Tuesday 22 January 2013


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AeKimjRIn0
Clancy Brothers

The sun has got his hat on, hip hip hurray.....

I'm bound for South Australia.

I read recently a story by Australia writer David Malouf about a boy reaching manhood in a small town in the Outback, west of Brisbane.
Comparisons with the settling of the US are unavoidable. It could easily have been a tale of growing up in a town, coughed up by the railroad, in back-of-beyond Montana around-about the middle of the 19th century; life clinging on by slender roots carved out of a wilderness, though not entirely without hope....but I couldn't get my head round the fact that Malouf was writing about Australia, in the 1960's.
It seems Australia may have more surprises for me as I venture south of the Equator for the first time.

Ready to go now, though my spirit has already gone on ahead; the price of anticipation. Tomorrow I'll fold up my body, turn the pilot light down and endure the journey in a state of near hibernation locked into a confined space, patiently watching the ticking of a clock in stop-overs until welcomed by friends and the bright light of Down Under.

The sun has got his hat and he's coming out to play...

Listen carefully to this familiar song by Tom Waits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkThaBWa5c
Tom Waits

I suspect I will have to listen intently in order to 'see' the real Australia....