We enjoyed some terrific writing, shared in some wonderful ideas, with our inaugural #almanac280 exercise last week. Check out all entries here: http://www.footyalmanac.com.au/almanac-writing-competition-sport-write-from-the-heart-almanac280/
Let’s do it again.
With the Australia v England Test cricket series moving to Adelaide, let’s run with the topic of “Adelaide.”
The Competition:
Write a story inspired by: “Adelaide.” e.g. moments, music, Test cricket at the Oval, the Glenelg pier, anything.
The story cannot be more than 280 characters long. (A space is a character. Every key stroke is a character.)
Each story needs to include the tag #almanac280.
That’s 11 of your characters.
Entries open NOW and will be accepted until midnight AEDST Tuesday 5 December 2017. Day 4 of the Adelaide Test.
How to Enter:
As before there are two ways to enter:
1. Type directly into Twitter. Judges will access all stories with the “#almanac280” tag.
2. Enter into the comments field below.
Judges will ensure that all entries are published both in the comments field below and on the @thefootyalmanac Twitter feed.
You may enter as many times as you like.
The Prize:
Judges will award $100 worth of books to the story considered the best, in the spirit of the Almanac.
The winning entry will be announced on Wednesday 6 December (i.e. scheduled Day 5 of the Adelaide Test).
Next:
Start creating…
Presenting The Tigers Almanac 2017. Read all about it HERE.
@e_regnans via Twitter
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The HK Kingswood idles into town.
A directionless, directed summer.
Melbourne, Wilpena Pound, Uluru, Fannie Bay…
Glenelg.
That beach.
That carnival.
That pier.
And K’s aunt’s house in Prospect.
Introduced by K as a prospect.
My first look at Adelaide.
– Hello.
#almanac280
My heart was broken at the Round 19, 2017 when St Kilda bounced back from 14-point behind at the game against Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval with kicks scored by Bruce, Sinclair and Dunstan to lead by two and we were about to win. But the excitement was killed by Gray’s goal in only 7 seconds left. My Saints were Richmond at the time. Too shocking and I was upset much. #almanac280
Adelaide nearly boiled over. I remember when. Cornes last gasp goal. Chappells and Sobers. Barrie gliding. Big Bill Wedding taps and Favell cuts. Grassy knolls. Hills and bells. They paved paradise. I can no longer go down to the sacred ground. Paul sings me home. #almanac280
Having luncheoned on a pie-floater and butcher of West End draught at the Chappell brothers’ Leg Trap Hotel the HQ Kingswood now barges down Tapleys Hill Road with KG and static spitting on 5DN. Happy Proclamation Day! #Almanac280
Our new maths teacher, something odd. Dunno what he smokes but his breath’s rancid. Knows his stuff, likes a wisecrack but serious too. Leans in a bit close, we’ll get used to it. Dieter Pfennig, hard name to forget. #adelaide #almanac280
As the original story is inaccurate, can I change the story to the following? Sorry and thanks
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Saints were 16 points down at Adelaide Oval but Gresham, Sinclair and Dunstan kicked goals beautifully and we led by four and extend to ten with Member’s goal. I was so excited to see Saints go marching in, but unfriendliness to visitors gave Port two goals. The last seconds were Richmondnised. My heart was broken in Round 19 in 2017. Next year we will avenge over my second dislike club in AFL!!
I keep a list in my head, rankings subject to whim. Sirens sounding as a Port screw punt pierces the 50. Head jumping into a hook, the ball disappearing into the stands below. Isaias curling the ball into the top corner as the Riverbank erupted. And Eddie and Eddie #Almanac280
Adelaide. Founded by free-settlers not beholden to convict labor or the avarice of gold. The second-test ‘installation’ could only be developed by artistic citizens free from striving to be the biggest and best. Pink cricket-balls played at night. Colonel Light would be bemused but Donald Dunstan would be delighted.
#almanac 280
@e_regnans via Twitter
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– They’re half an hour behind, mate.
– Half an hour bullshit. Try half a century.
– Ha. Yeah, half a century.
– I mean, jeez, even the snakes move like it’s 1967 in Adelaide.
– …
– …
– I’d like that.
– Me too.
