Recently, while camping in the Tassie bush, the leeches had a go at me. Curious, I decided to ask Tasmanians what they knew about these critters. In St Mary’s, the first town I reached after my walkabout, while looking for a fuel bottle for my Optimus stove, I ran into Ian Summers.

Ian operates “Cranks and Tinkerers”, an incredible collection of things mechanical, literary, acoustic and eccentric —… Continue reading →