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look to the sky
I have a postcard of a fantastic painting by Goya - "The sleep of reason produces monsters" - next to my computer. I now know it’s about rejecting the Inquisition but I always saw it as dreaming a gothic story, better even than William Blake. I’ve always loved daydreaming, cloud watching. This cow has got it all.
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toy
If you asked me I would have said as a kid I didn’t like dolls. I know for sure I coveted my brother’s toys, a lot. I’ve been scanning old slides of my Mum’s and there is a pic of me at the Mick Simmons staff and family xmas party. I had been given this doll from Santa and I am so overjoyed. Mick Simmons is a sporting goods company, funny we never seemed to have any sporting goods. I learnt to ride on my sisters size 28 Malvern Star pushie. None of us could reach the seat. Dad said we’d grow into it.
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edible fruits
I’ve discovered pears. Bananas were off the menu for ages because of drought/flood/cyclones (don’t mention climate change) so I branched out. Pears have great names and colours - Buerre Bosc, Red Anjou, Faccia Bella but I’m happy with a Bartlett or Pakham.
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wild swan
This is an old tin toy I have, I love it. I snapped it with my phone. I’d love to have a tin toy of a black swan, like the ones here. I seem to have photographed a lot of swans lately. They are everywhere, often with big, uncomfortable, white and black metal collars with huge identifying numbers and letters. Like the scientists doing the swan survey are blind. P for pen and C for cob. “Come in P76, your time is up.” we yell. They hiss and splutter.
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a bath time tempo
To me, there is nothing better than lolling in a hot bath reading a book. When I was really into an un-put-down-able book I would even read it in the shower. It never worked. My ebook has destroyed all that, of course. Oh brave new world. The Manly-Warringah Library had just opened when we moved there as a kid. My sister read out the kids’ library and got a special letter from the head librarian enabling her to go into the adults section. Did I ever want that too. From that point on I read every book so fast that my retention rate is about 25%. This can be handy as I can enjoy a book and not even know I’ve read it before until at least a quarter of the way through.
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in the house
I never used to clean my house much. The occasional big clean up followed by weeks of sloth. Now I vacuum, enjoy washing up, make the bed, I even fold my clothes.
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up all night
Last weekend I finally came to the conclusion that mornings are not for me. I knew this of course but somehow it slipped my mind when I agreed to meet my sister at the Middle Brighton pier at 6.30am.
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re-focus
I’ve given in and been downloading a few songs from iTunes. It is quick but not satisfying.
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eating greens
I love vegies, growing them especially. However, the only vegetables I liked when I was little were the ones that could remain edible after being boiled for half a millennia. Raw was good. Our dog was an essential meal time accessory when I was young. He would eat most things but never boiled spinach, boiled brussel sprouts or boiled cauliflower. If you weren’t paying attention you would end up with more of these on your plate than when you started. Peas were reconstituted as were potatoes although sometimes they were tinned.
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dreams
When the dogs dream, they run in their sleep. Even the Pug. This photo is of my neighbour’s gate. Because I was trying to be casual tacking the pic, I acted furtive and suspicious instead, like I was spying. I had to go back three times to get the photo I liked. It is dreamy though. Who knew you could dream in brown.
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dalek
The most terrified I can remember being as a kid was in grade 3 at the school fete. The older kids set up a ghost house in the hall. It was pitch black and they came at my best friend Jane and I from everywhere. We escalated the terror in each other. I knew it was just the older kids tickling us but I was screaming hysterically, completely off the scale. By the time we finally found the exit, we knew we’d endured something really momentous. A couple of times I really panicked while nearly drowning, out of my depth, at the beach. My hysterical thrashing made it harder for my sister to save me, I pushed her under a few times even, but still the ghost house seems worse. I can’t remember if it was before or after that day I collected glow in the dark spiders. Anyway, as a kid I loved ghost stories and my Dad stalking us kids through the house as the mummy from The Curse of the Mummy. As for Daleks, I adore them.
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baby powder
My Uncle Brian, the industrial chemist, worked for Johnson & Johnson’s for a while. My Dad told me once that Brian created the formula for Johnson’s Baby Powder but after googling it, and realizing it is a huge American multi-national, I strongly doubt it. When Brian worked at Peters, Dad also told me that their ice cream contained cardboard. I believed that too and kinda still do. So, there you go. Ants don’t like baby powder as it’s fine, like ground glass (it cuts their little toes).
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are we there yet?
A while ago I nearly had a car crash because I was trying to work out what was on the road up ahead of me. Carrots. Lately, I’ve been finding myself with eyes transfixed on the DVD playing in the back seat to the kids in the car a lane over. Now that would have been so cool. Our family played numberplates and I spy. My Dad liked Dean Martin, Andy Williams and sometimes Frank Sinatra. Once when my brother and I were teenagers, we convinced Dad he had to play one of our tapes and we got to listen to The Clash’s "Julies Been Working for the Drug Squad" in the back seat of his big Ford for the entire song. Mum and Dad really regretted it.
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hyperactive
The time I was truly hyperactive was at my ninth birthday party. It was a bit too much, the expectation and being centre of attention. Mum had made these ice cream cones with Aeroplane Jelly in them. The party, complete with an enormous chocolatey spread, was in the dining room. We only ever ate in the dining room on special occasions. Somehow I led the party in throwing the jelly cones at the curtains. If I get a bit worked this incident up.
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