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[3KZ is Football]

News out of the U.S. is going to be bizarre and deeply distressing for the foreseeable future. My coping strategy will involve not reading about U.S. politics, while at the same time advocating and hoping that here in Australia, we don’t go down the same path. The American people will reap the whirlwind, courtesy of those who elected Trump.

 

[moginie]

#@$%!

Opinion | Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt

To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.

www.nytimes.com

I've had to put an embargo on the news in the last few days and it will probably extend for a couple more as I'm struggling not to get angry when I hear the voice of that disgraceful man.

"You reap what you sow". And I really don't like the harvest the US is reaping.

 

[Pamcake1]

40 years since the release. They are playing Bendigo tonight. Would love to go but I've got a house guest. Last days in the country now after of over a month of holidays.
Ok agreed on the Orange person embago.

 

[moginie]

40 years since the release. They are playing Bendigo tonight. Would love to go but I've got a house guest. Last days in the country now after of over a month of holidays.
Ok agreed on the Orange person embago.

They were brilliant at that stage. Saw them half a dozen times I reckon between 82 and 84. Still a great party album.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Love these old buses.

 

[moginie]

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Love these old buses.

We had some similar in Sydney when I was very young. I think they were phased out by 1975.

 

[3KZ is Football]

We had some similar in Sydney when I was very young. I think they were phased out by 1975.

The one in the top photo was taken in Box Hill and is headed to Lower Templestowe. The one in the bottom photo was taken outside the Bedford road shops in East Kew in 1978 and was heading into town. These were the oldest buses in service when I was growing up. I used to catch the bottom one to get to school - Garden City via Port Melbourne and home Bulleen via North Kew. These buses were running until the late 70’s and were pretty much off the road by 1981. It was a great bus route. From Bulleen it ran through Kew, through Studley Park, over the Yarra, straight up Johnston street through Collingwood, Fitzroy and Carlton. Took a left at Lygon street and headed into town via Russell street. Handy, especially if you were wagging school and ‘forgot’ to get off in Kew.

 

[3KZ is Football]

While we are in the late 70’s …

 

[moginie]

While we are in the late 70’s …

Such a cute little tune.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Such a cute little tune.

Elvis Costello wrote it and Dave Edmunds was the first to record it and made it his own. Elvis Costello released his own version, but by then the Dave Edmunds version was embedded.

 

[moginie]

Elvis Costello wrote it and Dave Edmunds was the first to record it and made it his own. Elvis Costello released his own version, but by then the Dave Edmunds version was embedded.

I don't think I ever knew who wrote it. This is during Edmunds' stint in Rockpile with Nick Lowe, isn't it?

 

[3KZ is Football]

I don't think I ever knew who wrote it. This is during Edmunds' stint in Rockpile with Nick Lowe, isn't it?

Yep. I was reading about them today on Wikipedia and in true music industry fashion they were signed to different labels and couldn’t put out a record until 1980, having played together for four or so years.

Here is the Elvis Costello version. It’s different.

 

[moginie]

Here is the Elvis Costello version. It’s different.

But so distinctly him. Such a wonderfully diverse performer. Mrs m put me on to the album he did with the Brodsky Quartet shortly after we met. Just so clever.

 

[3KZ is Football]

But so distinctly him. Such a wonderfully diverse performer. Mrs m put me on to the album he did with the Brodsky Quartet shortly after we met. Just so clever.

Elvis Costello is a genius. I always had him pegged as a great ‘singles’ artist - with so many monstrously great releases in that 1977 - 1980 period. Then he released Spike in 1989 and my appreciation of him really deepened.



“That Charlie Sedarka was a-playing the piano
like he was pawing a dirty book
He bit a hole in his big bottom lip and gave his
very best little boy look”

- This Town

 

[3KZ is Football]

 

[Pamcake1]

My holidays:

I got up at dawn to watch sunrises.



I ate a lot of coleslaw as my friend gave me cabbages, zuccinis, fresh garlic and spring onions from her garden twice.



Played soccer with Bob the dog and went walking every morning.



The micro bats (the black lumps) come out if it gets too hot in the gaps between the tin and the veranda rafters but they run the gauntlet with the Currawong if spotted.



The English lavender was harvested and layed out to dry on the west veranda.



Afternoon visitors.



The white peaches were delicious, we havested them last night and I have a couple of kilos to get through, the smell of them in the car was divine.



One of the two Bunya pines in my sisters oasis.



Friend and I took a picnic of chicken sandwiches, ham & cheese ones and cuppas to Buda to have under the oak tree.
Buda ( https://budacastlemaine.org/ )
I first went there in the 1970's when the last owner was still alive at the age of 94 and met her.
Haven't been there for a decade and went there 3 times this time, two for picnics as it is the perfect place that no one thinks of doing that at.


More of the peach tree....I will be stewing and freezing mine for future breakfasts.



I had a fantastic time and might have to move back to the country for my dottage but for now back to the grindstone.

 

[3KZ is Football]

That looks like a beautiful way to spend some summer Pamcake1. I hope you feel fantastic.

 

[3KZ is Football]

I went to the Invasion Day Rally in Melbourne today. Great turnout. It was its own kind of antidote. Lots of young people and energy.

 

[Pamcake1]

That looks like a beautiful way to spend some summer Pamcake1. I hope you feel fantastic.

A true holiday for the first time since before Covid days. I feel vunderbar!
Hope you & yours had a good hols and got to the beach and Mogs & family too.

 

[3KZ is Football]

A true holiday for the first time since before Covid days. I feel vunderbar!
Hope you & yours had a good hols and got to the beach and Mogs & family too.

Yep. I had a week of this. Back to Melbourne last Thursday.

 

[Pamcake1]

I went to the Invasion Day Rally in Melbourne today. Great turnout. It was its own kind of antidote. Lots of young people and energy.

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Gazza doesn't look great but the rally does, as you say it's own antidote. I ate vegemite on fresh buttered roll as my banal tribute and vacuumed for 5 hours, installed the air-purifier my sister gave me and washed all the bedding, I stopped at going through my wardrobe...all while playing analogue albums.

 

[Pamcake1]

Yep. I had a week of this. Back to Melbourne last Thursday.
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Excellent that does look superb.

 

[moginie]

3KZ is Football is that Gary Foley in your top photo? I've never imagined him growing old!

Pamcake1 your holiday sounds wonderful. Hope you are truly invigorated by it.

In comparison I've had an interesting period; read six books already this year and a play by Ibsen, taken the cat to the vet twice and watched the preview of the film I'm in.

After all these years, work just might be picking up.

Have a great week folks.

And change the date.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Gazza doesn't look great but the rally does, as you say it's own antidote. I ate vegemite on fresh buttered roll as my banal tribute and vacuumed for 5 hours, installed the air-purifier my sister gave me and washed all the bedding, I stopped at going through my wardrobe...all while playing analogue albums.

No he doesn’t. He alluded to his mortality in his speech. He said he has largely lost his sight and can no longer read. Mentioned the fact that he will be dead and others need to step up.

Your day actually sounds like a good day!

 

[3KZ is Football]

3KZ is Football is that Gary Foley in your top photo? I've never imagined him growing old!

Pamcake1 your holiday sounds wonderful. Hope you are truly invigorated by it.

In comparison I've had an interesting period; read six books already this year and a play by Ibsen, taken the cat to the vet twice and watched the preview of the film I'm in.

After all these years, work just might be picking up.

Have a great week folks.

And change the date.

Yes it is Gary Foley. He looked crook.