We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
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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