Christmas reindeer in Docklands...

While this is a beautiful Christmas structure, I just wonder why a deer figure was chosen for a water + boats precinct...Why not some more imaginative, context connected structure? https://t.co/YCOPANaWG9

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

Biscottini Café Bar...

Shout out to Biscottini Café Bar Restaurant, Mornington, Vic. Last Monday with a friend for morning tea. Great coffee + raisin toast - topped with berries+strawberries+custard dollop, all drizzled with honey. Who knew humble raisin toast could transform into an exotic experience?

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

retro country store Christmas...

More on the vintage, atmospheric Christmas cards I love...
But this one is more a retro, nostalgia version...
Kinda cute... pic.twitter.com/1MtuD4zoMU

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

phonecalls...

PASSING THOUGHT: Feeling PROUD+ON A HIGH...I made phonecall appointments this morning, one after the other...car tyres replaced, tax agent about retirement, bathroom tiles assessed + messages to appropriate people re what I'd done...No big deal to some...BUT I HATE THE PHONE... pic.twitter.com/MwhtzODHnj

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

Go to your happy place. Often...

pic.twitter.com/quUiaoZl0B

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 21, 2020

A World of Calm...

SO looking forward to seeing SBS 'A World of Calm' - 10 episodes beginning 7:30pm 25th December...Each half-hour episode takes audiences on an immersive visual journey into another world.
'A World of Calm' on SBS https://t.co/lsFA6lcWzt via @FacebookWatch

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

Good King Wenceslas...

A song sung regularly at Christmas, but I never thought to ask the question who 'Good King Wenceslas' may be...He seems like an early version Robin Hood...This great story highlights the idea that true Christmas joy is in the giving... https://t.co/xewACFd5V8

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

earthquake near Douglas Park...

Perhaps only a small earthquake...But this one is near my earlier life in NSW... A 3.9 earthquake was there January 4, 2017. 22nd May, 1961, not too far away, in the Southern Highlands, a 5.5 at Robertson was felt for 50,000 square miles. A 4.2 in 2003 at nearby Mittagong. https://t.co/SLiNkz8M7V

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

Amos muses on a distance...

and I went out to yonder gumtree hills to see Old Amos today

went out through the trembling rain, along the black tar ribbon, went out to him

and while we talked Old Amos tinkered with fishing line and such

and he talked of rivers and creeks and lonely up-north beaches

1-2 pic.twitter.com/hENbjhKpYe

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) December 20, 2020

2-2

and I watched his ironbark hands deftly tie knots, saw how he didn't flinch when the hooks nicked his skin.

and Old Amos looked out to the rainy hills; and his pale eyes squinted as if they had seen something there in the distance, something that only he could discern...

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) December 20, 2020

penguins watch Melbourne lights...

I've posted this image before. Still love it. Still love the back story. “A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left,” Baumgaertner explained. https://t.co/X2VJjXglWF https://t.co/qiyuVdOfLq

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

First posted this on 21st April with Shu Ting's poem

Then on 7th June