Ian Smithson

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851 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 May

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

If you can't put the fire on at the farm, you can't- Why would you go to the farm if you can't sit and poke the flames in the fire?

Yeah.

And, of course, every child is a pyromaniac.

So, everybody wants to sit on the fireplace and, you know, poke the fire and- It's so funny- Throw things into the fire.

And your sister's children do exactly the same.

Yeah.

Well, if you can't-

Start a fire and control a fire.

You're dead.

So, it's built into our evolution that, you know, you just- that you have to be able to manage fire.

Yeah, Sullivan's Bay and what became Sorrento.

He has to cross this river and he- Because we don't have- Sorry, we don't have flint in Australia.

Yeah.

We don't-

So, we don't have that really hard, sharp rock that you can just bang against another rock and create a spark.

Yeah.

So, they had to literally rub sticks together and put little bits of bark and stuff on it to create a fire, which is hard work and long work.

There's no electricity.

Yeah, there's no electricity.

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