Ian Smithson

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Aussie English · AE 1414 - The Goss: Farm + Camping Culture in Australia · 26 Apr 2026 podcast

And he would sleep the entire way there.

And as soon as we turned onto the dirt road- He was like- He's up.

We're there.

Yeah, well, it's an old kit log cabin, you know, treated pine logs that were pretty common about 50 years ago of kit homes and particularly holiday homes that people were putting up.

So, you build a concrete slab and then you design the

The layout in terms of where you want the windows and the doors.

And it's all built in panels that are, I don't know, probably... This is back before the metric system was being used in Australia.

Was this the 70s?

So, yeah, it would have been the 70s.

So, it's sort of built in, I don't know, probably...

four foot panels it's four or six foot panels so you've got a block of logs and then you've got a window block and then you put a door block in and so on so um and you just designed it that way and they they when it was built they come and stick it up and then it's just a shell there's no internal walls or anything in it um and your grandparents built all the internals they they

Lined the ceiling and built the internal walls and things.

And then the kitchen evolved.

Originally, it was basically a couple of old tables with a kitchen sink.

No, not built into a bench, but just suspended between two tables.

And the plug hole just dropped into a bucket and you'd have to go and empty that out and stuff.

But eventually all that got plumbed in and it's got a great big rock open fireplace, which is the sort of centre of the living area.

And, you know, everybody wants to put a fire on as soon as you get there, except you don't do that for three or four months of the year because it's...

35 degrees outside.

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