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#5 Wanda • Wednesday 7 June – Wednesday 21 June 2017

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Welcome to Wanda

Moi I am forever indebted to Sarah THE COVER
our fabulous regular writers. When the moon hits your
Sarah has a full time job, a This issue introduces a new It was my idea to kick start eye like a big pizza pie;
man, a pet and a life that she columnist (well it’s actually this, the Bundy Echo. My aunty
is missing out on because she two). Food Dude (Neville) and lives here now and she has a that’s amore.
spends every one of her spare his apprentice, Jude. Why he lifetime of experience in media Collage by local artist,
minutes on Bundy Echo. She just can’t just say his name is but she was floundering. It has
has not danced in a month Neville will always bewilder been an amazing experience Marlies Oakley.
(that is her thing). I am her me, but what ever floats your for me, very different to my 48cm x 38cm
aunty and I love her to bits. boat, dude. usual routine but, as aunty (framed) $195
Mandy has said, it’s too ArtPlus
Sarah is bowing out with Mr Pinball amuses us. And much for me right now. But I
my blessing, support and we are publishing Alicia Otto’s love what we have achieved 15 Electra Street
understanding. take on the Bundaberg life. We together. Looking forward to Bundaberg
also showcase another swamp being with my favs again. 4151 4665
BUT Bundy Echo will artist, Gail Thomas, who just
survive. LOOKING FOR AN nailed the Blackwood. artplus.net.au
INTERN.
It is so great that our local
Back to ‘Wanda’ . . . we have photographers are sending us
such good material. How good their fav pix.
is it to sit in your favourite cafe
on the weekend or any day Bundy Echo always
and sip and read all about the screams out for local talent to
greatness that surrounds us? contribute.

The talent that bursts out ~ Mandy Thane
of Bundaberg never ceases to
amaze.

Deadline for WINNIE #6 Letters
FRIDAY 16 JUNE • 5PM Hello esteemed editor . . . State of Origin
Congrats on a fun and quirky Your footy story last issue was
for listings & events mag. Have only seen one, fantastic. How courageous of
DAISY, but I liked what I saw. you to run a story by a Blues fan
Wednesday 21 June – Wednesday 5 July I am a published writer and in the heart of Maroon territory.
occasional poet AND love that I don’t know much about the
[email protected] Do you have The nice one you are giving local artists a game and don’t understand the
bundyecho.com.au an idea for the platform. You have done the hysteria that it creates but the
facebook.com/bundyecho town a great service. It’s a nice article was a good read and I
0417 659 635 • 4152 1086 next cover: piece of pubbing. Well done. also loved the painting.
yoloWuWvreeitnhwtonoouihuegel?dharts: Tony the Scribe Terri Drew
Bundy Echo is published Innes Park Avoca
fortnightly and distributed bundyecho@ I can’t toss them in the bin
on Wednesday. See back gmail.com Hi! My name is Alicia and I’d No Echo, No Cry
page for distributers. love to write some articles Our favourite cafe was bereft
Mandy for Bundy Echo. I love your of the Bundy Echo this week,
**All information provided is publication – I have kept every you do have to be quick! Luckily
correct at the time of printing, one to date. I look forward to there were some left at the
however we recommend checking reading WANDA. newsagent. (Sorry Jeremy, they
with the venue as last minute (Have included your piece, are getting snapped up very
changes can happen (and we also Alicia and thank you for quickly now ~ Ed)
make mistakes – not too many we contributing ~Ed) Jeremy Shepherd
hope)** Alicia Otto c/- Riverdale Caravan Park
East Bundaberg

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2 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017

Fly By Night Travel JOEPINBALL,OURRANDOMRAVER,REMINDSUS
HOW IMPORTANT HE IS

I parked the HQ, brushed a D.E. Passwater, owner of definitely thrill the girls, and 6pm–1am party cruise. We
speck of dust off the gleaming the largest spaghetti farm in for the boys, Rubberhips contacted Mr Passwater and
purple and puce paint work the region, sort of al dente-d Scapini, the exotic dancer, he agreed to the arrangement.
and entered the office. I was into my office. I happen to would keep them entertained AND he offered to pay in cash.
greeted by the lovely Patsy know that he owns at least in the breaks. Cool.  
Possumlips, my Girl Tuesday. two houses of negotiable
It still gives me a thrill to see affecttions.. But first, I have to meet I was at the jetty as the
the gold letters on the door – with my friend Cap’n Henry tribe of teenagers arrived,
JOE PINBALL, PRESIDENT, ‘Mr Passwater, what can I Wheatley [retired], owner of exuberant and shiny and
THE FLY BY NIGHT TALENT do for you?’ the charter boat, the Saucy Mr Passwaters’s daughter,
AGENCY. Sue. I am sure he will be Bubbles, was the shiniest of
‘Well Pinball,’ he replied, up for it and the ensuing them all.
As I was reclining in my ‘it’s my little girl’s eighteenth shenanigans.
chair wondering which Bundy birthday in a few weeks and I He handed me an envelope,
bars would still give me would like to give her a party. The sun was sinking below shook my hand, and said ‘well
credit, Patsy buzzed me on the Something a bit different. I the horizon as I walked done, I’ll be in touch.’ I could
intercom. was thinking a river cruise, or along the jetty to Saucy Sue’s not resist going back to the
can you come up with a better mooring. Unkind people jetty at 1am to see a mass of
‘Someone to see you Joe.’ idea?’ might say that she was just a mess spilling off the deck of
‘Give me a minute,’ I said. converted prawn trawler, but Saucy Sue. I had arranged a
I went to the window and ‘Sure.’ after dark, with her fairy lights limousine fest to get everyone
looked into the car park. The ‘I can arrange the river flashing, mirror ball shining home safely.                 
gleaming white Mercedes cruise but I can pimp it up for and jukebox pounding, she
stood out like a pole dancer in your girl.’ is our very own floating Las Later, back in the office,
a nunnery. I knew what was We exchanged contacts. Vegas. reminiscing my youth, I
about to happen. It could be After this weird meeting popped the cork of a Chillblane
good, very good or just plain (I am sure he was drunk), I Later, sipping a cold Bundy ‘96, raised a glass and
shit (someone calling in a checked my network. A young rum and coke in the saloon said, ‘Pinball, after this, the
favour). band that I had recently with Henry and his voluptuous FlyByNight agency might really
The door opened and Mr signed, Fred Nerk and the girlfriend, Lily Plenty, we take off.’ill next time, this
Krypt Kicker Five would sorted out the details of a has been Joe Pinball.

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Winnie. Wonder. Wander.

GAIL’S STORY: “I was born in
Bundaberg and had an interest in
art at an early age.

I drew horses in most of my
school books, instead of paying
attention in class. I have a love
of horses which has became the
theme of my life.

