Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part I https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189811#post189811 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189811#post189811 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:50:22 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189808#post189808 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189808#post189808 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:43:34 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189807#post189807 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189807#post189807 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:36:14 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189804#post189804 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189804#post189804 Happy Cracker night all!

Mind you, while my lovely family is out buying me some crackers from the Warehouse (bless you Moth' dear!) we actually use them at the 3 New Years (Hogmanay/Lunar & Matariki.)

But I love love love fireworks!

Probably not suitable for Remembering Parihaka, Just Thinking – but…

]]> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:12:29 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189802#post189802 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189802#post189802 Okay, well I'm going to have to break the silence. I won't apologise a second time, Geoff, but I will move on now with regret that I stooped so low (wasn't meant to be smutty).

But let's change the subject.
We're having a couple of friends round for Guy Fawkes…

]]> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:45:43 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189638#post189638 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189638#post189638 Geoff, I've come over all hot and springy...;)You write evocatively of the area. The closest I get to waxing lyrical about Auckland is when I talk about the beach – which is something, to be sure.

a wonderful old country pub...[and] a golf course (if you like that kind of…

]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:08:29 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189613#post189613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189613#post189613 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:14:02 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189608#post189608 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189608#post189608 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:58:04 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189605#post189605 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189605#post189605 No problem, Sally. No offence taken. After all, I have been known to make unkind remarks about Masterton.

I don't get to Cambridge often enough--silly old Tirau is our usual stop, heading south (there are some wonderful, little-known hot spring spots around there).

]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:54:53 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189593#post189593 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189593#post189593

No imagination is needed as I am perfectly happy here. One of these days I intend to write a spirited defence of Hamilton and the Waikato, to challenge the misconceptions and cheap shots but not today.

Sorry, point taken. I'm off to hide in a hole until I can work…

]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:18:36 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189581#post189581 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189581#post189581

Geoff: For some reason I can't imagine you in the Waikato.

No imagination is needed as I am perfectly happy here. One of these days I intend to write a spirited defence of Hamilton and the Waikato, to challenge the misconceptions and cheap shots but not today. But, my office…

]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:24:39 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189559#post189559 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189559#post189559 Geoff: So you're not in my neighbourhood then? For some reason I can't imagine you in the Waikato. It always seems to detached from reality down there. So pristine-serene. One doesn't imagine brainy blogging back-stage. It seems built for the horses.
My imagination is limited, of course.
People's previous guises…

]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:08:32 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189544#post189544 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189544#post189544

Who said anything about smoking round my tomatoes, Geoff??

Not smoking toms, or anything else.

And how the bejabers do you lot know so much about gardening?

Well, my explanation is that, in an earlier guise, I did a DipHort at Massey and worked for the Dept of Horticulture for…

]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:03:23 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189531#post189531 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189531#post189531 Who said anything about smoking round my tomatoes, Geoff?? Are you in my neighbourhood or something?

But somehow I think passive smoking will be the least of my tomatoes' worries. In fact my tomatoes must be the most unlucky tomatoes in Auckland. Poor blighters.

And how the bejabers do you…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:23:25 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189522#post189522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189522#post189522 Quantum of Solanaceae

(there is a readily-transmitted lurge called Tobacco Mosaic Virus--when I worked in glasshouse cultivation, we were advised to avoid smoking--especially rollies)

Maybe it's just a Waikato thing – wasn't there a heavy metal band from Hamilton called Knightshade?
:- )

But seriously hand washing between handling infected…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:42:25 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189492#post189492 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189492#post189492 (gag)(both meanings) 'spose so
but the part of me that shrieks at people calling apes monkeys, is still shrieking away-

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:55:25 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189491#post189491 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189491#post189491 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:42:10 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189489#post189489 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189489#post189489 Jacqui – shouting ahead of any response from Ian D – NO!NO!NO!
Dolphins (except for the Hawai'ian dolphin =mahimahi, a genuine pisces) are emphatically not fish!

