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***Stop Press: Industry titan issues clarification***

A leading light of both the UK and International* blues scenes has today issued a statement which he hopes will clear up any misunderstandings that may have arisen from comments he has made in the past regarding the UK blues community.

The statement, expected to be carried in all the leading publications on the scene (Blutes in Brisbane, Lube Mattress, Me No Proof Read and Die Blauen: Ausgezeichnet! magazines), was read from the steps of Brighton Pavilion this morning by the members of the New Generation dance troupe, who have featured in the well-known impresario’s popular and critically-acclaimed Seaside Special Variety Revue shows all around the coastal resorts of the South Coast and beyond.**

The statement reads: “I should like to clarify certain remarks I have made, recently and over preceding years, that have been misconstrued (some say intentionally) by members of the blues community in Britain as disparaging, unhelpful, spiteful, petty, self-promoting and downright mean. When I likened the blues and its fans to the Caravan Club, this was patently in no way meant as a slight upon them. Any criticisms of the lack of people of colour within the acts promoted on the scene were obviously leavened with the appreciation of both the population statistics of the country as a whole. My observation that blues organisations here were shoddy, suburban, lower middle-class cliques run entirely by hapless clueless amateurs has been taken wholly out of context, and my suggestion that only the involvement of professionals from the industry in particular the crucial input of the only reputable periodical out there Classic Rock Presents The Blues magazine (sadly defunct weeks after my suggestion) could resuscitate a moribund and vacuous genre has similarly been sadly misread by those whom it was merely intended to counsel and advise."

I hope that this has set minds at rest, eased any lingering tensions that may have existed between myself and those involved, and brought a clearer understanding of my deep commitment to helping all those who do their very best to keep blues alive in the UK... despite their glaringly apparent total lack of talent, ability, wit, intelligence and business acumen. Not to forget their overpowering halitosis, of course. Thank you.”

[* Well, that one gig in Holland ten years ago] [** Yes, Blackpool and Skegness too!]

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Getting Cozy in a Campervan

After a relaxing 4 days in Noosa we packed up our rental car for the last time and made the 2.5 hour drive to Brisbane where we were picking up our campervan and new home for the next 3 weeks.

Jonah has fond memories of family vacations spent travelling around Canada and the west coast of the United States in a Volkswagen campervan, so he was looking forward to reliving those great experiences here in Australia. I on the other hand have never travelled around in a campervan, and while I love being outdoors the only times I have ever gone camping have been on multi-day hikes while travelling abroad. Needless to say I wasn't quite sure what to expect but one way or the other I knew it would be an adventure to say the least.

 In Search of our Campervan

We navigated our way to the Campervan Finder NZ office  where we needed to drop off our rental car. We are so excited to start the campervan adventure. A friendly employee led us over to our new home where he showed us the in's and out's of where everything was and how things worked. Our campervan could sleep 4 people - 2 on the bottom bed and 2 up top in what I will call the storage cubby. We had a sink, fridge, 2 burner cooktop, microwave, a few drawers to store cooking utensils, and an open toilet and shower awkwardly located next to the cooking area in the same compartment.

Jonah's first impressions of the campervan - it was not German engineered, a bit tight quarters and I didn't remember the cushions for the bed being so thin. That's gonna be a problem. I was happy we had our home base for the next 3 weeks and was hoping it would work well enough for Kristen. Given that Kristen had never really camped I was hoping 3 weeks in the campervan wasn't too ambitious!

My first impressions - it was definitely tight quarters, the carpet on the floor was a little dirty, and I wasn't so sure how I felt about sleeping on the lumpy pillows or the thin bed. It certainly wasn't the roomy and luxurious Apollo campervan we had seen a couple weeks ago but I was hoping this one would grow on me.

 After loading up our bags and signing off on the paperwork, we still had to drop off the rental car I may be holding the keys but I'm not driving! We did this together and took a cab back as I actually hadn't done any driving in Australia and didn't think now was the day to start.

Back at the Campervan Finder NZ Depot it was now time to start a new adventure in Australia. The campervan is about the size of a 8 seater passenger van/bus you might take to get to the airport, and way larger than the rental cars we were used to driving. We did a few side and rear view mirror checks at which point Jonah told me I was going to have to do all the shoulder checks for him on the passenger side as he had major blind spots. Now that made me nervous because now not only did I have to navigate but practically stick my head out the window to make sure there were no cars beside us. Our first order of business was to find a gas station, and we got off to a bit of a rocky start when we pulled out onto a main road and our lane suddenly stopped leaving us no room to merge into the lanes beside us. After that the remainder of the drive to Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast was uneventful mostly because we were crawling along the traffic clogged freeway with all the other people from Brisbane who were likely heading out to the coast for the weekend.