I live and breathe horses. I love
them so much. I wish I could be
a horse. OMG the freedom to be
a horse. And, because of those
beauties, I have won prizes for
my art.

I prefer to work with oils at
the moment but I am always
experimenting with all mediums.

I just nailed Blackwood, got the
best in show and two other prizes.
I love being part of the Swamp.

Gail Thomas: on Facey or via
the Baldwin Swamp Artists.

http://bundyregionconnect.qld.
gov.au/arts-and-culture/baldwin-
swamp-artists-group

Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 5

Dead thingJOHNCAMPBELL
breathingand the case of

the jutting crags

When it comes to matters that mine will be running illustrated articles about approach him and say ‘I’m
medical, I’m like most other behind schedule – it is a Black Sea funghi and Roman wearing your underpants!’,
numbskull blokes. Which given. sewers. I laugh out loud, but still
is to say, I consider myself the dead man doesn’t bat
bullet-proof and will only go Maggie at reception greets The choice before me is an eyelid),until I find Cate.
to the doctor when a couple me warmly. pretty grim. It is between an She has been photographed
of Panadols sunk with a stiff Ikea catalogue with, on the at the Paris atelier of Coco
shot of Bundy Rum won’t ‘I’m afraid Doctor Defarge cover, a handsome bearded Chanel, and I am wondering
stave off any hint of me has been very busy this hipster dad in a back-lit sunny why I have never found
coming down sick. morning, John. But she only dining area pouring a glass of her attractive when Doctor
has one other client to see milk for his perfectly revolting Defarge appears to usher me
But as is the case for most before you.’ Client? little boy; the gourmet into her consulting room.
Australians-fair of a certain spring edition of Kitchens &
age, my head is starting She glances at the ‘client’ Bathrooms (‘Sorted! Laundry Absorbed as I was in
to look as though it’s been in question. He’s a skinny Storage Solutions’, the Vogue, I’d not noticed that the
run-over by a cheese grater, fellow with a comb-over that problem has had me tossing dead man had disappeared.
with my nose in particular starts from just above his left and turning all night); and a
resembling nothing so much ear. It glistens with Brylcreme dog-eared Vogue Australia It turns out that there are
as a coral atoll jutting craggily and I know that I won’t be (‘Collectors’ Edition’) from only a handful of sunspots
from my weathered cheeks. able to take my eyes off it. December 2003. I have on my face which the doctor
Beneath the stringy strands obviously stumbled into the needs to treat with the
A man can try and tell of black hair, his mottled elephants’ graveyard of such freezing blow-torch. One of
himself that he is still a scalp has a pink and white publications. them is at the tip of my nose.
classic example of the rugged tortoise-shell pattern that I
outdoor type, but when the imagine is what the surface Cate Blanchett tops the list ‘This will smart a bit,
mirror says ‘bullshit, it’s of Mars might look like. of featured celebrities (has John,’ she warns me.
time you had something done Whatever is wrong with him, there been a Vogue in which
about your skin,’ you have to you can tell that he’s as crook she has not been included for I have tears streaming
take notice. as Rookwood and I don’t the last twenty years?) … and down my face when the
begrudge him going in before I can’t help myself … I flick procedure is completed.
Countless carefree hours me. In fact, for a long minute past the full-page, g’zillion
as a child on the beach I think that he could actually dollar glossy ads for Louis ‘I’ll just get you some aloe
without even a hat as be dead. Vitton and Ralph Lauren, vera to help soothe those
protection from the merciless Cartier, Dior and Calvin Klein areas,’ she says while I get
sun (who knew?), and Maggie tells me to take a (remembering the story of my sobbing under control.
long hot cricket Saturdays seat. I want to suggest to her how, when Alan Bennett
standing at fine leg in white that she might consider a visit saw Klein in a restaurant, he She opens the door to the
shorts and a flimsy T-shirt, to Jenny Craig before that was consumed by an urge to adjoining surgery. I see the
staring into space and hoping strangulating onesie rides sockless feet of somebody
against hope that no batsman all the way up her tree-trunk laying prostrate on a steel
would hit the ball in my thighs to her knickers, nor do gurney.
direction was innocent fun at I like how her gaze returns
the time, but it has come back so quickly to the tablet by I’m sure it’s the Dead Man.
to bite me in my later years. her side that is opened at her
Facebook page.
The appointment with the
doctor is for 10.30, and I turn I check out the pile of
up on the dot – punctuality is magazines so that I won’t find
one of my many addictions. I myself gazing at the dead
cannot abide other people’s bloke with the comb-over, but
cavalier approach to a how come these places never
rendezvous. They always have have Rugby League Week? If
some lame excuse for being you want to get men going to
late, but what they are really the doctor more often, just
saying is ‘my time is more put some decent zines in the
important than yours.’ In the waiting room. There’s not
case of doctors, however, I even a National Geographic
accept with bitter resignation with a centre-spread of naked
tribal women, or breathless
6 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017

viaggio-in-germania.de/duerer-acquerelli.html gobbet, at Kelly’s Beach. painting printed but they weren’t
If you would like to see an very popular. People dont seem
A.A. Vane to want to give their friends
osprey, one generally sits in a birthday card depicting a
Weird Bird Person the trees at the Causeway at bird butchering a fish. I cant
Bargara when it isn’t cruising the understand why.
Welcome back dear avian reader. predator, the osprey; often seen coastline. I also photographed
First, I must express my patrolling our local beaches. a very large one sitting on the As for you, my dear editor,
beach at Mon Repos just last your distaste for my feathered
extreme disappointment in our I love their beautiful sepia and week. friends can only be explained
beloved editor. She does not like white colouring; plus they look if you were watching Alfred
birds! so cute when they are all ruffled Possibly, they were the same Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ at an
up by the wind and having a ‘bad bird. I would be most grateful if age when you should have been
I find this incompre­hensible. I hair day’, or rather, a bad feather the local experts could answer obsessed with ‘Tele Tubbies’.
prefer birds to humans. I watch, day. Well, cute if you dont look that one for me.
photograph, draw, paint and at the superb talons and beak Happy osprey hunting
think about birds constantly. that make them a perfect, killing Ospreys build enormous everyone.
machine. nests of sticks that they add to
In fact, I even eat birds. year after year.
My favourite is barbecued Some of my most memorable
spatchcock with an asian glaze. ‘bird moments’ have happened If you happen to be in a boat
(Recipe provided on request.) when watching ospreys. I saw on the river near Elliott Heads
one catch and fly off with a sea there is a gorgeous nest on the
But, I digress. (Actually, a snake at Rifle Range Beach. southern bank.
colleague once told me that I
have the attention span of a On another occasion I Just don’t go paddling a
peripatetic squirrel.) watched one for an hour as it kayak up there on the incoming
consumed a large fish, gobbet by tide, like I did, and then expect
This week I want to discuss to get back downstream.
the penultimate piscivorous I had to be towed back to
shore by a fisherman who
answered my exhausted cries
for help. Definitely not a good
‘bird moment’. Extremely
embarassing.

