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Six white boomers: Baked in the Aussie sun and garnished with good humour, a country Christmas is cause for celebration
AFTER AN ABSENCE of eight years, rain was a surprise guest at Manners Creek station, in the NT, in late December of 1999. Suddenly it was bucketing — a joy that turned to dismay as the downpour continued. For station cook Joan Mill-thorpe, this posedproblems. She had 40 mouths to feed for Christmas including the ringers, some miners, a neighbour and two station managers — all marooned in more than 6000 sq. km of mud. Regular deliveries had been abandoned weeks earlier because the mail plane couldn't land, so there'd be no cards or gifts and, worse, no supplies. The blacksoil country's dirt roads were impassable except by horseback and that wasn't an option, given that the closest town, Mount Isa, is 230 km north-east.
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