Trust Me - Sturgess, Scott
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"Many old bushies drank tea with no milk and no sugar. Arthur was one of them but he did find some sugar when I asked. Not many of the western stations had house cows for milk, but many did use powdered or condensed milk, so I asked Arthur if he had any. He replied, 'What are you making? Pudden?'" "There are alcoholics and alcoholics, but Sparrow's explanation to me that the best thing he ever drank was methylated spirits with carbide in it - but you had to drink quickly before the bubbles stopped rising - put him in a class of his own." The author's wide experience working in four Australian…mehr

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"Many old bushies drank tea with no milk and no sugar. Arthur was one of them but he did find some sugar when I asked. Not many of the western stations had house cows for milk, but many did use powdered or condensed milk, so I asked Arthur if he had any. He replied, 'What are you making? Pudden?'" "There are alcoholics and alcoholics, but Sparrow's explanation to me that the best thing he ever drank was methylated spirits with carbide in it - but you had to drink quickly before the bubbles stopped rising - put him in a class of his own." The author's wide experience working in four Australian states, the United Kingdom, Vietnam and Central America has seen him encounter a variety of unusual events and accumulate a trove of funny stories, most of which are true. Or so he says.
Autorenporträt
Scott Sturgess has a short attention span. After graduating in Veterinary Science from the University of Queensland in 1968, he was conscripted into the army and served in Vietnam in 1970. He subsequently spent eight years in private veterinary practice and five more farming and wasting money on racehorses. A need for his family to eat saw him working as a government vet in western and far-north Queensland, during which time he was sent to Central America to work briefly with the United States Department of Agriculture. Three years in Landcare and Catchment Management then preceded a stint as a policy advisor in Queensland's short-lived Borbidge government. Work in the United Kingdom's Meat Hygiene Service followed electoral defeat, but he came back to Oz in 2000 as Manager of Industry Development in Western Australia's Southern Rangelands. He then returned to England for a while when Foot and Mouth Disease broke out. Back in Australia he bought a Darling Downs farm and worked as a Meatworks Contract Vet. An early 2008 visit to Antarctica was a revelation. Noting that penguins, if given the choice, would rather stay where they were than move to the Sunshine Coast, he pondered the possibility of settling down in the one spot. This led to the purchase of a lychee farm twelve years ago and he and his relieved wife, Flora, are still there in 2021.