Kevin Densley’s poem indicates that each season of the year announces itself ahead of time – we get a feeling of what is to come beforehand.
Almanac Poetry: Sitting on my Back Verandah on a Late September Evening
Almanac Music: Song of the Seasons (Song Lyric)
Partly inspired by Almanackers’ responses to his group of posts concerning Oz songs connected to particular seasons, KD puts forward a song lyric he wrote as an eighteen-year-old that encompasses all four of them.
Almanac Life: What I Did Last Summer … And The Summer Before … And The Summer Before …
Do you have an annual summer tradition, more particularly, something you typically do to occupy those languid days after the Christmas festivities, but before the New Year arrives? KD writes about how he usually fills in this time of the year.
Almanac (Holiday Cricket) Poetry: Deano and the endless summer
E. regnans remembers summers at the beach when Dean Jones was in his prime. R.I.P. Deano.
Almanac Life: The Crystal Pool
Smokie Dawson longs for the summer, and a visit to the Crystal Pool. Its charms have been passed down through the generations of his family.
Almanac Music: My Calexico Summer
Calexico put on a great musical performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre reports Brian, The Ruminator.[youtube clip added. Ed.]
Almanac Summer: Multi-tasking
Jamie ‘Igor’ Simmons with a little Summer inspired multi-tasking.
Summer Fields
Bert Spinks shares his love of abandoned Tassie footy grounds in majestic surroundings – ” in remembering what has passed, my gratitude is renewed for what there is now”. (Sheer poetry -Ed.)
Deeper Water
by Andrew Starkie Growing up in the south-west, Labour Day weekend used to signal the end of summer. The first icy rains and wind would sweep up from the Southern Ocean, turning the camping grounds at the Port Fairy Folk Festival into a sodden, bleak mess. This long weekend, Linda and I put the [Read more]
Standing on the outside lookin’ in
Things have been hectic in the H of S with the tennis rapidly approaching the pointy end of the tournament. Predictably, most of the top ranked players are still in the draw. Perhaps unpredictably, some would argue to the contrary, “our Sam” is not amongst them. This makes Ms Stosur the first seed in women’s [Read more]
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