Thanks, Jill, Doug. Gumtree is an internet app here, Doug, sort of like
ebay, not as well organised but free.
Update is a bloke from Castlemaine came yesterday with a ruddy great
trailer and took away our huge 17 year old hot water system. Said he was
going to have a crack at converting it to solar for his shed. Took a bit of
shifting but win/win. Hoo-bloody-ray.
Bill
On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 at 12:36 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Different places, different trees, Bill, but it strikes home. Proper to
> just run the whole thing into one big stuffing…
>
> Doug
>
> > On Apr 3, 2018, at 9:42 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > I like how you've tried to stuff so much stuff into this, like a big
> > chest or, yes, that cupboard.
> >
> > It's a never-ending problem, isn't it. You wish burning would do the
> > trick but, of course, it doesn't for all the many obvious reasons.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jill
> >
> > ________________________
> > Jill Jones
> > www.jilljones.com.au
> >
> > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> > To:
> > Cc:
> > Sent:Tue, 3 Apr 2018 22:02:47 +0000
> > Subject:Stuff
> >
> > Stuff
> >
> > is unshiftable you try to do it you don’t want it neither does
> > anybody else
> > not for any price even free give it a whirl you’ll see whack it on
> > gumtree
> > you’ll get a couple of sniffs maybe but then they’ll see oh what
> > a pity too
> > far do you ever get over Ballarat way you don’t and especially not
> > carting
> > a bloody great old hot water service so you try the op shop for
> > smaller
> > stuff and even at Vinnies they turn up their nose and suggest you
> > give the
> > Uniting Church one a go it’s open tomorrow but you can’t wait
> > that long it
> > must go the tip costs money bury the bloody stuff burn it no it would
> > stink
> > that’s that then back into the cupboard it goes till next year
> >
> > bw
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> There is no real
> world, my friends.
> Why not, then
> let the stars
> shine in our bones?
>
> Robert Kroetsch
>
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