There ya go....

         Wouldn't you know it, ink hardly dry on that tissy little self doubt rant the other day, and a soul lift comes along in the form of one of our 6.30am coffee club mates and a great guy.    

        He's about 80, a refugee kid from middle Europe's Nazi and Commo mayhem, arrived in SA after his family (he's in the middle of 9 kids) was harassed all over, grew up in tough Pt Adelaide times, initially trained as a Catholic Brother but - in his own words - gave that away when he discovered females (he's a dag!), became in time a private High school teacher specialising in English.

        We knew he'd get a badly needed laugh from "Dudley's Career In Cabbages", lent him a copy, came back a few days later clearly taken with it, gave me a decent old charge, made my day.

        There ya go. Sure sign of a totally insecure scribbler.

        Cheers....

                Trev

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