Is that a Coolibah tree beside the abandoned house? Every Australian knows about Coolibah trees because the bush ballad Waltzing Matilda is nigh on our unoffical national anthem but most of us live nowhere near the inland where they grow. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
Hah! I was in there today. Had my first ever lunch in their restaurant rather than their cafe. I thought it was a pretty hit and miss exhibition all round. My brain doesn't like the interleaving of the Archie/Sulman/Wynne. I have a one-track mind. There were some I liked a lot, but many I just walked past. One of the friends I went with kept tellingus which one she would have on her loungeroom wall. That did not help.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't do the Archibald ... too crowded for my taste.
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ReplyDeleteNo ... not with us. Ian makes a point of assuming there will be a nice close carpark and invariably finds one. On this occasion, because all the spots were taken on the downward run and it was Sunday afternoon and the Archibald Prize is showing at the gallery we decided to grab one of the first available parks on the upward run. I think he was feeling mad at himself for violating his normal rule.
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