 Makiing Our Campervan Cozy

We stopped at a Big W (like a Walmart) and picked up an air mattress as Jonah was adamant that sleeping on the thin cushions was just not going to work. We pulled into the caravan park just as the sun was beginning to set Figuring out how to set up the bed . We figured we should probably set up our bed before dark and so after only a few tries we figured out where all the wooden boards went and how the cushions fit together. And I have to admit when looking at the bed I was also glad we had bought the air mattress. We then started blowing up the air mattress but we hadn't bought a pump and quickly realized this was going to take a long long time using our manual lung capacity. Jonah went off to see if anyone in the campground had a pump and found a friendly couple from Australia who let us use their pump. Once the campervan was all set up, we went into town for dinner and then crawled into our new bed for the night!Day one down, 20 more to go!

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Encircled by flames: the sleepy New South Wales towns in the bushfire crisis | Australia news

Carol Heriot was standing in the kitchen thinking about what to cook for dinner on Tuesday afternoon when a police officer knocked on her door.

“He said: ‘Love, it’s time to get out of here.’ I said: ‘What do you mean?’ and he pointed up the hill and he said: ‘You see that smoke? It’s coming this way.’”

Heriot, her partner Rodney Smith and their dog Bundy were among the 80-odd people, dogs, birds, cats and goldfish crowded into the auditorium of the Tuncurry bowling club on Tuesday night.

“We’re a bit of a menagerie at the moment and it looks a bit like Noah’s ark out the back,” the manager, Terry Green, told Guardian Australia earlier in the day.

A Tuncurry firefighter battles a bushfire south of Taree, in New South Wales, on 12 November. Photograph: Darren Pateman/AAP

Some played cards, others chatted over a barbecue while the ABC’s rolling coverage of the bushfires that have ripped through New South Wales in the past 24 hours played silently on a big screen in the background.

Others somehow managed to sleep as volunteers busily organised the steady flow of donated mattresses into orderly rows.

Located about 35km (22 miles) from Taree on the NSW mid-north coast, the twin towns of Forster-Tuncurry – sleepy, seaside places popular with retired people and summer tourists – have found themselves precariously hemmed in on many sides by the bushfire crisis.

Besides the three minor (for now) fires that surround the two towns, the out-of-control Hillville Road fire, which by Tuesday night had burned through more than 21,000 hectares (52,000 acres), sits just to the north.

Rodney Smith his dog Bundy at the bowling club. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

In fact, a quick look at the rural fire service’s increasingly visited Fires Near Me app shows there are, indeed, fires near here. So many in fact that in the 650km (400 miles) between Tuncurry and Brisbane it’s hard to see land for all the alerts.

The town is almost cut off. The Pacific Highway – the main road in from the south – has been closed, as has Failford Road to the north. The one remaining entry point – the narrow, undulating Lakes Way – is thick with smoke that hangs eerily over the Myall Lakes along which it runs.

In the tiny village of Bungwahl, Joseph Schuelein was filling up jerry cans with water from the lake for his gutters. He had been told to leave, he said, but had no intention of going.

“The bloke from the local fire brigade did come down and say we should think about moving, but where are we going to go?” he said.

Bushfires map

“It’ll be bad if the fire comes through, for sure, [but] our place is pretty well protected, and we’ve got Dad’s boat on the lake if things got really bad.”

A little earlier, down on the Pacific Highway, a line of trucks too large to handle the Lakes Way snaked back for a few hundred metres. “I reckon I could get her around it, but those bastards up there won’t let me through,” one driver said.

By Tuesday night, there were more than 70 fires burning across NSW. Half of them were out of control, with emergency alerts issued for nine of them. Of those nine, five were on the state’s mid-north or mid coast.

At least a dozen homes have been damaged or destroyed, and the rural fire service commissioner, Shane Fitzsimmons, was at pains to warn that a southerly wind that was making its way up the coast could worsen conditions on the mid-north coast overnight.

