Issue # 4, December 2013 - January 2014
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From the Editor
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A Caloundra Morning
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Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs -Building Connections
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Bangles and Bollywood - Dalwin’s Story
12 Feel the Serenity 16 Art Exhibition - You’re Invited
17 Art is My Life 23 Books, People and a View to the Sky 26 Poetry 28 Haiku Meets Art 30 Book Chat 32 What’s On - Book Club, Lights on the Lake 32 Caloundra Gallery
Cover Photo — Frangipani Flower, Caloundra by Mary Barber. Articles and photos are by Mary Barber, unless otherwise attributed. Rain and gum boots are from Bigstock Photos. Chris Postle’s art photos are contributed. Material may be used with the permission of the editor. PDF versions of articles can be sent to contributors if requested. Every effort is made to accurately represent the people and their opinions in these stories. However, no responsibility is accepted for wrong or misleading information in any part of this magazine. Views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily those of Tamarind Magazine. The publisher will not be liable for any opinion or advice expressed in Tamarind Magazine. Information given is believed to be accurate and from reliable sources. However, factual errors may occur and can be corrected in the next issue. Please address any concerns to the Editor. Thank you,
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Connect, create, celebrate, Caloundra From the Editor Hello Readers, It’s been a pleasure putting this issue together, meeting local people and catching photos of our seaside town at its best. Thank you for your continued support as readers and contributors. I welcome your feedback, suggestions and story ideas. Please send them to the editor. You can look forward to more colourful and informative issues in 2014, connecting
you to your town, Caloundra. If you have an arts, multicultural or environmental event to publicise, please get in touch. I can post it on the Tamarind Magazine Facebook page. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season. See you in the new year,
Mary Barber Editor
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A Caloundra Morning Tim Leung opens up at the Sandbar CafĂŠ and Kiosk.
Graeme Bowden from the Bookshop at Caloundra grabs an early coffee.
Karen George and Vanessa Plancke from Paris, France
Miles Thomas sets up for the day at Edge Espresso Bar, Bulcock Beach. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
Peter and Vicki Clifford and Chardonnay relax at Edge Espresso Bar.
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Alex Mitchell, (left) Facilitator of Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs thanks Julie Mason , the Social Media Princess for her presentation at the October 2013 SCWE event.
Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs — Building Connections Alex Mitchell admits her life is flat out busy. She gets up before 5am each day and has not watched television for years. Yet, since 2008, she has made time to be the facilitator for the Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs. Asked why she does this voluntary work, Alex says, “I couldn’t stop doing it. I just love it. Every time I leave a meeting, I feel on top of the world. Sometimes, I don’t feel like that
when I arrive, I’m stressed.” “Then I leave the meeting and I’ve hugged almost forty women and we’ve smiled and we’ve laughed and we’ve learnt something and I think, oh yeah, this is really worth doing.” “I think that when you’re in this part of your life, where you’re juggling business and family and elderly parents, there is a part of me that needs to do something for the community otherwise I’m only in this tiny little nucleus that’s all about me.” The Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs group started out in 2006 with six women
connecting to support each other in their business journeys. Today they have 761 members. The central activities of the group are networking and education. Every six weeks, Alex Mitchell organizes a lunch and workshop for the members on a Saturday afternoon in Caloundra. Members pay $25.00 for the lunch. The speakers donate their time. Recent events have sold out as only 38 places are offered.
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Alex explains its success, “As a solo entrepreneur and a middle-aged woman, you have to
be the IT person, the marketing person, the sales person and everything else. You’re working for yourself. You’re usually running a house and a family. Some people are still running other jobs while their business gets big enough.” “So there is an awful lot you don’t know and you don’t have the time and the money to do that training. So that’s where Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs has found its niche.” Alex is a solo businesswoman herself. “I’m very time poor. I wanted to go to meetings where I’d learn something really tangible for my business.”
“What’s really special about the group is that people come along and they feel supported. They feel like they’re part of a community,” Alex says. “Most of the women work alone. A lot of them work from home. It’s very isolating. [Attending an event] gets you outside your industry. You’re meeting with other women who really understand the ups and downs of working for yourself,” explains Alex.
Samantha Gillard (left) and Lynda Palai at the September 2013 SCWE event.
Local business woman Lynda Palai attends the SCWE events regularly. “It’s been great to come and meet new people and actually learn some new skills. Each of the topics seem to be very relevant to developing and moving forward and it’s fun,” she explains. Samantha Gillard has attended events for two years. She says, “Networking events like this are a great way to meet people and let them see the face behind the name. That’s been amazing for my business. People can see the energy behind the brand.” TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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For Alex Mitchell, facilitating the Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs keeps her in
touch with her early days in business. “When I started, the support that people gave me and the ideas that I got from other people, and the generosity, I would never have got where I am without that.” “So I need to keep remembering that now that my business is successful. There are other people who are learning and growing and you’ve got to keep it going around,” she says with a smile.
Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs at their September 2013 event. Photo contributed by Karen Cougan.
About the Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs This is a Facebook group. There is no obligation to attend events. There is no advertising on the wall and no membership fee. Dates for workshops in 2014 have been announced on the wall. To join, go to the Sunshine Coast Women Entrepreneurs Facebook page . Alex Mitchell is currently taking speaker applications for 2014. Alex can be contacted through the Facebook page.
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Dalwin Proksch, Bollywood Dance Teacher
Bangles and Bollywood— Dalwin’s Story Dalwin Proksch is fifth generation Fijian-Indian. She met her Australian husband Peter on the internet in 2007. “Our relationship grew and I moved here in 2008,” she says. They married the following year. She was twenty-three years old and struggled to settle into suburban Australia.
“I found it really hard to interact with people. In our culture, it’s very laidback. You talk to your neighbours,” she explains. Back in Fiji, “Everyone goes down the street. You say hello. You share food.” Initially she settled in Brisbane. “I found it difficult to make friends. Even the neighbours were quite reserved,” she recalls. “I was the only one here with my husband, no family, no friends. So we packed up and moved to Gympie where his parents live so I could be close to people. I’d never been away from my own family.” “I started volunteering there because it was very difficult for me to find work. In Fiji I was an accounts officer for a huge supermarket.” Dalwin volunteered as the secretary and then the treasurer for the multicultural network in Gympie. She also worked casually as a book-keeper. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Dalwin found work through a program for Non-English Speaking Background
people that taught participants to understand the Australian job market and build their job-seeking skills. She was placed at a college as an administration officer for six months. She is currently working as a public service officer and has been working for the government for almost 2 years. Dancing has always been part of Dalwin’s life. “I started dancing when I was 3. I couldn’t do that here so my husband suggested that I start teaching,” she says. Dalwin had studied and performed both traditional Indian dance and Bollywood dance in Fiji. She first set up Bollywood Dance classes in Gympie and now teaches classes at Maroochydore to cater for the Sunshine Coast.
Dalwin Proksch and a young Bollywood enthusiast. Dalwin’s students strike a pose at the 2013 Festuri Multicultural Festival in Caloundra
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Dalwin Proksch, Bollywood Dance Teacher
She explains, “Bollywood dance is about storytelling. The songs are from the movies and are there for a particular reason, for example, a celebration song, a seduction song or a love song.” Asked about the popularity of Bollywood Dance, Dalwin says, “It’s the cos-
tumes, the jewelry, the movies. The female actresses dress in such a glamorous way. It’s just fun.” She is confident that anyone can do Bollywood dance. “As it is a fusion, there are a lot of steps which are quite universal, and then we just add in the Bollywood touch of Indian hands or the eyes.” “At the beginner level, it is a very simple dance style to learn. It’s perfect for anyone looking to burn calories, get fit and sweat or simply to have some fun!”
For more information, go to Sunshine Bollywood Dance House
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Feel the Serenity Caloundra Cruise’s Eco Explorer tour is a two and a half hour ferry trip that starts at Pelican Waters and explores the northern waters of the Pumicestone Passage.
Sandy and Stephen Duffy from Caloundra Cruises
As we get onboard, guests are provided with binoculars and a booklet of bird identification photos, historical photos and maps. Sandy and Stephen Duffy are the hostess and captain respectively. They scan the water, trees and sky for birdlife. The Pumicestone Passage is part of the Morton Bay Marine Park. The birdlife is one of
the main attractions of the tour. Sandy says that there are 15 resident bird species and 24 migratory bird species here. Australia is one of 168 countries that have signed the Ramsar Convention to protect our wetland environments. Ramsar recognizes that ‘Wetlands connect us all’ and the health and survival of migrating birds depends on international co-operation and wise use of local wetlands. The Morton Bay area has been registered with the Ramsar Convention as a Wetland of International Significance. The migratory birds start arriving in October and they’ve headed north again by April. Visitors can expect to see many species of terns which are considered the signature bird of Caloundra. They can be seen gathering on the sand banks at the Northern end of Bribie Island in the summer months. The threats to the birds include jet skis and dogs. Sandy explains, “If they continually have to fly, that takes up a lot of energy. The birds must put on 70% of their body weight to fly back north.” The migratory birds come from as far away as Alaska, Russia and Mongolia.
