july 3 ingham. top spruik. four large to another owner who will fly at her show stall. good to overcome the bad feelings from my previous ingham encounter. walked through show in preparation. again met bloke with flag stall. he gets current large for $1.80!!!! would only stock mine at $5. no can do. so i parkedup in town to avoid biting bugs and endured the traffic noise. under gnarly fig, branches with staghorn epiphytes, shaded as sun sat, rested. july 4 myriad stars, southern cross setting, cane trains rumbled by in the night. then early past can and cattle, forrest [View Full Entry]

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june 27 lump below breastbone as i lay abed. eight a.m doctor said hernia! (which later doctor sain no hernia) got hose fixed on carly. drove past bowen. stopped by tomato fields and gathered a few. short stop in ayr for furious fulfilling spruik. north with traffic to townsville where library now wants $8 per hour internet when last year was free. massive mirvac construction at marina. shower door open but. parkedup my favorite spot overlooking strand and maggie. cleaned up glass and tinnies. brahminy kite. this blog has lost its edge. lonliness, boredom. white gaped honeyeater. as i read ob [View Full Entry]

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june 18 another day same carpark. more better still. finally at 1 pm said to a bloke as i stuck sticker on his car that i'd been lucky not to be told to leave when centre manager cme up and did it. oh well. i'd had enough anyway. tomorrow northwards. june 19 markets in center of maryborough. one bloke got four handwavers for his shop. cheap veggies. went north, stopped childers for two hours. on to gladstone and marina where two boats got burgees and one woman got large and flew! june 20 early at marina. same woman got two more [View Full Entry]

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june 12 seems my last blog recorded as may. oops. june 13 walk with twitchers. noisy friarbird, little wattlebird, rainbow lorikeet, wagtail, magpie lark, turtle dove, little friarbird, magpie, brown honeyeater, blackfaced cookooshrike, bluefaced honeyeater, white ibis, masked lapwing, striated breast/yellow beak(unidentified), variegated fairywren m/f, redbacked wren, whitefaced heron, female roufous whistleer, crows, currawong, grey butcherbird(call). 10,000 stickers arrive!!!!! grey butcherbird as i packed car riverside lake wayba drive. everything fit snugly. 14,000 on board. june 14 [View Full Entry]

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may 6 awake to the exquisite sound of butcherbird. afternoon drive to woodford. good spruik as festival campers set up. later told by security to stop. went to opening ceremony. bought cotton drawstring pants from 'ozkat'. excellent. may 7 went into woodford to try town as festival carpark forbidden. extraordinary result. thirty or more handwavers and dozens of cars stickered, brissie, sunshine coast and local. back to mooloolaba for shower and footy. may 8 relaxed day, routine of coffee, spruik and cook. may 9 drove to caloundra. no good spruik spot. on way back eureka flag flying from [View Full Entry]

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may 30 torrential rain. went to twitchers. no walk. bikkies and tea. lunch and library. email from service provider. $180 for hosting. pub and footy. more rain. may 31 enviro day at uni sunshine coast cancelled. went to maleny. rain held off til two. back to mooloolaba for footy. june 1 to brissie for soccoroos at suncorp stadium. again rain held off. spruiking poor. game good. lots of chances, both sides. kewell header on 47 minutes won it. at end hung 3x5 meter flag from balcony. beer to let traffic subside. rain arrived for drive back to mooloolaba. june 2 another [View Full Entry]

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may 19 today i sat parkedup four hours, paralysed, transfixed. has the dreaming ended? is the campaign over? is there a way forward? i stare at failure. yet it was restorative, recuperative and maybe necessary to reevaluate, regroup, reexamine the strategy. morning in library, jon from merimbula got large, four burgee and 14 stickers. slowly i accept loss of all emails. and here now 5:30 sun set, still, coast to northward outlined in gold and blue,mt cooroy, a pyramid, mt coolum. and the saga of life continues as little fish jump and skitter along surface to escape predation. who knows the [View Full Entry]

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may 14 stressed over call from website host. lost number and felt i needed to contact them or they'd cut me off. multiple difficulties too much to elaborate. great sail with john and keith. lovely day. later at pub keith figured out how i could connect with host. the dark cloud lifted a bit. i still have the problem of lost emails and reconnecting with suppliers. also looks like the latest batch of stickers has fading red. not happy. difficulties make the difference between glass half full and half empty. may 15 cloud of confusion lifting. met john and wife on [View Full Entry]

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may 10 more sticker mania snapper rocks. overlooked surf collective on the waves parkedup among that landscape of parked cars, patched tarmac and surfers intent on waves. found supporters. fine and dry, my windscreen barely fogged last night. humidity has been so great mould colonised back window. now here's a spot that could use some trees, red earth scraped for unknown purpose, constructing a flat spot perhaps. may 11 point danger. snapper rocks smoked oyster pasta. humdrone of cars coming in looking for a park. mild day. coluds forming. large flag flying rainbow beach corner unit third f [View Full Entry]

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may 3 spruik mccauleys beach for mass support. cleaned again and amazed at how much trash i kept finding. encountered colin feral bleeding bare feet with duffel bag full of trash he'd gathered from bushland. onya mate! lunch more spruik, more stories. bloke looking for me 'long time' got sticker. girl in ute came by wanting flag and sticker, did chant!!! i can feel the momentum. may 4 long lovely day. dreaming track of beaches, sunday market and endless chats with ozmerican 'henry' of shaved ice fame. we had so much in common even our watches and having found fifty dollars [View Full Entry]

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