Pendulum's Arc

Twelve Apostles

 

In 1963 when I was eight years old my parents took my sister and I for a four day trip. At one stage we visited Glenelg and I remember seeing rocks near the the beautiful sea. It looked so beautiful that I thought that it couldn't be any more so. 

 

I noticed a whale rising and plunging a few times. I wished I was able to be part of a company of the whales.  Another time I noticed I saw the whale getting ready to be harpooned from one of the ships crew and taken by them in shortly by being pulled in quickly with the harpoon and rope. [I asked Colin how he felt about that; he said he felt happy because the whale might be nice to eat. It was before lunch so he was probably feeling hungry].

 

The rocks were ever so gorge-ous it couldn't look any more  ravin-ous . We saw the rocks from the car which was near the cliff. We wanted to keep our distance from the cliff and not fall down from it. I was happy with the view but did not wish to go closer.

 

We continued through Glenelg to Mount Gambier, where we bought limestone for the garden at home. After picking it up and visiting the Blue Lakes we went back to Glenelg and saw the gypsy caravan. We nagged our father to take a photo of it (my sister did not) and eventually my father and I had a big argument over who would take the photo - but we could not agree. Of course my father won but when he tried the camera he realized he didn’t know how to use the camera and he asked me to do it.

 

Traveling towards Port Campbell I saw some penguins that looked as big as the King Penguins which we’d seen at the Twelve Apostles. They could have been in a circus. They were even bigger than the Fairy Penguins at Philip Island which are better known.

 

The whole trip lasted for four days in all. We stayed each night in a tent. After we met in the tent we wanted to travel to Apollo Bay and go fishing on a boat with a relative. We caught some nice flathead but not that many – I remember wanting to keep fishing. 

 

Our relative Kate cooked them up and they were lovely to eat- gorgeous in fact.

A letter to John Howard, PM

 

ATTENTION:             John Howard, PM

                                    Kirabilli House

                                    Sydney, NSW 2000

 

RE:

 

A Gentleman's Thoughts

– Of Which You Should Be Apprised

Dear John Howard,

 

   I know about your party. Robert Menzies was a pretty clever person in the Liberal Party since he was able to know all about all types of Australian politics and International politics. He even used the Transport Department of Australia. Do you?

 

Would you please make sure the public chooses a future leader - so we can  have a good leader. Encourage them to vote for either Peter Costello or yourself - so you can win the election. I feel you may be able to win the election if you do this early enough.

By  campaigning you can get to be in government for another term.  

 

So the Liberal party could be a beaut party - like the father party when it was in power in the 1950s and 1960s.

 

When Robert Menzies was in power he was a wonderful Prime Minister for his party and did wonderful things; lowering inflation and providing better public transport.

 

During the eight years John Howard was in  power, Peter Costello was in the Treasury Department with many good ideas worth being considered. He may even be a better politician than you. If he works hard he will be the better of the two of you and will be good enough for Prime Minister. Even as Deputy Prime Minister, together you can make the Liberal party the best it has been in the  twenty first century.

 

It might be worth discussing whether you agree with me or vice versa on either of you being our two highest leader; one MP for Prime Minister the other for Deputy Prime Minister.

 

Do you see all of my points in the entire Liberal Party.

 

Regards, A Gentleman

"My favourite style of music is Classical; in particular Chopin and Beethoven.  I also enjoy Benny Goodman.

 I to listen to music of a night-time at home which I find very relaxing.

The music of Mozart in concert is exceptionally good and ever so outstanding. Wouldn’t you agree? 

I’ve got one of his concertos on CD.

Somedays we arrive home and get ready. We go outdoors to the park and people from other parks come – and we listen to music. It is like the Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace is a place in London where people go for lovely concerts at which the music of Johan Strauss is sometimes played. 

Café

 

In a beautiful café I drank tea

With friends at Mt. BawBaw

Snowing outside log fire keeps us warm.

Swan Lake

 

The princess turned into a white swan

Music is ethereal and romantic

Springtime arrives swan becomes princess finds love.