Fridays story come’s to you from Cooma today.

Meet Bruce the farmer.

In the not too distance of my past my wife and I sold our house, belongings, bought a 4wheel drive, a caravan and travelled around Australia. I wanted to be a photographer, and to do that you have to go out and make pictures, thats what we done. About a week into our trip we found ourselves in Cooma on our way to Victoria over the mountains. But we where stuck there in the camping ground of Jindabyne for  few days as the cooling fan on the car had decided not to work anymore and pulling a van it needed too. While we where there waiting for this thing to come down from Sydney we used to go out and about to make pictures. Thats where we met Bruce. I was standing on top of the car making pictures of a field when I saw this truck coming up to us in the field opposite, Ho no! I thought, this is where we get moved on. But no, outsteps this typical looking Australian farmer, says. Good-day. Making pictures mate, nice truck, what year is that, diesel is it?

Not all at the same time you understand this was while we just talking about all sorts.

Have a full tank do you?

Half a tank at they moment I reply.

Ok put some of this in it. He fills my truck up for me.

I was completely blown away.

Thats when I made this picture.

Just before we parted company he asked if the kids, we had two then, would like to come and see the farm animals and we could come to dinner and meet his wife Helen the local vet later that day.

At first I didn’t know what to say, as we had only just met this bloke, but we agreed to go anyway.

The kids had a great time with the sheep that came into the house, and cows, we met two lovely people and had a nice meal. The day we left Cooma he said to pop on by and he’d fill our tank for us. I went all the way to Victoria on it. I have just recently found his telephone number, I’m thinking of giving him a call.