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View of the Pumicestone Passage, Caloundra
There are also resident birds. “All year round there are stilts, egrets and herons. There are lots of spoonbills in the winter,” Sandy comments. “You can also see different species of cormorants and the Australian darter.” If you take the cruise on a low tide you can expect to see many bird species feeding on the sand banks. “The fish have to come out into the channel, into the deeper water and that’s when the birds feed,” Sandy explains. At high tide, the birds are mostly roosting in the mangroves. Many of the bird species breed in these salt-tolerant trees. Sandy explains the wetlands ecosystem, “What we are looking at here is less than half of the environment. A lot of it’s underwater and we can’t see it.” The mangroves provide shelter and protection for the fish and nesting and roosting areas for the birds.
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On this trip we see some black swans which Sandy says this is a good indicator that the water is healthy. Sea eagles, ospreys and brahminy-kites ride the thermals and nest in the tall eucalypts. Sandy can identify the different birds by their flight. “With the sea eagle the wing tips are
higher than the body so they have a v-shaped pattern when they are gliding. The kites are much flatter across. Their wings tips are level with their body.” She explains that the buoys we pass are attached to a rope and a crab pot. A recreational fisherman or fisherwoman can place up to four pots which must be labelled. However there can be problems which Sandy describes, “If you lose that pot they will keep on fishing. That’s the problem with pots and nets being left in the water. They keep on collecting and being a trap for fish.” However, Sandy thinks recreational fishing is an important part of the mix of using this local area. “You want people to come down here and value it.” When we anchor for morning tea, Stephen cuts the motor. Sandy invites us to have a minute of silence. “There’s not very many places where you can stop and not hear a car or a motor and just hear nature. It takes a little while and then you just tune in and you hear the birds. It’s beautiful.” It sure is. We are rewarded by the call of a whistling kite from a tall eucalypt on the Bribie Island bank. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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The cruise turns north again at Roy’s Farm which was once the largest citrus farm in the Southern Hemisphere. During World War Two, ships would anchor off Caloundra and stock up on fresh fruit. These days the farm grows strawberries and
kiwifruit.
Roy’s Farm, Pumicestone Passage
For the continued health of this ecosystem, Sandy has two concerns. Firstly, the water quality must be well-monitored. Secondly, effective silt-catching systems need to be included in the construction phases of new housing developments. “ It’s important that the runoff coming into the system does not have too much nutrient or silt in it,” she says. “If the water is too cloudy, too silty, the sea grass can only grow in fairly shallow. The clearer the water, the deeper the sea grass can grow. Then you’ve got more photosynthesis which is providing more energy for the whole system,” she explains. “That’s the most important thing, that we keep the water clean.” The Pumicestone Passage received a C+ rating in the 2013 Healthy Waterways Report Card.
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Art Exhibition—You’re Invited The Caloundra Arts Centre Association is holding an Art Exhibition and Sale in early January. Rod Hall, a group leader with Friday Art, expects over 70 artists to contribute work. Rod Hall from Caloundra Arts Centre Association
Visitors will enjoy paintings, pen and ink drawings, lino cuts and more. Art work will be priced from $80 to $1,000.
Caloundra Arts Centre Association Inc. Art Exhibition and Sale
“Unite, Inspire, Paint” Saturday 4th January, 2014 to Wednesday 8th January 2014 at C.A.C.A. 5 North St, Caloundra Come and enjoy our exciting art exhibition. All art on display is by our members and of the highest standard. Lucky Door Prize to the value of $80.00 drawn each day. Conditions apply. Entry is free and parking is available. TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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Art is My Life Tamarind Magazine Editor, Mary Barber, caught up with artist Chris Postle at his recent exhibition at the Harbourside Gallery at Tewantin on the Noosa River. Chris walked Mary through some of the paintings on show. Sunshine Coast artist Chris Postle at Harbourside Gallery Tewantin.
Detail from Reef Ecstasy by Chris Postle
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Reef Ecstasy by Chris Postle
Chris painted Reef Ecstasy while he was holding an exhibition at the Harbourside Gallery in 2012. “I’ve spent a bit of time snorkeling and diving in Vanuatu and taken photos of scenes like this.” “I’m trying to capture the wave breaking on the reef, then going back out into the deeper water. You’ve got all the fish coming in and feeding on the coral.” Chris had input from visitors to the exhibition. “The red fish came from people saying ‘you need some bright colours in there’. Then someone said ‘You need a Nemo’ so Nemo’s come into it.”
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Kaleidoscoping by Chris Postle
Kaleidoscoping by Chris Postle
Chris describes Kaleidoscoping as more abstract than his usual work. “This piece originated from a trip up to the Everglades [on the Noosa River], where the water’s actually black. When you get a really nice day, you get these amazing reflections in the wake of the boat which is just distorting everything.”
