12.5.11
a comfy cot, a sarong and this note were waiting for me
It’s a strange and amazing experience—planning a shotgun weekend away to a country you’ve never been to before, buying a plane ticket to an island you probably couldn’t point to on an unlabelled map, packing your backpack with little more than your swimsuit, magazines and a toothbrush, hitching a drunken ride to the airport Friday after work and nearly missing your flight, arriving at your destination without a visa, hoping to find some guy named ‘Ketuk’ waiting outside the airport with your name on a placard and a smile on his face, cruising away from the hustle and bustle at a snail’s pace into a suburb that has even Ketuk turned around, breathing in and trying to freeze-frame the unfamiliar sounds and smells and sights, suddenly seeing a familiar figure on the side of the main street with his arms outstretched, jumping out of the cab into the warm embrace of your friends—and feeling like you’ve come home.
3.4.11
31.3.11
update from the lovely market moles
Word up friends of the Happy Yess! Market (located at DVAA)
Rain Rain Go Away
If the sun is shining, the Happy Yess! Market ... now located at DVAA 56 Wood St, is on THIS SUNDAY 3 April 2011. 2-6pm. BAM!
Even if it's torrentially raining, we're still having a market this Sunday. Bring your gumboots and emergency ponchos and get involved. Monsoonal squall, you don’t scare me!
If there is a Cyclone over Darwin we may be forced to postpone. Everyone start doing your anti-cyclone weather dance right now.
If you’re not sure, contact a Mole;
· Clara: 042210324
· Frances: 0431811969
· Bry: 0414919302
Fun things that you should know for Sunday
We have about 20 really interesting stalls for you this weekend. Selling all sorts of neat stuff and showing off the talents of Territorians. On Sunday you should bring your;
· Cashola. There are no ATM facilities. Plus I’m sure the stallholders will love you infinitely if you could break your pineapple before you arrive.
· Treadly. Tim might teach you how to fix it/ do it for you if you look hopelessly at him.
· Sense of adventure. We have Hoola Hoop classes and filming of 60 second dance pieces for Fist Full of Films.
· Picnic blanket and appetite. This market there will be cake and home made dips. Find yourself a possie on the lawn and picnic w your mates.
· Fashionista friends. Once again we’ll have second hand couture plus a mob of talented artists selling you their handmade jewls.
· Eye for a bargain. Everything is a bargain at the Happy Yess! Market. Art, craft, jewellery, fun activities and treats for a pinch.
· Art critic moleskin notebook and beret. The studios of DVAA will be open so you can see what the local artists of Darwin have been up to. The exhibition called “Butterscotch Clouds” will be showing.
· Gumboots and emergency ponchos. See above re weather.
· Maraca’s and guitars. We might still have a few spots for buskers. Got talent? Show me! Find a mole when you arrive and we’ll sort you out with a time to play.
· Family. Because we love your family and are a kid friendly event.
Please Please Please
Spam this message on to all of your friends. The Happy Yess! Market is going large.
Have FUN!
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The Happy Yess Market Moles
Bry, Clara and Frances
x
30.3.11
jokes on me
for almost 20 years i have been telling the same lame but highly amusing joke. it is a great joke. the best. so good in fact that in 1995 keith faulkner wrote a children's pop up book about it. it is called... the wide - mouthed frog
i remember when i first heard it... lord mayor’s summer camp, mornington peninsular, the year was 1990, I was 10 years old and suffering from a colossal sized crush on a camp leader.
his name was fynn. he had curly blonde hair, green eyes, and a dreamboat smile that made your heart flutter. i was a scraggle berry tom boy, freckled (sunscreen was just coming in) and rosy cheeked with a huge gap in my front teeth. it wasnt just our age difference that kept us apart.
we were all gathered around the fire one night, roasting marshmellow and some of the leaders were telling scary stories. suddenly it was fynn’s turn to tell a tale. the croud went silent. all eyes mesmorised by his angelic face glowing in the amber light of the fire. i lent across to get closer to him and singed my arm hair in the heat. i didn't care.
the story began...
'there once was a wide mouth frog who lived all the way at the bottom of a paddock in a quiet little pond. the wide mouth frog hadnt spoken to anyone else in years. one day he decided to venture out.
soon after he hopped from his home he ran into a platypus and said "ello i'm the wide mouth frog what do you do?" to which the platypus replied "well I live on land and in the water, and i am very clever". "oh that's nice" then he hopped along.
soon he came upon a fluffy looking bird to who he introduced himself to immediately. 'ello i'm the wide mouth frog, what do you do?'. 'hmmmm' said the bird 'well i use my wings to fly through the sky'
'well what do you know' scoffed the wide mouth frog as he jumped away.
as he was hopping along the wide mouth frog ran into a friendly looking field mouse. 'oh hello there, i'm the wide mouth frog, what do you do?'
'i eat cheese' exclaimed the happy mouse.
'that's very good' nodded the frog.
'i eat cheese' said the mouse again for good measure. the frog hopped away after that but i dont think the mouse noticed.
all over the land the wide mouth frogged jumped and hopped and bounced and tranced. he was having the best time.
on his journey home the wide mouth frog came across a menancing looking crocodile. he didnt have time to introduce himself properly as he was eating a fly so all that came out was 'ello there, what do you do?''i'm in charge of eating all the wide mouthed frogs in this area'
'you dont see many of them round these days do you?'
funny. right! i had to change the joke up a little to match the pictures but you get it! right!
we should all be children in deep crushes for ever.
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