“All of those fires are going to demand a bit of attention tonight and are going to be increased and exacerbated by those southerly winds even if it is at 2am in the morning,” he said.

While Tuesday was marked as a “catastrophic” fire day for NSW, people in this part of the state have gotten used to the smoke haze that has hung over them for the last week or so.

Like Heriot, most of those crowded into the bowling club on Tuesday night came from the nearby suburb of Failford, just north of Forster.

Lucy and John Van Hoof were in their home at a caravan park on the edge of town when they were told to leave. For days, the smoke had been building, but by Tuesday afternoon the black and grey clouds seemed to loom unnervingly close.

“There was smoke everywhere. We could see it all coming up over the hill,” Lucy said.

“We’ve been here 23 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. When they told us to leave I thought: ‘I’d rather leave now than wait.’

“I don’t know what’s happened. I just hope it’s still there when we get back. We don’t even know whether we can leave tomorrow.”

Another caravan park resident, Doreen Bigness, was worried about two pillows she had lost in the evacuation centre. She asked a staff member to make an announcement about them over the club’s loudspeaker, then revealed that not everyone at the caravan park had left.

Doreen Bigness at the bowling club. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

“I called my neighbour a couple of hours ago and he’s still there,” she said.

“I thought he was right behind me when I left. He’s older than me and he’s got problems with his breathing; he uses a machine, you know? I almost wish I didn’t know, that I didn’t call, but I was just being neighbourly. I just thought he must have booked into a motel.”

Evacuation centres like the bowling club dot the coast now. This one was set up, almost accidentally, by Lauren Whitty and some friends who run a community Facebook group.

When the fires ran through to the nearby northern towns of Taree and Port Macquarie, they started using the group to see if they could organise a few donations.

Queensland firefighter captures wind vortex spiralling within bushfire – video

“We just put out a call for help and we’ve had people from Sydney, Newcastle and some of the locals wanting to donate things. For a while we were like: ‘Oh, we don’t know where to send everything,’” she said.

As the fire edged closer to them, though, they organised the evacuation centre with the bowling club and almost immediately people began trickling in.

As the auditorium continued to fill, another load of air mattresses arrived from a local store and people filed in and out with more supplies.

“I think we’ve got plenty, but they have told us to expect more people later. I don’t know, to be honest, I don’t know what most of these people have been through,” she said.

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Yowah- Have I found my fortune?

Like I mentioned in my last post I went to Yowah. A small town in the outback 800 km west from Brisbane. I was looking through the backpacker groups on Facebook when there popped up this post of a guy who asked for some people to go out to Yowah Opal digging. I was a bit bored of traveling and in the mood to settle down at place again. So I told him that I’m interested and gave it a go. I took the train to Charleville and from there the bus to Cunnamulla where I finally met the guy who got me into that whole thing. His name is Daniel and he’s from Germany as well. We stayed overnight in Cunnamulla bought our gears for the digging and food for about a week. Then straight next to the road and hitch hiked within two more days to Yowah. We stayed on the free campsite which provides you everything you need- Toilets, shower (even with hot water out of a bore) and a place to cook in the evening over the fire. We were welcomed by a 50-60 years old guy called Andrew who Daniel knew from the two stays he had there already. Andrew gave us mattresses to sleep on and invited us to come over to his place for a soup in the evening.

Already on the campsite where little pieces with colour in there laying around which was thrown away by other people because it was mostly worthless stuff and/or not cutable. The next day we started the Opal real hunt. We did some noodling what means looking through the soft top layer. And again, there were some bits of colour. Daniel explained me that the Opal miners from like 50- 60 years often just were searching for the pure Opal. All the other stuff they just left behind. But we couldn’t find pieces that are worth to cut. Often, they had cracks, were in a wrong shape or just hadn’t enough Opal on/in them. After another day of doing that we decided to try out the shuffles we brought out there. We started to extend the hole of the Austrian family in town which settled down there for a year because they found quite nice stuff in exactly this hole not long ago. After just 5 minutes of digging Daniel found a really nice piece that we actually could get cut. Discovering this piece motivated us to go on in this hole but even after me digging 3-4 metres deep we couldn’t find more than traces of colour. Even after me coming across an old shaft that was partially filled up again. There wasn’t any opal anymore. So already before I finished my hole Daniel decided to move on and started digging under a tree about 10-15 metres away from me. After like an hour of digging he called me to come over. He showed me a crack in the stone. He found a foldline in the ground what the miners are normally looking for. Opal is formed by water that rinses down silica particles through the stone over thousands of years and a crack/ fold is pretty good and makes the chance even higher to let Opal form.