My painting this week is
of the osprey I saw at Kelly’s
dismemembering its catch.

I had some cards of this

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call a ‘returner’. And I am business people live in a great
not alone. Every year, almost place that allows them to 4152 3931
40,000 people leave Brisbane raise a family, buy a house and
in search of something develop their career. 66 Woongarra Street Bundaberg
different in Queensland’s
regional areas. Jess and Brad Marsellos, [email protected]
with their vibrant social media
My travel has opened doors pages and newly launched
for me and allowed me to see ‘Hipster Guide to Bundaberg’,
and learn from the world, so are a brilliant example of
I thought I would pen some people making this place their
thoughts on how to create a home, but also giving back.
Bundaberg where we all want
to live, work and play. Increasing numbers are
‘returning’ to their roots in
Why is Bundy a great place Bundaberg, bringing new ideas
to live? Because it is safe, and new blood into the town,
comfortable, warm, green and and it should be welcomed.
friendly. Shop local, say hi and talk to
these amazing people – the
The low cost of living more people support local,
means people have a chance the more local people can be
to make their dreams happen. employed. Simple really.
With NBN and the Internet,
anything is possible. Take the Council has an impressive
newly opened Generator in array of community and
the CBD, reusing the upstairs cultural assets – the library
of the Bundaberg Post Office. has a great local history
It’s home to 25 movers and collection, the gallery gets
shakers who are doing great outstanding exhibits and the
things. You can check it out on Moncrieff Theatre presents
a free tour of the space. wonderful live shows.

You can create your own Community groups are the
fun. I have a full time job lifeblood of regional towns.
but still make the time to Every dollar you spend at
create new events, like Open one of these events, all run
House Bundaberg, Agrotrend by volunteers, stays here or
Strongman, Giant Games in the goes to a charity that benefits
park as well as volunteering the region. They deserve our
at events such as Pageant of thanks and appreciation. Our
Lights. These events do not natural environment is as
exist without people like you splendid as any in the world
and me making them happen. - and it is free! Kilometres of
It can be a thankless task beaches, the Turtle Trail from
sometimes, but I am getting off Bargara to Burnett Heads,
my butt and making a change. Sharon Gorge Nature Reserve
Many other tireless people are – just to name a few. Plenty of
doing the same (including the people in this town are busting
editor of Bundy Echo) - ‘Never a gut to make things happen,
doubt that a small group of and they need a kind word, a
thoughtful, committed citizens smile on the street and a dollar
can change the world; indeed, in their pocket to keep moving
it’s the only thing that ever forward. So your homework,
dear reader, is to work on
being a kind human. That way
we all thrive.

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■ WOODGATE CLUB
7.30PM JANE & BRUCE

Jassy and Earth Circle Studios

The great news is that NO events, such as founding creative inspiration flowing!
experience is necessary for WWHAG: Wide Bay Women’s To read more about
you to participate in one of Healing Arts Guild, an art
her many creative offerings group for local women to the studios and Jassy’s
that run in weekend blocks come together to share, learn offerings just visit www.
and 5/6 week terms. She also and participate. earthcirclestudios.com
runs international creative
retreats where her love of art, Jassy would love to see If you are a woman painter
history and culture is shared you in the studio, whether in the Wide-Bay region
with women from around you are a beginner or a more perhaps you’d like more
the globe. The next one is experienced artist there’s information on becoming a
upcoming in Bali, September nothing like gathering with member of WWHAG.
16-23, 2017. like-minded others to get www.wwhag.org.au

Jassy is a local Contemporary Jassy is as passionate Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 11
Artist and Intentional about creating art as she
Creativity Coach working is teaching it. Having been
from ‘Earth Circle Studios’ formally trained in the arts
both at Innes Park and in her younger years, Jassy
Fitzroy, Melbourne. It is from has always had her sights set
these spaces that aspire to on working towards a career
encourage earth connection as an artist. Over the past
and creative expression, that few years she has worked
Jassy teaches regular classes tirelessly painting daily in
and workshops for adults and her studio and undertaking
children. It is where she also professional development to
works as a full-time artist, improve her skills, techniques
currently deeply absorbed in and knowledge of painting.
painting a series of 18 large Her works, which she refers
works for her upcoming solo to as ‘Soulscapes’ are a
exhibit ‘THREAD’. merging of both inner and
outer landscapes. They serve
Jassy enthusiastically as reminders of ancient
promotes creativity as a sacred connections between
powerful tool for personal humans and the earth.
growth, essential for well-
being and wholehearted Jassy has a strong sense
living. She believes that being of social responsibility and as
creative is for everyone, such she approaches her art
the benefits of which are work as a form of activism,
well documented including with many of her current
making one more dynamic, paintings exploring ecological
conscious and observant. themes. She is also inspired
Above all else, engaging by the stories of her ancestors
in creative activities Jassy and by the Australian
believes, can help us feel landscape.
more connected and relaxed.
As a certified Intentional Jassy’s works have been
Creativity coach Jassy’s job sold and sent worldwide and
is to inspire and guide others have featured in numerous
to connect with and express exhibitions, journals,
their unique creative self magazines and books. She
through visioning, writing has recently just returned
and painting. “Intentional from California where she
creativity is ultimately about was involved in online global
approaching creative work art projects for women and
with a sense of mindfulness. girls. She believes that in all
It invites one to explore their the work she does, part has
inner world and express from to be in service to the greater
that place,” says Jassy. good. This firmly held value
inspires Jassy to be involved
in grass roots, not-for-profit
community art projects and