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Enter the Dragon by Chris Postle
Living on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Chris finds many local references for his work. This was the case for Enter the Dragon. “I used to photograph pandanus palms down at Coolum Beach. This was a piece that I thought would be quite a challenge. I wanted to capture the light coming through the leaves.” “The water dragons live around all the pandanus. The little frog was just a quirky thing to add a bit of a story to it. Maybe he’s living in fear of what’s above him. “ Enter the Dragon was a finalist in the Landscape Section of the Mortimore Art Prize in 2011 which is held in Dubbo NSW each year. Prize-winning paintings are taken in a travelling exhibition to regional centres and capital cities in the eastern states. Chris has achieved a smooth photographic effect. “That’s brush technique, certain brushes, patience, a very well-prepared background and a good quality fine canvas.”
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Chris Postle holds regular painting workshops on the Sunshine Coast, at Hervey Bay and in Kenilworth. In May 2014, he is holding a one week painting course at Daku Resort in Fiji as part of their Paradise Courses program.
Chris Postle working with students at Daku Resort in 2012 Photo contributed.
At the Daku Resort, Chris will teach painting classes each morning. Participants have the afternoons free to relax and explore the island. Chris aims to help the students free up their creativity by trying different techniques, larger brushes and trying for a faster more impressionistic style. Participants will usually paint one artwork each day. Chris Postle visited Daku in 2012 and knows the vibrant tropical landscapes and seascapes will inspire the participants. He expects the course to be a lot of fun for everyone involved.
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The beach front at Daku Resort, Fiji. Photo contributed.
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Graeme Bowden, owner of the BookShop at Caloundra
Books, People and a View to the Sky For Graeme and Chris Bowden, discovering Caloundra was a happy accident. “We were planning to holiday in Noosa and couldn’t get accommodation so we came to Caloundra and we loved it.” They returned to Melbourne, sold their mixed business store and moved here in 1988.
“We had two kids who did not enjoy the best of health so we moved up here. This is a terrific place to bring up kids. There’s so much to do.” The Angus and Robertson bookshop in the Strand complex on Bulcock Street was for sale. Graeme and Chris bought the business and with the help of the previous owners moved the shop across the road to its current premises at 22A Bulcock Street, Caloundra. Graeme has been a reader all his life. What he loves most about his job is meeting all sorts of people and being able to help them. He enjoys hearing what customers think about various books. “We’re all different. That’s what I like. I’ve got a customer who reminds me how bad Cold Mountain is every time she sees me. She’s being doing it for 15 years. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read,” he says. Helping people find ‘that’ book is what it’s all about. “A young girl came in late one Saturday. ‘I want to read an uplifting book. Something that’s going to make me feel happy about myself.’
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“I told her about a book called The Colour of Water. She bought it. She came in the next day and she said, ‘You could not have picked a better book. The mood I was in, the way I was feeling, it’s just fantastic.’ The bookshop was a franchise of Angus and Robertson until the company folded two years ago. Graeme remembers it as a dreadful time. “We lost our buying power and we never got it back. I now understand why we paid a franchise fee. A simple little thing like ordering
stickers that we put on books became a major major problem,” he recalls. The BookShop joined a co-op of independent book shops with The Leading Edge group. This has restored their buying power. There are about 300 independent book shops in this group. “It’s terrific to meet with them and find out that we’ve all got the same sort of problems,” says Graeme.
Graeme sees bookshops as ‘go to’ places, where people can get information, explore something that they have heard about. They are a link between schools and community groups. They can be a meeting place. Customers come in with all sorts of requests. He helps them wherever he can. “I think this book store is an important part of the community. The number of requests that we get shows that we are front-of-mind.” Graeme says the book business is changing dramatically. Considering the future, he says “People will still want book stores and they’ll still want physical books but they won’t want to pay for the expertise or the wherewithal to get them.”
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Graeme has observed that, “We are developing a society of Now. I see this in the shop where people won’t wait for ten seconds for service. They’ll hang on the phone for hours or they’ll queue in the bank but here, ten seconds is about the limit unless it’s someone who knows me.” People are less likely to put in an order for a book than in the past. Every day people browse in the shop, take notes, take photos with their phones and leave. For the future, “I think you’ve got to have a different angle. You’ve got to have other things like reading groups, and you become not just a bookshop but a meeting place.” The bookshop is one of many independent small businesses that line the leafy town centre of Caloundra. Graeme thinks that these shops in Bulcock Street have an advantage to those in the shopping centres. The buildings are of various styles and ages. The shops are all a little bit different. “The service you get is terrific,” he adds. “After being in Bulcock Street I couldn’t work in a shopping centre. I like to get out and go for a walk, see the sun,” he says. Graeme calls in on other shop owners to keep in touch with what’s happening on the street. Asked for a final comment, Graeme brings us back to the heart of the matter. “Our customers are a terrific bunch of people. I’m very appreciative of the loyalty and courtesy and goodwill they have given us over the years.”
