From ALS' Lines from London writer, Ian Mole. There are thirty tales about working on a farm in Queensland, touring with a band in Poland in winter, teaching English in Crete, going to the match in Buenos Aires and all sorts...
 
"I was having a coffee with my friend Bennu when we got into one of those delightful misunderstandings that the language barrier lets slip through. I was telling her that when my parents got married in 1948, people looked warily at my father because of his beard, which was something of an anachronism at the time apparently. Bennu somehow understood that it was my mother who had the beard, though she graciously showed no signs of surprise."