Getting Shafted

Never in 35 years of mining experience would Bob Bingley Watchorn have been ready for what was to happen next. Bob Bingley Watchorn was enjoying going about his business, until something so impactful changed his life that he had to begin to think and live from a whole new perspective. Now, with a world of experience under his belt, and travels across half the world, you''re invited on a journey filled with more golliwogs and ginger beers than you''d care to meet in a big mine canteen, not to mention some of the hair-raising, death-defying escapes of a man intent to try and live a normal family life in the outback and be home before dinner for scones and tea. All beautifully preserved in a diary and pen and ink sketches from an era where there was no taboos on drugs, no WORKSAFE when leaping across shafts and no politically correct terminology. Welcome to the real Down Under. You''ll understand why this man got shafted and still came up with a respectable sense of humour. See more