Gotta Love This Country!
Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest
Published on 18. November 2015
272 pages
978-1-925268-78-2 (ISBN)
Description
You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being reunited with the tom-bowlers his brother threw away forty years ago, and when the dry cleaner down the road is called Drop Your Pants.Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous, the kind and the downright strange in this hilarious and heart-warming collection of stories from daily life and grassroots sporting fields around the country. It's enough for you to puff out your chest and say, Gotta Love This Country!
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Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
File size
4,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-925268-78-2 (9781925268782)
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Peter FitzSimons
Gotta Love This Country!
Great Stories from Around Australia to Lift Your Heart, Make You Laugh and Puff out Your Chest
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12/2015
Allen & Unwin
€42.04
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Content
- Cover
- Part Title
- Title Page
- Also by the author
- INTRODUCTION
- Who was that beanied balladeer?
- Hell & leather
- Let us pray . . .
- Golden oldies bowled over on flight of fancy
- Mall rats
- Serenaded
- Olympic rings
- First try to Martha
- Thomas the trier bowls 'em over
- Goodes' style
- Wigs off
- The wheel deal
- If you see a chance . . .
- All batsmen love going in on a road
- Mona Vale mudlarks
- Trek stars
- Sing and you're winning
- Small world
- Serves and snaps
- City has a heart
- Barrackers to the fore
- Three's a rarity
- Redfern rescue
- All the marbles
- Strike a chord
- Sign of the times
- Bondi remembers
- Only in Oz . . .
- Briefs on wheels
- Messages from above and below
- Go Alex Graham!
- People passion
- Possum magic
- Father and son in thriller
- Commuters' hang up
- Energy savers
- A pair of young champions in the making
- The other stadium
- Security not so alert
- Under the tough exterior beats a heart of gold
- Catch of the season
- Paper trail ends here
- Get that up yer!
- Frank Hyde rekindles league's glowing heart
- Good old patience
- Shire brilliance
- Good shot, that
- Team effort
- Ask a stupid, stupid question . . .
- What price silence?
- The rainbow after the storm
- Great moments in sport: Italy please take note
- Hugh Jackman, the real wizard of Oz
- Shhhhh! Manly have scored!
- Kiss and tell
- Where Eagles care
- Flying the flag
- A little tale to tug at your heartstrings
- Just a game
- Old school meets older protocol
- Maidens handicapped
- Power to the people
- Beach bliss
- How quickly the game can turn
- Driving miss crazy
- That's an unlucky streak
- Mosman glory
- Kevin's special place
- Cauliflower hearts
- How to celebrate
- Thumping tale of love in the fast lane
- Motherly throw-downs
- Road sage's jump-start for Swans
- I love Sydney because . . .
- Our lives at the beach are in safe hands
- Another late leaver
- Memo Glenn: just leave the sledging to us
- Tartan-ic effort
- Morning, guv'nor
- Mettle detected
- Third drop
- Three cheers
- Streaker protocol
- Point of order
- Nice touch
- Watch warms old digger's heart
- Little rays of sunshine
- Victory at last
- Humour at work
- Last, but not . . .
- Slammin' Sam
- On a roll
- Tri-er honoured
- Run, Sam, run
- Last bus home
- Ashes to ashes
- Go, David, go
- Sporting gesture
- The perfect medicine
- On the ball
- A bloke outrage
- How's your form?
- Save the best for last
- Iron boys
- Salty verses
- What an over
- Superhuman effort
- Go Toonies!
- Mudbath time
- Small delights of political retirement
- It's catching
- Fans past it
- A Super salute
- Up periscope!
- Pitching in
- Hats off to some fantastic Indian fans
- For the troops
- Miss is a hit
- Fine gesture
- Swell performance
- Socc it to 'em
- Hunger fame
- Ineffable coach takes the P
- No hiding . . .
- Tour de force
- Clone this guy
- Fitting sign language
- True sports
- K's choice
- Fitting result
- Greenwich Village
- Howzat!
- Comeback kings
- Golden moment
- Star turn for family
- True winner
- Oi, mate!
- Hospitality multiskilling
- An Olympic feat
- Good man walking
- Prophecy
- Comedian in training
- That's the spirit
- Silence was golden
- Young talent time
- Bad dog takes the fall
- Gunner get a goal
- Meet market
- Coffs calling
- No use grizzlin'
- Farmyard blues
- Sporting hero
- True champion, Part 1
- True champion, Part 2
- Never miss with Sydney girls
- Stirring the possum
- Charity comes knocking
- Water baby
- Cowan opens with a nice touch
- All winners in this tie
- Samaritans go extra mile
- Coming to a full stop
- Spirit levels playing field
- Knockout memories of rugby great
- Wilga way
- Man invites dog
- Pat Mills for PM!
- Learning curve
- Cutting edge
- Team mourn
- Banjo shows pluck
- Bush humour not drying up
- Keeping the flame burning
- Action man
- Sari with an Aussie fringe on top
- Hooley, dooley, what a yarn
- Manly Roos breed 'em tough
- A strange aroma
- Devil of a time for TAS
- Well played, Waratahs
- Bowled over by Ocean 12
- How on-fire Thommo topped the score, then put out the fire
