by Peter Barns
Hobart is a pugnacious, yet loveable rogue, who manipulates his long suffering nephew into numerous tricky situations; including, hunting an ostrich with a smelly sock, visiting France in a home made balloon, exploding the farm's best cow, and shooting the world's only homing pig. Hobart is the kind of man that you like to meet, but can't wait to walk away from. His homemade philosophy is: “Everything's okay, so long as there's plenty 'o beer there be drunk.” Recently, widowed, Hobart has...