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Old Sydney’s Physician: the Southerly Buster

...  Southerly Buster Approaches In 1910 Henry Lawson wrote the following lines celebrating Sydney’s restorative Southerly Buster; ‘Tis a glorious mission , Old Sydney’s ...

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TICK TOCK – SYDNEY’S POST OFFICE CLOCK

...  tower itself features in Henry Lawson's  1910 poem Southerly Buster. Lest We Forget (photo by Sam Hood), Remembrance ...

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NAME THAT BOOK! CHOOSING A TITLE

...  an epilogue to his book of humorous verse called Southerly Busters,  the  British/Australian  writer  George Herbert Gibson  (alias ...

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THE AUSSIE COCKTAIL…A LIGHTHEARTED HISTORY

...  boats on the harbour. After struggling back to port, a few Southerly Buster cocktails calm the nerves. Note that the cocktail is brandy based, to ...

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THE FLYING PIEMAN OF SYDNEY

UPDATE - THURSDAY, MARCH 9 2023; THE PIEMAN'S GRAND JETE! Just imagine the Flying Pieman (William Francis King) as the 'star' of a ballet. This almost came to be. In 1942 artist Roderick Shaw prepared 21 watercolours for a proposed ballet to be calle ...

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Mr Eternity – Arthur Stace in WWI

Caught! Much has been written about the mysterious 'Mr Eternity', Arthur Stace, who chalked his famous one word sermon throughout the streets of Sydney. Less well known is the fact that Stace served in France during World War I and that, as with so man ...

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FERRIES; THE OLD LADIES OF SYDNEY HARBOUR

Each Australia Day, commuter ferries  race down Sydney Harbour,  decorated  with bunting and loaded to the gunnels with cheering supporters. They remind me of well dressed matrons  competing in the  hundred metre dash at schoo ...

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