SUNDAY
So the plan/accident appears to be a monthly blog entry. It will be based on my usual running ‘to do’ list and calendar which I will annotate and illustrate as I go. Let’s see how this works out.
- Side Strum X
Sunday arvo is Side Strum. Where-in select Mallacoota Musos play together at Rosie’s (ne Dr Who’s). I am resident musicologist and consult Wikipedia to resolve questions regarding the provenance of the various songs.
A compare and contrast shot from the sixties to now. Lots and lots of water has passed under our bridges.
MONDAY
- Weeding Garden. Flowers. X
I have never had much luck with growing tumeric. The changing weather seems to be favouring cultivation though. With less rain in winter and providing you well water in summer it seems to have started to show results. For ages I thought the plant was ginger until it flowered.
TUESDAY
I wrote this one about a guy I used to know. A weird sort of narcissist. An amazingly destructive person.
It was this relationship that made me start to think about loyalty – which is supposed to be a virtue. Listening to the family defend behaviour that had so deeply damaged them, out of loyalty, has made me question the whole notion.
If you are going to live an evidence based life then it is deeply important to cultivate an attitude of sensitive detachment.
When it comes to broader issues like nationalism then the landscape becomes a bit clearer I think. While it is possible accurately state that the lives of the citizens of a given country are on the whole better than another, no country can claim universal equality of opportunity. To champion a country, in all things, just because it is where you happen to be born is ludicrous.
THE HOARDER
With all that that implies;
In his annecdotage –
Garrulous as a cold caller.
Strutting like a terrier.
He bullied.
They named a dinosaur in his honor
That he rescued from the stone
Clutches of a wrecking coast
with pulley, winch and wire.
Wilful as a spoilt collie,
Nipping and barking, worrying,
He got his way.
Children, wife: collateral damage
To a story starring him.
There was always The Stuff
To be recycled, hoarded –
Piles, stacks, bins, drums.
In search of gratitude,
in search of praise,
The Stuff coopted into
Games of status.
In the mirror of his mind
He championed a war on waste.
Mountains of crap, shaming,
Shredding domestic dreams
and self-esteem.
Love left huddled under a doona,
With the curtains drawn,
Minds numb with
Drugs, God and denial.
Standing on the Darien Peak
of fondly reclaimed rubbish
He stared out over the wreckage
Of his family and saw
The vision of ‘Frank’
Burning bright with self-regard
Bringing order to the
Treasure hoarded,
rubbish tip of the world.
WEDNESDAY
- Finish Backdrop. X
The Green are having their annual Fund Raiser, so it is all hands on deck. It still surprises, though by now it shouldn’t, that in a given community you find the same activists involved in everything from Greens to CFA. There is often a conservative/progressive divide but it has a very soft border.
Attached to the group, of course, you always find the parasitical opportunists who seek to take advantage of community volunteerism to further their personal ends. They can be very destructive as we have found out in ‘Froute’ .
I have been very lucky to find a carter who was willing to pick up some weathertex panels from The Opera for me. I got six panels down to ‘Coota for $100. Just in time for the Easter Mural Project.
- Sort out access to rig it Friday.
- Meeting Annie at 10.30 ish at Bruthen Hall.
Paint splashed pittosporum leaf. I noticed it when I was shaking out a paint brush while painting the backdrop. It seems beautiful for some reason. I had to lay a temporary painting floor in our driveway under the shade of a pittosporum tree. The project wasn’t really big enough to ask the school to clear the bus-shed. The good thing was working outside. The bad thing was the ticks and mosquitoes.
The title comes from a short story I have just reread by JRR Tolkien.
- Sell Greens Raffle tickets at Post Office. X
- Croajamalong Funding
- Croajamalong Book
- Music House – Senior kids x
The kids are learning formal improvisation at the moment. Their excitement makes it all worthwhile
- Penelope Visit
- Buy 3×1, mudguard washers, 20mm screws, hooks
- Pack – Bags for whole food store. TOOLS and hardware.
FRIDAY
- GET MONEY FROM ATM.
- Gnome – Kate Jackson Album of the week (POSTPONED)
- Library (POSTPONED)
- Going to Bruthen to rig backdrop
- Ladder
- Backdrop
- Tool Box
- Shopping Bags
- Produce Bags.
The Bruthen Hall must have been very fine early in it’s life but over time many unfortunate things have happened to it. It barky needs someone with energy and vision to chase funds and give the poor thing a work-over.
BAIRNSDALE
ALDI
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- Pasta sauce
- Tomatos
- Cheese
- Bree
- Butter
- Yoghurt
- Coffee
- Peanut butter
- Crackers
- Pickles/Olives
- Chic Peas
- Tinned Peas
- Coconut Oil
- Coconut Milk
WHOLE FOOD STORE
- Cous Cous
- Rolled Oats
SATURDAY
Its so rich to be able to buy this produce monthly. The food is so beautifully fresh and tasty. The market really is a highlight of life here. It’s quite a bit if work and I missed out on the The Greens Ball and Cobargo Festival but on the whole well worth it.
Apart from the product’s it is a great opportunity to catch up with so many people.
There is also the music.
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