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ChrisB ... Try the Trove site, they have most newspapers online.

Derek H, eat your heart out, you too Rasta.

Farrelly showed up one night at the Bronte surf club when Bob Evans was running a movie and he was subjected to a round of ribald jesting from a roomful of southerners unfamiliar with him. He was gone by interval and rumour had it that he took three hours to find Bondi Junction. That must have been ...

Farrelly was a dancer in the surf, every move was connected, instinctively measured, done with grace. He was so sure of his momentum power wasn’t necessary.

Here you go salty, this is what happens where I live now ... Albert is known as The Commodore around here. This is folklore. The Commodore. He owns a property called Happy Hollows. The Commodore has a fifteen tree orchard on his acres - mostly mandarins, oranges, pecans and grapefruit. These trees a...

Trev .. more

Spoon, late November ...

this was the day after ..

https://peterbowes.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/bj13.jpg

I remember that day - McCoy didn't get any shots.

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I did.

Steve, a Chinese feed at Cromer, and a flat battery in the Nissan for afters.

We did it for noodles. ‘ Here, you can have this camera, ‘ Don hands over a scarred DC50 Kodak digital and half a dozen Nickcad batteries . OK says Larry*, arms folded, and whose last camera was a Box Brownie. ‘ Plus all this Photoshop software, Adobe stuff, A1, dead easy to use. ‘ Don hands over a...

One man v the rest.

Exactly.

Stuey in a nutshell.

Why?

Where do you get this 'misty eyed' bullshit from?

.... Don gave me my first break as a writer, Clif the second. Shearer and I boosted each other's websites for Jewfish, Nettle owes me the two schooners I bought him at Avalon when Kurungabaa was in the wind. Ringy is a brother, as is deadman and braithy, saltman, BigAl, Fong . We used to take the pi...

Old bastard just finished writing a spy novel, Clif, on the porch and under a cloud of smoke. Took 4.5 years. Reading old emails with a cup of coffee every now and then kept the feet on the ground.

This place has the best credentials in the business .. nobody has been around longer, and Stu has been known to behave irrationally when Shearer claims superiority. Nick Carroll on the other hand comes from Newport, which is half-way to Avalon and a long way from Broken Head.