A couple of days after it started to rain what happened about 18 months ago the last time. It was too heavy for our $15 tents so we had to move and found shelter under a roof on the campsite. The lovely people in town said we could come over if it gets to bad but it didn’t. The night before at the Thursday night dinner in the caravan park in town a guy told us of a street a bit out of Yowah where they used gravel out of one of the mines. We couldn’t go digging anyway so we decided to try out this street. The rain cleaned the stones up a bit so it would be easier to see colour if there is any. We found a few nice pieces and got five stones cut and polished. We got it done by one of the local cutters. He charges us 20 dollars per stone. He reckons that the stones are worth like 100-150 dollars each- depends on the stone. Later the day one of Daniels mates arrived. His name is Kai and he just came over to Australia to go digging for Opal like Daniel. We went out on the Blackgate Rd again the next day and found some more stones to be cut. Back at the fossicking area Kai started a new hole and I finished my hole because it was too dangerous to go deeper. So I began to dig a hole on the other side of Daniels tree because the fold seemed pretty promising. Actually, I found some decent stones but after bashing a nut with the crowbar open (The Opal forms normally inside a stone surrounded of a solid iron stone layer. That’s the way how it appears in Yowah. Because of this, Yowah is a place where a lot of boulder opal comes from). The nut was torn apart and not useable anymore. The hole didn’t really bring us much more just a lot of work and fun- What’s the whole thing about it. You shouldn’t really go there with the thinking of finding the million-dollar stone. Kai just found the clay layer about three metres deep in his hole. So this is normally a good sign, but that was at the end of Kais and my stay and we couldn’t really go on anyway. The reason is obvious. I accidentally chocked of the tree over our hole.

So yeah on one of our last days it rained and we headed out on the Blackgate Rd again. After filling our bucket with a couple of stones Kai suddenly stopped at a one stone- an almost complete nut with a really beautiful bit of colour looking out of the open side. He showed me the piece and I instantly knew that that’s the found we were looking for. We yelled after Daniel (he is kind of the expert in the group) to come over and when he looked at it he was sure as well that this is something more than a $100 stone. We went back to our tents and were really hyped about the stone. The next day we went to our cutter to have a look over it. When we showed it to him he wasn’t really sure what to do with it. Another local guy came into the shop and gave him advice about the spots where to cut it. So he did but ways carefully than the stones before and I saw that even he was a bit nervous.

In the moment, the other guy saw the stone he said he would give us $50 for it, after the first cut he said $200 and after the second one he offered us $1000 but we knew that we can’t say yes to it. We left our cutter with the material and picked it up two days later. The day before Kai was supposed to leave. I think we have kind of found our fortune or to say it in a different way- The money to pay the flights back to Australia to find more of it. But we must take the stones with us to Germany. They are ways more worth over there and we have to find the right buyer first. That could take a few years.

The time there was amazing and I’m really happy that I decided to go there. I think our group worked out really good and because of Daniel, Kai and the friendly locals I had an awesome time there. Happy to go back there sometime.

Even if it seems to just be a place in the middle of nowhere it was really nice to have a break from all the coast stress that I had the weeks before. When we didn’t work we mostly enjoyed our spare time in the artesian spa which only cost $2,50 and is warmed up with the hot water out of the bore. After a while the café in town opened and we could chill there on the veranda eating one or sometimes two portions of chips and charging our phones.

My stay ended with the stay of Kai who had to leave to catch his flight back home. In the morning, he was about to leave the women who should take him close to Brisbane said they would leave town later. We decided spontaneously that we just all go with her. Kai had to go anyway, Daniel was happy to have a longer break and it was a chance to find more people for that adventure and I had to go back to the coast at some point. It was the perfect opportunity for us. After fixing the flat battery and tire we were ready to leave but the woman wasn’t. Cause it was just about to bring the car of the teacher to Ipswich (She had to move there a couple of months before. The last two kids in the Yowah school left with their family. She was unemployed though). We left quite late and had to stop at some point at one point because of all the wildlife coming out. The next day we arrived at the teacher’s place stayed overnight and left the next day to Brisbane where we split up.

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