A story about Poly Everitt’s placeIt was an Easter weekend, about, 20 years ago, me and family went to the famous Poly Everitt’s country weekend and camped in one of his paddocks.  My mate Bob and his family also went.  Heaps of people were there and I even had my old guitar. I am quite an old hand at camping, bought up in a tent (and that’s another story). 

Anyway we were setting up, Bob on one side of this really old stump and me on the other, I had my tent up in record time and my fire going just simmering away ready for the evening b/que. I was sitting back with my first for the day and Bob and his then wife were arguing over the kids.”They were never to use the tent posts without him being present, he was almost blowing his top.”
His Wife, “Robert (she called him Robert), the kids don’t touch the camping equipment.Bob, “Well there aren’t enough poles. Throwing them down in disgust”.

His Wife, “Robert. they are telescopic. they are inside each other”.  The colour changed 10 times in his face, I still can see him, bottom jaw hit his knees.
I’m cracking up almost spilt my beer. My wife Angela is shaking her head from side to side. His Wife, “Robert the kids want their food soon could you please start a fire for them”.Now the fun begins. I did mention the stump, well Bob got a hand full of grass, that until yesterday was green ,just been mowed for the occasion.

Stacked it into a crack in the stump, put a couple of old fence posts up against that then lit it. Almost smoked the entire camp site out. Had people throwing stuff at him (Jokingly) in good humour and almost burned my tent down, then it went out when the grass was no longer there of course the posts wouldn’t catch fire in a furnace.

His wife. “Robert you are so useless, when it comes to camping.  [xzcxzczx]”
She stormed off, throwing the rest of the tent to the ground. His wife and kids in tow came to our site and we cooked our snags ect. That was only the first 3 hours of a really long weekend. That was just a smigen of what happened that particular weekend. Poly got robbed, The bikie gang broke up the Pub with No Beer at Taylors Arm and then they come down to us and caused holy hell.