An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughn

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. - William Thomas

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. - W.H. Auden

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. - Oscar Wilde

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! - Joey Adams

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that. - Judith Crist

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. - Mark Twain

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other. - Anonymous

Condobolin cont.

Trip to Condobolin

Winter smoko

Handbags rummaged
Pockets emptied

Smokers huddle

Chatting
Mumbling

Valiantly shivering

Cupped fingers
Butane flare

Laughing softly

Stamping feet

Their
Sacred courtyard
Ritual






"Smoko: Australian slang for a work break - cup of tea / coffee or time for a cigarette."

"Afternoon delight" - Ron Burgundy & the channel 4 news team ( The Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy)

Set in the early 70's...The Channel 4 News team and Legendary Anchorman Ron Burgundy (a macho, mustachioed bachelor with a penchant for scotch and an unmatched passion for the jazz flute) perform a hilarious version of "Afternoon delight".



Inspired by a special dish (The Afternoon Delight) served in a restaurant called "Clyde's" in Washington D.C.
According to the songwriter, it was a plate of "shrimp with Brie and almonds"... One of the reasons "fishing" is mentioned so frequently, along with the double entendre of noon-time nookie ... Must be one hell of a dish!

Tuesday afternoon quilting

Trevor Childs - Deathwish

Dropped within me,
my helpless heart;

my head’s vile hiss,
of causeless wrongs;

my holiest dreams,
yielding...
sadly depart;

no sign or knock,
to fuel their songs.

"if light should flower:or laughing sparkle from
the shut house(around and around
which a poor wind will roam" - supposing i dreamed this)... (IX) - by e.e. cummings

bye bye birdies

goodbye mushroom

Goodbye little Mushie, I hope you are safe and happy wherever you are. I will never forget you.

Dogs and bird

Shhhhh! Sleeping Blossom and Mushroom
Agatha
Tess and Blossom

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.


I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep - while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

By Edgar Allan Poe

Gaussian blur

Love's
azure heights

dupe
the
dazed
and
dullard
dawning


tired
feet

cracked
concrete

a
sloshed
start
stop


start

the
shamble
of criss-crossing

that one sagging
shoulder
strap

a
rapturous memories'
soft reveille

quilting

"Quilting": A generic term for the process of making a Quilt from beginning to end. Or the actual act of sewing the layers of a quilt together, either by hand or by machine.

Also refers to the finished lines of sewn thread that make up the quilting design. The small, running stitches made through the layers of a quilt -- top, batting and backing -- to form decorative patterns on the surface of the quilt and to hold the layers together.

my first quilt ->

the Mushroom story

Mushroom and I met on a NSW country road. He was a lonely, fluffy thing... that was very nearly wedged in the tread of my tires. Fortunately i saw him in time, so i picked him up and the rest is history...
Site of the rescue the day after

Mushie sleeping...awwwwwww

Kookaburra

The lyrics I remember from the school playground are slightly different:

"Kookaburra sits on the electric wire,

Jumping up and down-

with his arse on fire"...

plastic bertrand

Due to my total inability to absorb any high school French, the English translation of Plastic Bertrand's wonderful 70's pop ditty "Ca Plane Pour Moi", became an intriguing mystery...

I believe I have finally found the perfect translation.

"Ca Plane Pour Moi"
Wham!Bam!Someone poured whiskey on my cat, Splash

And lit him

He went "boof"

While he was on my bed
I tried to put him out with a broom

My goitre problem got in the way (I sleep naked?)

Very quickly
OuchOuchOuchOuch
In four colours

Ey up!One morning

There's loot at my place

It's my shit wrapped in plastic

Horse's in fishnets

Spare a drop in one's mouth
It's a very grand beer dance

I like my beer in a big glass

And spew
OooOooOooOoo
Come on you Indians in your igloos
That's life for me

Repeat twice...
Me

Repeat four times...
That's life for me

Repeat twice...

Ey up!The mother

Is larger than a panel

What a vibration

And a voyage through passion
Be my dirty passenger

And ride in my lime Combi

You are King of the divan
OhOhOhOh
I'm King of the divan

That's life for me

Repeat twice...

Ey up!Occupy me

Touch my trinkets

Touch my little house plant

It's not today that I wish to talk of tambourines

Or the head of a mannequin
YeahYeahYeahYeah
That's life for me

Repeat thrice...

Ey up!My Nana's the best

She's bizzarre

Marry me

And carry my case

Lever me onto the bar

My life force will come for a grand cocktail
Oh yeah

YeahYeahYeah
Dance on the plate

That's life for me

My life for me

© Bonzai Culture Club

Plastic Bertrand (real name Roger Jouret) Had one massive hit in 1977 with "Ca Plane Pour Moi" and probably remains one of the most famous Belgians.

In his free time Plastic cultivated his secret passion for scrabble - he recently played the world champion and won and has secured a place on the panel of the Festival of Board Games.These days (when not scrabbling), Plastic keeps himself busy with his own art gallery, where he has hosted a show dedicated to bovine beauty.

He has also relaunched himself as a record producer promoting new talent alongside classical music from the 'Russia of the Tzars' (his mother is Ukranian).

they came in through the kitchen window...

Actually, they squeezed in under the kitchen window... ;oP

blossom

bushwalking