Copyright (2013) Peter Notaras

....on top of the "makeshift stage". At the 30th March, 2013 "panayiri" for the Canberra Cafe, Manilla, NSW. Sandy asked some great questions. She obviously has a affinity with Paul.

Sandy Thorne is Australia’s favourite yarn spinner, Author, entertainer, public speaker. She is “Australia’s best-selling author of outback humour books, and of "OLD TIMERS”, which featured a fascinating mini-biography of Paul Calokerinos, that was, for many people, the highlight of the book. Sandy is also a stage performer of bush yarns and verse, who has had audiences laughing all over Australia, N.Z. and the U.S., for nearly thirty years, since she launched her first best-seller, “I’VE MET SOME BLOODY WAGS!”.

She entertained the audience for a half hour at the function.