Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)I'll be at the Clunes Book Town Festival this weekend selling my books! If you're in the region of #Ballarat or #Bendigo come along and say hi!
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Yvonne Perkins@wonkothesane Thank you! Here are the back of some Mad Max vehicles, including the one in the previous photo
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#MadMax #ClunesBookTown
Apparently some of the original Mad Max movie was shot in this tin shed in Clunes. Tonight they have a viewing of the movie in the shed. Outside they had renovated cars and motorbikes from the era.
If you are a Mad Max fan you can probably provide better commentary on this photo than me!
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Internet is terrible where we are staying in Ballarat atm. It was almost non-existent in Clunes. It is always news if the internet is working at this festival - note the exclamation mark on the sign.
Hot tip for all planning to go tomorrow - bring cash!
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FrankOnly took a few photos around Clunes today, was too busy looking at old books. Such a lovely place, untouched by developers.
Booktown is on tomorrow, well worth the drive! I didn't buy all the books, there's still plenty there to choose from.
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The festival has plenty of live music ranging from school bands, music from around the world and various styles. At one of the entrances they had a young bagpiper playing with an old accordionist (is that a word?). On a balcony on the main street they had a woman playing an amplified viola on a balcony.
It is great to see the festival support up and coming musicians as well as a diverse range of musical styles.
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Tim RichardsNew at my Patreon... Within the Tin Shed at the Clunes Booktown Festival, I interview well-known ABC TV presenter Heather Ewart about her new book based on the TV series Back Roads:
I love the 'lucky dip' book stalls. Each year they try different innovative ways to sell books and get readers to read different books. I haven't unwrapped the one I bought from this stall yet. They wrap the books up nicely, have a brief description and Good Reads rating (not sure how many people use that nowadays). They also include a teabag, some bookish stickers, a pen and a printed cardboard 'reading log' with a picture of books to colour in on the back.
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#ClunesBookTown #books
Today we went to the Clunes Booktown Festival outside Ballarat. It is $10 entry for a host of stalls selling masses of second-hand books. You can also buy new books at author and publisher stands. They have author talks as well.
Each year we buy a whole year's reading at this Festival. I still have quite a few left over from last year's festival so limited my spending this year, but again, I have picked up some great new and second-hand books.
It is on again tomorrow. It is a great day trip from Melbourne, Ballarat and surrounds.
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@vwdasher It has been great! I have bought a small number of books old and new while being incredibly disciplined by not buying a mountain of books. I still haven't read all of last year's haul.
The plants on sale were great. Sadly our very small back yard is full of plants atm so I couldn't buy any more
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