Young cabbages are delicious: I agree with everything you folk have said about tomatoes; radishes/microherbs/parsley/Thai chillies/spring onions are easy to grow indoors, and if…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:39:20 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189485#post189485 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189485#post189485

But I did have my first flower on the pink peony, which was transported north from Napier earlier this year.

Oh, lucky you!
I've got cauliflower and broccoli seedlings all ready for when my flipping flipper is better (Hey Ian! Do dolphins count as fish?). Once bought some seedlings thinking…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:33:17 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189477#post189477 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189477#post189477 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:44:34 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189459#post189459 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189459#post189459 Ian, you are o-fish-ally the king of the pun, and cheers for the P.S.

Sacha, I'll have to get my son to translate – seriously!

Jacqui, you give sense to my silly and make it all worthwhile. For your sake alone I think I will write part 2 – and…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:17:33 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189451#post189451 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189451#post189451

if I'm to believe my 17year-old son

Fortunately we're over Bebo..

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:42:13 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189450#post189450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189450#post189450 a well read Herring aide...?

No. You're a good fish, a champion swimmer, and I am your grateful and humble disciple (can't think of a fishy substitute...

Never one to shilly-shally Sally,
I'll rise to your alluring bait...

Despite the fact that Trout is an anagram
of Tutor, I don't think…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:39:41 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189444#post189444 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189444#post189444 Please do not dilly-dally, silly sally. Seriously, Serious, Part 2 is eagerly awaited by this poster.

And David, I guess you've been busy – haven't seen much from you in the last little while. A man of (wait for it!) mosstery!!

Ta da!!

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:55:36 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189436#post189436 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189436#post189436 Jacqui: I respond to your comments because I appreciate your contributions, though I realise ping-pong on moss and tomatoes is probably not quite on task as far as the greater PAS enterprise goes.

To be honest, this is my first real experience of blogging and, if I'm to believe my…

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:08:39 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189373#post189373 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189373#post189373 Scrubbers...

... two hours later the neighbour was dead

Aha! That would explain Keith Richards
longevity then...



...a Rolling Stone gathers no moss!


ps:

...as fit as a trout!

he was possibly fishing for a compliment...

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:37:08 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189368#post189368 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189368#post189368 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:15:19 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189358#post189358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189358#post189358 Not that this is not enjoyable, but I suspect you're far too polite to let me comment without responding....right?

(I'm OK if you don't, promise!!)

]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:53:06 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189290#post189290 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189290#post189290 Sally, do you realize we're playing blog ping-pong? :))

So, when's part 2 likely to turn up here?

]]> Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:53:50 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189180#post189180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189180#post189180 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:21:00 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189005#post189005 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=189005#post189005 you can have a go at that, Sally – for myself, I think every little thing has its place, including moss. As long as the sun gets to it for a good while every day, you shouldn't have too much trouble. But bricks often have little hollows.....so be warned.… ]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:07:31 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188899#post188899 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188899#post188899 Been there done that got the purple carrots to prove it, eh? And I thought I was being original....So much to learn.
If we pray every day do you think we might keep that devil moss away???

]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:00:37 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188898#post188898 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188898#post188898

purple carrots

Got some of those! And some white ones. And some yellow ones.
The radishes are quick to sprout and grow, the carrots much slower. I think you'll be OK.

Please, though, make sure your bricks don't grow moss on them. They're treacherously slippery in the wet.

Prayers being…

]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:51:28 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188882#post188882 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188882#post188882 Jacqui: I think there's more to this grow-your-own enterprise than the right wing would have us believe....

On the weekend my husband planted (more like poured) some radish seeds amongst the carrot seeds I had painstakingly arranged as per the instructions on the packet. At this point I wouldn't be…

]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:15:23 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188255#post188255 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188255#post188255 The biggest mistake I made with tomatoes was not picking out the laterals. Actually, when you have picked them out, if you put them in water they'll sprout.....so, more tomato plants! Brilliant.

But, if you don't pick out the laterals, after a while you'll find this massive conglomeration of branching…

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:31:39 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188202#post188202 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188202#post188202 Thanks Jacqui. I think I have just planted three varieties of tomatoes, none of them the best sort you recommend. What a dunce! I will amend that. And don't worry, I know nothing about gardening so can do with the help.

