Thursday night Mehrin and I caught the train out to Footscray to stay at Ray’s house, so we could leave in the morning for Broken Hill, for Tab and Andrew’s wedding.
These are some pictures I took of Ray’s chickens on Friday morning:
I think we left Footscray at about 9:30 am or [...]
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Going to Broken Hill tomorrow!
(Tab and Andrew are getting married. Mehrin and Ray are going up too. Back some time on Monday.)
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In 2004, I got this book for $7, at a bookshop in Ballarat:
A couple of months ago I took it to the Urban Seed staff retreat and made sure everyone read it, saying that it has stuff in it that I thought would be important for our organisation’s future.
A few weeks ago, Mark (our receptionist/director) [...]
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Last week I started getting heaps of people ending up here looking for stuff about Pro Hart, and it wasn’t until Friday or Saturday that I found out he’d died, and it seems he was buried today.
When we were in Broken Hill last year I mentioned our visit to his gallery, and when we got [...]
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These are some photos Tab and Em took. (Haven’t got mine developed yet.)
This is one of the exploded tires.
This is my Best Soft Feather Heavy Breed ribbon.
This is Peter Browne’s gallery, in Silverton. Silverton is a ghost town. They’ve shot a lot of films (Mad Max 2, Town Like Alice, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, [...]
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Almost everyone has gone back to Canberra or Strathalbyn or Sydney or wherever now. We’re going back to Ballarat tomorrow.
This morning we went op shopping. I got two shirts, some grandpa shoes and four Everworld books for under $10.
This morning I’ve just been walking around in the desert taking photos (the sun’s come out a [...]
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Apparently Broken Hill has about twenty four art galleries. Some of us went and visited four of them yesterday.
The best was Pro Hart’s gallery. He has the largest private collection in Australia, including a lot of his own work, as well as some stuff by Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet and George Gittoes (my favorite Australian [...]
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I forgot to mention last night that I won the Broken Hill Poultry & Pigeon Club 2005 Best Soft Feather Heavy Breed award.
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Me, John, Kelly and Em are leaving for Broken Hill at 6am Sunday, so I probably still won’t be posting much for ages. We’re visiting Tab and taking part in Discovery Week (which is to do with the fruits of the Holy Spirit) at Cornerstone.
Haven’t been to Broken Hill before. I’ve been told it’s in [...]
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