Shrimp is no Barbie

These are my VOGUE stacks, going back to 1969 and the issues from 1970 to 1973  are in handsome navy red and gold stamped VOGUE binders.

Jean Shrimpton is on many of the covers, and while the girly 1960's are typified by MOD culture evolving, the concurrent prevailing 'look' was known as 'DollyBird' and she was their goddess. 


A film has been made based on the early part of her career when she went to New York City for a VOGUE shoot with David Bailey. I won't be seeing it, and the publicity will irritate me, but I have all these 
for my Shrimp fix instead. She is a recluse now and I don't blame her one bit. 


Meanwhile, over at    WORN OUT    it is Flamingo Park time so please visit.

wealth for toil

Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free; we've golden soil and wealth for toil; our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in nature’s gifts of beauty rich and rare; in history’s page, let every stage advance Australia Fair. In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair.
Twigs Of Yore blogger has a genealogy meme
(I found thanks to My Western District Families a Victorian blogger, with whom I share the fact of our ancestors both coming here from 'the Royal burgh' of Haddington SCT in 1854)

Twig's meme is based on how did your ancestors toil?  so I submit -


one of my G-G-grandfathers - George*Sedgwick (1830-1898) toiled in Portland, Victoria,  making furniture, and that is a c.1890 photograph of him in his workshop at 137 Percy Street.  He built the Rocket Shed on the Portland foreshore, as well as doing all the interior carpentry of the first Town Hall. He did amass wealth for it, although none trickled down to me.  I do wish I had known him.

I have been toiling on my genealogy database since 1997 when P0RN was the biggest thing on the www ... and now GENEALOGY is the biggest thing on the web, so  this 26th January I celebrate nothing but this small bit of positive evolution.

today in the 'Rat

Today I went to

Ballarat Fine Art Gallery

and saw an exhibit of works

by Michael Shannon.

Any of them would be a

pleasure to view daily.

I also had to see the re-installed and

revered Eureka Flag after the restoration work.

The room it is in is very dark and flash is not permitted,

so I am surprised at the image really.

Seeing this flag is my version of

hallowed ground.

"The design of the flag was taken by Captain Henry Ross, one of Eureka's miners and a Canadian expatriate, to three women, Anastasia Withers, Anne Duke and Anastasia Hayes, to sew up in time for a large rally at Bakery Hill, at 2.00 pm on 29 November 1854. ".

Can you imagine the life of a woman on the diggings? All mud, dust, and tired drunken men. A bit like waiting for a popstar boyfriend to strike it rich with a hit record.

As I came out of the gallery a bike club

was assembled to resume

their ride to Warrnambool.

If you click to embiggen, you will see

a Ned Kelly doll lashed to one bike and he

has a Smurf in his pocket. I had not

been aware that Ned's infamous suit of iron

even had a pocket, but I did enjoy

the outlaw confluence of bikers,

Ned, and

The Treacherous Event Of 1854.

From the bus stop on Sturt Street,

this alley next to the old post office has

a view of the Art School built behind the gallery recently ...

... and this is the view I had

while waiting to go

11 kilometres out to

the gum trees on the edge of town

where, in spite of the CFA advising

that the area is

not defendable should there be a bushfire,

it is very pleasant to be.

Update:

An attempt to enlarge Ned & his pocket Smurf.

The flag by someone allowed to assert themselves.

walking the doglet

Walking the dog at 7AM on The Steve Moneghetti Track, a newish name for the path around Lake Wendouree. It is stinking hot at 36C / 102F and I just loathe people who don't think about dogpaws on HOT HOT footpaths like the bricked ones in Rye 3941 which are hell for dogs.

do your felf a saviour

'Herald-Sun April 2010
Apparently Molly Meldrum was devastated by the news about the Melbourne Storm, when someone located him in Bangkok and told him. We were informed that Meldrum goes to all the Melbourne Storm games when he's in town, which would, of course, be more difficult to do when he's in Bangkok in the middle of his beloved team's NRL season. I feel for his plight. He may have been so distraught that he shifted his cocktail glass to the other hand. BILLIE JEAN BEANBLOSSOM, Blackburn'

'ThaiVisa.com Posted 2011-12-19
He has a Thai boyfriend and is well known for trawling the boy bars in Patong for decades.
He doesn't come for the temples or local arts and crafts …'

News.com December Brother Brian Meldrum said the … star … was uttering words, but they had no context and were difficult to understand.'

So no change then?

'He said Molly spoke a couple of words on Sunday for the first time but it was difficult to decipher what they meant.’

Your suggestions on a postcard please, ‘most likely’ can win a free Bar Tab at Molly’s Bangkok ‘business’ –