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| Tuesday, 08 November 2005 | |
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It seems that for ages I have been intending to get back to this
journal- I can't believe that I've already been home for two weeks! It still feels like the day after returning, with suitcases still unpacked & cds not yet listened to, bills to pay & so many people that I want to get in contact with & thank & & ... my feet have hardly touched the ground! I can't believe that I'm headed back up the hume yet again to gig with Jigzag on the weekend in Wollongong. I want to stay here & to bore people with photos & spend evenings telling the stories of our travels to friends. As a recap of the final leg here are some impressions... ...singing Jericho in the amazingly resonant limestone caverns of Wellington Caves... an incredible sunset on the road Canowindra (see tour pics) as a prelude to Rendang Beef curry & the warm company of Chris, Nerida, Iris & all of the people (& animals) at the Cornerstone Community... watching a white horse turn brown before our very eyes after an afternoon storm transformed paddocks into mud bowls...little Iris calling out to Lola the lamb.. great coffee at Canowindra's Deli Lama.. witnessing the awesome art of David Isbester & then later meeting him at the house concert... hearing an unusual rendition of " I do not like green eggs & ham" set to music... watching the Bollywood version of Pride & Predjudice in the early hours of the morning... meeting old friends John & Genni at the most intimate of all the house concerts in Bathurst... Heidi & me trying to remeber how to make pancakes the next morning... Aimee presenting us with a beautiful painting of hers as we left for Springwood... Op shopping in the Blue Mountains... making chocolate crackles & hedgehog slice with Steve for the Sydney launch... sitting in the team van helping Nick transcribe the flugelhorn line for flute half an hour before the show... being tranfixed by Brett's song 'God, you need a haircut' (available on the no-so-live webcast)... trying to not fall apart in sweet Basil & Jericho when Saul is playing the French Horn so beautifully... eating the worst kebab I have ever tasted later that night... an indian dinner at Albury on the way home... lighting candles at St Stephens for the Melbourne launch... singing 'Angels Wings' for the first time with an acoustic piano in a full blown chapel... having Vince, Lisa, Tim & Steve on one side & Nick & Clare on the other & Mal Webb & Penelope Swales right in front of me- I'm in bliss!... That's just a sample of the memories that are flitting through my mind rightat this moment. There are more captured in the dog n'bear tour 2005 gallery so check it out... |
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