Can remember walking through paddocks picking mushrooms after rain and taking them home and just sitting them on the top of the old Crown stove turning them over and wiping them with a bit of home made butter-can still taste the flavour as I sit here writing this (never seem to be able to find mushys anymore sad how things change.
used to go out to the garden and knock off small spuds had to be careful they werent green could kill you if thet were made me crook a few times but we would just chuck em in the coals and then peel the burnt layer off tasted great

remember cracker night we used to spend hours building a huge bonfire and then letting off our sky rockets and bungers (bloody laws that take that awy from kids) sure there were a few injuries now and then but overall most families were careful and looked after their kids and it was only a few (as it always is) who didnt do the right thing and as usual everyone gets penalised as I sit here I recall hjundreds of harmless things we did being taken off us and look at the money the mongrel drag out of us for the odd fun things we like to do licence to fish etc/

Was thinking about the rip offs that we get hit with I have always paid my rates on time and was allowed to have unlimited water now they reduce your water use to 140 liters a day BUT THEY DONT BLOODY LOWER THE AMOUNT YOU PAY for your water If a business did the same thing people would be up in arms

anyway back to the bush getting up at 4am in winter in the west with frost like snow on the ground running the rabbit traps to get a few bob selling them I actually found my old bunny knife (thats the brand of the penknife we used to gut our rabbits) and was amazed at how its lasted in good condition never used it when we moved east
as wel still got my old 22 that I used to shoot bunnies with must remember to tell a few yarns about spotlighting rabbits one day some of the best fun Iv'e ever had

bloody hell the old galah strikes again

Ok, can anyone put a hand on a rabbit trap, take a pic and post it.

I'm saying 'Huh?'

We use snares over here.  Hmm, the part of the country where I'm going might be suitable for that.   

Very young then Skip, older and wiser now, but I hope I still have a sense of adventure till I die.

We were out spotlighting one night in a favourite spot with foxes, rabbits & the odd pig, with a mate who has always been a keen shot gunner, I've got the light & he is shooting when I spotted this rabbit sitting right along side the track we were on only a foot or two from the rear wheel, being as we were standing on the tray of a ute it was almost a "straight down at the ground shot" with a 12ga he could have poked him with the barrel.....& he missed!!!!!
We never let him forget it!!

Same bloke another time, I was using the .22 after rabbits for food. but I had to get in quick before he hit them with the shotty, on at least one rabbit I recall we must have fired (me first) about 1/2 second apart so as most of you may know, when you hit a rabbit clean through the hart they jump about a foot in the air,
So I've made a clean hart shot & whilst the rabbit was in mid air he has driven it back about 3 feet with the shotty, there wasn't too many rabbits made it to the table that night

I'm hear'n ya about the cracker night Furph, it was my job (being the eldest kid) to drag up as many fallen trees as I could with the tractor then snig them up on to the biggest bon fires I have ever seen, with several families taking turns to let thier collection off, & the kids running for ages through the paddock chasing the parachutes with the bon fire as the only light.

Mick.