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194503 [2015/02/17 20:26] – [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] richard_pattison | 194503 [2015/02/17 20:27] – [THE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW] richard_pattison | ||
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When I call to mind that in a frenzy of Bushwalking enthusiasm I bashed, slashed, brawled, and cursed my way down the Colo River from Newnes to Upper Colo a few years ago, I say grimly, "They are right, dead right”! | When I call to mind that in a frenzy of Bushwalking enthusiasm I bashed, slashed, brawled, and cursed my way down the Colo River from Newnes to Upper Colo a few years ago, I say grimly, "They are right, dead right”! | ||
The years have (as years will) brought a little wisdom to my outlook on Bushwalking. I shake my head in tolerance at the spectacle of petulant " | The years have (as years will) brought a little wisdom to my outlook on Bushwalking. I shake my head in tolerance at the spectacle of petulant " | ||
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+ | My attention to Bushwalking has become more abstract, being an essential part of me, but not all consuming. Whereas in the past Bushwalking completely encircled me, I find now I am on the outside looking in: I think with better perspective. | ||
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+ | I am sufficiently interested to know what is going on, and occasionally caught up with the whirl of enthusiasm I go Bushwalking when it appeals to me more than other activities. | ||
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+ | My outlook undoubtedly appears indifferent to those newer enthusiasts, | ||
+ | Imagine my consternation then, for here I am somewhere west of Wondabyne with no less an illustrious group of walkers than that which contains four S.B.W. ex-presidents and the president! | ||
=====HAVE YOU PUT OUT THAT FIRE ?===== | =====HAVE YOU PUT OUT THAT FIRE ?===== |
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