(poster) adelaide, south australia

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(poster) australia for the tourist

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wildflowers of australia

(1: wildflowers; 2: wildflowers)

mimosa, acacia, wattle

(1: Edouard Vuillard; 2: Pierre Bonnard; 3: wattle; 4: wattle)

flying kangaroos

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kangaroo paws

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9th and 10th Battalions in Egypt 

with the 10th's kangaroo mascot, December 1914

Source: Australian War Memorial (public domain)

waratah

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adelaide

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jug covers

Milk jug (or just jug) covers. 

Sources: powerhouse; powerhouse; ebay

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Australian War Memorial, Canberra. 

March 2012 (source: self)

classical bust

barriobajero via i wish i was gene kelly

Designer: Stüssy x P.A.M. 2011 A.D.

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karman grech

Australian bespoke wallpapers

from karman grech designs

(dellina silver blue; jetta silver grey; janis orange opal)

link love

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• the last Tasmanian thylacine (so sad) - how to be a retronaut
• good fiction reads featuring food - gherkins and tomatoes
• Australia Day menu, 1922 - the old foodie
• guide to housecat coat colours chart - moderncat
• 'an eccentrical lady' - this is probably what will happen to me - georgian london
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - awesome people reading
• 'work mouth' - urban dictionary 
• heraclitus (podcast featuring kenodoxia) - in our time (bbc)
• defrosting your frozen words in summer - laudator temporis acti
• the best bites in Rome - parla food
• lentil spaghetti bolognese - not quite nigella
• hardly one. hardly one - Gertrude Stein's rejection letter - letters of note
• make your own grecian urn - dollar store crafts

Heysen

Hans Heysen exhibition: National Gallery of Australia - details.
Image: Spring (1925), Private collection.

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Peter Porter

1929-2010.

Obituary: The Australian, 27/4/2010. A handful of poems.

Brack

Loved the John Brack exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

John Brack: Latin American Grand Final, 1969.
Oil on canvas, 167.5 x 205.0 cm; NGA, Canberra; © Helen Brack.

John Brack: The new house, 1953
Oil on canvas on board, 127.0 x 55.8 cm; Private collection, Brisbane; ; © Helen Brack.

John Brack: Collins St, 5p.m., 1955
Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 162.9 cm; NGV, Melbourne; © National Gallery of Victoria.

Image sources: National Gallery of Victoria.

Milk Bottles

One day my own pottery will be as beautiful as these 'milk bottles' and mixing bowls from Bison. Bison, based outside Canberra, was started by a classicist.

The Owl & the Pussycat

'Owl and the Pussycat' brooch: one of many lovely things found via georgie love.