Extract three from Barefoot in the bindis

By Angela Wales
June 29 2019 - 2:00pm
FUN IN THE FIFTIES: Out and about on the dam in the Hispaniola (an old sea-trunk turned boat) during the summer of 1959. Photo supplied.
FUN IN THE FIFTIES: Out and about on the dam in the Hispaniola (an old sea-trunk turned boat) during the summer of 1959. Photo supplied.

In 1953, after doctors prescribed fresh country air for his health, Robert Wales uprooted his young family from the city life of Sydney and set out to establish a sheep farm in Walcha. Angela Wales, the eldest of the five children, reflects on what it was like to grow up in mid-century rural Australia. Here is the third extract from her book 'Barefoot in the bindis'.

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