AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Remember


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
~

Progress stills old ways
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Parades remember
~

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice one Gemma :)

Nanka said...

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.

Rinkly Rimes said...

Yes, it's harder parting with things as memories, than it was leaving them at the time.
Thanks for correcting my URL!

Gloria said...

Yes, indeed....parades and the history channel. :) I like this!

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