I would hate to break an ankle. I've torn…

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:37:01 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188194#post188194 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188194#post188194 I'm feeling better now, thanks, due to:

1. Got my MacBook back, all loaded up with 500gig hard drive (the other 160gig drive failed), Snow Leopard (it was originally Tiger), and a new CD/DVD burner, so I can leave the horrible Windows computer to fiddle around slowly, on its own!…

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:14:49 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188173#post188173 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188173#post188173 Oh Jacqui, don't tell me you've been in plaster too! My younger son has just had his arm cast removed. Great palava the whole exercise was. I feel for you.

I'm afraid I did not plant lettuce seedlings. I realised after posting that question that I had probably given the…

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:13:35 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188157#post188157 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=188157#post188157

How long does a lettuce take to mature from a single leaf?

Oer, Sally, you're worrying me! Tell me you put in some seedlings, please.

If you want lovely lettuce leaves, you can't do better than some of the ones you can pick leaves off as they grow. Red Oaks,…

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:31:28 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187672#post187672 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187672#post187672 Ian: You are a funny man. Your concern is touching.

No, the power bill is almost entirely on computers, at least that's what my sons' father reckons. And for the record, I've never needed an electric blanket...

]]> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:14:02 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187650#post187650 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187650#post187650

I planted a vege garden on the weekend.
My first...

I forgot to say that I am signing off now in a bid to cut back on the power bill which has topped $300 this month.

I'm worried you may have left the electric blanket, on the new vegetable bed,…

]]> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:18:24 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187551#post187551 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187551#post187551 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:54:05 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187550#post187550 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187550#post187550 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:52:21 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187542#post187542 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187542#post187542 One of the best lines in Kath and Kim. Along the lines of: "It's Ok, we've got lots of money, we're effluent."

Edit: Found it:

"I want to be effluent mum!" "You are effluent Kimi..." (i.e., affluent) – Kath and Kim

From Malapropism

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:11:59 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187524#post187524 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187524#post187524 I have no energy today. I nearly fell asleep on the beach. All right for some, I guess. I think everyone's exhausted from the winter. They're swimming with relief.
I planted a vege garden on the weekend. My first. I have never owned enough land before. How long does a…

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:17:50 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187522#post187522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187522#post187522 My Australian great-Aunt Lyla. teased mercilessly by her nephews with "a bison is what yer wash yer fice in".

Actually, just in case you're feeling a bit put-upon, Sally, there was a joke I heard when I was over visiting my "Ostrayan" brother: How do you get a Kiwi into…

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:13:38 +1300 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187517#post187517 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187517#post187517 It may be apocryphal, but apparently an Aussie nurse once said:

You're going home today

and the NZ patient heard:

You're going home to die

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:46:24 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187516#post187516 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187516#post187516

Strain – for Australian.

Isn't it funny how that can have fewer syllables than Australia, similarly translated.

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:42:15 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187515#post187515 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187515#post187515 Actually I was thinking of Strain – for Australian.

Thank you Lucy for that clarification re chickens. I kind of knew that but thought, in view of the bird that flu, I'd put in that particular memory of when I was five and didn't know any better about what causes…

]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:40:18 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187292#post187292 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187292#post187292 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:24:30 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187291#post187291 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187291#post187291 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:23:57 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187290#post187290 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187290#post187290

Straya

Oh come on! I'm talking about more edicated Aussies!

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:22:26 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187284#post187284 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187284#post187284 Maaaaaaaaaaaaaate!

Ocker

So our Kev tried it eh?

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:04:02 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187281#post187281 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187281#post187281

Sheet. I forgot to add Maaate every second word. Mate.

Unless you're sliming your through the byzantine labyrinth of the ALP right, or attempting to grease your way onside with Singo, that sort of thing's no longer all the go. Now that Big Kerry's karked it, and poor old Richo…

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:52:47 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187279#post187279 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187279#post187279 Bit of light Digger Deviant humour for a monday.

Dylan Moran on OZ. Ljke the "Kill a Wiggle"

And for those who have had too much of Advance Austrialia Fair

Jeex, it is a blokes world..... Beer?

