ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to Margrete Lamond for asking me to write Digger, and for her and Libby Volke’s incredible efforts in shaping and turning a collection of words and random thoughts into a coherent book.

Thank you to Daniel ‘Digger’ Davis for letting me borrow his name, and to all the Davises as a whole.

Thanks to Anna, Sam and William Tearle, and to all of my kids’ friends for nuggets of inspiration.

And of course, to my beautiful family, Sally, Georgia and Oscar, for all the extraordinary ideas and support and everything else in between.