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May
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1) Sunday reading at the Gusto Bakery 2) Falun Gongers maintain a slow motion protest 		Off cuts
24.5.06 - The people at the Gusto Bakery are getting used to me popping in for a jasmine tea and a bit of a read of the Age. If you look carefully at the first photo you'll see that the guy in the 4 x wheel drive in the background is reading the paper too.. And yesterday, Dylan and I struck the Falun Gong people again, but this time they moved..
 

I'm walking backwards for Xmas

A bit of old tatt..
11.5.06 - For so many reasons I'm glad I'm not a teenager today. The dictates of fashion seem to be so extreme, compared with the long hair and Beatle boots de rigueur some centuries ago. Take piercing for instance - and take tongue piercing a long way from me if you're front of house staff at any eating establishment I'm patronising.* Actually, you can pierce anything you like, as long as I can't see it. And seeing it is what it's all about. Take tattoos. If you're a well-built young man with tatts on your chest, arms and back, it's mandatory to go about in singlets in all seasons to show them off. My prediction is that the novelty will wear off. Or if you're a buxom young thing who, one night in a fit of ecstasy-driven largesse with her giggling mates, got a personalised tatt in the middle of her back, you'd want to show it off wouldn't you? What to do in late autumn, when the winds are chill on Camberwell Hill? Why, customise your black cashmir sweater with a scoop in the back so it looks like your torso is back-to-front , of course! *and I am..
 
Nokia miscellany

1) Chris smiles beguilingly 2) Falun Gong stand reproachful vigil at the Chinese Embassy

3) Russell checks his mobile as we plummet earthwards 4) The trough for errant pissers

5) Adelaide's May Day March in April 6) Jeff Joseph waits for silence at the Debonairs' do
Phone camera diary
4.5.06 - 1) A lot of people have been enquiring about my son Chris lately. It surprises some (including me) that Chris will be thirty nine later this year, especially given how young he looks. Anyway, I'm happy to report that he's well and happy, and we're getting along better than ever. I've bought myself a ukulele to match the one I bought him some months ago, and I'm hoping we can eventually start a two-man uke orchestra with a half life of thirty thousand years. 2) I didn't realise the Chinese Embassy was in Toorak until Dylan and I happened on these Falun Gong people standing in silent protest on the opposite side of the road from the Embassy. I asked permission to photograph them - I never do that normally, but their mode of protest was so culturally alien I felt I should ask out of politeness. 3) I sat next to Russell Morris on the way up to Brisbane for John Schu-person's Anzac Day show. He has the happy knack of being able to sleep on planes, and did so for the entire journey. 4) Some of you may remember my series on public toilets. Well, here's another version of the pissoir that seeks to take the missing out of pissing. It doesn't work. 5) After breakfast, Bill and I walked around the block to take in some of the local Adelaide colour before heading back to the motel. We saw this little procession on North Terrace with perhaps a hundred people cheerfully waving union banners. 'It could be a May Day march' I thought to myself, 'except it's not May yet'. But that's the way they do it in Adelaide. 6) I was invited to attend the Debonairs' Luncheon on Tuesday. If you've never been in a room with forty or fifty deaf musicians all shouting at each other you can't imagine the din. Talk about turning it up to eleven! Anyway, I did strike up an interesting ninety decibel conversation with Chris Stockley, which was interrupted in this case by the legendary agent/manager Jeff Joseph, who invited us to some function or other that you can't come to, and that I'll probably forget about..
 
 
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