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Artstars

@ THE MOVIES with the bundy Exhibitions CHARTS
echo girls until 9 July
CROSS GALLERY METAMORPHOSIS
NONE OF THE GIRLS WERE KEEN ON THIS ONE SO LOTS OF until 26 June Bold colour and energetic
ANN GROCOTT playfulness come
COINS WERE TOSSED AND THE HEADS LOST TO TAILS. POOR Assemblages & together in this collection
Constructions 1990-2010 of works by Bundaberg
OLD OLGA, THE TRAGIC OF THE TRIBE, LANDED THE JOB. artist Gwyneth (Terri)
BRAG Lewis.
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD until 18 June
The cinema experience Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) BLOODLINE until July 1
these days, especially at Bundaberg-based artist, FROM THE FOREST TO
blockbusters, is often akin is a reluctant hero and his Ann Grocott, presents THE OCEAN
to being seated in a feed-lot, the works of four painters Patricia Sheppard
as punters noisily stuff their mates, who are destined to from the same bloodline: With a passion for colour
faces with chips and popcorn become the knights of the her great-grandfather, and the sea, NSW born
– the bloke in front of me round table, all carry on like her uncle, her father, and artist/photographer
today brought a foul-stinking East End wide boys. The herself. Trish Sheppard has
Subway sandwich with him! villain is Vortigern (Jude Law); an expansive array of
It was not a good start, and it his soldiers are the ‘black until 2 July subject matter. Living on
didn’t take me long to realise legs’ and under his command THE VERY HUNGRY the beach, she is in touch
that Guy Ritchie has done they lord it over the cowed CATERPILLAR with the sea constantly
the same to the story of King populace. Become entwined and and regularly snorkles.
Arthur as he did to Sherlock enchanted by the world She expresses her
Holmes – he has trashed it. What is most disappointing renowned children’s contemporary flair
Out of curiosity, later on I is the complete absence of story The Very Hungry in vibrant colours
watched RocknRolla (2008) any sense of period. Not Caterpillar, interpreted by in landscapes,
again and found the stylistic taking into account the Bundaberg textile artist contemporary abstracts
similarities striking. anachronistic, smart-arse Karen Walden. The larger and sea life in pastels,
dialogue and the edit’s tricky than life quilted pages charcoal, acrylics,
The difference is the jump cuts, the art direction is allow children and adults watercolour, oils,
budget. Ritchie has gone from a mish-mash of design that to ‘walk through’ Eric coldwax, resin and
working with $18 million fails to create any sense of Carle’s 1969 story of the encaustic works.
to having $175 million at the medieval. But I suppose caterpillar’s life journey.
his disposal, and if ever if you grew up with Aubrey GAYNDAH ART
there were an example of Beardsley’s illustrations for until 2 July GALLERY
somebody given too much Le Morte d’Arthur as the 2016 JADA: JACARANDA until July 8
lolly it can be observed in legend’s true image, Ritchie’s ACQUISITIVE DRAWING NOTHING NEW AND
these two films. The earlier in-your-face approach was AWARD WORDS
one is tight, cohesive and never going to be compatible. BRAG is proud to be a Marlies Oakley
primarily concerned with part of the 2016 JADA If you missed these
plot and character. Arthur is There is a nod to the pre- Touring Exhibition. two exhibitions from
all over the place like a mad Raphaelites in the princess’s The 2016 Jacaranda Bundaberg legend
woman’s breakfast, with outfits, but Vortigern is Acquisitive Drawing Marlies, they are now
enough indulgent gimmickry dressed in a way to suggest Award (JADA) is the on display in Gayndah.
that he is about to hit the Grafton Regional Gallery’s “Nothing New?” is
bars in Oxford Street. And biennial flagship art prize, a selection of iconic
promoting innovation portraits made entirely
and CGI to sink the Battleship don’t get me started on the and excellence in from used postage
Potemkin. stupid giant serpent… contemporary Australian stamps – “Words” is a
drawing. series of small collages
IMAGE: imdb.com based around the
CALL FOR PHOTOS BY theme of Poems, Song
14 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 RAY ROCK FOR NEW Lyrics and Dictionary
EXHIBITION BY BRAG Definitions. Official
Deadline 9 June. opening June 10, 6pm.

TBatohlektox
Our brilliant comedian, mandy nolan, attempts
to explain botox to an eight year old. but she
ends up explaining it to all of us.

Today Ivy asked me what The gateway drug to plastic Ivy is naturally curious. she just disappear in a
Botox is. She’s 8. She’d surgery. Explaining botox to ‘Are wrinkles bad?’ I say ‘No’. whimper of skin? When I saw
found a humorous card on a child is complex because So she says, ‘then why do Patti Smith at this year’s
my bookshelf that depicts a its very existence carries you need botox?’ I say, ‘you Bluesfest, I found myself in
1950’s mother and daughter with it a whole lot of negative don’t actually need it. People tears. I couldn’t work out
with the caption ‘You’re never associations about ageing just get it because they why, then it occurred to me
too young for botox!’. She that I don’t really want to don’t like the way their face how strange it was to see
wanted to know a) what is deliver to someone who’s looks.’ I’m not into botox and an older woman who has
botox and b) should she be just embarked on the ageing I wish there was more of a maintained her currency. A
having it? I am faced with a process. conversation around it – but woman without make up,
conundrum. Do I explain irony then I’m the first to admit I’m with grey hair, no fake tits, no
or botox? Sure, I’m happy to kill a hypocrite. botox with loads of relevance
Santa and snuff out the tooth and currency, proudly and
To understand the fairy, but I’m not ready to tell Sure I don’t do botox or defiantly declaring old age.
ironic nature of the cards’ my little girl the truth about pump my face with ‘fillers’, I have drawn a line in the
declaration she needs to what we think about old but I do things to alter the sand and when it comes to
understand the larger political people. That it makes clever way I look all the time. I wear cosmetic intervention I have
and social implications of women disappear. That we make up. I dye my hair. I get a decided to accept the lines
mass consumerism and anti- think wrinkly skin is repulsive. spray tan. I wax. I’ve had fake on my face. Or at least only
ageing treatments. She’s only So I tell her that botox is nails. (But I couldn’t stand cover them with make up. Or
just got over her fascination a dance step. ‘Like the nut them because my long nails a beard. Or perhaps a late life
with the Disney film ‘Frozen’. bush. Except when you do the stopped me depressing the conversion to Islam so I can
Hang on, was that film botox its a lot stiller because button on the loo and I had to hide those forehead creases
metaphorically preparing nothing moves’. flush by poking it down with a and smile lines with a cheeky
young girls for the faces pencil.) little burqa. Until then I guess
of women in their future: She’s a clever kid and she You’re Never Too Young for
Frozen? knows when I’m bullshitting. My friends who use botox Irony. But beware, it does
She rolls her eyes and says say it’s a choice. I guess it crinkle your forehead.
The whole botox story ‘Mum, tell me.’ God this is more is. For them. But what is the
is hard to tell. I know she’s confronting than the sex talk. dominant narrative created BUNDY ECHO
smart but the story of why by our choices? And what WELCOMES
women hate themselves is ’Botox is something informs our choice in the SUBMISSIONS FROM ALL
a bit bleak. How do you tell mainly women use because first place? If my daughter’s WRITERS. DON’T BE SHY.
your little girl she’s perfect as they don’t like wrinkles’. choices are informed by a bundyecho@gmail.
she is and then tell her how This seems like a more age reality created by the choices com
we women butcher ourselves appropriate response than of my generation then has she
in the name of ‘beauty’? telling her its a paralysing really made a choice? Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 15
nerve toxin used to render
Do I also have to tell foreheads blank. I hope In our botoxed future
her about boob jobs and she hasn’t picked up on is there a place for the
labioplasty? Nose jobs? the ‘mainly women’ part wrinkled woman? Or will
Forehead reductions? Eye of my statement because
lid lifts? Liposuction? Self I’m not quite ready for a
loathing is a slippery slope to Sunday morning discussion
self mutilation. No wonder so about patriarchy, the beauty
many young girls self harm. myth and the consequent
Although when you pay a oppression of women through
doctor to do it I don’t think cosmetic means. I mean what
they call it self harm, I think is the right age to introduce
it’s called self improvement. your daughter to feminist
All roads lead back to botox. analysis?

