CASSANDRA POMROY IN AUGUST
Another thing which happens in AUGUST is the birthday of CASSANDRA POMROY. She was born in MT TOM PRICE W.A in 1978. August 23rd.
That means that this year she is 30
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CASSANDRA AT HOME WITH HER FAMILY AND AT HER GRANDPARENT’S GOLDEN WEDDING . |
CASSANDRA WITH HER COUSIN KATE ANOTHER 1978 BABY. AT SOUTH ARM VIA BELLINGEN & URUNGA. |
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 CASSI WITH ME. |
AUSTRALIA NATIONAL LIBRARY NEWSPAPERS
This is my discovery of the month. Amongst the NSW STATE LIBRARY newspapers. Paradise unlimited for me. And for Kati B who says it is much like her job at MEDIA MONITORS where she worked before returning to the country and taking up employment at the IGA Deli and the BOILING BILLY now known as the BLACK BEAR.
FOR MORE NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS TAKE A LOOK AT
MY FAMILY HERITAGE WEBSITE
RAMBLING RESEARCH INTO THE LIFE AND WRITING OF MELINDA KENDALL
| http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1651031 This one is a wee story about a lost watch in Bellingen. Izzy has a song about a lost watch and a song could well be writ about this one. WATCH. FOUND AFTER 8 YEARS. An inscribed gold watch which was to have been presented by the citizens of Bellingen (N.S.W in 1900 to Thomas Byrnes the postmaster in Bellingen mysteriously disappeared before the presentation. It was found on Sunday in a rubbish tip by Joe White, a boy born since the watch was lost. The watch is still in good order, and will be publicly presented to Mr Byrnes. Saturday 22 September 1917 THE ARGUS |
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THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN AUGUST
Last year, in August, Izzy had a cardiac incident which put him in the BRISBANE WOMENS AND CHILDRENS HOSPITAL. Was once called the GENERAL – so the taxi cab driver told me. He told me also of living in Europe in a room with a landlady and having access to city lanes and cafes and cobblestoned life. That appeals to me.
In August of 2006, I took a drive up to POINT DANGER to watch the dredge PORT FREDERICK coming in at the mouth of the TWEED RIVER. I am done with this area so I am and wish myself gone to the next good place. But for the moment , I am here so I RE-COLLECT.
Re-collect and gather my thoughts and memories as Izzy and I come to decision-making about our next moves. Izzy had a brutal SMS during the week – it left me once the wild winds had settled with one message : THIS IS A SMALL TOWN AND WE WERE HERE FIRST.
Ah now there’s a loving thought.
Not a very small town. i am used to very small towns or the heart of very large cities.
My Old GentleMan was bringing me lunch on the lawn of the Gallery in August of 2006. Neither of us knowing what was behind my being given those days of Art Gallery work. He has taken very good care of me and I am very fond of him as I am of my wee daughter in law.
Now what happened in August 2005 ?
We all went West and up the mountains for the 50th Birthday of Kate and Mad O’Brians father. That was cold. Armidale IS cold. Jolene said snow was predicted yesterday for her birthday. Here in Bilambil we were in singlets and jeans and only one sleeping bag for bedding. Mind you it is one fine sleeping bag purchased for Izzy’s wintermoon experience. I am staying here for 16 days to watch the Olympics and read old newspapers and then I plan the next ARMIDALE experience. it could be the $2.50 train ride or it could be a CHARADE ride. I would prefer the STAR WAGON but finances might prevent that. I am waiting for September and signs of SPRINGTIME unless one of the job applications comes in first.
My mother JOYCE BELL SANDERS passed away in August. August 28th 2001. 74 years old. Suddenly in Coffs harbour hospital. I got clean in August . August 12th 1987.
My sister Susan Sanders married MARK POMROY a long time ago at the end of August. At Bellingen Courthouse.
I,myself, was married in August at the Church near the Roundabout and then had a reception at BELLINGEN BOWLING CLUB – there are some low points in one’s life. AUGUST seems the wrong word for this month to me. Usually Dis-Gust-ing.
FOTOS AND THOUGHTS ON FIRST DAY OF BEIJING OLYMPICS
We found this painting in the Antique shop in DORRIGO NSW between the Kids in ARMIDALE and Kati B and IMM in KALANG. A vast old shop which has 3 previous influences on my life. The painting is of the 2nd Scots Church in Sydney in the 19th Century. Melinda and Basil Kendall married in the 2nd Scots Church but we think it was a month or so before this building was completed and likely they were in the courthouse or another nearby building.
The previous three influences of this corner shop in Dorrigo on me were :-
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When I was a newly formed adolescent, we did our once a year holiday in Urunga , one day trip to Dorrigo and in the corner shop in Dorrigo which then operated as a massive general store, I was looking at 2 piece costumes when the lady assistant made it clear that a size 32 top was not the size to be considering the wearing of a 2 piece costume. It did the combined effect on me of a) shattering my fragile self image and b) inspiring a militant I WILL SHOW YOU attitude which contributed to my later wearing a black bikini on Manly Beach which did not conform with the Council By-Laws.
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When Tony Bahles and I had the WHITE ROSE TRADING COMPANY in URUNGA in the early 1970s the REFORMATION had begun and we went to the corner shop in Dorrigo as they ripped out the fittings and sold out such things as the CASH REGISTER and the cedar shop counter. We bought odds and ends from them and donated some to Urunga Museum before they were all discarded lightly.
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The third impactful time for me is not so much the corner shop other than getting of the Keans Coach from Urunga to Armidale and standing beside it before the present owner restored it to a state of wonderment – I stood there on the corner of what seemed a cold and bleak wasteland, and thought back on the 1960s and 1970s ans was rather sad. Then I took myself into a cafe and it turned out to be Lynne Beverige’s cafe and in the 4 minutes I had before the Keans Coach took off – she told me how she had come to be with the partner she was then with and I knew one day it would come in useful in my life and so it has.
HILLBILLIES AT BRUNSWICK AND OLYMPICS IN BEIJING
the 8-8-08 was a big day.
- JOLENE’S BIRTHDAY
- HILLBILLY BLUES BANDITS AT BRUNSWICK HEADS
- OLYMPICS OPENING IN BEIJING
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We had a good deal of trouble wrapping her gift in a manner which AUSTRALIA POST found acceptable and I think it didn’t get there in on the correct date as a result. I am sorry for that because I like my little daughter in law very much and would give her far more if I could.
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The weather was mild and starlit and The Bandits were at Brunswick Heads Hotel which has very good food , good atmosphere and good people. We met up with a lady by the name of Pam Burnard from the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE and did some PhD talking. The crowd loved the Bandits and PJ did a fine drumming to Scrubby’s Train songs. Down on the corner I saw a sign saying astronomy event here today and a large telescope set up with a van beside it which appeared have a video of the astronomy event showing but by the time I did a circuit of the block and returned to take a look – the scope and the van were gone. |
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A grand night all round with dancers from wee children to cartwheelers , skiffling 20 year olds , lovers from Cambridge University and a couple just slightly older than Iz and me , all on their feet and singing along. They are threatening to cut out live music due to the complainers. What sense does it make to stop the families dancing ? |
Just to bring it into the category of ” THIS IS A NIGHT I CAN ADD TO MY NIGHTS I REMEMBER WELL” , Dave brought down the big screens and I seated myself in a carved wooden seat near the big gas burners while the lads packed the gear away and I watched the OLYMPICS OPENING IN BEIJING. |
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