Peter’s Story Part 6
The week before opening my new shop was hectic. I flew down to Melbourne to purchase stock with my remaining money. With a limited budget it was a difficult exercise. I not only needed stock but a selection of display …
Australian Opal and Gemstones
Peter’s Story is a series of articles written by Peter for a magazine called Metal Stone and Glass. The magazine is published every 3 months and to be fair to the magazine, the stories will appear on the web site shortly after they are published.
The week before opening my new shop was hectic. I flew down to Melbourne to purchase stock with my remaining money. With a limited budget it was a difficult exercise. I not only needed stock but a selection of display …
After the accident I went by bus to Brisbane and visited Chris who was staying with her mother. We went car hunting and I purchased a horrible little two door Holden Torana. It must have been involved in a car …
Once back in Canberra we attempted to revert to a normal family lifestyle. However there was always an under current feeling of discontent between Kris and I. I could feel the closeness we initially shared evaporate. We were constantly arguing …
I was totally captivated with this new family life, enjoyed having our own freedom and the choice of spending time together as a family I looked forward to the time that we had spare money and do more of the …
A Trainee Geological Draftsman With schooling finished I really had no idea where my life would take me. I knew I wanted to do something with geology. My problem was that my academic results were not high enough to further …
Peter’s Story part 1 starts in Grabben Gullen, a sleepy little one horse town about an hours drive north east of Canberra. Not far from here is a creek that nature deposited in its gravel beautiful blue sapphires. I first …