april 30 portmacquarie chilly night, warm sunny day spruik. wonderful support, reports of sightings. wedgetail eagle above the esturary. all good. then up thru kempsey to scottshead where russel was away and jan had flu. may 1 early to bellingen blitz - overwhelming support. backpacker bloke hung flag and let me cook lunch in kitchen! short ride to coffs for harbour spruik. overcast. may too. prosperous suburb parkup, dark night heavy cloud. morning in marina, onya coffs. sunny barby where two women got large for flagpole woolgoolga! and one woman i fell in love with at first sight and s [View Full Entry]

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april 26 clear sky. washed pants. doncurry spruik excellent in carpark at north breakwater. and much later as sun over estuarine wonderland flock of jabiru wheeled and shone white. oyster farms and power boats flying green red and yellow pennant clustered for evening. sunny all day and my pants dried, simple pleasure. april 27 all day spruik, much wlaking, good result where white middle class plays. children, families holidaying, heaps of waterbirds. young girl caught a fish. voice seemingly carried against the light breeze. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. april 28 forster threatened [View Full Entry]

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april 24 early trash pickup. overcast. solid spruik. hotel adventure papers, poppyseed muffins and carrotcake. mr richardson room twelve. instant departure and flagflying food shop opposite corner making four intown!!! another exercise session (like washing windows) spruik. good fun and photo for calendar, sticker back of vw combi next to old flag sticker, blue and pink shirted bloke ------- boogieboarders in the surf. april 25 anzac rally. well attended. 'sacrifice' and 'family' got mentions as did the christian god. having studied the story of war one wonders how so much suffering should [View Full Entry]

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april 22 more rainy, everyone's freaking. early to cafe coffee for dry place and read news. library more dry. then out route 3 to go north. major blockage on f3, i uturned back thru hornsby lunch kfc and 83 north there was a trooper blocking access 15k north. snaking line on the old road finally descended to brooklyn where i turned off to stumble upon tiny town. lite rain, i had to walk and had fun spruik, met donald and friends who got flag. they had sumptuous plate of seafood and white wine which i was invited to join. high calibre [View Full Entry]

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april 20 showers. sunday morning spruik, exercise entertainment and met daniel ozfrench vive la republic. flat white and fun he's inviting me to speak at the francophone club! if i'm hereabouts. then lunch it's been so long since i could dook on a barby, pittwater views those national park hills majestic in their greenery. on to bilgola where rebellion showed, bloke flying curreent flag minus union jack. i took shots for calendar. classic. 'my australia'. clouds rolling steadily from south, pleasant but. and great weather for shady walking. two eagles harassed by a smaller dark bird. magpie c [View Full Entry]

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april 15 the good stuff. rainy. now three shops rosebay flagging. $8 thai lunch on damp day dry in patches. parkedup s/c view east houses on hill bushland at tip. saw foil boat kids go out in a.m. in lite airs they planed. watch goint to newport from today. they set out in the book like a dry run for the boer war, so not much has changed 'cept the environmental cost of armies unsustainable. kev wants japan and india into security council. it's not a broad enough ambit. add brazil pakistan nigeria and indonesia for starters and veto by and [View Full Entry]

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april 11 parkedup early, cleanedup around y/c, dragged road sign from muck. then the truck came and compacted it. good fun. spruik around rosebay four handwavwers went out! mellow, almost knew the way, drive to waterloo where mark had 4200 stickers for $500. they're already printed on the back. cost him much more. car driving like tank with large load of supplies. looking north. for now rushcuttersbay boats bobbing lite southerly. carpark spruik rosebay good. then watsonsbay for becks. april 12 early pickup the gap. bouncer told me last nite two a week suicide here! rosebay carpark good. ha [View Full Entry]

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april 8 pasta for brekky. payment to clear flags. they'll be here tomorrow. bit of a runaround to say the least. spruik manuka and kingston. library and when i came out there were two slices of cheesecake sitting on table. more than lunch. lakeside black swan stood before me bright red beak, white line across snout. red eyes, black pupils. strong legs powerful webbed swimmers. white underwings hidden, all black and that funny swirl of feathers on butt. so i did library time again. internet and email. read der spiegel. emerged into nite. drank my coopers vintage 7.5% at yc. read [View Full Entry]

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mar 27 flight day freezing cold nite. turned to cold bright day. cold still. entered high court five members sitting on matters including tax. most enjoyable after chill lakeside wait for nine fortyfive opening. barby and pack. what would i need? or forget. pre flight angst. parking em's front yard and walk to fourfifty aged ride to airport. first stoped in pine park heard the chortle of some birds, call of the crow. canbra time. cries of pink galah. cyclers and walkers. traffic in the backdrop. mar 28 time with kate. dinner at sati's mother india restaurant. mar 29 breakfast with [View Full Entry]

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mar 20 happy people, black and blue birds red beak and pate. is baldness a biological advantage, better heat loss. in the case of the birds greater protection for foraging or fighting. fed rate minus threequarters, that's another tool being consumed, the strength of the usdolllar, that's gotta fuel inflation. fifty dollar recharge. stagflation. five out of five in carpark got stickers! and i rattled on about ten million trees and woman with streaked hair and handsome partner said stand in front of old parliament house, spruik parliament house! for now but it's wind gusts making silver leaves [View Full Entry]

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