“Jill sounds like a real nice lady.”
“She is. Jill’s a teacher; she taught me a few things I can tell you; there is no rough-house around her, and I don’t mind admitting she has smartened me up no end. I am going to look around when I get home. Any suggestions?”
“Have a look at lock smithing, a mate of mine got into it and has done well anyway; they got a nice home out of it.”
“Yeah, and Brasso, how do you make a quid?”
“I got my start as a carpenter, I did okay out of selling my share of a business some mates and I started up in the Valley. We fabricated aluminium doors and windows, until I got sick of all the hassles. Mate, once you got a lot of people on the payroll, you got trouble.”
HMAS Sydney anchored off Vung Tau, and we waited while the Army got itself organized.
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