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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Buddy
This is Buddy. He is well named. He was my Dad’s horse and he used to follow Dad everywhere. Dad would be working in the shed and there would be Buddy standing right next to him. Buddy is an Australian … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Bush Life, Horses
Tagged Australian Stock Horse, Buddy, First Fleet, Scone, Waler
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Confluence of the Page and the Isis – Part 1
I live four kilometres from the confluence of the Page and Isis Rivers. Less as the crow flies. I pass within 500 metres of it every time I drive either to or from home. As the recently published report, Hunter … Continue reading
Posted in Aboriginal History
Tagged bora ground, carved trees, Gamilaraay, Gundy, Hunter Estates, Isis River, Kamilaroi, Page River, William Ridley
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Old Man Wallaroo
I saw him this afternoon. And he saw me.
When the humans and the dog are away…
We’ve been away from the farm for 17 days, only got home late the other night. The next morning I found only 4mm of rain in the gauge; and I found this. I know who’s been on my front step … Continue reading
Gundy Cemetery – disquieting use of Armco and other metal
In both, the graves seem to extend above the ground. Dirt within a barrier of Armco. Air within an open metal casket, stood resolutely on bare dirt. A disconcerting DIY aesthetic…Someone has made these in great sadness in their shed.
Strange heterotopia on the edge of the Gundy that never was
Heterotopia is a concept of real spaces of otherness conceived by the philosopher Michel Foucault. The Gundy Cemetery is a fair way out of town. An almost two kilometre drive out on Merrimuka Road, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Dogs
Tagged cemetery, Foucault, Gundy, heterotopia, St Matthew's Gundy.
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A tale of two paddocks
Adjoining paddocks beside the New England Hwy, on the edge of Muswellbrook. That’s the first above, you’ll find the second below. I love this old tank stand and these old stockyards. But I guess their days are numbered… Turn and … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Bush Life
Tagged coal mines, Muswellbrook, rural urban development
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Dogs on the Backs of Utes 3
Down near our yards, the lovely Figgy, one of my neighbour’s dogs, waits for him on the back of his ute. She’s Kelpie with a touch of New Zealand Huntaway on her dad’s side. He being a handsome fellow who … Continue reading
10,000 years at Camberwell
Aboriginal occupation of the Hunter Valley began at least 20,000 years ago. Further to my previous post on the coal mining threat to Camberwell, the archaeological evidence is that Aboriginal occupation around Camberwell is one of the longest in the … Continue reading
Country Life and Death 