Location: Australia
Member Since:
March 27, 2014
Les Shipp
Biography
Having grown up on an isolated farm in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales I went to work on a sheep & cattle property in the west of the state. After seven years of hard saving I set of by ship to Europe for a bit over a year and traveled constantly for ten months before getting a job at Harrods for the last two months. I married an Irish girl before returning to Australia and after several years working at a variety of jobs on the land & four years as a fettler on the railway we bought three hundred acres near Tamworth where we conducted an equestrian center for thirty-seven years. Here we had great success with my wife competing all over the state & I filled up my spare time with performing in musicals and as a volunteer telephone Councillor for seventeen years.
Our riding school featured in the Lonely Planet magazine and we were runner up for an award for the best tourist business. Apart from our life with horses we both paint and have had some success in this field. In writing my book I wanted people to know that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Having very little to no education I earned a diploma in communication from what is now the University of Western Sydney when I was in my forties. I am now retired on the Sunshine Coast, still painting & writing & as the autumn sets in I have no plans of stopping at this point.
Our riding school featured in the Lonely Planet magazine and we were runner up for an award for the best tourist business. Apart from our life with horses we both paint and have had some success in this field. In writing my book I wanted people to know that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Having very little to no education I earned a diploma in communication from what is now the University of Western Sydney when I was in my forties. I am now retired on the Sunshine Coast, still painting & writing & as the autumn sets in I have no plans of stopping at this point.
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Books
Haveachat with Les Shipp
by Les Shipp
Price:
Free!
Words: 46,230.
Language:
English.
Published: March 20, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Adventure » Action
(5.00 from 1 review)
Weekly at the Pomona Writers Group the facilitator gives us a topic to write. These stories are the topics I've written.
My Story
by Les Shipp
Price:
Free!
Words: 101,950.
Language:
English.
Published: March 31, 2014
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
(5.00 from 1 review)
This is my life story beginning from 1920 before I was born to the present 2014. Growing up in isolation as a child, battles to become integrated into ordinary society.