The Shearer's Shack
The Story Of A Shearer8 total reviews
Comment from kahpot
I can relate, not back to the thirties, but I was a shearer for better than ten years, throughout SA, VIC, and NSW, spent my years before that as jackaroo, I thoroughly enjoyed this read****kahpot
reply by the author on 08-Apr-2024
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I can relate, not back to the thirties, but I was a shearer for better than ten years, throughout SA, VIC, and NSW, spent my years before that as jackaroo, I thoroughly enjoyed this read****kahpot
Comment Written 08-Apr-2024
reply by the author on 08-Apr-2024
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What did you do after shearing. Was there a property with a life on a farm?
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Unfortunately, no, you're not going to believe this, but I became a "model" for R.M. Williams, while doing so, I got myself some education and got a real job as an Auditor
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Have you ever thought of putting this story in a book. I would bet a story like this would serve as inspiration for many a young country girls. Please put this on paper.
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Hi, Bob, when I first started writing on FS. all mt poems were about my working life, though I can't seem to find them now, and sorry to disappoint but I am of the male gender, but can see how the young ones may realize that being country is a wonderul thing
Comment from Liz O'Neill
This is a nice tribute to an icon. I like how to give it its own life with your use of the literary technique of
personifcation. In this matter, the reader will grow endured toward the cabin. Nicely written.
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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This is a nice tribute to an icon. I like how to give it its own life with your use of the literary technique of
personifcation. In this matter, the reader will grow endured toward the cabin. Nicely written.
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Me using , or did that imply you sing, literary technique. Technique neither a word I know or practice. Seriously, thank you for such a nice review. I'm not all that accustomed to nice either. I'm nearly fifty years married with forty-year-old kids and teenage grandkids.
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I was in English teacher so I know all these big words literary techniques are ways that people enhance their stories making them a little more interesting or catch people's attention or entertain people. I can give you a link to the literary techniques if you would like me to. Personification means you are giving the cabin life as if it were a human.
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My only memory of school was the enforcer, the cane the dear old Marist Brothers employed with great frequency.
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So you were with the brothers Now one of the things people do not realize about the brothers and the nuns is that they have reason to be angry and take it out on kids because they were treated like children themselves in their monastery They had to grovel for everything. It's not an excuse it's an explanation. I was a sister of St Joseph and I can testify to that.
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I feel badly you had to go through that. It didn't make you more Christian her holier or a better person. Or turn you toward God any faster. Then I look at the residential schools in CanadaWhere nuns and priests and who knows maybe brothers alsoWe're abusing torturing and killing kidsAll in the name of Jesus.
Comment from royowen
I'm wondering if you are writing about something you experienced in your youth or something you've heard, or even made up, because it sounds real, from a fertile imagination, bursting at the seams, well done, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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I'm wondering if you are writing about something you experienced in your youth or something you've heard, or even made up, because it sounds real, from a fertile imagination, bursting at the seams, well done, blessings Roy
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Shearing is hard work, I'm told and where possible I avoided that. I spent 42 years of my life 'clipping' money from customer's wallets in the TAB. So in reality I was closer to a rustler than a shearer.
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Shearing is hard work, I'm told and where possible I avoided that. I spent 42 years of my life 'clipping' money from customer's wallets in the TAB. So in reality I was closer to a rustler than a shearer.
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
A tribute to this old shack that hold's some memories here, but I did find this write quite chaotic Bob, but the shack was remembered by many here, love Dolly x x x
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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A tribute to this old shack that hold's some memories here, but I did find this write quite chaotic Bob, but the shack was remembered by many here, love Dolly x x x
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Chaotic describes the life of many farmers. They have to learn how to accommodate 36 hours of work into every 24 hour day. They really are the lifeblood of this country. Thank you for such a good review.
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Chaotic describes the life of many farmers. They have to learn how to accommodate 36 hours of work into every 24 hour day. They really are the lifeblood of this country. Thank you for such a good review.
Comment from Debbie D'Arcy
Wow, this is atmospheric, Bob! The way you describe the old shack and the memories that flooded from it are all the more resonant because of the dialect used. I was going to point out your 'speshly' but in the circumstances I like it as it is. The stories about the nuns and the brothers are very relatable in a general sense (not from my experience but from that of others). And there is such powerful nostalgia here that includes the edge of fear still present and haunting those years. Well done, Bob! This is superb! Debbie
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Wow, this is atmospheric, Bob! The way you describe the old shack and the memories that flooded from it are all the more resonant because of the dialect used. I was going to point out your 'speshly' but in the circumstances I like it as it is. The stories about the nuns and the brothers are very relatable in a general sense (not from my experience but from that of others). And there is such powerful nostalgia here that includes the edge of fear still present and haunting those years. Well done, Bob! This is superb! Debbie
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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I actually attended an Agriculture College because of location rather than a desire to learn about life on the farm. Farmer's really are the lifeblood of our country. Thanks for reviewing, Debbie.
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I actually attended an Agriculture College because of location rather than a desire to learn about life on the farm. Farmer's really are the lifeblood of our country. Thanks for reviewing, Debbie.
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
Memories are priceless when looking back on our lives. That Shearer's shack meant a lot to many. I don't think you are alone when it comes to wishing we could go back and do things better. I wasted many years growing up, but we all do, so that's nothing new. I really enjoyed this poem, it was different and had a sadness about it. Well done. Sandra xxx
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Memories are priceless when looking back on our lives. That Shearer's shack meant a lot to many. I don't think you are alone when it comes to wishing we could go back and do things better. I wasted many years growing up, but we all do, so that's nothing new. I really enjoyed this poem, it was different and had a sadness about it. Well done. Sandra xxx
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Thank you Sandra. Wool and sheep was, for many years Australia's greatest export, the term 'on the sheep's back' really carried significance to this Nation's financial welfare. You review is very much appreciated.
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Thank you Sandra. Wool and sheep was, for many years Australia's greatest export, the term 'on the sheep's back' really carried significance to this Nation's financial welfare. You review is very much appreciated.
Comment from Esther Brown
Oh the loss of the old days. You brought the memories to life. Cottage to shack. Breakdown of the clear cut boundaries we were taught as youth. Is speshly correctly spelled? Or is it specially? Liked your imagery.
Esther
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Oh the loss of the old days. You brought the memories to life. Cottage to shack. Breakdown of the clear cut boundaries we were taught as youth. Is speshly correctly spelled? Or is it specially? Liked your imagery.
Esther
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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It was the shearer spelling. He not only clipped wool. He also clipped the English language when typing quickly. I was in the same spelling class as the sheep.
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It was the shearer spelling. He not only clipped wool. He also clipped the English language when typing quickly. I was in the same spelling class as the sheep.
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Sounds like quite a man.
Comment from Tom Horonzy
This piece ... it's a cha;llenge entry?
Something to do with a repeated sentence.
Must have been abroad, like Spain or Portugal or somewhere in the NE USA
since we have nuns involved we disciplining the kids.
Spleshy was new to me.
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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This piece ... it's a cha;llenge entry?
Something to do with a repeated sentence.
Must have been abroad, like Spain or Portugal or somewhere in the NE USA
since we have nuns involved we disciplining the kids.
Spleshy was new to me.
Comment Written 23-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 23-Mar-2024
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Created specially for this poem. It is after all called CREATIVE writing. Or maybe poetic licence fits the bill. Should have contained an L. Thanks for the review.
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Created specially for this poem. It is after all called CREATIVE writing. Or maybe poetic licence fits the bill. Should have contained an L. Thanks for the review.