Artstars OurPoets

@ T HE MOVIES with the bundy I watched a doco the other night
echo girls about a machine that milks cows, my
imagination went wild.
OF COURSE, ALL THE GIRLS WANTED TO see Johnny’s latest,
but EVENTUALLY AGREED THAT NEW GIRL, WANDA, should HANDS OFF
write the review because she can take him or leave him I was talking to a “cockie” mate
(preferably leave him for Kaya scodelario). Just the other day in town,
The lack of feed he told me
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Had dropped his quota down.

For time out of mind, the hearing an actor yell Are you a poet and know it? Here’s your space! Contact [email protected] chooks are hardly laying
climax of any story would be ‘aaagghh!’ at the top of his He’d wrecked his best farm trike,
withheld until all avenues of lungs as often as Johnny mandy The dams were caked with drying mud
character development and Depp is called upon to do as And the cows had gone on strike.
plot turnings were explored. his braided Jack Sparrow
Not anymore. jumps from the frying pan You see, he’s got this TV in the dairy
into the fire at five-minute He’s a bloke that likes to please,
The diminished attention intervals. The cows can watch the soapies
span of today’s audience And drop their milk with ease.
and its craving for instant That a state of near
gratification mean that in hysteria reigns for most of They saw this programme from Europe
adventure flicks such as the two hours (it seems much That thrilled them all to bits,
this, the fifth of the ‘Pirates’ longer) is an understatement, Milking done by robotics
franchise (a sixth is already but there are plenty of jaw- No more humans touching teats.
in the pipeline), events are dropping visuals to keep
going at full throttle from you interested (although in The old jersey was the spokesman
the opening scene – and my case my jaw was almost And for all she took a stand
usually with an accompanying dislocated through yawning). There will be no more molestation
500-piece orchestra hammer­ But my girls were scoffing By rough and calloused hands.
ing your eardrums. popcorn and choc-tops
and forever wide-eyed as I’ve got to make a living
If your sensitivities are Jack sails off in search of He sadly said to me
more old-school, by the Poseidon’s trident which has So I’ve bought an airline ticket
half-way point you are likely the power to break every old And I’m off across the sea.
mariner’s curse.
to be pleading for He peddled through the Pyrenees
the mercy rule The beautiful girl (Kaya The scenery something grand
to be invoked – Scodelario) – who is the only The cows were all contented
but in vain, for thing keeping me wide-eyed And all still milked by hand.
there is not – has a map which only
a moment’s she can read, the handsome He pushed on through Switzerland
peace and young man (Brenton Thwaites Its peaks were snowy white
quiet. – another product of the The cows were milked by hand inside
And I Australian TV soapie industry) To stop the winters chilly bite.
cannot becomes Jack’s accidental
recall side-kick and the villain is He searched the whole of Germany
ever Salazar (Javier Bardem), the And nothing could he find
dead captain of a ghost ship Except a friendly milkmaid
– his face is a miraculously Who he thought was very kind.
grotesque work of art.
It was in Holland that he found it
When the frenetic action The robotic milking machine
slows briefly for inserts of Then his alarm went off at 4 o’clock
dialogue, so that you might It had all been just a dream.
understand the point of it all,
there are enough decent one- © Ian Kidd
liners to maintain the levity
– although for mine, Depp’s
face pulling has always
been overdone – and some
of the set pieces, notably
Sparrow’s brush with the
guillotine, are quite ingenious.
Fans will love it, others
might find it overblown and
repetitive.

16 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017

Workshops Music Event

Still Life: Pastels over BUNDABERG ORPHEUS ■ HOME-BASED Combined Churches of
Watercolour with SINGERS AND BUSINESS
Penelope Gilbert-Ng $70 BUNDABERG YOUTH FESTIVAL Bundaberg invites you to a
+ materials @ Artplus. ORCHESTRA at TAKE THE
Penelope is a master Shalom Performing PLUNGE special premiere screening of
pastellist of the Pastel Arts Centre SATURDAY JULY 29
Society of Australia and Sunday 11 June 2pm – SUNDAY 30 9AM THE CASE FOR
a sought after tutor. She The Orpheus Singers CHRIST
teaches many different and Bundaberg Youth ■ KYBONG ROCK &
pastel techniques and Orchestra haven’t MINERAL FEST A hard-driving journalist,
has been a finalist in performed together for AUGUST 4-6. Lee Strobel was exactly where
the Archibald and Portia a while, but you will be he expected to be at work:
Geach Portrait prizes. treated to music from ■ BREWFEST 2017: on top. His award-winning
both, such as “The Anvil BUNDABERG’S investigative reporting recently
Performance Chorus”, Excerpts from CRAFT BEER earned him a promotion to
“Les Mis” and “Chorus of FESTIVAL legal editor at the Chicago
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE the Hebrew Slaves”. Judy @ BREWHOUSE Tribune. But things weren’t
‘The Children’s Hour’ Hayhoe 0428 291 939. JULY 15. going nearly as well at
9 & 10 June + 16 & 17 home where his wife Leslie’s
June VIVALDI MOZART ■ CHILDERS newfound faith in Christ
The Children’s Hour is an PAGANINI FESTIVAL went against everything Lee
American play by Lillian HOLY ROSARY JULY 29 believed, or didn’t believe, as
Hellman. It is a drama set CHURCH, 66 an avowed atheist. Utilizing his
in an all-girls boarding Woongarra Street ■ OCEANFEAST: journalistic and legal training,
school run by two Sunday 25 June TASTE THE REEF Lee begins a quest to debunk
women, Karen Wright and 7.30pm AUGUST 26 the claims of Christianity in
Martha Dobie. An angry Don’t miss this rare @ BUNDABERG order to save his crumbling
student, Mary Tilford, opportunity to experience PORT MARINA marriage. Chasing down the
runs away from the one of Germany’s finest PRECINCT. biggest story of his career,
school and to avoid being Ensembles. A diverse Lee comes face-to-face with
sent back she tells her program ranging from ■ A FRENCH AFFAIR unexpected results that could
grandmother that the two Antonio Vivaldi and his JULY 9: 11-4PM change everything he knows to
headmistresses are tremendously famous @ VINTNERS be true.
having a relationship. “Four Seasons” to W.A. SECRET VINEYARD Based on Lee Strobel’s award-
The accusation proceeds Mozart, Peter Tchaikovsky winning bestselling book and
to destroy the women’s and Niccolo Paganini is ■ ANDREY GUGNIN starring Mike Vogel, Erika
careers, families and proposed. Martin Konner, PIANO RECITAL Christensen, Faye Dunaway
lives. Tickets are 0476 106 051. JULY 26 7.30PM and Robert Forster.
available on-line www. CHRIST CHURCH
theplayhousetheatre.org. Special thanks to Phil Oakley ANGLICAN Moncrieff Entertainment
au or at the theatre Box CHURCH
Office. from ArtPlus for helping with Centre • 17 June
We can’t
this art section. promote your Light refreshments from
‘thing’ if you
RECENT RADF GRANTS don’t tell us 6.30pm for a 7.00pm
(Regional Arts Development
Fund) about your screening
• S abrina Lauriston, ‘thing’.
Proceeds support Scripture
photographer: for a bundyecho
project about Italian @gmail.com Union QLD – Bundaberg
migrants to Australia
• V anessa Christi : creating Region
some artworks of people
opening up a dialogue Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 17
about climate change.
She’s also painting a
portrait of climate change
scientist, Tim Flannery.
• M arlies Oakley was
awarded a grant to
undertake a “street art”
project.

