Summary The Unlikely Dad Peter Downey was an only child, loved to joke and party and had little interest in children. When his wife, Meredith, announced she was pregnant, he was thunderstruck: "It was like she said to me, you're going to live on the moon!" But rather than dwell on his 'terror' of pregnancy and fatherhood, Peter decided to puts his thoughts down on paper. Drawing on anecdotes and experiences, often related over the barbeque with his mates, Peter soon had a book. He sent it off to a publisher and, to everyone's surprise, it was snapped up. The result: "So You're Going to be a Dad". It's an international best seller and is in its sixth reprint. Peter now leads a double life - mild mannered teacher and dad versus parenting guru and media commentator. He's a rapt parent, happy to be a father but proud that he still hangs onto his shiny red Honda bike. The change in his life is revealed through terrific home video footage which records his transformation from long-hair musician through his wife's pregnancies to be-spectacled cardigan-wearing father. PLUS: Bush Smithy Jack Spears learnt the art of blacksmithing in his teens and continued what had been a family tradition. However, the on set of the Great Depression and the gradual motorising of farm work forced him to look elsewhere for a job. In 1939, the Black Friday bushfires claimed seventy-one lives and burnt almost a third of Victoria, and in its aftermath, in the rugged ranges east of Melbourne, the race began to salvage the fire-kill timber. Enter Jack Spears, a tough, no-nonsense character, who spent the next forty years working in the timber industry. One of Jack's greatest skills is the almost forgotten art of tree-climbing, where an axeman scales a large eucalypt using a rope and a pair of of "climbing spurs". Now 82, Jack and his wife live in the picturesque mountain town of Icy Creek, where he continues to train young smithy's and tree-climbing axemen.

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