This is an old Kerosene & tar drums house Snows dad Leslie built out in the bush, about 2 miles out of Atherton. On the left side was a big bedroom, all slept in the 1 room dived off at one end.

On the right was the kitchen. It had dirt floors, a wooden table & stools. Used newspaper on the table for a tablecloth. A recess for the wooden stove. Had a hanging safe & put wet bags over it to keep it cool. A big round tin tub in the kitchen to bath in and all shared the same water. Mainly kept clean by swimming, took a cake of soap with us.

Had bags on the windows to keep out the sun and rain. A carbide light sat on the kitchen table and kerosene lantons we carried around.

A copper to boil the clothes in. Had a good walk down to the creek to fill the kerosene tins with water for washing, cooking, drinking.

We use to catch chooks in the trees and bring them home and catch some wild ones and put them in the chook run. Had them for eating and eggs.

We had a tree climbing kangaroo as a pet, we would let him out of a morning and he would come back at night and we would lock him up.
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Our toilet was a Dunny which was a shed with a bag door. A big hole in the ground with a square box over it to sit on. A big nail on the wall that held the newspaper squares, that was used as toilet paper. It was quite a walk to the dunny.