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Bundaberg Quilters will Refreshments and light students becoming competent beyond club activities. For
celebrate their 30th lunches will be available for a quilters who share Joan’s love many years, she was the
anniversary this year by small charge. for the craft.
holding an Open Day on A special feature of the day She conducted numerous Quilters’ representative on
Saturday, 17 June, from the Family Centre Committee
9.30am to 3pm at the will be the launch of the new other workshops and was and she served 25 years as
Family Centre, Kensington Basic Patchwork & Quilting a mentor to many over Secretary of that committee.
Street (old Showgrounds, classes. Visitors will be able the years. She was one of Without the Family Centre,
near the corner of Walker to see samples, get details the club’s “go-to” people many community clubs would
Street). and ask questions. when a tricky question find it difficult to function.
arose regarding quilting.
There will be displays, While members will Her opinions were highly An energetic and active
show and tell, market stalls, celebrate 30 years of quilting respected. person, Joan was passionate
quizzes, lucky door prize, at the Open Day, they will about everything to do
raffles and lots more. One also honour one of the club’s Joan also made many with quilting. She was
display will be of antique founding members, Joan “comfort quilts” – quilts generally considered to be
sewing machines. Finlay, who passed away that are given by Bundaberg the matriarch of Bundaberg
recently. Over the years, Joan Quilters to people in need Quilters and she is sorely
Admission to the Open was involved in all aspects of especially in the times of missed. Members took quilts
Day is FREE and everyone is the club. She was President natural disasters, namely: to Joan’s funeral and spread
welcome. from 1989 – 1994 and was floods. Bundaberg Quilters them over the pews – a
also Secretary for four years. are well-known for their fitting tribute for one who has
A “Crazy Cushion” biennial exhibitions and Joan contributed so much to the
competition will be open to Joan, with others, started was always heavily involved quilting community.
everyone for an entry fee of a “Back to Basics” course for in them, both as an exhibitor
$1 – any size, any medium. beginners and she conducted and a worker. There will be a memorial
Judging will be by viewer these classes for 22 years.
choice and a prize will be Her skills and attention to Joan’s commitment to the area for Joan at the Open
I need an internawarded.
detail resulted in many of her quilting community extended Day.

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18 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017

Chloe Robyn Rabbit < b. 1952 >

LOCAL hystorian M. ANTHONY NELSON SHARES ANOTHER forgotten BUNDABERG story

As a birthday gift, Chloe airwaves because of its years. A reawakened interest cattle-dog seated outside the
Rabbit’s parents, Louise sexual references. Internal in music (she had started pub when its owner emerged.
and Johnny, presented their squabbles led to the band’s learning to play the sarod),
daughter with tickets for break-up soon after. eventually drew her from her ‘That’s Tristesse. I named
front row seats at the Rolling reclusive existence and at her … ’
Stones’ 1966 Brisbane’s City Disillusioned with the nearby Chidambaram’s 1975
Hall concert. Accompanied by local music scene, in 1971 festival of traditional arts, ‘After the book by
her older brother Warren, the Chloe and her bassist, Thalia Chloe met and fell in love Françoise Sagan?’
night was to have a profound Coniglio, travelled to France with the Tamil songstress
influence on young Chloe. where they improvised on Chandrika Venkataraghavan Though twenty years her
stage one night with the (‘Chandy has pierced nipples!’ senior, Martina ‘Flopsy’ Flame
Inspired by what she renowned jazz pianist Lula she wrote excitedly to Thalia). and Chloe were inseparable
saw and heard, she would Bufou. Among the audience at Their relationship, however, from that day forth.
henceforth spend every spare the Lapin Noir was the writer came to an abrupt end in
moment under the tutelage of and filmmaker Françoise 1977 when Chandrika’s hand They bred prize-winning
Bundaberg’s acclaimed guitar Sagan, to whom Chloe was was given in an arranged cattle dogs on a property
teacher, Quentin McHale, immediately and intensely marriage to retired Colonel west of Bundaberg for
who was quick to recognise attracted. Their tumultuous Dillip Umrigar (‘a fat slob’, the next thirty years, until
her prodigious talent. She encounter led Sagan to write Chloe recalled bitterly). Flopsy’s death in 2008.
purchased her first electric ‘I have loved to the point of
guitar at the age of sixteen madness, that which is called Broken hearted, Chloe Chloe has remained at the
(a Les Paul identical to that madness, that which to me is returned to Bundaberg and site where she found such
played by Keith Richards in the only sensible way to love.’ united with Thalia’s sister happiness, sharing her days
Brisbane) and in 1970 formed Hazel, the duo winning a now with a fifth Tristesse. On
her all girl rock group, What’s Debilitated by the reckless large following in regional the bungalow’s living room
Up Doc? life of cocaine, morphine and Queensland for their wall hangs a prized memento:
alcohol indulged in by Sagan’s Patsy Cline tribute show. a signed and framed LP of
Their single, ‘Why Do I circle, Chloe split with Thalia Following a Sunday afternoon South Indian songs recorded
Love You, Dick?’, was met and retreated to an ashram performance in Clermont, by Chandrika - ‘Meree
with critical acclaim, but in Pondicherry (India), where Chloe had been patting a Gaharee Jaden’ (My Deepest
banned from Queensland she remained for the next two Roots).

Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 19

A day in the vineyard

RED WINE CONNOISSEUR, Steve Matthews, takes his kids for a special treat at a local vineyard.

