what we might wish for – for australian consumption – for christmas – for the old boys
a little peace and quiet
an empty sky
a diary
two lanes from sydney to angourie
screw-down racks
balsa
a hat like bob cooper’s
front row at a severson movie
a nod from bob evans
ten boards on one car-roof
a weekend at the farm
a wollongong girl
front row at the patch on saturday afternoon
nobody out at wategos
nobody out at granite
a lismore girl
a chinese feed at bondi junction
playing for bondi united
empty north av in a nor’wester
billy thorpe at surf city –
getting past the bouncer at tabu in the cross
watching big men fight at the sheaf
watching farrelly
hating nat, watching nat, loving nat beat the yanks
owning byron
broken head watermelons
watching peterson
dole-bludging with integrity
fighting Q’landers
loving Q’landers
sleeping in the crescent shed
nobody out at tea tree
bingo at brunswick
the goldie beer gardens
12 hours to the tweed
currumbin .. 6′ … sweeping to the beach
ten to a van at conjola
watching a yank roll a tight number
eight in a circle and ten joints on the circuit
watching weather report at the hordern pav
walking up bondi road
drinking at the astra
fighting at the coogee bay
playing street rugby
sniffing hashish
surviving
petebowes.com 
Pete, what about: the Marlin on a Saturday night after a day at Green Island; Paddo “fair go” at the Clovelly cabaret, egging Aaron, escaping from Aub Laidlaw in the Ben Buckler flats, and for the faint hearted Joyce and Adele at Mackenzies Point..
and boards flying off the roof on the harbour bridge, pinching occy straps, dinner at ryan’s cafe in byron, surfing kirra, tomato fights coming back from the ‘gong
subtitles
and our close-in vision restored
the time before Nick Carroll