Thanks, Max, Doug. Down the back of our land an interim creek runs sometimes in winter and there is evidence of old sluicing channels. Previous inhabitant here used to lay down a sheep fleece in the running water to pick up the odd gold speck. I'll settle for my pension I think. Goldmans Rd is actually named after Abe Goldman, I'm told by a local. Abe owned a big chunk down one end, was not, as he sounds, Jewish, but Chinese, so maybe a gold seeker way back. Google turns up nothing on him.
Bill
> On 13 Nov 2014, at 3:22 am, Doug Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Yes, the poetry of signs, MX: I like the way you entertained them here, Bill...
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> Doug
>> On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I wondered about Goldmans -
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>> so is there fossicking still to do, Bill?
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>> out with your metal detector?
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>> or panning the creeks?
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>> Everywhere I’ve lived I’ve sensed poetry lurking in the place names and signs.
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>> Near us is Rough Road, which has in waiting a folding sign: Snow Closure.
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>> Max in Seattle
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>> (homesick for Punt Road, Pound Bend et al.
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>>> On Nov 12, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Named after miners apparently, Pat. Gold.
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>>> Bill
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>>>> On 12 Nov 2014, at 6:40 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Bill Red Shirt Gully Road -great name for a road cheers P
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>>> Sent: 11 November 2014 21:06
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: A sign
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>>>> A sign
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>>>> It only takes about two ks
>>>> of winding dirt and stones
>>>> for Belfields Road
>>>> to lose its plural.
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>>>> By the time you hit
>>>> Red Shirt Gully Road
>>>> if you set out from
>>>> Goldmans Road that is,
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>>>> you stare at a sign
>>>> denoting Belfield Road.
>>>> Maybe down that end, only
>>>> one paddock looks any good.
>>>>
>>>> bw
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