#almanac280
@haikubobb via Twitter
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That quiet oval
every summer
I see on TV –
seven and a half hours
from Melbourne
minus the half hour
where greens, whites, creams
and other shades
make up the palette that remind us
of the importance
of preservation,
yet, I’ve never been.
I’m afraid
I might spoil it.
#almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Never understood that “big country town” stuff until I left. It fires up once a week in winter, for five days each December, but dying imperceptibly like the simmering frog. I can’t keep away, but I don’t want to return. #adelaide #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Besser block basketball stadium – Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, B52s, Talking Heads, Al Green, Ken Cole, Phil Smyth, Mark Davis. It was all we had back then. #apollo #adelaide #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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The wresslin’, The Ramones, XTC, Magazine, Flowers, Spinal Tap movie, Madness, The Church, Billy Bragg. Not “The Barton” #adelaide #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Two Choc Ices. Back when ice cream was a food not a fad, washed down with a Big Sars. Cricket’s over. Fang took five for. Chappelli dropped his dacks. Ask the Man in Blue when the next Red Hen is running. #adelaide #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Adelaide Floral Emblem: The Tumbleweed #adelaide #almanac280
If Adelaide is backward, then it is the place where a Spartan Queen combines with a moth.#almanac280.
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Tim Marcus Clark – you bastard #adelaide #almanac280
@swishter via Twitter:
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Redgum were wrong. They forgot Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday. #adelaide #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Masters. Twilights. Chisel. Angels. Stars. Scandal. Young Modern. Exploding White Mice. Bad Dreems. Robyn Archer. Miss Linda George. Andy Upton. That ugly bloke from Brigalow Avenue. Thomas Edmonds. #adelaide #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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To the west, broad sandy beaches. Flat suburban ribbon. Gently undulating hills to the east. More hills to the south. Dry plains to the north. Pockets of heaven sent grape country peter out in the mid-north. Goyder’s Line. #adelaide #almanac280
@The_FMI via Twitter
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#almanac280
I get up half an hour later than you all, except on Footy days when I get rudely reminded the game is run from Melbourne.
I put my Crows top on, have a Farmers Union Iced Coffee and I think about going to Westlakes.
Foopbawl Parklife!!
@JeffDowsing via Twitter
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As the cathedral bells chime, can you tell me about the time Chappelli that something something Les Favell and your Grandfather’s gates and growing up in the palindrome starting with gee whiz Sobers cleared the long fence with ease, these Poms are f-ing weak #Almanac280 #Adelaide
Adelaide 2003. See Adelaide by bus. Christmas eve shopping in Rundle Mall. Giant silver balls instead of Christmas bells but late-night shopping. Tram back to Glenelg bringing thoughts of home and then souvenir film on Boxing Day to savor. Love Actually. And it was. #almanac 280
We sat in the motel in Glenelg. Mick Malone rumbled in. Wallop! It’s six screamed the commentators. Wayne Daniel, of all people. There’s a test on next week, kids are playing, Wood and Darling. Yallop! But we’ve got to get to Kingston SE, for crayfish, and the cold. #almanac280
Get in the car. 10 minutes later – Penfolds! 10 minutes later – Shaw Smith! The Hills are hills. 10 minutes later – bush! Back home we’d still be stuck in Marrickville. You can park everywhere. There’s a cafe on Gouger St. Proper sharks. O-bahn. Oh, man! #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Past the Old Spot
Past Parafield
Past the abbatoirs
Gepps Cross Hotel
Prospect KFC – G’day Patto
Up Scotty’s Kilt
The car yards
The Piccadilly, where we saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Hotel Australia – it’s huge
The Cathedral
We’re here kids
#adelaide #almanac280
@BarrishUSAFL via Twitter
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Tucked neatly into the front pocket of the country, somewhere in between the cacophony to the east and the vast, dusty nothing of the north and west.
Regal, as her not-so-ancient namesake; proud, as those who flock to watch their home murder weekly.
