Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.

The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.

[A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme.

For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.