The rest of the day they passed lying on their beds yarning, or reading stories by Victoria Cross, or playing cards or housey-housey.
Other everyday Murrin Bridge activities include cleaning the house, gossiping or yarning while 'having a cuppa', and watching soapies on television.
Ask scientists of a certain age about their childhood memories, and odds are they'll start yarning about the stink bombs and gunpowder they concocted with their chemistry sets.
She put in quite a reasonable quantity of time yarning with Norm Purves' good lady, and I had a beer or two with old Norm and some of the other chappies there.
They might receive the odd verbal barrage the following morning but maybe the sledge did not have the same impact since the protagonists had been yarning and drinking so merrily a few hours previously.
Why not produce an anthology of Aussie sonnets for the sheer pleasure of yarning amongst ourselves, without bothering to care who else may or may not be listening?
