#bathhurst

[caleb-is-existing]

Why Formula 1? I thought it was just people racing cars, but there seems to be so much of it on Tumblr (interviews, gif sets, people passionate about it in a way that's uncommon on Tumblr in my experience) that I assume there's something I'm not seeing and I've been wondering for a while

Hello there!

For me atleast it's because of the fast cars and some of the drivers. But I know for other people it's different, some people watch it for the drivers, some for the races, and some for both. The community varries, I know a lot of people aren't there for the teams and more the drivers who race for the teams.

Alot of people have come from Drive To Survive (DTS), alot of the newer part of the community. I'm not too new to it as I enjoyed it back 2020/2019 but things got in the way, but I've just gotten back into it. I haven't seen an episode of DTS so I didn't join on that hype train, but I found it on my own.

Why Formula 1? Well it's the biggest motorsport in the world. Everyone knows of it, well most of world. As someone from New Zealand I know Bathhurst and Supercars are more our motorsports than Formula 1. Japan has a big racing scene, the same as Europe. There's a culture inside of it.

Just take in account this is all my experience and others have had different experiences. I think if you do a bit of digging into the past few years, look at the history of Formula 1 and watch a few races here and there, then maybe you'll understand what others see.

I hope you understand a little bit more. I would go into more detail but it's exam season rn and I'm doing some work to pass the year.

[alexi-01]

i've been off here a few days so may have missed it but did we have a point & laugh over the fact that it turns out a certain australian didn't even do the driving in the red bull promo video they just released but that it was liam lawson who apparently did the driving & they just stuck the australian's voice over the top? (lawson filmed it when he was at bathhurst last month). all the 'omg he's such an amazing driver the grid missed him so much' posts & it wasn't even him driving the damn car 😂

okay but like if you’ve been a rbr fan recently you know that it’s always liam or it always used to be scared of pink boy so i don’t know why they acted like they did about it 😭

[puffitale]

3 hours north, I'm an hour past Newcastle (NSW). three hours west I'm in between Lithgow and Bathhurst (NSW) (its more south west, but its the Bells Line and its practically a mating migration path in my family). 3 hours south and I'm in between Sydney & Wollongong (NSW). 3 hours east and I'm in the Pacific Ocean (still NSW).

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

A Honda Civic Type R has set an unofficial lap record for a road-legal hot hatch at Australia’s Mount Panorama Bathurst circuit, posting a time of 2 minutes 35.207 driven by Formula 1 ace Jenson Button.

[loanjediknight]

Great day, great race #bathurst. But I lost one of my Avengers socks :(

[azlovesem]

Yeah i know. Its a fouble edged blade i feel as well. I was just dreaming about yhwtbperson but i eont go into detail. Hood and weird. Like any good dream. Ibdont yave bad dreams i rarely do because i snoke weed. . Havn horrible dreams? Oh no get them a tissue already. Look st yhe peopld suffering a nitemare inbrwality begore anyone cries yo he about s bad dresm please. Or memories. Thats tgecworst yiull never hear the end ofcem. Yes i know i know is sll uou can say to dome overly rmotional women. Ya gotta get away from em ya gotta escspe yo better thoyghts but yoyre married yo tye greet vliud of gried. Not jy wife dhes jusf bitchy snd my dresmgirls not like that. Well some days snyone csn bd bug regularky. Then byt if ya marry the true rsin cliyd snd ya fidnt notice well who yo bkame but yiu. With the enless gtueving and tye black vlothes the ceremonies to renember the horror. Then i had to move to vsncourver eith my new gf who knows abputbthe horror too. And is sad about what phsppebed but thank Gid has fuckn girgitten tgat dhit and just moved on. Its a miracle. Its been teo whole fuckn years i havent had yo endure the remobder of it sll. Like that woild ever help snyond fully sane. My bew gfs not perfect. But shes not tye fucon horror either. That taught ne not to pick at people rndkessly and not notice theyre annoying. We sll are believe me. But it coukd be eorse it could be fuckn woree. I could be back on Toronto with the rndkess citlrswbof daath following me right into my sad lil grave by bathhurst. Before i leftvthis nitemare of a woman she eould just drone on aboutbhow we have yo be buried together there do we can be yogether gorever. Welll im gonna get creamsted and toased ibto the sea instead. Because unlike thos rat bitch who trued to get ne in the end i know theres no fuckn difference. Youre dead yhats it. So uou can yiu stidmff sll those dolemn religions in your ass. Shes study them sll. Like sn idiot. Theyre sll fuckn stupid yo ne. Its the sane kind of dumb.