#Adelaide #almanac280
@diogenesbrown via Twitter
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Welcome to Adelaide we say – where the water is thoroughly potable, we don’t have an abnormally large number of churches, the lights are working, and you are unlikely to get murdered. Pffft, you say. Come and have a look at what I keep in the woodshed, dear visitor #Almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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Soursobs
Salvation Jane
Three corner jacks
Bullants the size of bulldogs
Northerly dust storms that no fly wire can guard against
Blowflies in blue waistcoats
Heel piercing thistles
Itchy powder street trees
Fruit fly traps
#adelaide #almanac280
@demondwayne via Twitter:
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Familiar yet different. Delis. Blue & White Cafe “AB”. Green Death. “Better and wetter”. Heaps. Collingswood. Port Elliot not Victor Harbor. Vill’s not Balfours. Cuisenaire rod state jumper.
@MHJeffrey027 via Twitter:
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#almanac280 #Adelaide Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman Darren Jarman
Yep the name still haunts today!
@booksbagshaw via Twitter:
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“Did you know that South Australia is the only state not founded by convicts?”, he said.
“No, I didn’t.”, I said, for the seventeenth time, since arriving in Adelaide, three hours ago.
#almanac280
@APH1991 via Twitter:
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Friday night Round 10 2006.
Tepid start but the sense of ugly.
The incremental bashing unfolds.
TRENT BLOODY HENTSCHEL!
30 goals 8 behinds one way. 6 goals 14 the other.
My all time favourite tip.
Stick a fork in him. He’s cooked.
#Almanac280.
@lordbogan via Twitter:
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They piss on ants don’t they?
#Adelaide #almanac280
@langcaulf via Twitter:
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From the land of wool and wheat, wind turbines, batteries, frost and heat. The hardened country footballer who just runs all day, bowls nasty and fast, wields willow and makes bowlers pay. A worker who just loves to shear and enjoys that favourite can of ice cold beer #Almanac280
@booksbagshaw via Twitter:
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Steele Hall. Randall Ashbourne. Hedley Crann-Bythall. Jeremy Cordeaux. Pip Karmel. Brady Haran. Dorrit Black. Vernon Knowles. Dichen Lachman. Greig Pickhaver. Malcolm Afford.
Pick the fake Adelaide name.
#Almanac280
@thephilby via Twitter
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The expressway went the wrong way at the time you wanted to drive it. Bice Oval has exactly the same dimensions as the MCG. Emus play the Shoes, Wineflies play the Cockle Divers.
Barry Burroughs, the leaders in southern real estate.
#Almanac280
Memories of the summer heat waves,
Memories of the 5 degree days,
Memories of watching the cricket every day.
On our house TV in Adelaide,
All these memories happen day by day,
All theses memories will not fade,
All these memories were made,
In good old Adelaide,
#almanac280
@lordbogan via Twitter
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We’re free settlers. And we don’t give a frog’s fat tossbag about what you think of our water or our beer #Adelaide #almanac280
@mattquarters via Twitter:
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Rundle mauling.
#almanac280
#Almanac280
– This morning we’re finding Adelaide’s best fritz. Alan from Alberton’s on line 3.
– Hello. It’s Alan from Alberton here. John the butcher does a very tasty bung. Top quality sawdust. Nice.
– How does it fry?
– Good. But that late free against Port on the weekend.
For @thephilby on Twitter
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Elizabeth, wide landscapes and low skies.
Alberton, another country.
Thebarton, in the trees.
Richmond, concrete and light industry.
Norwood, their Fenway Park.
Unley, tartan flasks and Volvos.
The Bay, Gibbs pasties.
Noarlunga, wuthering heights.
#Almanac280
@e_regnans via Twitter:
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The Magratheans stood back.
This would be funny.
Someone had optimistically placed a town in the driest state of the driest inhabited continent on Earth.
#Adelaide
True, the experiment had yielded David Hookes & @coldchisel.
But also Rupert Murdoch.
#almanac280 #hitchhikersguide
The Ashes
1920/21: England loses Adelaide Test by 119 runs and series 5-0
England captain JWHT (Johnnie Won’t Hit Today) Douglas was also an Olympic boxing gold medallist
2017/18: England wicketkeeper JWHT (Jonny Won’t Headbutt Today) Bairstow
Is this an omen?
#almanac280:Adelaide
@Chris88829 via Twitter:
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Would you like some Fruchocs or a Kitchener Bun?
Ah no thanks.
Watch out for the Stobie poles!
Oh ok thanks.
But I would like to know;
Where’s the ham on my parma, and where’s the rest of the beer in my pint?!!
