"I've just read the story about the saleyards in Clinton, and I thought it was absolutely brilliant, I loved it... laughed... and almost cried..." Wilse Taylor takes us on a voyage into times fondly remembered, though unfamiliar now to many. Set in New Zealand's south these lively and authentic tales, charmingly illustrated by Dave Peddie, will be sure to make you laugh out loud - and may bring a tear to your eye. Salt-of-the-earth Kiwi characters and their amusing everyday antics evoke for us an era when steam trains were a daily sight and thruppence bought you a chocolate fish, a place where phones were on party lines and the school swimming pool was a nearby creek.