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:45:40 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187267#post187267 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187267#post187267 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:01:11 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187266#post187266 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187266#post187266

Ross: ah, memories! Your Australian is very good. But you don't have my stop; Chatswood.

Did you live in Good?

Streuth. Yeah Nahhhh. Not Good. Noo Zild. U Hutt. Dinkum. Dinky Dye (spelling?) spot too.

I did learn you have to be careful who you call an Ocker. But for…

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:00:26 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187261#post187261 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187261#post187261 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:33:18 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187259#post187259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187259#post187259 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:27:44 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187258#post187258 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187258#post187258 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:23:51 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187246#post187246 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187246#post187246 Late in on this, but yesterday was so lovely; a day to be out looking at the sea, and people, and basking in the sun.

The Aussie words that had me convulsed was when several of my family went to a furniture shop in Sydney to buy a wedding present…

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:52:24 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187122#post187122 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187122#post187122

Originally from Mataura

Goddamn, I hear that a lot. Is it just me?

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:08:37 +1300 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187099#post187099 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187099#post187099 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:18:58 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187086#post187086 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187086#post187086 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:50:06 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187084#post187084 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187084#post187084

Next it'll be 'Me dad's in the cemo' (cemetery). All class.

Heh. I've actually heard that, tho in jest. 'He was a garbo and a commo, now he's in the cemo.'

BTW, there's no truth in the rumour that Bryan Brown was given to improvising his own dialogue, à la…

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:42:57 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187083#post187083 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187083#post187083 Joe: Of course! Shitswid is Chatswood. Silly me. We used to call it Chatty or Chatwood, very creative not. Shitswid is much more Australian.

Yes, the Aussie vernacular is hilarious. If not horribly contracted, everything must end in 'o'. Next it'll be 'Me dad's in the cemo' (cemetery). All class.…

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:01:18 +1300 Heather W. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187077#post187077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187077#post187077

Heather: so you've gone from Sydney's north shore to Auckland's? Me too.

Yes. Though only had two years in Sydney. Was in West Auckland before that (Yes, I know could have just gone across the bridge rather than via the puddle).

Originally from Mataura (Southland, NZ).

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:59:14 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187066#post187066 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187066#post187066

Ross: ah, memories! Your Australian is very good. But you don't have my stop; Chatswood.

Yes he did, Shitswid.

There was a nice piece on State Rail Strine in the SMH a few years back. The bit I recall was "Stank lear. Disclosin." (Stand clear, doors closing).

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:31:24 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187062#post187062 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=187062#post187062 Heather: so you've gone from Sydney's north shore to Auckland's? Me too.

I watched some of the RNZB documentary and was pretty impressed with the dancing. Actually surprised me, having seen a number of the company's productions. But great documentary.

Ross: ah, memories! Your Australian is very good. But you…

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 07:25:18 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186765#post186765 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186765#post186765

Station announcements on the trains were also interesting especially when trying to equate place-names with sounds – eg. Turramurra

"nixstop Wayvtin"
"Nixstop Salenids"
"Nixstop Adimin"
"Nixstop Shitswid"
"Nixstop Rosvill"
"Nixstop Lifild"
"Nixstop Klarrrrrra"
"Nixstop Good"
"Nixstop Peeembil"
"Nixstop Taamaara"

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:27:46 +1300 Heather W. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186752#post186752 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186752#post186752 TV3 has just finished the first series of The Secret Lives of Dancers about the Royal New Zealand Ballet on tour. Now available in the TV on demand section TV3.co.nz.

Thanks for the memory jog. Lived in NSW for a couple of years. Been to French's Forest once…

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:58:12 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186568#post186568 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186568#post186568 Ross" Fair suck...?I haven't heard that for years. I like it.

Yes I most definitely know how fascinating my parents are and fully intend to write a book about them one day. Seriously, you don't know the half of it. My father fought in WWII having conned his way in…

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:21:21 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186537#post186537 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186537#post186537 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:17:38 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186515#post186515 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186515#post186515

Ross? Has it anything to do with penises?

Fair suck of the sav Sal. No.