#Radelaide
#almanac280
@ratherbeatlunch via Twitter:
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Chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker,
chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker,
chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker,
chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker, chicker,
chicker, chicker, chicker.
Summer. Adelaide parks.
And gardens. Kikuyu. Santa Anna.
#almanac280
@The_FMI on Twitter
#almanac280
Cold winters night, two travellers from Victoria staying in a tent at West Beach.
“Whaddaya reckon? Go to the State game?”
A hostile place. More hostile than Vic Park.
Cold air, icy metal seats.
Two amongst the Croweaters.
Flea starred. Vics won. We got out alive.
@diogenesbrown on Twitter
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How do you say Fleurieu, let alone spell it? Did it steal the u from Victor Harbor? Why overcomplicate the spelling of Barry? How about the t & p in Nuriootpa. Can anyone eat as much cream as in a frog cake? What’s in the bottom of a Coopers Sparkling? City of mystery #Almanac280
@winmar2lockett via Twitter
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#almanac280 The excitement builds.
10 mates. Wineries and cricket are THE itinerary. A window seat beckons. The big bird takes off. Clouds part & there she is. The new stands. The hill & scoreboard. The Balmy noise to come. Soon the test will start. Oh the excitement of #Adelaide
via Facebook:
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Southwark beer. Done. Do I win the Camry?
#almanac280
Adelaide Crows you broke our Bulldog hearts in ’97
In ’15 the Texan did it to us again and ran amok
Devastated, we stole your call like Graham Kennedy
When he was fired for yelling faaaark!
@e_regnans via Twitter
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There’s luck and there is lottery, and there’s taking your chances, too.
There are gift horses with mouths and pigs with snouts.
At #Adelaide Oval troughs and mouths are not worth much to-do;
To the batsman here who gets himself run out.
#almanac280 #road
@booksbagshaw on Twitter
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Les Favell. Ashley Mallett. Prince Alfred College. Glenelg Cricket Club.
Clem Hill.
Martin, Greg, Trevor and Vic.
The cricket net in the old backyard in Unley.
All of these things
exercise
the mind of IM Chappell.
Though he’s lived in Sydney
For forty years.
#Almanac280
@JeffDowsing via Twitter:
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#Adelaide-Oval Barrels Coopers Don-Dunstan Elizabeth Frog-cakes Grenville Hookesy Iced-coffee Jarmans KG Lleyton Mal-Blight Norwood Obahn Pie-floater Queenstown Ramsgate Stobie-poles Tex Unley Victor-Richardson Weird-accent Xmas-parade Yattalunga Zesers-Andrew #Almanac280
#Almanac280
This unbounded sky is a cathedral. Low, promiseless hills
guard the plains, and there’s the idyllic drone of the cricket as we move
through an empty afternoon. Screen-doors flail. Home, with our Coopers and
chops and distinctive vowels.
From @booksbagshaw on Twitter
Their floating pies are unjustifiable.
The Beaumont case – no one knows who’s liable.
The multifunction polis proved unviable,
but the Rockford Basket Press is undeniable.
#almanac280
From @AndrewFithall on Twitter
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#Almanac280
How far is it? Oh, about 20 minutes.
@sydcrow27 via Twitter:
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Apple cake and tea under the tent on the hill with Gran. Sunburned knees and eye strain from the coloured benches in front of the Members. Schooners out the back with Dad, catching up with old mates from the bush. 40 years of Adelaide tests #almanac280
@haikubobb via Twitter:
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it’s because of David Hookes batsman artist inventor of stroke play who wore the baggy red cap like a beret and saw short square boundaries in cow corner as perimeters of his canvas that Adelaide is coined each summer by the Channel 9 commentary box as ‘arts capital’. #almanac280
Courtney bowls to Craig McDermott.
Tries a bouncer, skims his helmet.
Junior Murray asks the question.
Darrell raises index finger.
