Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The Tyabb Junior Fire Brigade march in the Western Port Festival parade celebrating Hastings' 150 year history in the Mornington Peninsula.
They are accompanied by an old water pump/hose from about the 1940's.
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Carry on Tuesday #93 ~ This week, a line from Shakespeare’s best loved play, Romeo and Juliet:
parting is such sweet sorrow
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Progress stills old ways
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Parades remember
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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4 comments:
nice one Gemma :)
Thats a nice one Gemma!! And you took us way way back. Have seen photographs of such water pump/hose used by the fire brigade.
Yes, it's harder parting with things as memories, than it was leaving them at the time.
Thanks for correcting my URL!
Yes, indeed....parades and the history channel. :) I like this!
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