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Telling Stories
“Do you have any advice, any tips for people here in Lismore for when the reporters and camera operators come knocking on doors at the end of February”, I asked Melissa Doyle, the former “Sunrise” co-host who was in Lismore on a tour promoting her new book, “Fifteen Seconds Of Brave”.… Read the rest “Telling Stories”
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Peak Byron
Don’t get me wrong, because Pablo was an excellent performer, I really enjoyed him playing. But when I saw him playing at the Beach Hotel at Byron Bay Beach Hotel yesterday, I giggled a little.
Here was a bloke called Pablo with a beard and a bun, playing folk music with a flute and then later a trumpet at a pub in Byron, where I was drinking an overpriced 13-dollar schooner of Coopers Green.… Read the rest “Peak Byron”
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Aracades & Laneways
I took a walk around through some of the arcades and laneways of Lismore on the weekend. Eight months after the catastrophic flood, I was keen to see how the reconstruction of the arcades and laneways is going. Work on the main streets is slowly underway, and some shops have re-opened.… Read the rest “Aracades & Laneways”
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Lovemore
In the days and weeks following the catastrophic flood, “hearts” started appearing on homes and businesses around Lismore.
Pretty quickly, they became a “thing”.
People began to sew them “professionally” to support fundraising.
https://www.lismorecitynews.com.au/story/7744480/banners-from-the-heart-a-sign-of-hope/ And people started creating their own variations on the heart theme, to brighten the otherwise fairly desolate city views.… Read the rest “Lovemore”
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Sometimes
I saw something on Facebook the other week about “Crimson: A Night Of Queer Cabaret” at Lismore’s Star Court Theatre.
The same theatre I went to as a child, mostly on a Saturday morning (with my school friend, Mark Anderson). Back then, children’s tickets were only twenty cents for a double matinee.… Read the rest “Sometimes”
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Do you know everyone?
“Jim, do you know everyone in Lismore?”, my nephew Sam asked me yesterday, half-joking. As long as he’s been alive, I’ve lived in Sydney. He seemed genuinely surprised at the number of people I knew, as we walked home from the Lismore Showground.
We were at the showground for clothes fitting for his Year 12 school formal.… Read the rest “Do you know everyone?”
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Blue Skies
None of us slept well last night. Yesterday, the BOM/SES was predicting ANOTHER flood for Lismore. Though not at the catastrophic levels of the floods in February/March, there was still the prediction of a “moderate to major flood”.
The forecast said the flood might reach 9.7 metres (possibly more) on the Wilsons River at Lismore.… Read the rest “Blue Skies”
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Thankyou Lismore
You should never post anything to social media on a Friday night, I’ve recently concluded. There are far too many people with “opinions” that, perhaps, become a little more extreme at the end of the working week, and perhaps after a glass or two of something. I was reminded of this again last night, after posting to a Facebook group a video of the Lismore flood thankyou parade at the Lismore Show.… Read the rest “Thankyou Lismore”
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Lismore Show
“Do you need a lift to the showground?”, Pat asked me today. “You KNOW I can walk to and from the showground by myself,” I said to her in reply. We laughed (kinda) today as we remembered the time when I got lost at the Lismore Show, aged seven or eight.… Read the rest “Lismore Show”