beaten severely with a foot long twenty pound frozen fruit lolly. Tom Barker Joondalup, Australia 2005

Jean Ringland

My Father’s Hat

We children learned to understand hat messages;
a jaunty angle brought lollies in the pockets
and laughter at the table, brow lower – serious times,
a need for long discussions before homework and bed.
Lower still – late home, the stumble in the hall
and my mother, frozen faced, serving the meal
in silence, while little ones, bewildered,
dared not drop a spoon or spill their milk.

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Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first.

The cafes had closed their doors to the drinkers and domino players. The lounging Arab boys had deserted the sandy Place de la Marine.
The Garden of Allah (bk. I, ch. I)  ROBERT SMYTHE HICHENS
English (1864 – 1950)

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One’s skills are his inexhaustible treasure keeping him from hunger wherever he goes. (Chinese)

The first freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.  Eleanor Roosevelt

FOTO – FOODSHARE ILLAWARRA

Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

Since thou hast leased thy love to hell Let smokes of mediocrity And such slow fire envelope thee. (20) ANNA WICKHAM.

FOTO – JAMIESON’S PIZZA WEST TWEED HEADS NSW 2008

Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. (Portuguese)

“Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.”

Bertrand Russell

FOTO – ILNAM ESTATE WINERY 2008 WITH IONE.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Oscar Wilde

The person that said winning isn’t everything, never won anything.
Mia Hamm
American female soccer player.

Nsungwi ya mtuwa sisiliridwa. A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired (for building). AFRICAN.

Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J B S Haldane, Possible Worlds, title essay (1927)

FOTO -KATI B IN PADDINGTON. SASSAFRAS CAFE.

 

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Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute Speak up and judge fairly, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9

“Third World Labourer”

“If I am asked where I come from,
“I will answer that I am a labourer,
“that in the empire of greed,
“exploitation hurts the same.”

Luz Acuna Aguayo

“How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?” MALCOLM X.

T. S. Elliot: Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

 

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A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. James A. Beard

“The honourable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table.” (Confucius)

FOTO – CURIOUS MEAL AT BLUE FROG TOOWONG BRISBANE AUST 2007

 

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Italian. La pecora che bela perde il boccone English. Every time a sheep bleats it loses a mouthful.

“She walks–the lady of my delight– A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.”
Alice Meynell

IMAGE – AUSTRALIAN DROVING SCENE.

 

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"Life without a friend is like death without a witness." Spanish Proverb

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” 

Bernard Meltzer.

FOTO – LUFFLEY CAFE  MURWILLUMBAH 2009

 

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Feast on wine or fast on water, And your honour shall stand sure If an angel out of heaven Brings you something else to drink, Thank him for his kind attentions, go and pour it down the sink. G.K. Chesterton

UB40

Red, red wine
Goes to my head
Makes me forget that I
Still need you so

 

FOTO -SIGN TO ILNAM ESTATE WINERY CAROOL 2008

Trade occurs while you are stroking your beard. Kazakh.

“Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.”
(Ancient Chinese proverb)

“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.”
Alexander Puskin

Tea that helps our head and heart.
Tea medicates most every part.
Tea rejuvenates the very old.
Tea warms the hands of those who’re cold.

J. Jonker, Amsterdam, circa 1670

FOTO – J G SANDERS’ HAM AND BEEF STORE CANTERBURY ROAD HURLSTONE PARK SYDNEY.

According to a new study, eating ice cream increases a woman’s chance of getting pregnant. Actually, eating ice cream increases a woman’s chances of looking pregnant. Conan O’Brien

“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.”
Lemony Snicket.

FOTO – RED HILL BRISBANE

Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn. Chinese.

Dr. Samuel Johnson – “There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

FOTO – BALLINA NSW 2008

 

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Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life’s problems. Dan Castellaneta

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile. Chinese Proverb

At the door of shops brothers and friends are numerous; at the door of misery there are no brothers and no friends (Shab. 32^a; D. 1). ANCIENT JEWISH.

FOTO – CHILLINGHAM STORE NSW 2008.