#almanac280
@strauchanside via Twitter:
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From Gawler to Noarlunga
Rick Davies to Graham Cornes
Morphettville racecourse to West Lakes
Football Park to Adelaide Oval
Darren Lehmann to David Hookes
And who can forget Blighty
Adelaide, you’re a gem
#almanac280
@diogenesbrown via Twitter:
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Adelaide’s Melbourne Cup they say, behind the members. Pimms toasted as all walks mingle; Saints, PAC, maybe even Pulteney – good clean fun. Beneath the scoreboard security watches as West End downs; a spent cup inside another, hanging offence. Cultures, drinking #Almanac280
@EManglewart via Twitter:
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To the Bay for “Beach Safety” school excursion. “Dad! You can’t wear that, it’s embarrassing!” She says of my Greg Chappell hat. “Wear this” she says passing me my Power bucket hat. #almanac280
@swishtter via Twitter:
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No such thing as a weatherboard in Adelaide, although I wonder about the asbestos Trust place we had in Underdown Road. I knew of Adelaide parents who disapproved of their child living in a Coburg weatherboard. “Don’t they have bricks in Melbourne?” #adelaide #almanac280
@McAlmanac via Twitter:
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Pospect, Genelg, Pordadelaide, Cennal Disticts, Dubbabues, Wwwwwoovulwestowwens. Strike me pink Studley, I’ll go “he” for chasey, that’s unbelievable! Football Inquest Part 1 5.30, Football Inquest Part 2 6.30, my special guest is The Jumbo Pince, backaferthebake. #KG #Almanac280
Ghosts phantom about the curved stands: the Ricciuto, the Chappell, the Bradman. Echoes of roaring; grainy footage; men in hats. Frozen champions orbit the oval. Past and present embrace, but wounds can’t heal without rubbing: the chicken salt hoarding is gone.
#Almanac280
Adelaide, how I yearn to be back home, Memories: James Thiele belting out Bach, made Bethlehem Lutheran Church shake to its foundations or so it seemed to me. Adelaide Oval, Eddie, EDDIE he makes the whole ground shake. Benaud, May, Trueman Lindwall complete the call.#Almanac280
Lazy summer afternoon,
cheering Melbourne on
towards 40 degrees.
Adelaide’s been there
since lunchtime.
#almanac280
@corvus_vincit via Twitter:
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Double cut corned beef tomato and mustard rolls
Bung fritz
Kitchener buns
Ice cold Southwark on a hot day
Menz Fruchocs
Pie floaters at midnight
Golden North honey ice cream
Coopers Stout
Twin Chocs
Woodies Lemondade
Four Crown Port
#Almanac280 #Adelaide
@e_regnans via Twitter:
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– Beautiful oval, mate.
– Beautiful.
– ..
– Best in the country?
– In the world.
– ..
– ..
– The world, d’ya reckon?
– Can’t name a better one.
– ..
– ..
– Howabout that Table Mountain ground?
– Yeah, that’s good.
– Or Hobart. Hobart is beautiful.
– Ahh, settle down.
#almanac280
As kids, all we knew of Adelaide was Test cricket at the Oval on the Australia Day weekend, and that Auntie Elma and Uncle Gabriel lived there somewhere. Or as we called them, Uncle Elmer and Auntie Gabrielle. Hilarious, we thought we were. #almanac280
@umpschumps via Twitter:
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Red hen, up the ramp, wow a neon dragon,
a pineapple donut thanks – no time for ferris wheels on roof tops.
Turnstile clatters, tray boy heroes with pies & a choc ice or a sandwich & sultana cake from behind the members.
Don’t feel so good flat Woodies for me! #Almanac280
@smokiedawson via Twitter:
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Boring Thursday nights, Carrington caberets, critiques in G, Beaumont rags, cabbies called Peter, so goodbye, killing floors, Maria, Stewie, 100 years on. I sang along with Redgum, these songs of Adelaide – and this country – years before I even set eyes upon the city #Almanac280
@mcalmanac on Twitter
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Mum parks the Volksy in Pinky Flat, a labyrinthine puzzle to a small child. “Choc ices, assorted swee-ets!”. Seats in the Edwin Smith Stand are hard, as is the cricket. Boycott is run out! He won’t go, but a young Greg Chappell hands him his bat and he’s on his way. #Almanac280
From @joshcpinn on Twitter
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Morning, Day 4.
“Who’ll win in #Adelaide?,” asks Uncle Perc.
Both sides scored 500 in the 1st innings.
“Has to be a draw,” I say.
Lunch, Day 5.
