Chapter 19
Kim hoped it wasn’t too early on a Sunday morning to ask her new friend a favour. ‘Knock, knock.’ Kim pushed in the back door at She-Oak Springs, and found Mel chasing a half-grown kookaburra around her kitchen. ‘Any chance of borrowing your truck?’ She threw a convenient tea towel over the bird as Mel cornered it in the sink. ‘For the whole day, if possible.’
‘Sure.’ Mel quietly caught the squawking youngster and placed it in a crate. ‘What’s up?’
‘You know that rainforest nursery?’
Mel put on the kettle. ‘I heard it’s closed down now. Somebody bought out the entire stock, the whole kit and caboodle. Pity that – I wanted some more tamarind seedlings.’
‘You’d better ask me then.’
Mel turned to stare. ‘You mean—’
‘Yep. That’s why I need the truck.’
‘Oh my god! What are yo
