Jellybean #26; Tim Leeuwenburg An Ex-English Kangaroo, @kangaroobeach, at Smacc GOLD

Published: March 20, 2014, 5:03 a.m.

Tim is what is known in Australia as a Larrikin.\n\nDefined by the Oxford dictionary as \u201cA boisterous, often badly behaved young man\u201d or \u201cA person with apparent disregard for convention; a maverick\u201d.\n\nTims not that young so I am going with the second one. \n\nTim is, like many great Australians, not Australian (by birth). He is irreverent. He uses \u201ccolourful\u201d language. He is a stirrer. He can\u2019t help himself. I can\u2019t help but like him. And that's not just because he has an adventure sport alter ego; http://ki-yak.blogspot.com.au (Nice blog site title.) \n\nSo out in \u201cthe bush\u201d in Australia has many flavours; its not just Red Dirt, for Tim it's the cold Southern Ocean. Tim was born in England. He is one of the small number of doctors on Kangaroo Island and thus one of those remote doctors that has \u201cNowhere to run and Nowhere to hide.\u201d\n\nOur Tim has had courted controversy what with his \u201csoft, strong and very long\u201d Fellowship of the Ring Certificate. (You\u2019ll understand when you listen.) Idealists! Don't you hate them.\n\nTim and I got into a natter and for whatever reason we started to organise each others death. (I mean \u201cend-of-life\u201d planning.)