Tom Law has worked and lived in the alpine district of Eastern Victoria, Australia for most of his adult life as a science and mathematics teacher. He built a solid rock house and threw down deep roots, raising a family and enjoying all that the mountains had to offer. At a later stage in his life he worked firstly in Indonesia and then in China for several years. Having returned to his favourite haunt, nook and singing gullies he is again raising a young family with an Indonesian wife. His view of the outside world away from his immediate paradise takes on somewhat cynical perspectives as he