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    The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo
    The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo
    The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo
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    The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo

    By Lindsay Johannsen

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    I wrote this story for my great grandchildren and they enjoyed it immensely. Your little grandies might like it too.
    And you may even find it amusing yourself ... or enjoy reading it to your young’ns, anyway.
    (...and let me say, dear reader, that you do so with my very warmest compliments.) L.J.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Johannsen
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310712142
    The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo
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    Lindsay Johannsen

    There's not a lot to tell really, though on reflection, looking back on it through the lens of one’s recollections and memories, the whole business seems more akin to an extended Huckleberry Finn adventure, but set in the vastness of Central Australia. Born, raised and schooled in Alice Springs; taken from the leafy glades of learning mid-way through Year-eight to work at my father's remote little copper mine; later employed for some years driving his cattle-hauling road trains – him having pioneered road trains and the cattle hauling business (see "Kurt Johannsen: A Son of the Red Centre"). Married in the fullness of time; built a bush homestead on the northern edge of the Simpson Desert and raised a family there, all while running a small tungsten mining business and provisioning the hundred or so Aboriginal people local to the area who adopted us. Sold our mine and homestead a few years after the kids had flown the coop, acquired a forty foot (12m) touring coach, converted it into a big steel-wheel mobeel Palaise-de-passion motor home and took to the roads of this great land of Oz - in the main visiting our offspring (most of whom had moved to coastal regions), our grandchildren generally and a couple of great grandies, plus various friends and associates from years gone by. So these days all I have to do is keep the missus happy – my Bride my Precious Lamb and Flower of the Early Mid Morning. 'Anywhere you wish, my darling,' I tell her. 'You just say the word and we'll be on our way.' So it's free as the breeze, we are now, out and about having wild and exciting adventures and being amazingly cool generally. Best job I ever had.

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      The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo - Lindsay Johannsen

      The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic

      Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo

      Published by Lindsay Johannsen at Smashwords

      Copyright Lindsay Johannsen 2014

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes.

      This children’s story is available to you for Free. I insist on maintaining my copyright, however, but with the rider that until such time as I become staggeringly outrageously famous and amend this notice please feel free to reproduce, copy, disseminate or distribute it generally amongst your friends and/or enemies by whatever means you have at your disposal and to your heart’s content, provided this is done in a purely non-commercial manner with the story remaining complete and in its original form. My preference, though, is for you to recommend to others that they should download it from Smashwords themselves, so enriching my life with a warm glow of satisfaction in lieu of monetary reward.

      Thank you.

      National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication Data:

      Author: Johannsen, Lindsay Andrew

      Title: The Adventures of Billy Boiglebird and his Small Automatic

      Wind Powered Galactic Space-Shrink Transporter Gizmo

      Cover art and design bungled by the author.

      Also published by the same author at Smashwords:

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