I am fond of red wine. So gentle downward slope of the gourmet platter that Tony into the old beast was like
fond, that I like to combine vineyard rows, it was still a prepared for us. I did also stepping into a Damon
red wine with just about special sight. sample one of the white wines Runyon short story, except
anything – happiness, and found it quite similar to a we were in stunning sub-
sadness, music, sunsets, We were welcomed into regular bottle-O purchase. tropical Queensland rather
cooking, and delicious food. the rustic tasting area by our than icy New York City being
Especially delicious food! So host, Tony Brierley, who my Tony explained that this is gangsters.
when my birthday rolls in kids said was just like ‘The because it contains sulphates
each year, I look to combine Lorax’. I’d say they were as preservative agents, Tony expertly guided us
my love of the good life with pretty accurate as he radiates as most white wines do. I down between the rows of
my children and some of the good natured-ness, but he declined to taste the sweet vines and back up again
scenic spots we have in our speaks for the vines instead dessert wines as I was eager without a scratch, quite a feat
region. of the trees. After fixing to get stuck into the glass as there was seriously little
Lucas and Samantha up with of Shiraz I preferred over leeway – while we sat back in
Childers is home to soft drinks, I proceeded to the Chambourcy and other the luxurious interior enjoying
several wineries and this taste some wines while Tony blended grape varieties. the surreal experience.
year I chose to visit Brierley gave me a run-down of grape
Winery, a short six kilometre varieties and fermenting As I have already As I left, with the warm
drive along Rainbows Road techniques and other wine mentioned, lunch was glow of contentedness flowing
which glides between rural gobbledygook. Being a fan of seriously yum. Many cheese through my system, I could
properties before turning to the red, I started with them. varieties, delicious cold not help but think that far too
gravel with glimpses of views Now, if you think you are meat, pickles and olives many people are so locked
into bushland of the Kologum going to taste wines similar accompanied with crackers into their routines that they
State forest. to good old Jacobs Creek and bread – all vanished in never even consider visiting
or Hardy’s you are in for a no time. My kids are light and a winery on the weekend.
It was a spectacular lovely surprise. Tony’s reds fussy eaters so the food got C’mon Bundaberg – get out
sunny autumn day and are preservative free and big thumbs up from us all. there. Go climb Mount Walsh,
my designated driver son, the combination of grape or swim in the glorious rock
Lucas, drove us up the short type, local soil and climatic I could have settled in pools at Utopia, or visit
two-track driveway and we conditions gives the wines drinking the afternoon away Boolboonda Tunnel, and then
parked in the shade of a big a taste quite different to in the lazy May sunshine go to a winery – enjoy some
oak tree. We walked past the the standard bottle shop but the younger generation of the spoils this region has to
quaint entrance, fountain and selection. had had enough and it was offer. Take your kids too! The
band stage to the restaurant, time to move on. But before time away from technology
which overlooks the six acre I would describe the taste leaving, Tony had another will do them the world of
vineyard. Being autumn, the as a well-rounded fruity special treat for us – a drive good, as it will for you.
vines had lost most of their bouquet with slight sweetness around the vineyard in his
leaves but, with the army of that really comes to life when 1928 Packard complete with Brierley Wines has a
wooden vine posts and the combined with the sumptuous the unmistakable honk of website as well as a Facebook
an old style horn. Getting page.

20 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017

Abbotsleigh and the
fateful attire In our search for the rare and unusual around Bundaberg,
we stumbled upon an exclusive gentleman’s club in Mon
Horatio Bitemark Repos. We coaxed, with daring promises, one of the Club’s
fabulously wealthy roués, Horatio Bitemark, to record for us
the weekly epicurean adventures of the idle rich. Now and
then a spot of leather and whips creeps in:

For a member to be found in collage: mandy thane
the Clubhouse foyer in a lacy
bodysuit was inexcusable. consoling a relative over an over the years. On the other However, during the
That it was puce – of a unfortunate incident with hand Abbotsleigh, though member’s sojourn in the
hue known in the trade as a wallaby and a rubber routinely in the state of outer darkness, good news
‘mulberry’ – only added to the bumper bar – wheeled in the confusion usually exhibited came via a chauffeur at
offence. beakers of Amanita muscaria by Hollywood starlets, was the Bundaberg Limousine
that always accompany an enthusiastic chap. Several Service. We learnt that
Club manager Achmed important decision-making. members recalled fondly Abbotsleigh’s partial
Edfed, an excitable gentleman We teamed our adventure his import connections with denture had been returned
of Western Australian into the godworld of the the Kazakhstan School of to him inside a note which
appearance, was furious. He Clubhouse spirits with a Dentistry, which netted a read, ‘Snookums, you were
demanded that members take roulade of marinated potaroo fabulous haul of nitrous oxide wonderful – I never knew an
strong action against this and a crate of Sharon Gorge and implements perfect for inflatable penguin could be so
flagrant breach and expulsion Fortified Port 1987, rich in cleaning a seven iron. much fun!’ It was signed with
was definitely on the books. paperbark tannins and a a kiss in Max Factor Hyper
textured overlay of microlight In the end we voted for Full Voluptuous – red to the
The miscreant in question, fuel and gun club ennui. a six months’ suspension. uninitiated. Abbotsleigh was
Abbotsleigh, was at a loss It was heartbreaking to see floating for days afterwards,
to explain how he came We felt that we should Abbotsleigh to the front door, and shouted the entire Mon
to be so attired in such a preserve the Club’s and tears streaming down his Repos Retired Stockbrokers
hallowed place, and smelling Edfed’s honour; he was an face, one hand feebly tearing Association to a round of
of patchouli oil to boot. Flecks excellent manager and had at the Elle Macpherson Bollinger and pints.
of anchovy paste in his hair rescued several members nightwear that was the cause
gave no real clue and he from compromising positions of his problems.
could only surmise his drink
had been spiked in one of
Bundaberg’s hostelries or
visiting backpackers had fed
him horse tranquillisers as a
holiday lark.

‘Did you lose your wallet?’
asked Tosser Digby.

‘Never carry one, old boy,
always run a tab,’ replied
Abbotsleigh, touching a finger
to his nose in a failed attempt
at street wisdom.

