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Winter

It’s 7pm. In winter. In Ballina. A southerly is raging in from a frigid sea at about 40 knots. The rain is punishing. There is nobody about outside. Except for one man. Standing on a slippery rock by the Richmond River. Alone. Fishing.

Fred, he’s 92 ..

.. and he’s standing in the hotel passageway, basking in the winter sun with his back against the wall. Every now and then Fred pats his pockets, checking that something that is supposed to be there, is there. Fred looks like he was a bigger man once and probably a lot better dressed than he is today, given the state of his elastic waisted duds and old sand shoes, but his wide-brimmed hat is all…

I AM A STABLE GENIUS ..

America today

She’s black, they’re white, she’s unmasked, they have their faces hidden. Why?

Tom likes fishing, except when he doesn’t..

The thing about fishing is that those times of the year that favour a full bag are usually the ones that aren’t favourable to filling it. Like the change of seasons from autumn to winter, when the warmish autumn north-easters swing around to the colder south. Like today as Tom starts to unpack his kit against the boardwalk wall. I’m just taking a walk, heading his way, watching. A sudden gust of…

The Righteous Finger

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Air-conditioning …

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larry's surf report

Guess who

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Andy Cochrane, RIP.

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A link to the past

If you have a closer look at the bench against the club wall here you might think it’s the same one where one of the greatest surfers of the longboard era sat and sunned himself over sixty years ago. He’s long gone now and rarely remembered but for a few who were youngsters when this bloke was in his prime but now are themselves pushing 80. It doesn’t hurt to look back from time to time and call…

Ben Roberts- Smith

If a soldier shoots an enemy in the back after the enemy has dropped his weapon and run away .. is it murder?

Today - Wedding Cake Island (pic from SMH)

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Scoring the job.

Sitting in the outer office watching a procession of hopefuls walk and walk out of the Chief Accountant’s office at a bewildering frequency. A man had to ask himself what the problem was. The accounting job looked good, the advertised pay was generous, the business’s product – ocean racing yachts – looked most interesting. My turn came up so after knocking entered the CA’s office. There was no…

Addiction

A man has to write. And being one so I must. But slowly now.

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looking back at Kurungabba

Happened to find this today, thought some old-timers out there might be interested. https://kurungabaa.wordpress.com/tag/works-by-peter-bowes/

sustainable

Eddie works the servo counter on weekends, an easy enough job he says, much better than being out in the weather and $27.50 an hour isn’t bad for Ballina these days. Eddie watches the old boy pull in, open his car door, get out and grab the petrol hose. He’s smiling at something over by the wall and when he comes in to pay he asks Eddie if he knows what sustainable means. ‘Buggered if I know,…

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