The last of the SUMMERveg

Its time to celebrate the harvest

SPUDcorucopia in Lonnie

Now the problem is to do with which way to eat them

BEWARE THE JOURNEY SOUTH

TAMARESKproduce

With all the talk recently about 'Food Labelling' to ensure quality and freshness there is nothing like catch your own, grow tour own to get around the issue. This is simple food caught and cooked in the backyard as it were. 

The recipe should be self evident to any TAMARESKperson who has any sense of place. if you are new find an OLDone and enjoy. As you can see the SUPERmarkets do not sell stuff like this .... more is the pity.

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Gramma Pie. What is one?

Gramma Pie 

We got this recipe from the ABC but we bet that someone out there has a better one. A PONRABBELITE has provide this image of her GRAMMAharvest and it posed so so many questions. First one was where did you get the seeds? And she said HERE!

Then we asked what are you going to do with this 'produce'? And she said maybe make some instruments for an orchestra. After that well ........ ??? Some of us remember that a grandmother made GRAMMARpie with mixed feelings. BUT it was a long time ago and it might be fun to  try it again.

As the ABC says "you may have to ask the greengrocer to order a 'gramma' in for you". You'll probably have to explain what one is as well but there you go.

Apparently this recipe serves:6 to 8 people:

Ingredients 

• 1kg gramma 
• 1.3 cup sugar juice and grated rind of a large lemon and grated rind of 1 orange 
• 1 tablespoon sultanas 
• 1 teaspoon golden syrup 
• 1 level teaspoon mixed spice or mixture of nutmeg cinnamon and ground cloves 

Method 

Peel gramma, discard the seeds and then chop into pieces and cook with a little water in a covered saucepan for a good 3/4 hour. Drain until cold, pressing lightly to extract as much of the liquid as possible. 

Transfer gramma into a bowl, add sugar, orange rind, then juice and rind of lemon. 

Add sultanas, syrup and spice. Taste, adding more lemon if required. Refrigerate until ready to make up. 

Sift both flours with salt into a bowl, then rub in butter. presumably the ABC thinks you know about this flour stuff but we guess you'll be able to work it out somehow.

Beat the egg with sugar and add to flour. Mix quickly by hand into dough. Knead lightly with a little extra flour. Roll out 3/4 of the pastry but not too thinly to fit a 20cm metal pie plate. 

Fill with Gramma. Wet edges and cover with remaining pastry, already rolled to fit as a lid. Press edges together with a fork to seal. Brush the top of the pie with milk or water and sprinkle with a little extra sugar. Bake in moderate oven for approx 1 hour. 

Serve slightly warm or cold with softly whipped cream.

NOW tell us a better way or your BETTERrecipe.

HERITAGE LOST: Launceston's Woolstore

The Woolstore predemolition 2014

LETTER: The Examiner Wed March 17

I’VE been watching the Woolstore being demolished these last few days.
A perfectly sound structure, wonderfully attractive, full of Launceston’s economic history and heritage.
An act of pure barbaric vandalism.
Everyone involved should hang their heads.

— JIM DICKENSON, Launceston.

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RELEVANT LINKS 

• North Bank woolstore marked for demolition By JAMES BRADY Oct. 27, 2014, 10:43 p.m. CLICK HERE
•  Woolstore on agenda By ROSITA GALLASCH Oct. 9, 2014, 9:50 p.m. CLICK HERE
• Council stands by woolstore decision By ROSITA GALLASCH Nov. 24, 2014, 10:08 p.m. CLICK HERE 
• AN ONLINE THREAD: Re the development – http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1740518 
• Woolstore demolition progressing By ROSITA GALLASCH March 11, 2015, 11:28 p.m. CLICK HERE
• PLACEscaping Launceston: Email from Mayor van Zetten CLICK HERE - Heritage Protection Society

WISDOM

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Launceston LONGpoem Random Picks #1

Foreword: From time to time random selections of poetry from the LAUNCESTONlongpoem will be made and published online here. If you have a poetic response to any of the selections please post them in the comments section below. 

