about 5 miles away I'd say.
I was expecting a reply from you.
Correct Clary.
(Have you travelled here?)
Of course! I recognise a gumtree when I see one.
Can't argue with that, but where are we?
Isn't that just off the Capricorn Highway, Dutchy?
Ah, now you've got me. Is that Nederlandisch looking person YOU?
I suspect it is in South Australia.
You are getting close your Lordship Ellpus, but not in South Australia Clary.
By Dingo, must be in Northern Territory?
Make that a sheepdog in New South Wales.
Not Byron Bay. Look what he is sitting on perhaps that may give you a clue.
Red Dog is a book by a writer in love. While passing through a town in the Australian outback, novelist Louis de Bernières discovered a statue of a dog. Intrigued, he made inquiries, and was swamped by locals with tales of a wildly charismatic creature named Tally Ho. De Bernières, author of Corelli's Mandolin, has fashioned a charming picaresque of Tally's misdeeds and misadventures, not least of which involve the animal's enormous appetite (complemented by an equally enormous flatulence). "Tally," he writes, "was the most notorious canine dustbin in the whole neighbourhood. With apparent relish he ate paper bags, sticks, dead rats, butterflies, apple peel, eggshells, used tissues and socks." De Bernières' enchantment with this "dustbin" is a reflection of a larger rapture: here is a writer who has fallen for Australia itself. He wittily captures the country's cadences, its landscape, its weakness for the (literal) underdog. --Claire Dederer
Fantastic story Clary but it doesn't relate to the most famous dog in Australia I'm sorry to say.
Oh so THAT is a tuckerbox...
Well you are both right Walter and Clary. It is the famous "Dog on the tuckerbox" nine miles out of Gundagai in New South Wales, placed there in memory of the pioneers of the Riverina district.
You can fight it out who will do the next posting.
Well, I suppose 'tuckerbox' is closer than Gundagai - so it's Clary's turn.
