City slicker a true southern woman

From: The Press | Date: October 28, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

She was a hard road, mate ... a bloody hard road.

I was doing it for Canterbury and for townies everywhere, and I thrashed most of those southern bessies.

I am now the 16th most Perfect Woman for the quintessential southern man. Not bad for a city slicker in a field of 50 sturdy southern women.

Below me on the scoreboard were farm managers and shearing gang rousies -- and a rival reporter from a Dunedin newspaper.

The atmosphere on Saturday was tense. I started to wonder if lathering on mascara had really been such a good idea. The girls sat around in their regulation T-shirts and sized up ...

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