Blue - Peter Orner / After Water (2016)

division - Glebe (Thu 18 May 2017)

Peter Orner on Blue:

How many shades of blue do you think there are?

via After Water Fiction: The Last Cribkeeper by After Water.

Australian Grand Masters - Tampa 2011 (Sun 31 Jul 2011)

Australian Grand Masters - Tampa 2011 (Sun 31 Jul 2011)
Row7 (L-R): Lorraine Islaub (NSW), Kaizer Austin (NSW), Blair Gamble (QLD/Division Coach), Paul Boucher (VIC/Sweep), Ann Hubbard (QLD/Division Manager)
Row6 (L-R): Jen Reilly (VIC/Sweep), Yih-Fye Freeman (NSW/Drummer), Michele Moroney (ACT), Eugenia Raftos (NSW), Desma Smith (VIC), David Newham (NSW)
Row5 (L-R): Gordon Waycott (WA), Paul Langley (QLD), Maria Hegarty (ACT), Ruth Gallant (VIC), Robyne Kellett (ACT/Sweep), Sandra Chamberlain (ACT), Hilary Lamb (NSW), Sue Beith (QLD/Division Asst Manager), Kevin Taylor (ACT)
Row4 (L-R): Sergio Pineiro (NSW), David Brugioni (SA), Valerie Field (ACT), Janette Feakes (WA), Greg Bell (NSW), Alfred Pawlicki (ACT), Ewen McDonald (QLD), Lindy Chester (NSW)
Row3 (L-R): Lorraine Bayliss (ACT), Kim Cameron (ACT), Liz Draper (ACT), Micah Roberts (QLD), Marcel Kucmierz (SA), Rosie O’Donnell (NSW/Drummer), Ian Vivian (QLD), Gordon Tribbick (VIC), Trevor Maloney (NSW), Emiliia McDonald (QLD), Clare Finnigan (NSW)
Row2 (L-R): Gary Kerr (QLD), Paul Boler (NSW), Diane Peglas (QLD), Stewart Tempest (WA), Martin Hirst (NSW), Ernie Panucci (NSW), Norbert Gaulton (QLD), Judi Row (QLD), Elizabeth Thomas (SA)
Row1 (L-R): Tim Batt (NSW), Eleanor Keller (NSW), Brett Bartholomew (NSW), Thomas Jaeger (SA), Jill Hicks (VIC), Mike Wall (NSW), Di Long (QLD), Denise Sundercombe (NSW), Peri Liddell (NSW), Geoff Eldridge (NSW)
Just over 12 months ago (*), I decided to commit to the Aurora's Tampa 2011 IDBF World Dragon Boat Championship Campaign. I was always going to do the campaign, but it was at that time I realised I needed a goal/aim in my life and I likened the journey to a Climb (*) right from the very start.

Been back a few weeks now and had plenty of time to reflect on the Tampa (*) Climb (*). I learnt much about myself and I am thankful for the experience.

Congratulations and a BIG THANK YOU to everyone - it was an amazing time. I was grateful and happy to have shared it with an amazing group of people (*).

May Budapest 2013 (*) be on your horizon.

New Order - Ceremony (youtube video)

New Order - Ceremony (video by OKSauceOK)
In June 2007 just after I had been selected in the Australian Masters Dragon Boat Team, I bought an MP3 player to use at the Gym while I trained. Did not have any music CD's, so one night after training I wandered into a Music Store in King Street Newtown. Was not looking for anything in particular, but I noticed a Double CD Set by New Order and bought a copy on pure speculation.

When I listened to the songs, I was familiar with quite a few of them. One song I had not heard of was Ceremony. I was instantly drawn to the song. It has a complicated history which you can follow on wikipedia. I love the bass guitar that drives the song. The lyrics are a bit of a mystery to me, but I guess like most things you can make it mean what you want for you. My feeling is that you need to have an understanding of the life and death of the song's author, Ian Curtis and the band Joy Division, the predecessor to New Order. A sad story really.

It's almost 4 years since I first heard the song, but I still enjoy it as much as the first time I heard it.

There are many Ceremony Videos on Youtube. I picked the one above because I liked the video. It reminded me of my time in London and a Park (Grosvenor Square which featured in Episode 8 of Series 7 of Spooks I had seen a month early back in Sydney - I recognised the Park instantly from the Spooks Episode) I sat in before I went to see the Murray Fredericks Exhibition in Mayfair. I have a few photos I might dig out of the archives.

Ceremony

This is why events unnerve me,
Define it all, a different story,
Notice whom for wheels are turning,
Turn again and turn towards this time,
All she ask's the strength to hold me,
Then again the same old story,
Word will travel, oh so quickly,
Travel first and lean towards this time.

Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown,
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
What she heard, these things she said,
The times she cried,
Too frail to wake this time.

I break them down, no mercy shown,
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
Avenues all lined with trees,
Picture me and then you start watching,
Watching forever, forever,
Watching love grow, forever,
Letting me know, forever.