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Writing Challenges need new facilites here. Please read.

Posted 2 days ago

Dear readers writers and other sundry friends…

As my good friend Rosa Cobos says:

_We have found quite a lot of difficulties when wishing to promote, by means of a challenge, all the writing work of the members of RB. I have read the content of this link and my contribution is to make it public to all my friends and anyone interested. AND VOTE …

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=Progress: the necessary evil=

Posted 2 days ago

_*A great RB artist retepk posted a JE lament
Freeways Urban Growth the Economy and our Bush Reserves
about the proposed Frankston Bypass here where I exist in Melbourne.

I’m sorry but I had to reply!
Each to our own opinion!
This wa…

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What a funny thing life is!

Posted 9 days ago

G’day to everyone who read my words!

You may or may not have been aware that I was supposed to have surgery Tuesday for an Umbilical Hernia.
The procedure would be to disconnect my navel, repair the tear in the central muscle core with a mesh … which needed to be buried quite deep in the muscle and then stitch me up. The surgery would take an hour the recovery takes at least 5 hospital d…

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NaNoWriMo FREE Book Offer!

Posted about 1 month ago

Just got an email through from Chris Baty Director of NaNoWriMo Victoria

Dear NaNoWriMo 2008 Winner,

Last November, you did something amazing. You threw common sense to the
wind and bashed out a 50,000 word novel in a month, carving your name into
the annals of NaNo history forever.

_We hope that you’ll be joining us for another month of literary abandon in
2009. For this year…

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Being a Guest Artist and picking Features

Posted about 1 month ago

Being a Guest Artist and picking Features
I was Highly honoured this week by being asked to do the features for the Landscape Painting Group

I personally have done just one Landscape Painting of any worth! lol
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Writers beware! NaNoWriMo Starts again!

Posted 2 months ago

Hello my friends I have just been reminded that in a few weeks time the
NaNoWriMo challenge starts again!

The objective:- to write 30,000 words in 30 days!

*EDIT – Last year it was 30,000 BUT according to This Page THIS year it’s 50,000
Still do-able it’s relatively easy enough to get 2000w a day done = 60,000w i…

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ALL ART IN THE TENT!

Posted 2 months ago

Today PILGRIM on behalf of Redbubble posted this quote from Gough Whitlam

_*“A healthy artistic climate does not depend solely on the work of a handful of supremely gifted individuals. It demands the cultivation of talent and ability at all levels. It dem…

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BLOODY LIMITS!!!!

Posted 3 months ago

submission limits, page limits, word limits …...
gallery limits

Remove your art to clean up the group
You can re post it if you like!
(WHY BLOODY REMOVE IT THEN????)
No one looks at old art!
(SHHHH!!! DON’T TELL MONET OR LEO OR MICHEY BABY!
& definitely NOT the Louvre!)

WHAT IS THE ART WORLD COMING TO???

What happened to every work is EQUALLY VALID?
where is the quir…

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Email Virus Warning

Posted 3 months ago

I don’t normally send chain-emails
but this one might be true in which case not good stuff!

copied from sender who sent it to a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a …. you got the idea

*Subject: FW: HUGE VIRUS COMING: PLEASE READ & FORWARD

Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus! I checked Snopes, and it is for real. Get this E-mai…

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BLACK SATURDAY REVEGETATION DAY

Posted 4 months ago

My brother has just passed this to me and now I pass it to you all!

Hi there, thought you might be interested in this? Came from our HR /
OH&S people, actually Georgena and her husband fought the fires as well,
then raised a heap of money between them, wearing their smoke-blackened
SES jackets… like you need to know this

(David Gray – Victoria University – Footscray)


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