He’s been volunteering every day of the week to help a Calala couple and others bearing up under drought – but to hear him tell it, they’re doing him a favour.
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Newcastle man Jeff Adnum has been staying with Frank and Jenny Flissinger for less than a month, but said: “It’s like I’ve known them for years.”
After answering their request for help through Rural Aid, Mr Adnum said it was “a pleasure to do what I’m doing”.
The former boilermaker semi-retired after heart surgery but found himself “a bit bored”.
“I didn’t want to go back into flat-out work, so I looked into this and here I am,” he said.
He’s been helping with feeding livestock, welding repairs, machinery maintenance and more.
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“One of my highlights: Frank’s got a chaff-cutting machine that’s over 100 years old – I want to do a full restoration on that and bring it back to its former glory,” he said.
“It’s got that old elevator made out of wood, but it’s in really good nick; it just needs a bit of this and that.”
Mrs Flissinger said the help was a “Godsend”; it was costing “an arm and a leg” to feed their cattle, even after drastically reducing the herd they’d built up over 40 years.
Mr Adnum also volunteers during the week at the Doing it for our Farmers food pantry in Tamworth along with the Flissingers.
He said he was “in town indefinitely … as long as I’m needed”.
“I feel so good about what I’m doing. I’m being well-fed and looked after, and couldn’t think of anything else I’d rather be doing at this present moment.”
Carolyn Millet
Based at The Northern Daily Leader, Tamworth, and Namoi Valley Independent, Gunnedah. Covering general news and features on community, council, arts, business, health, education, entertainment and rural matters.
Based at The Northern Daily Leader, Tamworth, and Namoi Valley Independent, Gunnedah. Covering general news and features on community, council, arts, business, health, education, entertainment and rural matters.
