20th May 2010 Hobart

This is part of one shelf in a room with shelves from floor to ceiling on all walls. I don’t know what the criteria is for shoes to be stored in this room; most of Vanessa’s shoes are stored elsewhere in plastic boxes.

It is a collection that has been over 20 years in the making.

Another of Vanessa’s collections is rubber ducks.

Again this is only a selection. All these ducks get used on occasion by the children of friends. Each of them has a name, like Police Duck, Firefighter Duck, Soldier Duck, Devil Duck and so on.

Another of her collections is watches. There is a small tree dripping with watches.

And I forgot about the hats!

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4th April 2010 Wynyard

It was the second time that I had been to the Wynyard market. I spied this weird looking doll sitting behind someone’s stall – perhaps it was previously at the front and puttiing off customers?

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3rd April 2010 Burnie

This photo has grown on me. It was a snap shot; so close and with a big lens, things happen quickly. I wish I had of got the full wing span.

It is an immature pacific gull; you can see two of them sitting behind the seagull below. They are big birds. The photo was taken from a wharf in Burnie.

The birds were hanging around for the possibility of a feed from the the fishermen – their unused bait or entrails of filleted fish.

The big piles in the background are woodchips. The woodchips used to be trees from beautiful areas such as the Tarkine rainforest.

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3rd April 2010 Burnie

Another photo from the Somerset trip.

If you’re in Burnie, and cross the river to the East, you will see this fence. It is long. You can see a bit of mustard yellow in the distance, which is the side of a shop, that is where this side of the fence ends.

It is some sort of open space inside; I think it was a horse racing track.

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2nd April 2010 Somerset

Somerset! I should have written something shortly after this trip. It was over Easter, but the place seemed deserted. The north coast of Tassie, from Devonport to Wynyard, I found pretty boring previously. It seems mostly industrial.

I ended up liking Somerset. It is a fairly big suburb that is bordered by a beautiful beach. The beach never had many people on it; the few people I did see on it looked as though they were doing their regular walk or families getting together over Easter.

It was good to see locals enjoying their beach.

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25th April 2010 Coles Bay

Father of The Muppet, partner in crime to Chai. Zed tries to relax, but gets harassed by Chai. Zed and Chai share a house with Vanessa.

His sexuality is often questioned, or worse some people just assume he is more of a girl. He greets you at the door with a big fluffy dice or some other sort of stuffed toy in his mouth – a pink panther is one of his favorites.

If I look outside I see a plush bedraggled teddy sprawled on a garden bench, and another one at the head of the track we take when we head off on an exploratory walk.

Sometimes the floor is covered with all his toys in contorted positions, little ones and big ones, some with torn limbs and their innards spilling out. It is like the aftermath of a deadly battle between cuddly and squeaky toys.

For other comic relief, Zed is the master of sleeping positions. One of the funniest is when he is on his back with his paws hanging in the air.

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20th March 2009, my place.

I have Easter off! I didn’t realise. Wiebke is going to Germany for two weeks, so I’m alone. I plan to get my little motorbike going, and explore some of the bush tracks around here.

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(c) Andrew Calder

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