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Lunch at Tanpopo - Bento Boxing, and Notes for another day

Lunch at Tanpopo - Bento Boxing, and Notes for another day

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Last week the penultimate page in my sketch book was this louche sketch of the salad and miso soup, the two sized stacks of plates. It is all pretty hazy, as if it wasn't quite real, the looseness of each item an aid to remember it rather than the scene itself.  We both had bento boxes, and they
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Night Blossoming Heaters -

Night Blossoming Heaters -

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The night blossoming heater, like some wild weed, has invaded sidewalks cafes and pizza places in Sydney. During the day they are mostly mere observors, small metallic umbrellas that are short on shade. By night they flare up, big bunsen burners, radiant efflorescence of blue, yellow and red.  While they make pavement tables a cosier proposition, I am
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Crocodile Tears and the River Nile

Crocodile Tears and the River Nile

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For reasons both practical and nostalgic, I bought this gift set of vintage Nile Hankies. For running noses, yes - oi there it goes - come back Nose* - no  I mean of course the nose that leaks a bit when the legs are running, or one might say, joins in that game. Unlike its modern counterpart, the
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Buried Treasure - Dig Deep, Plant and leave: Jolly Rotten

Buried Treasure - Dig Deep, Plant and leave: Jolly Rotten

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My friend found this mysterious item on the beach, I gravitated to it last Friday. It was cold and windy, the sky was organising itself for a serious Nil Visibility Deluge. Intrigued and careless of warnings about the smell, I took it home, leaving it out in the rain. Next day at sea..... as they say... It had
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Egg Sitting Strategy

Egg Sitting Strategy

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A while back Bart Brassica fancied himself as a Chicken Scientist, and set out to cross a Black Orpington with a Leghorn to get really large eggs.  The Leghorns avoided Bart to such an extent that one day the whole flock of them walked over to Granny Eggwhistle's place, where she invited them into her hen house. The
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Orchids Showing Off - As I was going to St Ives

Orchids Showing Off - As I was going to St Ives

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Setting off on Friday to St Ives  Showground for the annual Orchid Show the rain blitzing Wakehurst Parkway in that unpleasant, now-you-see the-road now-you-dont-way, I gave up on the prospect of a pleasant treat and waited to Saturday's better weather.  While the Orchid Show is certainly not drawing the chi-chi crowd I loved the displays, the orchids, the
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A Shoe-In: No 1. Words that sound like what they do.

A Shoe-In: No 1. Words that sound like what they do.

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Like many words 'shoe' starts to sound odd if you say it for a while, it starts to shuffle along like slippers, leave meaning's room, shooed out, showing signs of wear and tear, as the open 'oe's fade to leave the 'sh'.  And saying that suggests some conflation between the foot's sole and and toe, to make up
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Mayfair Mornings' Chancey Re-Do as Skid Row

Mayfair Mornings' Chancey Re-Do as Skid Row

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This wheat paste is past it's use by date, peeled and peeling corners, faded text, but you get the gist. It's Newtown, a grungier lane behind The Hub ( what would that be called now?) but it does seem very Brit. This wheat paste is past it's use by date, peeled and peeling corners, faded text, but you
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A Short Walk in the Hillocky Moss

A Short Walk in the Hillocky Moss

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A boat shaped Japanese dish, bearing an unseen cargo of gold fish, two types of moss - one in spore the other not, a woman anonymous in her coat perpetually afloat on the breeze made by her forward progress, sunlight powering chlorophyll, add up to a short walk in the hillocky moss.A boat shaped Japanese dish, bearing an
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Out for a Duck ?

Out for a Duck ?

