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A couple of posts gone for good, a couple re-named for the sake of sanity ..
happy new year
– having readers is a good thing.
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- our surfing heritage: the uncomfortable truth February 15, 2019
- life is a shift February 14, 2019
- the widow February 10, 2019
- mike doyle – why we liked him February 8, 2019
- good smoke February 6, 2019
- Loss February 2, 2019
- vic hogan .. justly remembered January 27, 2019
- surfers are subtle seducers January 20, 2019
- col collyer .. January 18, 2019
- earlier (australian) days January 16, 2019
- who let this happen? January 14, 2019
- done with debbie, now following penny January 3, 2019
- the next headland December 31, 2018
- what bondi called you December 28, 2018
- scott dillon … December 13, 2018
- the plan … November 29, 2018
- no apologies November 24, 2018
- caught speeding … November 22, 2018
- writing and reading November 6, 2018
- how to behave in the company of a surfing legend November 6, 2018
- the leach October 16, 2018
- bondi forever: the documentary October 6, 2018
- take me back September 15, 2018
- saturday @ doma September 8, 2018
- ben dickens August 30, 2018
- a day in passing August 29, 2018
- avalon .. the day nobody remembers August 15, 2018
- deep stone August 11, 2018
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- rhythym July 27, 2018
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- moments of clarity April 18, 2018
- john’s new wallet April 15, 2018
- tchaikovsky, shostakovich ….. April 14, 2018
- out of country April 12, 2018
- woanchutakeme2 April 7, 2018
- with friends like these …….. April 2, 2018
- deep thinking March 28, 2018
- roulette March 23, 2018
- bearing down March 19, 2018
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- timothy March 8, 2018
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- the cowboy and the plumber January 31, 2018
- another australia day January 25, 2018
- McConaghy Boats – what really happened January 22, 2018
- swell January 17, 2018
- the man with shaking hands January 5, 2018
- how to deal with tribalism December 12, 2017
- rockstar December 8, 2017
- nick’s little sucker November 22, 2017
- lunch with mick November 9, 2017
- the never ever again November 4, 2017
- the oldest quiver November 2, 2017
- the kid in the blunt slut t shirt October 26, 2017
- tension October 22, 2017
- the next headland October 13, 2017
- hangin’ five September 30, 2017
- queueing September 5, 2017
- pocket money August 21, 2017
- the royal avalon literature society August 18, 2017
- lena July 19, 2017
- rivertown June 30, 2017
- generations, the last of the trilogy June 24, 2017
- currumbin June 9, 2017
- the night visit June 2, 2017
- the surfer May 31, 2017
- stoners May 17, 2017
- the cold call May 15, 2017
- russell April 6, 2017
- two umbrellas April 5, 2017
- debbie come by lately up this way April 1, 2017
- Brookvale revisited March 23, 2017
- Sydney March 22, 2017
- hunger and counting March 19, 2017
- col joye and the changing times March 15, 2017
- forensic science on netflix March 9, 2017
- the bookmaker from rabaul reviewed March 6, 2017
- tales from japan February 24, 2017
- the oxcam problem February 13, 2017
- keep smiling February 11, 2017
- surf reports as they used to be February 7, 2017
- three men at the next table … February 3, 2017
- the rundle episodes – equipment January 29, 2017
- the red kelpie, his hose lug and bob mactivish January 13, 2017
- the reviewer January 6, 2017
- three hundred and thirty one days December 28, 2016
- the bookmaker from rabaul November 29, 2016
- scott dillon: a portrait November 23, 2016
- plan your trip to byron updated October 24, 2016
- the writer October 14, 2016
- the trump September 29, 2016
- the movie deal September 25, 2016
- the reckoning – a rick oahu adventure September 2, 2016
- the target – a rick oahu adventure August 26, 2016
- dr sans and the outline – a rick oahu adventure August 24, 2016
- thunder August 24, 2016
- the bookmaker from rabaul August 20, 2016
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‘Pete Bowes writes about surfing like no one I’ve ever read; he was a Bondi boy who moved up to Byron Bay in 1963. Between Bondi and Byron Bay, Pete crossed tracks with a rogues’ gallery – surfers, itinerants, brawlers, the lost – all of them lovingly hand-painted by Pete’s pen. His short vignettes in Bloodlines are visceral, teeth rattling, piss funny and even true, and they stretch from then to now and this horizon to that, from the poetic to the poignant to the hilarious.’
Sean Doherty, author of My Brother’s Keeper, and MP: The Life of Michael Peterson*, both published by HarperCollins.
keep going i;m here.thanks
Don’t tidy up too much Pete – there’s a few gems hidden on here
I’ll keep going Joe, just working up a head of steam –
gems my bum, it’s all the stuff you scared the dawg off with your snorts / guffaws – and screeches of laughter
happy ny jb
Happy New Year Pete. May the gods have mercy on your soul.
and you washty, here’s hopin’