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Kurilpa Derby Boundary Street West End 2016
Everyday Family west end

Kurilpa Derby

September 3, 2012October 20, 2021Caroline GardamComments Off on Kurilpa Derby

Like many others, I, too, heart West End.

On a collision course with the dancing Brazilians. Kurilpa Derby, 2012
Mobile flamingo bar (2013?)
Kurilpa Derby, 2016
Kurilpa Derby West End 2018
Kurilpa Derby, 2017?
Kurilpa Derby, West End, 2019
Kurilpa Derby, 2019
Tagged bicycle, boundary street, dancers, kurilpa, kurilpa derby, west end

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Crafty

April 14, 2014Caroline Gardam

It’s happening. I may be turning into a semi-hipster.   It’s the craft thing, see. It started with an innocent workshop at the local library. Crochet your own granny square. I always wanted to do that. There was one space left. And so, braced as I was against an earth-shattering hangover one Saturday, I learned […]

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Fraud?

January 21, 2014March 9, 2014Caroline Gardam

It will be the year of structure. I will make time to write, corral little chunks of hours. Things will be produced*. (*I will find an alternative to the passive voice to avoid that overexposed personal pronoun.) I have been guilty of calling myself a writer with little to back it up. Let’s be honest. […]

west end Writing

Wordsmithery

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016Caroline Gardam

  At this delightful soiree a few weeks ago, mid-anecdote, I was whacked with one of those personal life realisations: not quite an epiphany but probably not far off. It was a fabulous shindig: a local landscaper, nursery owner, and all-round bon vivant threw a party to celebrate his premises expanding from the heritage brick […]

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