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  1. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    Sorry I haven't been here for so long, so many things happen in my life that some threads get lost in the time. I have left Australia, after half of my adult life there. I have come back to England, back to my roots in January 2003, since then I have established new patches here and given time I...
  2. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    An incident on the Varanus Island Patch. -------------The rescue of a False Killer Whale. When I worked for an oil company on a small island off the north west coast of Western Australia, I would spend most of my spare time studying the local wildlife and became known as the islands...
  3. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    Hi, Thanks friends for the compliments, Iv'e been so busy recently that I havn't had time to write any more, but don't worry I have other stories in my mind, one of which is my "Truck Driving Patch", about the time when I drove trucks through the North West of Western Australia. Think I will...
  4. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    Thanks Matt, it was meant to make people laugh, pitty you're the only one.
  5. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    With my left foot I step down into the body pit and immediately my boot is filled with sand, I rested my right leg on the turtles back and searched for a tag on her left flipper but found none, then tucking my right leg under me I sat on her back, I didn’t want to put my foot in the sand on the...
  6. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    For eight years I was employed by an oil company on an isolated island off the North West Coast of Western Australia on a fortnight on and a fortnight off rotation. The Island was one of my patches during that period. This is just one story from that time. The time was ten thirty pm and I was...
  7. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    "Wow, Criky", thanks Peter, Christine, Matt, so glad you enjoyed my stories, now I will have to sit down and write some more after getting compliments like that, take it easy though, "me missus recons Im'e getting a big ed".
  8. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    Thank you everyone, so glad you enjoyed reading my story of my childhood patch. This next story is about my first patch in Western Australia and around about the year 1972. If there are any "Sandgropers" (Western Australians) reading this then the place I am describing is in the period when the...
  9. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    --------------------- WALKING IN HEAVEN. It’s full summer when I stand at the top end of the Dungeon Wood under the canopy of Oak, ash and odd sycamore. Above me peers a Tawny Owl, haunched against the trunk of a tall oak tree, he swivels his head to watch my progress beneath and glares with...
  10. Tanny

    TANNY's PATCHES

    I think the time has come for me to post the story of my patch, but first I think it appropriate to post stories of my patches of years ago. When a person my age has moved around, he obviously makes his patch wherever he is, and im'e no exception. My first patch was when I was a youngster being...
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