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Thanks again, Andrew. It was a humble house. Bill > On 1 Jan 2014, at 2:29 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Ah, 'groany gate' sets the mood. That's a humble house rich with memories. > Goodonya, Bill, I can hear the barker at the show extolling the girls' many > virtues! > > Andrew > > >> On 1 January 2014 06:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Thank you, Roger. >> >> >> >>> On 1 Jan 2014, at 3:44 am, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> lovely poem >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> No, not eight, at the tents, Max. Other stuff with yabbies and >>>> clotheslines and grandma, eightish, no probably ten, now I think about >> it. >>>> But Vanessa and co plied their wares out front of their tents for a >> brief >>>> moment as a spruiker encouraged onlookers to ante up and head in the >> tent >>>> to see more and of course less. I must have just teened it I suppose >> when I >>>> saw a youth called by spruiker, jump up on platform outside tent and, at >>>> the spruiker's behest, place his open palm on on the exposed flesh of >>>> Vanessa's stomach. Vanessa smiled wordlessly. Gasps. This on the >> corner, as >>>> I recall it, of Pall Mall and whatever that road is that runs up to >>>> Hargreaves Street, right opposite the Shamrock Hotel, in broad daylight. >>>> What went on in the tents I never knew but that out front experience ... >>>> >>>> Thanks also Sheila and Doug, I will look again at those verbs which >> crept >>>> in at redrafting stages after I spoke to my parents and may not warrant >>>> remaining. The verbs, not the parents, who have been married Diamond >> sixty >>>> today! >>>> >>>> Patrick, I suppose I did want to half-hint at something a bit >> Bradburyish >>>> at the end but didn't want to tamper with the tone so stopped it there, >>>> albeit not quite as precisely as your moth closer. >>>> >>>> Bill >>>> >>>>> On 19 Dec 2013, at 6:33 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ah, now he says he was eight. >>>>> >>>>> And back then in Bendigo eight year olds could pay their - what? >>>> shilling? - and be ushered in to see two strip tease acts? >>>>> >>>>>>>> Vanessa the Undresser and The Girl with the Twin 44s. >>>>> >>>>> I'd rather you were down on your knees lifting the flap of the canvas. >>>>> I guess cinema images are supervening here: >>>>> I see young Bill being dragged back by some stern authority… >>>>> >>>>> Max >>>>> >>>>> purely in the interests of social history - was Bendigo and its fairs >>>> replicated elsewhere? >>>>> what a lot I missed... >>>>> >>>>>> On 18/12/2013, at 11:23 PM, Bill Wootton wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, Max, Pat. >>>>>> >>>>>> It is a slow camera eye but a bit ghostly too, I suppose. I have >>>> revamped the cheeky episode lines to: >>>>>> >>>>>> Fumes from Uncle Rex's Abbots Lager >>>>>> 'soldier' opened by feigned accident in kitchen. >>>>>> >>>>>> hoping to clarify how an eight year old pretended to be opening ginger >>>> beer on a hot day and opened a bottle of beer instead. Admitted the >>>> 'mistake' to Grandma without tasting. The illicit smell! We have a gal >> tank >>>> for water up here on the bush block and my father, a carpenter, and his >>>> plumber brother always shortened galvanised iron to gal. gal pipes etc >> so I >>>> thought gal roof would be OK. >>>>>> >>>>>> Suggestions about re-ordering have been adopted so I move now from >>>> pantry to outside laundry to clothesline to shed which seems better. >> Doug, >>>> tomorrow may disagree, he preferring last week to see more >> fragmentation in >>>> last week's poem at least. >>>>>> >>>>>> A big feature of the Bendigo Show is the Chinese Dragon, with many >>>> (human) legs but what I meant was bugger, as in 'blow' or 'who would >> care >>>> for' such a dragon when two strip tents were in the sideshow and much >> more >>>> attractive to young boys than any dragon, no matter how long. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Bill > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > 'Undercover of Lightness' > http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html > 'Shikibu Shuffle' > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html >