Your mention of the "non forest" suggests that you came to this particular forest from a more lush one?

After parenting 3 girls, I think I can vouch for the "leave the middle one to…

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:44:33 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186488#post186488 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186488#post186488 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:31:07 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186472#post186472 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186472#post186472 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:05:33 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186464#post186464 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186464#post186464

I can't imagine having a young mum. I think whatever I learnt from my mum I learnt because of her years (42 years older). The fact that she came from such a different time – born in the 20s.

Me too – Mum was born in 1928, and in her…

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:46:34 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186461#post186461 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186461#post186461 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:39:42 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186452#post186452 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186452#post186452 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:28:12 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186451#post186451 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186451#post186451 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:26:54 +1300 Isabel Hitchings https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186450#post186450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186450#post186450 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:24:06 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186446#post186446 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186446#post186446 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:17:12 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186408#post186408 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186408#post186408 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:05:23 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186311#post186311 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186311#post186311

ballet is not as spangly and glamorous as it sometimes appears

Having worked with a woman who had to give up professional ballet through injuring herself all the time, I'm sure you're right.

I look forward to those later years. If it's anything like your reminiscing about sex in foreign…

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:31:15 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186246#post186246 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186246#post186246 Hmmm...Sacha, let's not go there.

Jacqui: Cheers muchly. Yes, I suppose I was lucky ballet was the only dance option given. Though if I get round to writing about the later years you will see that ballet is not as spangly and glamorous as it sometimes appears. Did someone mention…

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:02:19 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186220#post186220 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186220#post186220

What is this, France?

The catholic church..

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:35:32 +1300 Megan Wegan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186218#post186218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186218#post186218

I had a residue of resentment for many years over that.

I am still slightly bitter that my Mum wouldn't let me do marching with my friend Andrea.

Really, it was about the boots, but life could have been so different. Sigh...

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:35:08 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186216#post186216 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186216#post186216 Loved this, Sally.

As lucky first (the trial model) in my family, I had a similarly "forced-by-circumstances" entry into dance. I broke my ankle aged 2/3, and when it mended it was turned in. A dancing teacher began lessons across the road in the small town we lived in -…

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:32:32 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186202#post186202 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186202#post186202 Ha! Cheers Emma. I believe my childhood to have occurred in a kind of Twilight Zone of surrealism. France is indeed approximate.

Thanks Dude. Why you stay up so late?

Kyle: You would know

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:17:43 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186193#post186193 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186193#post186193 This was lovely, Sally, I really enjoyed it.

Though also, suppositories for asthma? What is this, France?

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:08:05 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186188#post186188 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186188#post186188

breathe without the aide of suppositories

I think that's called farting. Breathing happens at the other end.

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:50:13 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186180#post186180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186180#post186180 A very welcome piece of entertainment, Sally — many thanks.

I'm currently stuck at home with a partially toilet-trained 3-year-old, sheltering from the intermittent rain, and being forced to read "The Castle of Adventure". I fear I have exceeded the overdose point for Enid Blyton, or to put it another…

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:34:40 +1300 sally jones https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186169#post186169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186169#post186169 Ross? Has it anything to do with penises?

giovanni: Dingoes can be anything you want.

Tim: no connection. I wouldn't be that mean to turkeys

Cecelia: Thanks. There is a bit on hobbits.

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:19:42 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186156#post186156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186156#post186156 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:00:05 +1300 Cecelia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186150#post186150 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186150#post186150 I opened PA hoping to see some sort of comment on the awful actors or the greedy teachers who sent the Hobbit overseas and the third formers home.

Never mind. I enjoyed your story a lot. Keep us posted.

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:24:50 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186144#post186144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186144#post186144 sworn it would be about our filming industry and the Aussie unions. ]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:54:56 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186133#post186133 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186133#post186133 I'm sorry, but I have to get this out of the way before commenting on middlers, Cowellas and Awestruckandfailures.

Turkey. 3:20 in is the....um....moment.

]]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:16:57 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186132#post186132 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-dancing-with-dingoes-part-i/?p=186132#post186132 Discussion from blog post.

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