You’re someone’s dream person btw.

[satelliteaccident]

tested negative, walked to pool, got some groceries, came home. didn’t cry. didn’t throw up. ok.

[addicted2fabric]

Every quilt has a layer of storytelling, but for this special quilt recreated by South Australian patternmaker Lessa Siegele, the story began all the way back at the beginning of quilting in Australia.

Margery Harvey’s original quilt C 1900

Originally sewn by Australian pioneer Margery Harvey in the mid-1850’s, Margery’s medallion quilt has been passed down through four generations of the one Australian family and offers a rare example of early Australian quilting.

Quilting has been around for so long  with the existence of decorative quilts as early as the 15th century throughout Europe and Scandinavia, Asia and the Middle East. On the other hand, the history of quilting in Australia spans back to around the start of the 1800s with European settlement, making the original quilt by Margery one of the few early examples of Australian quilting and a touching part of Australia’s early pioneering history.

Newspaper article from The Sunday Sun and Guardian dated April 10 1938

Newspaper article from The Sunday Sun and Guardian dated April 10 1938 with 2 of Margery’s daughters in their wonderful Bathurst home called “The Retreat”.

  Margery’s medallion quilt speaks back through the generations to a time in Australia’s history dominated by European settlement, hard work on the land, and the hopes and dreams of a lovingly stocked glory box.

The original

The original quilt was one of six Margery made, one for the glory boxes of each of her daughters. In true pioneering style, the original was hand sewn from salvaged fabric scraps, carefully unstitched from old garments and resewn into a lovely medallion-style quilt, with pieces of reclaimed blanket and raw wool sourced from around the sheep station, all delicately stitched together.

So, who was Margery Harvey?

From Cornwall in the United Kingdom, Margery and her husband Edward emigrated to Australia via the same ship as the new Governor for New South Wales, Sir George Gipps, arriving in February 1838.

The story goes that Margery was known to have embroidered Sir George’s initials into some of his handkerchiefs – using her own hair as thread!

Typical of early Australian settlers, the Harvey’s endured their share of hardships from drought to isolation. Margery and her husband eventually settled at Fish River Creek near Oberon in New South Wales, raising eleven children (six girls and five boys) on a sheep station.

The original quilt was made for their fifth child, Margaret and has since been handed down to different daughters through the generations. The quilt is now in the safe hands of Janet Smith in Toowoomba who plans to pass it on to her daughter, Wendy.

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Lessa Siegele of South Australia has recreated the quilt and has the instructions available here:  Margery’s Medallion quilt on 2 Sew Textiles  or it is available here on Etsy

More of Historical quilts by Margery Harvey…

One of the historical quilts made by Margery Harvey C1900

Margery’s Quilt History Another of Marjery’s quilts. c1890

To read more about Magery’s quilt and the reproduction by Lessa check out this post:

Margery’s Quilt – Lessa Siegele

Lessa also recreated another famous antique quilt… the famous Rajah

Lessa Siegele

A little piece of Australian history… Every quilt has a layer of storytelling, but for this special quilt recreated by South Australian patternmaker Lessa Siegele, the story began all the way back at the beginning of quilting in Australia.

[myfontz]

Time + Context: Wild West (1 di 2)

Gunslingers and ranch-hands, dusty deserts and Navajo rugs - the Wild West presents a wild mix of type and color that is rugged, dynamic, and sultry all at once. 