NB: All writers are anonymous and the the poetry is FREE of copyright

BULLYING

Bullying in the schools

Bullying in the workplace

Bullying in the meeting room

Why!!!!!

Do they need to be dominant?????

Are the bullies so lacking in self worth

Do the bullies think they will be better

What if the bullied cowers and falls?

Does this make the bullied weaker?

Should the bullied fight back so they can be strong?

Maybe the bullied are the strong and powerful

The bullied threaten the bullies with their strength.

i live in hagley

i live in hagley it's a hole
i wish i lived in york street
that’s where i'd get busy
come on babay i'm ready i'm ready
but i'm not into stuff like that
i might buy a big brown cat

HERhands ..................

 Her hands went a wandering, a wandering …… : -))))) 

And she touched him just SO just SO ……. : - )))))))))))))))))))

Then HIS hands went wandering a wandering … : -o))))))))))))

And he touched her like so, like so ……. : -0}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

But her fingers went on a walking------- : - ))))))

And she found him just so, just so ----- : --)))))))))))))))))))))

Now he touched her more firmly ……. : -o)))) )) ) )))))))))))

And in ways you just couldn't know --- : - o(((((((((((

Politely she asked him to stop it !!!! ~~~~~ :- )))))))))))))))

But still his fingers went on walking albeit with nowhere to go __ : - )))))

Then she cried just stop it, please stop it !!!!! ------- : -0||||||||||

Now I just don't want you - just go - just go!! ____ :-//////////////////

Yet he persisted - you know, you know ….. : -]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]

But again she called out - stop it - just stop it !!!!! __ : >\\\\\\\\

And she touched him just SO just SO ……. : - )))))))))))))))))))

First Words

                       Silence      echo                 still Fat
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                 faT- f#$%- Fat fat- fat- fat- f#$%
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                                      fat f#$% fat fat
fatfatfatfatfatfat ffffu - f#$% - f#$% k k
 
MYtown

This is the town of fluffy dice.
The ’rana’s rear window is where
the action is. When you hit
the Henry Street bridge your fate
is bounced around in air
thick from Winfield smoke.
A pair of sixes swings
to face the cops’ Commodore.
Just keep your eyes on Saint Christopher
when the siren goes.
Don’t let the doppler lights
distract you from your aim.

REMEMBERING: LAUNCESTONlongpoem

Introduction & Baccground: In October 2001, during the annual Tasmanian Poetry Festival, The Launceston Longpoem was launched.  The concept involved an Internet-based poem, to which anyone with a connection to Launceston could contribute, thus building up, by the time of the 2002 Festival, a very long poem which could then become a community resource.  It was planned all along that ownership of the final version would be vested in the community.

The Launceston Longpoem project was a joint initiative of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival and WALLLESS7250, a loose cooperative of artists across artforms.  In order for the poem to be properly publicised and professionally edited, funding was sought and received through Tasmanian Regional Arts from the Australia Council’s Identity Distinct program.  A Management Committee was set up to oversee the project.

A number of community organisations were approached and asked to encourage their members and contacts to contribute.  As well as the usual media publicity, the Longpoem was publicised by the Launceston Poetry Car, a 1979 red Commodore sedan on which poetry was written.

The Longpoem website had links to other poetry sites, and it also had a separate page  for the ‘Ravo’ poems, a book-length sequence of poems set in the Launceston suburb of Ravenswood, written by M.M.L. Bliss, who retains copyright of these poems.  At her request, these poems do not appear as part of this copy of the Longpoem, but will be published separately, in book form.

It is impossible to calculate how many individual contributors there were to the Longpoem, because it appears that some contributed on several separate occasions, some did so anonymously and there were some collaborative contributions, but an estimate puts the number at between 150 and 200.  Some contributed hundreds of lines, some one line or even less.

