There is a photo on the front page of the Melbourne Herald Sun / I just thought you’d like to know the story that goes with it!
Lives lost 173 and still rising / the property loss estimated $2 billion and rising / 24 fires still going / Beechworth under major threat / Healesville / Chum Creek under threat again / Bunyip is still threatening towns Marysville & Churchill – Crime Scenes for suspected Arson Vs RED CROSS APPEAL + $20 Million and rising / & I am convinced it is also through our getting the word out into the world via RB too! BUT WE CAN HELP!!! / Double your donation dollar !! / Buy a PHOENIX APPEAL artwork / & RB will match it dollar for dollar = 200% proceeds to RedCross / & I will post you a set of 6 handwritten signed poems of your choice from my works to say thank you [you gotta bmail me to tell me which ones & where to] / Just imagine .... / One card = (under $5) x 1 millon people world wide = $10,000,000 to help! / [oh-oh is RB regretting their pledge? lol] Chookas! FEATURED IN / WMG / Thank you!!!
My brother sits on mother’s shelf / In sombre hues of grey / Like flower plucked and soon to fade / But captured for a day The wringing h…
I was creeping myself out looking at Victorian post mortem photography, the fashion of taking pictures of dead loved ones… I scribbled this gothic poem and creeped myself out even more thinking about it. I’ll have to do an art piece to match it one day.
Why we hate Arson!!! / Finished for now but keep checking; I may add more later !! lol
Statistics / lost lives – plateaued at 181 but more is expected / Conservative figure 200 but the forensic team have prepared for 300 fires – 21 still burning 8 major uncontained ones / So Far attempts to stop the two superfires threatening to join have been SUCESSFUL – YAY!!!!! Flare ups still iminant & arsonists still rife! Monies Gathered $77.5MILLION [Not including corporation donations] / Australians Unite telethon added to it / raising an awesome $22.5 MILLON !! / From a national population of 22 Million we have done Bloody Brilliantly!!! RED CROSS Bushfire Appeal phone 1800 811 700 Darren Stones Updated Journal / PHOENIX APPEAL / Thank the Firey’s / Chanel 9 News Videos / Vega915 Radio Melbourne / Yahoo7 – Sunrise
*ALL PROFITS FROM SALES OF MY WORK FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS WILL BE DONATED TO THE BUSHFIRE RELIEF FUND – RED BUBBLE WILL MATCH THIS DOLLAR …
HOLA MIS AMIGOS / ! / Until the month of April all proceeds from my redbubble account will be donated to the “Victorian Bushfire Appeal”. R…
For featuring “Thumbin’ It” and making me a featured member! I truly appreciate the gesture! :) / Ironically I just joined the group yeste…
OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST FAMILY FRIENDS AND ALL THEIR POSSESIONS.
THE VICTORIAN 2009 BUSHFIR APPEAL
Hi Guys Day 5 of these and the weather has stopped being nice / it may be cool but not cool enough [only 20s] and now the winds are pi…
Statistics / lost lives – plateaued at 181 but more is expected / Conservative figure 200 but the forensic team have prepared for 300 fires – 21 still burning 8 major uncontained ones / two superfires threatening to join & are heading for the major water catchments & the High Country again Monies Gathered $41MILLION [Not including corporation donations] PHOENIX APPEAL / Thank the Firey’s / Chanel 9 News Videos / Vega915 Radio Melbourne (sorry this is late – was busy this morning at the local hospital & that put me behind a bit) / Chookas!
Not Massive like the last one / & lots of good things happening at last! YAY!!!
Statistics / lost lives – plateaued at 181 but more is expected / Conservative figure 200 but the forensic team have prepared for 300 fires – 21 still burning 8 major uncontained ones / So Far attempts to stop the two superfires threatening to join have been SUCESSFUL – YAY!!!!! Monies Gathered $53MILLION [Not including corporation donations] / TONIGHT on Chanel 9 7:30pm there will be a tellethon to add to it / 1800 811 700 Darren Stones Updated Journal / PHOENIX APPEAL / Thank the Firey’s / Chanel 9 News Videos / Vega915 Radio Melbourne / Yahoo7 – Sunrise
Today the world is supposed to get back to normal / But for 7500 of us it wont!
The strange but regular booming served to heighten the oppressive atmosphere and I confess to a certain trepidation as I continued my som…
By a Gentleman
My heartfelt condolences to my fellow Victorians on the loss of so many wonderful people. This nightmare just doesn’t stop and I fear it…
If we seek this place of wonder / If we can then play our part
Richard Dadd painted his masterpiece in Bedlam after killing his Father
Do we know when to start?
A Victorian Trilogy
Political politically correct like anecdotes…The antidote too often is not the cure…Ambiguity nothing is ever what it seems…
Oscar Wilde a celebrity of his day with many admires and equally many enemies on several levels for his wit and witticism and his proclivity to not be politically correct which in itself has many levels and can get your arse put away. Just an out loud bonnie mutt (bon mot) of course more a ramble scramble way too long and never long enough but just along the lines of STFU.
Congratulations to all the new and long serving members of the Victorian Viewfinders Group on RedBubble. Our membership has reached 12…
Here’s a most unhappy pomegranate / (As you can tell, caught quite red-handed) / For upon the steps, he didn’t see / Miss Kiwi’s toy velocip…
A companion poem to the drawing of the same name.
New Year’s come, and with it – hope, / To be a better year. / Recession looms – we all must cope, / And bring about good cheer. We’ve pra…
This is a poem I wrote about the harsh times Australia is going through at the beginning of what seemed a new year of promise…2009
Little ember burning bright, / Whose house will you strike tonight? / Upon the wind, you drift along, / Tormenting us where we belong. Th…
I have tried to be a little quirky with my second poem about the Victorian bush fires…
NSFW
The prospect of shame and the enticing promise of a heaven he wasn’t meant to know weighed heavily on Erich’s heart too as his eyes wande…
A budding Victorian love affair between two friends leaves them both conflicted…
The prospect of shame and the enticing promise of a heaven he wasn’t meant to know weighed heavily on Erich’s heart too as his eyes wande…
A budding Victorian love affair between two friends leaves them both conflicted…
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