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  The sketch from Thursday night's dinner at Billie Swings might nearly be one of those New Yorker style cartoon captioning capers. For example  " What is this Duck Wall Dorf? " or " That's the last time I go out with the Ducks Mother!" On the food front my  duck liver parfait with fresh lime for starters
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Job Lot of Express Draw - Bridges, Bus Types, Scenes from the Garden

Job Lot of Express Draw - Bridges, Bus Types, Scenes from the Garden

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   The Express Draw app is one of my favourite bus and train diversions, though this set might suggest I should catch public transport more often to get some practice it. What is it that makes the symetry function yield such rigidly sinister faces?     The Express Draw app is one of my favourite bus and train
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Mighty Like a Rose - Mavis Eggwhistle's Tag

Mighty Like a Rose - Mavis Eggwhistle's Tag

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Mavis Eggwhistle, as readers might remember, has a flower shop. Mavis has decided to redoctor The Whistle-Stop Floriste, in a edgey urban style but with a floral theme, so she has painted the side wall with pink climbing roses and jonquils, what she calls street art. Her cousin Betty-Lui Whistle has told her it looks more like wrapping
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Bart Brassica and the Wild-Eyed Pindos Pony

Bart Brassica and the Wild-Eyed Pindos Pony

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For some time Bart Brassica has nursed the notion that he could turn what he calls the Three Acres Corrall   into either a Dude Ranch or a replica of The Painted Dessert. One of the limitations of having one eye, is that Bart is no judge of distance and the Corrall is not much bigger than a
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Azul Press - First Issue of Azul's international literary magazine

Azul Press - First Issue of Azul's international literary magazine

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Azul Press, a Dutch based international literary publisher have released the first issue of their e-zine Azul, it will be published twice a year and is available for free from Azul Press. (www.azulpress.com) The e-zine  includes poetry, prose and one or more portfolios of art and/or photography.eaturing work by poets and visual artists.  The work is published in
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Louring Sky Heightened by Clouds

Louring Sky Heightened by Clouds

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Late Sunday afternoon, coming out of Art Gallery of NSW, a little heady already from a largish dose of images, the whole kaleidoscopic effect of jamming Margaret Olly on top of Sol del Witt, Christo, Simyrn Gill, Jeff Koons  to say just a few, the dizzy orientation of it slightly countered by a soothing visit to the lady
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Five Eight Time

Five Eight Time

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The new Tama drum kit in the music room, cymbals holding their brass faces, expectant, to the sky, while two pairs of sticks, parked on the bass drums, wait. A brush holds still, out of sight, while I scribble this in the gaps of audio editing. The new Tama drum kit in the music room, cymbals holding their
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I Shall Wear a Crown!

I Shall Wear a Crown!

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This emphatic crowning sticker, crows its suave curves curbside at the corner of Spit and Ourimbah Road in Mosman. True ephemera there was a flurry of these stickers around Cremorne and Nuetural Bay, duecedly neat things that weep colour when it rains.This emphatic crowning sticker, crows its suave curves curbside at the corner of Spit and Ourimbah Road
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Wombats of Bundanon - Translating 20 Australian Poets into Chinese

Wombats of Bundanon - Translating 20 Australian Poets into Chinese

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Wombats of Bundanon, translating a generous selection of Australian poets into Chinese is just out from Association of Stories of Macau, China  and Cerberus Press, Australia. It is part of an ongoing program of translating Australian poetry organised by Kit Kelen and a team of wonderful translators from the University of  Macau. I'm pleased to have six poems
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Faulkner's Blue Period

Faulkner's Blue Period

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This is the 23rd after-Robert-Capa sketch I've done,Faulkner in his blue phase, which I believe lasted for his whole life, or at leastwise as long has he had a type-writer.This is the 23rd after-Robert-Capa sketch I've done,Faulkner in his blue phase, which I believe lasted for his whole life, or at leastwi... This is the 23rd after-Robert-Capa sketch
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Where the expression is unreadable ?

Where the expression is unreadable ?

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.Continuing my pursuit of catching Robert Capa's oevre in Prussian Blue, this drawing of a captured German officer, the details of the three eagles on each side of his collar, the swastika monogrammed below the eagle insignia on the breast of his coat, make a strange conundrum with the headscarf and woollen mittens. Naturally it is snow white
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The Mathematics of Decision Making

The Mathematics of Decision Making

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Like one of those problems that ask; if a man buys three bottles of ginger beer, and saves $2.77 how much does each bottle cost and what kind of equation is this?  A quadratic perhaps?.  This nifty number conundrum seemed to be a test by the Shell Service Station in Davidson about altruism. Ginger beer was bought (
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