winning effort by Sir Les Patterson of coating a football in whipped cream and having a camel eat it I also greatly enjoyed my first encounter with the verse of James MCINTYRE Canadian cheese poet A fun read Paperback I don t know what a larrikin is and honestly sounds a bit corny But these radio essays are funny and clever and not remotely corny Some are laugh out loud funny Australian restaurants in the 1970s Pride and Prejudice being the movie of choice one season at the Australian Antarctica centre Bowden answering the phone for the first time and giving the butcher a blow by blow account of his mother coming out of the bathroom the comfort attendant in a hotel a pet pigeon who doesn t like men April Fools scams Others are political and clever the 1980s move to lay people off at ABC including anybody who actually knows anything Some are gripes restaurants are too loud thugby and footbrawl Paperback
Publisher s blurb Tim Bowden is a larrikin I want to alert you to the threat posed to this endangered species There used to be a serious tradition of it at the ABC Nowadays larrikinism gets pretty short shrift Yet like Canute Bowden stands against the tide I think the secret lies in laughter Tim Bowden makes me laugh Out loud You can t ask for better therapy than that Peter Thompson Radio National Breakfast When Peter Thompson asked Tim Bowden to contribute a whimsical talk to close the breakfast program at the end of each week Tim asked what he had in mind Oh anything you like he was told So Tim s topics range widely through pet hates like over loud music in restaurants and pubs to beach fishing bad poetry vexatious letters demented pigeons management jargon and communications Bowden s grandfather once owned a wooden telephone With considerable hilarity irreverence a zest for life and talented story telling zeal No Tern Unstonedis a wonderfully entertaining collection of Tim Bowden s wry observations of the world around him past and present No Tern Unstoned musings at breakfastAn author and broadcaster formerly of Sydney but now living on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales Tim was host of the ABC TV listener and viewer reaction program Backchat from 1986 93.
No tern unstoned pdf online He is the author of fourteen books and many radio documentary programs based on oral history ranging from the experiences of Australians in Antartica Papua New Guinea Australian prisoners of war in Asia to the life and times of the Tasmanian Devil.
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