Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Once Upon a Cowpat

Also by Graham Hutchins

Somewhere south of somewhere

Golden ducks and donkey drops

Hardwire the ring fence

Après weed spraying – not so fine dining

Do your gumboots lose their flavour (in the cowshed overnight)?

Socket the seeing-eye dog

All creatures great and human

Wild food: from blazing saddles to blazing salads

How to cook a turkey with your feet

From Bunnythorpe to Bulls: rural raconteurs and others

Ten guitars and three chainsaws: country songs

The great round-up – from boy scouts to ducklings

A load of bull and mad cows

Woolstore gothic – a horror story

Going forward: the New Zealand Farmers rugby team

Country rugby: the Baa Baas bring home the bacon

Myrtle and the fart tax

Man’s best mechanical friend

Clyde the Clydesdale – of horses and hearses

Odd rural bedfellows

Big softies, hard cases and good blokes

Bread and jelly

Rootin’, tootin’, shootin’ types and other hunters and gatherers

Down on the farmlet: God’s little acre or the devil’s hectare

Bury me deep

Getting away from it all

Mystery at Mystery Creek

Acknowledgements

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