The Yield by Tara June Winch

Author:Tara June Winch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781760143671
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

TWENTY-FIVE

harrow, plough – gungambirra All you need to work the land well, it’s all here. Even before the Reverend, who thought he was farming for the first time, we knew how to gungambirra.

hole used as a sleeping place – nguram-birrang With our girls we’d head south, down the Murrumby. After the dam was built we’d head north with the granddaughters. We’d camp high on the Darling River. Lots of other families would be there too, their cars rigged with kayaks and canoes, fishing rods, fold-out chairs, four-person tents. They were the loveliest times, those trips away. Seeing something different, having an adventure, finding where the Murrumby ended, and the later years, where it had begun. I’d show the kids how the Gondiwindi slept in the early days, so I’d dig out the ground near the bank and light a couple of fires in the afternoon; while they were going I’d prepare our fire pit for the evening. Then I’d do some fishing upstream. When it was getting real cold and all the kids had bathed and got into their pyjamas and it was time to cook dinner, I’d shovel out the coals from the other fires I’d made and feed them back into the main one. I’d lay a couple of beach towels down into the little gulamon shapes I’d made and then tell the kids to get to bed. Well, weren’t they amazed! A warm little ditch to lie in and tell jokes to each other by the fire until dinner and then bedtime. Joey would be propped on his elbows after the girls had fallen asleep, and me still awake in another, and we’d talk boys’ talk until the fire went out and the Milky Way reeled like a film above us.

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