It was a serious matter
before us and, bar the culprit,
we all adjourned to the dining
room to consider our position.
Watson the relief butler –
Sanders was in the Kimberley,

Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017 21

communitystuff

■ BUNDABERG POETS cafe most week days. how we can help you ■ UNITY DRUMMERS
SOCIETY Check their schedule on reach your goals under FULL MOON
This group meets every page 3 or go to their FB the NDIS. DRUMMING @
second Saturday to page. ■ THE GUT MAN BARGARA
share verse and curse. ■ RUM CITY Wednesday 14 June 5pm Friday 9 June
They visit aged care OFFROADERS @ Coronation Hall. Come and enjoy this fun
facilities and other GENERAL MEETING Don Chisholm aka “The community event.
soapbox sites. Check Thursday 8 June 7 – Gut Man” is coming to
their FB page, they are 10pm Bundaberg to talk about ■ BRANYAN RURAL
fab. 24 Sims Road Gut Health. Don wrote FIRE BRIGADE OPEN
■ DHARMA the book called ‘Have DAY Saturday 10 June
■ ALLOWAY CONNECTION YOGA you got the guts to be 10-2pm
OBSERVATORY & WELLNESS ‘BODY really healthy?’ Every It is an opportunity for us
Our nerdy mates who CARE’ Thursday 8 person attending will to invite the community
are all volunteers invite June 6.30pm receive a free copy of that supports us year
all who love to stare into 3 Avennell Street. Check Don’s book. Bookings round to a free BBQ,
space, on clear Friday out their FB for more are essential. Tickets truck displays, meet our
nights, to their well details are available from brigade members and
equipped observatory. ■ BEACH 365: Fun Bundaberg Health free kids activities.
Cheap as chips Friday Social Night Foods. 51 Woongarra
membership deals. Games • Friday 9 June Street Ph 4151 5187 ■ AROUND THE WORLD
$10 per person ■ GET YOUR UTE OUT TRIVIA NIGHT Friday 9
■ SHALOM MARKETS ■ CHARITY EVENT Saturday 17 June @ June 7pm
Every Sunday 7 – 12pm FOR BEYOND BLUE Lighthouse Hotel @ Kirkwood Sports
Saturday 10 June 7pm Free community event Centre, Norville School.
■ PCYC MARKETS @ Sugarland Tavern ■ ADHD PEER SUPPORT Annual trivia night, held
Sunday 11 June 8am ■ WOW GROUP to raise funds for the
COMMONWEALTH 9.30am Second Monday school and students.
■ THE PINK HOUSE, KNIT-IN Monday 12 each month at Take the More info: Stephanie
MOORE PARK Every June Plunge Cafe. Parents Lawson, 0402 234 035
Monday - Women’s @ Creative Regions and carers sharing info.
Activity Group: $2 So why a Knit-In? We Guest speakers. ■ MOVE IT EXPO
includes tea or coffee will be finger knitting ■ AUSSIE LEATHER Saturday 10 June 10-2
Every Tuesday - and making words that CRAFTERS and @ St. Luke’s Anglican
Quilting: All levels from express what we want COWBOY LEATHER School. The Move It
beginner to expert for our community, all MACHINES SHOW Expo brings together a
welcome $2 includes tea while discussing how the 17 & 18 June showcase of the region’s
of coffee Bundaberg Region will @ 126 Booloongie fitness trainers, health
contribute to WOW! Road Gooburrum experts, local sporting
■ GIN GIN WILD ■ NDIS ROADSHOW Free leathercraft clubs and loads of
SCOTCHMAN Wednesday 14 June demonstrations. Learn great information for
MARKETS @ Counrty Comfort the technique of leather your better health and
Every Saturday Bundaberg International. sewing. Stalls and wellbeing.
7 – 12pm @ Historical Find out what the displays. Camping
Society National Disability available. Contact: We can’t promote your
Insurance Scheme Stephen 0419 393 750 ‘thing’ if you don’t tell
■ CANE COUNTRY (NDIS) means for you ■ UNITY DRUMMERS us about your ‘thing’.
SQUARES TUESDAY and the important people HUMP DAY DRUMMING
13 & 20 June in your life.At LiveBetter @ RIVER CRUZ CAFE bundyecho
6.30pm FIRST NIGHT and Excelcare, our Wednesdays 7-8am @gmail.com
FREE, Modern music, priority is to ensure you Bring a drum or try out
fun and friendship @ are fully supported in one of our spares and
Rum City Band Hall your transition to the a chair. Hang and have
(Targo Street) Contact NDIS. Join us for a bite a coffee afterwards.
Matthew: 0418 479 814 to eat and to find out Everyone welcome.

■ TAKE THE PLUNGE
CAFE
@ Electra Street.
Loads of courses and
workshops held at this

22 Bundy Echo June 7 – June 21, 2017

Galol'dis'sriinghhtiswhitehatvheen,world

BY FREDDY HARDMAN, Fatty’s shit sandwich. Jeez it As for the Maroons – Nobody likes a bad loser,
NSW was good. the new blokes didn’t rise but everybody hates a bad
Things would have been to the occasion and the winner, so I will refrain from
pretty crook in Tallarook if So confident was I of the veterans were yesterday’s gloating … except to say ‘get
the NSW Blues didn’t win the outcome, I’d wagered with heroes. Cameron Smith was that up ya!’
State of Origin opener. my editor, a keen student of ineffectual, Nate Myles I only
rugby league, that the Blues noticed because, well, how Meanwhile, I’m off to
The Canetoads had would win by twenty-plus. could you miss that Easter squeeze that trip to Sydney
Jonathan Thurston, Greg You’ll walk a long way down Island forehead?, and was out of my editor – or at least
Inglis and Matt Scott a country road before you Sam Thaiday actually on the one of those frizzy Afro wigs
unavailable through injury hear me sounding so bullish field? that Blatchys Blues wear.
and for some masochistic about such an outcome, but
reason known only to in my eyes it was a lay-down
themselves, the Maroons’ misere. Although, she being
selectors chose not to include a notorious welsher, I am
Billy Slater in the side. The not going to hold my breath
absence of JT alone was waiting for her to stump up
always going to give the the return airfare to Sydney
Cockroaches an edge and for Origin 2.
visually it just didn’t seem
the same – I kept looking for The game itself was an
the round-shouldered spindly absolute cracker – but I
bloke with the headgear to would say that, wouldn’t I?
turn up at any minute and put The writing was on the wall
on a try or thwart another from the minute that that
Blues’ raid. It was like magnificent brute Andrew
watching the Rolling Stones Fifita put James Maloney in
without Keef. But what can I under the sticks. The Toads
tell you? That I was blinking returned serve with a lucky
back the tears? Hahaha! Suck try to their ungainly winger
it up Queensland! Oates, but when Mitchell
‘Puppy Love’ Pearce crossed
Even after the dust had immediately before oranges it
settled, there was bottomless was a done deal.
joy for any New South
Welshman every time the In the second forty, we – I
camera fell on Paul Vautin’s mean the Blues – were all
dial. Fatty looked like he’d over the other mob like a
eaten a double helping of the politician’s suit. And wasn’t it
world’s biggest shit sandwich, great to see the Hayne Plane
and his mate Wally Lewis cruise through the defence
wasn’t far behind him in the and keep running until he was
disgruntlement stakes. On the standing on the fence, arms
other side of the panel, Peter outstretched like that statue
Sterling’s grotesque skull of Jesus atop Rio’s Sugarloaf
gleamed with joy and Joey Mountain. Gotta love a mug
Johns’s smug grin was that of lair, don’t you?
the man who had just made

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design: find me here
[email protected]

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Incubus

• L ive at Soundwave Festival,
Brisbane 2015.

• Im age taken by Shaun Watson of
Icono Images.

• Image copyright Icono Images.
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