The aim of the Longpoem becoming a community resource was realised even before the contributions had all come in.  An appropriate selection was read and sung at the opening of the Launceston Little Lawn in June 2002, there were weekly readings over ABC Radio Northern Tasmania, and a selection was read at the Launceston launch of International Refugee Week in October 2002. 

The initial phase of the Launceston Longpoem project ended at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in October 2002, with readings from the Longpoem, but the poem itself continues to exist as a resource.  Feel free to use any excerpts from it whenever you feel the need for poetry in your life. To facilitate this we have included a subject index. 

Tim Thorne

Editor/Curator, Launceston Longpoem, Launceston, October 2002

MEDIA RELEASE POETRY READING: John Ley aka Dr 'Russ' T. Diamund

POETRY READING : PONRABBEL POET IN RESIDENCE 

• POET: John Ley aka Dr 'Russ' T. Diamund – President of the RE-Publik of Australia.
• POETRY: REworkings of the LAUNCESTONlongpoem and other works
• VENUE: QVMAG @ Royal Park
• TIME: 12 Noon
• PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Selfies with 'The President'

NOTE: Any further detail will be posted here as events unfold

MAD MAX FURY ROAD 

PONRABBEL POET IN RESIDENCE

The President is up for anything

Mad Max survivor takes over as President of Australia. Changing his name to Rustle Diamund, former cast member Charlie from MAD MAX 1 & 2 may surprise a few fans of the epic series by George Miller.  Declaring himself leader of the Republic of Australia the former actor is on a mission to change the political chatter in this country.

Movie database iMD lists Charlie as one of the appearances by a bloke who disappeared into obscurity after spending some time in the firmament of this great country’s creative talent pool. Think Oscar. Think Noble Prize. Think Dreaming.

Well after the accident of his previous existence, the Holey One as he is called, has reincarnated as His Hollowness Rev. Dr Maj-Gen Rear-Ad Sir (ret) Rustle ‘Russ’ T. Diamund, President of the RE-Publik of Australia.

Asked about his new role, a spokes bod, Mr I. O’Nort, said His Hollowness takes the ‘Gift’ of his sacred calling very seriously, “As everyone who still calls Australia home knows, someone has to do the job.”

I managed to get through the spidley web of passwords and gatekeepers to get the address the Prezient– and got an up-close and impersonal, above the board, contracted, internationally sanctioned, code red security cleared few moments with the hasbeen.

Let me tell you he looked all right. There’s something about the back of a hospital surgical gown that does wonders for a spicy imagination and who doesn’t know what an aphrodisiac power is when it shirtfronts you right where it hurts.

That’s right there’s an irresistible force to the Rev. Call it what you will, it’s just that thing that you recognise immediately when you see it. Think Buddha with a six-pack.

There was no way I was going to let Diamund dazzle me with his claims. We’ve got Clive Pamoil and an Abbot running Team OZ so some other pretender needs a good work-over before we let loose another lunatic to run the asylum.

I left our confrontation with a powerful impression. He might be rough, he may turn out to be a girl’s best friend, he is definitely a carrat or two, but Diamond may just be the sparkle we’ve been screaming for. Think Lennon: John, Paul and Karl. Think Albert: Einstein and the Great. Think Marx: Groucho and Karl. Think what you like – the Reverend is no pushover and an extensive enquiry into his background reveals some interesting facts.

Diamund's Temple of Non-Specific Origin is no laughing matter. I predict he might well turn out to be one of the people to watch out for in the next cycle of cyber chatter. It’s difficult to traces the origins of the Temple of Non-Specific Origin – nothing about it turns up on any database in the cache vendor market. There may be links to all sorts of places on the internet and global surveillance systems but so far: Zilch.

The President will be appearing at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery on Tuesday. Watch this space for more details.

For more information:

The President's Mobile: 61- 0434 976 772    NB: Initial contact SMS to this number ONLY

The Presidents's L'ton PR Consultants: eMAIL: Dar Muzda – zero@7250.net between 9 & 5

The President's eMAIL: p[residentofaustralia@gmail.com