There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else.
The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang even a hat, no door, no rug for cold morning bare feet, no bookshelf for a voracious reader, no bedside cupboard for a lamp or a glass of water, no light source - just a bed and a suitcase for the next two years.
In 1960, newly minted teacher Peter O'Brien started work as the only teacher at a bush school in.
Allen & Unwin Bush school, paperback/peter o'brien
