Roaming Around
In My Mind
102 stories, anecdotes and confessions from New Zealand's
 centenarian author and self-acclaimed 'gasbag', Peter Leyland, 
as narrated during his 101st and 102nd years
to his nephew and 'scribe', John David Leyland
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  • About
    • About 'Roaming Around ...'
    • About '102 NOT OUT'
    • About the cast
    • About the authors
    • About the process
  • 1-39
    • 1-9 >
      • 1. Fishing
      • 2. Instinct
      • 3. The Game of the Name
      • 4. Zig-zag Trenches
      • 5. Bruce Ben's Father
      • 6. I Thought we were Polish!
      • 7. Chisellers Needed
      • 8. Leyland and Larsen
      • 9. City of Lagoons
    • 10-19 >
      • 10. Ladies Afternoon Tea
      • 11. Big Erections
      • 12. The Irish Side
      • 13. She Grabbed Us!
      • 14. Uncle Digby's Disease.
      • 15. Una Watson
      • 16. Big Fuss — Little Bottles
      • 17. Rexona, Epsom Salts and Sulphur
      • 18. Elephant on Main Street
      • 19. Shakespeare
    • 20-29 >
      • 20. Morse Code
      • 21. We Got Exploited
      • 22. Guns, Guns, Guns
      • 23. Trout
      • 24. I Came Rollin' On In
      • 25. Percy Coleman
      • 26. The Harriet Puzzle
      • 27. Cougars
      • 28. On The Buses
      • 29. Scratching
    • 30-39 >
      • 30. Straight Furrows
      • 31. You Should Get Paid
      • 32. Shanghai
      • 33. Another Fluke
      • 34. Headless Chooks
      • 35. The Man In The Tent
      • 36. No Future In Fussing
      • 37. Wheel Money
      • 38. The Panther
      • 39. Cousin Charles
  • 40-79
    • 40-49 >
      • 40. The House Looked Different
      • 41. Mr Purdy's Spanner
      • 42. Dolly Will Get Me Home
      • 43. The Spoils of War
      • 44. The Dynamiter
      • 45. The Maori Cheesemaker
      • 46. So Much To Think About
      • 47. Scandal
      • 48. Three Broken Hearts
      • 49. If It Wasn't For Casein
    • 50-59 >
      • 50. Good House — Bad Paint
      • 51. Yorkshire Tea
      • 52. Sydney Norman Leyland
      • 53. Blame the Irish
      • 54. Who Is It?
      • 55. No Man Is An Island
      • 56. Ships
      • 57. A Bit Intrigued By It All
      • 58. What To Do?
      • 59. A Most Versatile Magazine
    • 60-69 >
      • 60. Stunning Fish
      • 61. The Salt Imperative
      • 62. A Strange Man
      • 63. Billy Tea
      • 64. Blame Fred Dagg's Father
      • 65. Russian Jack
      • 66. Why Don't Girls Play Up Like That?
      • 67. There Be Mice In Woodville
      • 68. Chater-Lea
      • 69. The Ideal Setup
    • 70-79 >
      • 70. More Exploding Houses
      • 71. The Four-ten in the Flour Mill
      • 72. Unintended Consequences
      • 73. Quotations — Just Turn 'em Loose
      • 74. A Ridiculous Fuss?
      • 75. Telling Tales
      • 76. Trying To Escape
      • 77. It's All In The Way You Tell It
      • 78. Boatloads Of Them
      • 79. Pop Bottles
  • 80-102
    • 80-89 >
      • 80. It Was Just An Incident — So To Speak
      • 81. One Shot From A 44
      • 82. Not Just For Looks
      • 83. Proper Food
      • 84. Fathers and Sons
      • 85. The Parsnip and the Spud
      • 86. One Stroke of the Pen
      • 87. The Coffee Sleuth
      • 88. Rewi Alley's Salute
      • 89. We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are
    • 90-99 >
      • 90. The Fishing Poster
      • 91. The Loss Of Treasures
      • 92. Word Play
      • 93. Conscientious Objectors
      • 94. Floored
      • 95. Framed
      • 96. Finding Things
      • 97. Stag Spooner
      • 98. Tales and Heads and Tails
      • 99. Tom Pollard
    • 100-102 >
      • 100. Fireworks
      • 101. Why Your Dad Said ‘No’
      • 102. Shooting a Line
  • Afterwords
  • Index
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