The days are passing too fast!
Yesterday Sunday market in the mall. It's a good market, a bit like markets everywhere with a few special Territory offerings.
Me in the mall market
Large numbers of Aboriginal artists have paintings for sale, spread out on the lawns by Flynn Church
Camel poo is one of the unusual items for sale. I don't think it is a very nutritious fertiliser because camels have four stomachs, their food passes through each one by one and by the time the poo comes out at the back of the camel all the goodness has been extracted. We didn't buy a bag.
The mall market from the other end
In the afternoon we went to a party at the house of Marg Bowman, distant cousin of Merediths, two doors down the road.
The celebrated singer and ex NT Administrator Ted Egan was there.
Suzanne Bryce, on the right, was the first local I met in Alice Springs, on my first visit in 1976. She is still working for NPY Womens' Council, spends most of her time in bush communities, working for the betterment of Aboriginal people as she was when I first met her.
I spent some time talking to an interesting bloke of Italian descent, born in Melbourne, lived in Montmartre for twenty years, worked as a painter, knew dozens of famous people including Richard Burton whom, he said, he met three days before he died of a cocaine overdose. Maybe....
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