{"id":1603,"date":"2022-01-25T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:04:08","slug":"1603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter has-background-dim-10 has-background-dim\" style=\"min-height:526px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1609\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-765x1024.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-1147x1536.jpg 1147w, https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-1530x2048.jpg 1530w, https:\/\/janeroutley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1932-scaled.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creek Man<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I first met Creek Man about 3 years ago.\u00a0 He was the cheery guy with the balding, slightly out-of-control hair and a sly smile who was building a shack.\u00a0 He\u2019d go to the Bunnings up the line and bring small piles of building materials back down on the train.\u00a0 Being a nice orderly mainstream person I assumed he was building a shack on his own land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why build otherwise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It only slowly dawned on me that he was actually a rough sleeper, squatting down there behind one of the hospitals, apparently with a nudge and wink from security?!! He always spent the winter on a farm in the country and lived in a tent down at the creek in the summer. He\u2019d been there for 14 years.&nbsp; Hence, I guess, the urge to build four walls and a floor.&nbsp; But he kept faith with the idea of a tent by only roofing his shack with a tarpaulin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest I was not a big fan of Creek man, mostly because he was so boring.\u00a0 He\u2019d repeat himself, telling me about how he\u2019d once be a carpenter and how he was making the walls out of one kind of board and the floor out of another, about how he had a little camp stove to cook with and how he had a family of ringtail possums living in the trees above his shack who were company for him.\u00a0 The camp by the creek sounded wonderfully idyllic but not again and again.\u00a0 And sometimes he\u2019d stay to chat for a WHOLE hour, missing several trains, telling me the same things again and again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s just a lonely old guy,\u201d said one of my regulars who got collared by him once.&nbsp; Easy for her to say.&nbsp; She could leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compassion set in at last, especially after last year when he started to look so ill, hobbling along at a snail\u2019s pace on painful knees, all his industry gone.\u00a0 His topics had switched to what the doctors had said and which knee was more swollen.\u00a0 (And they were swollen, he showed the whole waiting room one day.) I became more patient at listening. \u00a0You had to admire the way he still kept pushing on; still with smiling his sly smile, keeping himself and his clothes clean, hobbling onto the train to go down to the supermarket to have a sit in the warm and buy something for tea.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took me about two months to realize he was missing.\u00a0 Around Christmas one of the hospital people told me his shack had burned down and his gas bottles had exploded.\u00a0 Apparently he wasn\u2019t there when it happened but it was tenth hand information so I couldn\u2019t be certain of that.\u00a0 No one knew where he was.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was forced to file Creek Man away among the many, many station stories that finish with a sad, I-don\u2019t-know-how-it-ended-I-hope-they\u2019re-all-right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good News!  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