Chapter 9 - Blondie's SecretWhen the two Bushmasters and the ASLAV arrived back at Birdsville they were all treated as hero's. Tricia and Lorraine met the wounded at the front door while Gail took delivery of Pedro's medicine. Bill, Wiram and Cambra left straight away to start work on the Cessna repairs. Once in the shed they began what they had been waiting to do: fix that aeroplane.
Pedro had remained quite well the day Fat Boy and Blondie left on their mission but then he had slipped back into a light coma, everyone was worried. With the return of the Mount Isa fighting patrol there had formed a small group of visitors in Pedro's room. Gail had to 'shoo' everyone out while she and Tricia prepared him for his injections.
Fat Boy wasn't impressed. “Me and Blondie and the boys wanted to