Warne has two wickets and a runout. England all out at tea.
Australia needs 168 in the last session. England are broken. #almanac280
From @seekersupacoach on Twitter
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Oppressive glare; heavy heat bears down. Trying to concentrate but my mind drifts. A sudden sharp clout, a few cries. I look up – too late. A lofted boundary; a chance missed. More than the sun glares at me now. So continues my stint at 3rd Man/Long Off for Unley CC #almanac280
@McAlmanac via Twitter:
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Swanee, Hookesy, Kerls – should have had a 36er in there. Reckon I even spotted the guy who was in all the John Martin’s catalogues at the gaming table. Halcyon days of South Australia, when Bannon was king and the Grand Prix roared. #Adelaide https://youtu.be/uTQf-VjEBSQ #Almanac280
@tonytonyrobb via Twitter:
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Flew in on a stop oved from Darwin. thirsty. Drink from a bubbler, Gagged on the dirt. Tried a West End. Went back to the bubbler
#almanac280
@e_regnans via Twitter:
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Those short square boundaries.
That Grand Final played a week later.
5c refund on your empty can.
The pie floater.
What strange world is this?
#7nationsofAustralia
#Adelaide
#Almanac280
Adelaide – once the land of the all-run five, now a pink ball paradise.
#almanac280
@diogenesbrown via Twitter:
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Englishmen on the footpaths, interstaters in the bars, no-one in the parklands that want to be found, locals in their cars. It’s testmas eve tonight, we’re curling in our beds. For this time tomorrow the roar of 50,000 souls will be ringing in our heads #Almanac280
@j0sharp via Twitter:
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The Mall’s balls
The Land of Promise
West End Draught
Modraaaaaaaa
#Almanac280
My first true love left me for Adelaide, her hometown, and a guitarist there.
From @swishtter on Twitter
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Pulleys, bikechains, cogs, gears, painted nameplates, numbers on canvas rolls, manually operated indicator lights, probably even an old fridge inside. Not a video replay to be seen. Why on earth did they keep that old thing?
#adelaide #almanac280
Ian Aitken: “Comment Wally May”
Wally May: “No comment”
Ian Aitken: “Good comment”
Voices and faces of my footy youth – Blair Schwartz, Gordon Schwartz, Eldon Crouch, Max Hall, Tom Warhurst, Ken Aplin, Stan Wickham, Allan Crabb, Doug Thomas, Ron Kitchen, Jim Deane, Laurie Sweeney, Bo Morton, Ted Langridge, Wally May, Ken Cunningham, Ian Day, Gary Window
@thephilby on Twitter
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In Adelaide, and in Adelaide only, you can earn the prize of the ‘early minute’.
Which means you can walk home from school, in the gloom and the drizzle, a minute earlier than the other kids.
#Almanac280
@e_regnans via Twitter:
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Am I ever gonna see your face again?
Are you in the next room, waiting for me?
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 drink.
We shared some history – this town and I.
Down past the hedges in a row.
#adelaide
#almanac280
@theangelsband @theaudreys @coldchisel @paulkelly @sia
@pbuchanan07 on Twitter
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2010 Two weeks in Adelaide for work. Arrived Sunday and the city was closed! Middle weekend and the winless Tiges are playing Port. I head out to AAMI. Jack kicks 4, Dusty gets a rising star nomination and the drought is broken. Adelaide didn’t seem so bad after that #Almanac280
@e_regnans via Twitter:
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1994-95. #Ashes & roadtrip.
Dec94. Get @ShaneWarne’s autograph; Torquay.
Beers on Streaky Bay beach; SK Warne & that @MCG hat-trick.
Jan 95. Car rolls near Threeways.
@RoyalFlyingDoc to #Adelaide ICU.
During Test brother tells @ShaneWarne of stack. He, AB sign gifts.
#almanac280
Adelaide only 28 hours drive to Perth from this pissant town
Late, but hope you enjoy.
Light’s untold vision: “Here shall be a town,’ said Light. “Where?” asked a friend. “Right there between the trees.” “What, the tall trees?” “Yes,” replied Light. “Oh! Can we build a cricket ground too?” “In time, my friend. In time.” “Goody! Can we have ducks?” Light looked at his friend. “Shut Up! You’re ruining the moment.”