Bulcock Street, Caloundra in the early morning.
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Poetry Corner
Rain, Rain on Down Let’s hope that this Queensland summer brings rain for our thirsty land. Enjoy Tad Wojnicki’s poem on the next page.
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Rain done falling the rubber boots full By Tad Wojnicki Hsinchu, Taiwan
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Haiku Meets Art Chris Postle’s Suncatcher has inspired many responses from Caloundra and beyond. Thank you all for your contributions. To find out more about Chris Postle’s art visit his website.
Perched sleek and graceful
primal and wise soul transcends the earthen spirit By Kim Gagnon San Diego, California
Cautious sentinel warmed by sun, ruffled by breeze egret majestic By Mary Ann Wright Caloundra, Australia
Great egret aloft dallying in cloud white its regal presence
A parched tree catches the sun while a great egret
By Devin Harrison,
watches day fly by
Montreal, Canada
By Pat Geyer East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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Underwater by Chris Postle
Chris Postle says that most of his underwater series are inspired by his snorkelling adventures. “I find the fractured light that happens in the shallows mesmerising. It gives the painting a whole new dimension. It is also very challenging to achieve,� Chris says.
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Book Chat A Summer of Great New Books For many people a new novel is an essential part of an Australian summer. At the beach, on the deck or wherever you are, a new book spells relaxation and delight. Graeme Bowden from The BookShop at Caloundra shares some great reads for this summer. Generally at this time of the year bookshops are inundated with the books that publishers
believe will be "the books" everyone will want for Christmas. Booksellers are working long and hard just trying to keep up with the amount of stock arriving, the publicity the books are receiving and changes to schedules. This year is no exception. In this issue of Tamarind Magazine, I would like to talk about three books which I believe should be on your "to read" list over the next couple of months. That list could easily be much longer as there are there are just so many books being released shortly by major authors. The following books are not in any particular order or preference.
Eyrie by Tim Winton has to be one of the most anticipated novels of the year. I have started to read it and it gives me goose bumps. Very few writers have the ability to immerse one in their story as quickly and completely as Tim did to me in this novel. I already love the main character Tom Keely, a "loser" who has let the problems life has handed him turn him into a "loner" as well. I am hoping that the arrival of a woman friend from his past will give him a lift. I have another 350 pages to enjoy to see how it ends. Because I have not finished it I looked to see what other readers thought of it. Overwhelmingly the reviews have been excellent. There have been a couple of dreadful ones but I think that is to be expected with Tim Winton.
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I have not yet read The Narrow Road to the Deep North by
Richard Flanagan but I have spent some time talking to Richard about it. There have been many books written about life as a POW on the Thai-Burma railway but Richard felt that he needed to write this book to better understand what his father went through during the war. This will be the next book I read and I expect it to be quite confronting and difficult. Like many of the men who served
during the Second World War Richard's father did not talk about his experiences. I think this book may help us to understand that generation better. Again, reviews of this book vary greatly and again that is to be expected with Richard's books. Carry a Big Stick by Tim Ferguson is a very different offering. It’s a book that I have read speedily but again I have spent some
time talking to Tim about this book and his life. I think this book will be enjoyed by everyone even if they were not particularly a fan of The Doug Anthony All Stars. The book covers Tim's early life including family travels, many schools, girls, bullies and being different. His adventure with The Doug Anthony All Stars, (Richard Fiedler and Paul McDermott) is the story of a group of young men who really were at the cutting edge of comedy in Australia.
It is also the more serious story of how a courageous young man comes to terms, and deals with the problems of having multiple sclerosis and getting on with life. And finding love. I think he is a real inspiration. The Bookshop at Caloundra, 22A Bulcock St, Caloundra Email: shop @thebookshopatcaloundra.com.au TAMARIND MAGAZINE
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What’s On Tamarind Book Club Tamarind Book Club meets on the first Thursday of the month at a waterside café. For more details, see the Book Club pages on the Tamarind Magazine website.
Celebrate Christmas the Currimundi way…. Lights on the Lake Date: Sunday 8th December, 2013 Time: 4.00pm to 8.00pm Location: Crummunda Park, Wurtulla Bring a picnic, bring your family and friends.
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