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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1-39
1-9
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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100. Fireworks
101. Why Your Dad Said ‘No’
102. Shooting a Line
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