Big Joe and Bill not known to disagree

Entertained on the street some quite pleasant to hearFor one day to Mortlake they bring joy and cheer.The street entertainers the humble unsungOf all sorts of music the old and the youngCountry and Western and Celtic, Pop, Folk, Rock and BluesAnd Jazz and Reggae of the street entertainers people with their own viewsOn life people…

He could lay clay pipes all day long and drink ’til closing timeAnd few could match it with him when he was in his prime.And though he still works hard laying clay pipes for storm water drains and sewerHe does not drink ’til closing time his drinking hours are fewerThe drainer Ben not the man…

The cat in the shade she is resting out of the sunlight she finds easeAnd in the silence of early evening birds don’t sing or chirp on the sunlit trees.The first day of March is tomorrow the first day of the Southern FallA warm beginning to Autumn though gray haired old Tessa recallDays in March…

Through parklands that the sprinklers have kept greenThough where water missed brown patches to be seen.The black swans of these waterways are tameI lay by tree and up to me they cameAnd one of them she nibbled on my feetTill she decided I was not to eat.Even the black ducks too showed little fearI even…

Her son and daughter two good people and she feels proud of their successAnd the birth of her grand daughter Matilda has brought her great happiness.Yvonne is a war baby born in nineteen forty threeAt a sad and a tragic period in human historyAnd she is one not out of place in this World of…

For many years he struggled as an artistBut now his paintings a familiar sight.Sunlight on wooded hills and shady valleysHe gave a new look to Australian artThe genius in him shone through in his paintingsAnd Arthur Streeton painted from the heart.His marvellous paintings of the forest at OlindaBefore the huge messmates were cut awayVisual memories…