The period between 1800 and 1880 in American history is one of expansion westward into mostly uncharted territory, conflict with indigenous peoples, and a lawlessness made famous in film and literature. The most notable type style of the period is the slab serif, appearing in myriad styles as early advertising spread across the landscape from small cities into smaller cow towns. Slab-serif faces, in all their varieties - often with details or slight degradation that refers to their early production using type cut from wood rather than metal - are instantly evocative of the American West. The slabs may be squared or pointed, crimped or dimpled, but they are consistently pronounced and often dominate the stems of the characters on which they appear. Condensed and extended are equally common; slab serifs of all styles proliferated during this time. Glyph-like variations, more geometric and sans serif in their form, borrow from the language of cattle branding. Additionally, condensed gothic sans-serif faces, such as were used in newspaper and early catalog printing in the latter part of the nineteenth century, are stylistically in tune with the Wild West era. 

[newenglandgirl]

Cuz I have a crush

[preacherman316]

Word of the Week: Faith

Word of the Week: Faith

“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe,” once wrote the 4th-century theologian Augustine. This reminds me of an unknown author who expressed it this way: “Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.” In our cynical, secular, irreligious, and immoral culture, we need a renewal of faith. But what kind of…

[detroitlib]

Reginald Bathurst Birch (May 2, 1856 – June 17, 1943) 

English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, which started a craze in juvenile fashion. While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Frontispiece ““Master Skylark, thou shalt have thy wish,” said Queen Elizabeth.” from Master Skylark or Will Shakspere’s Ward. A Dramatization from the Story of the same name by John Bennett. In Five Acts by Edgar White Burrill. With Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. New York: The Century Co., 1916.

[clove-pinks]

William Beechey's portrait of Sir George Cockburn, with "Cockburn Island" appearing as a large land mass north of Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Cockburn Island is actually northwestern Baffin Island, but this part of Baffin Island was called "Cockburn Land" into the 20th century.

William Edward Parry not only named Cockburn Island after Sir George Cockburn, he named Cape Cockburn off Bathhurst Island in Nunavut after him.

From Parry's narratives: "To the land on which these mountains stand, and which the Esquimaux call Keiyuk-tarruoke, I gave the name of COCKBURN ISLAND, in honour of VICE-ADMIRAL Sir George COCKBURN, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, whose warm personal interest in every thing relating to Northern Discovery can only be surpassed by the public zeal with which he has always promoted it."

On the other end of the globe, there's a Cockburn Island off Antarctica named by James Clark Ross, also in honour of Sir George! It's unfortunate that Cockburn isn't remembered more as a patron of polar exploration, but then again he did so many, many other things.

His enthusiasms were those which would benefit all seafarers. In 1833 he praised Captain Beaufort, the Hydrographer of the Navy, for his new edition of the Nautical Almanac—'now for the first time worthy of our leading maritime nation'. He speculated on the discoveries made possible by the expeditions of Captains [John] Ross and Back, and enthused over the employment of naval vessels surveying 'those parts of the ocean not yet sufficiently well known' but still 'too extensive'. 

—Roger Morriss, Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition

[mybeingthere]

Tiwi Mortuary Basket, Australia, tunga, height 17in (44cm), Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark. Collected 1950s at Bathhurst/Melville IslandPrivate American Collection

The tunga comes from the Tiwi Islands and is a basket/container formed of a sheet of bent bark with a circular opening at one end and a closure at the bottom; with the sides held in place with pandanus. The tunga has traditional designs of natural earth pigments on each side decorated with patterns inspired by ceremonial body painting and used in the mortuary ceremony where it is placed upon a pukumani pole.

Cf. Aboriginal Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1981, Pages 178-179, examples of similar tiwi bark baskets used in the mortuary ceremony.

[decadent-hag]

Apparently Lady Bathhurst is decorating her ball room in the French Style

a little unpatriotic, don't you think?

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Tickford Bathurst ’77 Special, 2017. A special edition of 77 Mustangs for the Australian market to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Allan Moffat Ford Dealer’s win at Bathurst. Moffat endorsed the project and helped with the concept stage of the limited-edition car. “The team at Tickford have done a very thorough job coming up with a modern interpretation of my 1977 XC Hardtop. While the Falcon has sadly been consigned to the history books, the Mustang was always one of my favourite cars to race, and I had considerable success in them. Ford has done a great job with the latest one,” he said.