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Tuesday 6 April 2021

Vaccination

Diary note: This morning I received my first dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. I walked out of the clinic with this new label on my shirt.

Vaccination sticker

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Monday 5 October 2020

Footpath ephemera

I took a photo of some arrows and crosses marked with tape on a footpath outside a local cafe​—​a snapshot of the choreography of social distancing in these COVID-19 times. In the future, per­haps, a photo of these marks will be a curiosity, a puzzle.

Seeing these marks on the ground reminded me of something from my childhood. In mid-1957, as an eight-year-old, I trans­ferred to Kenmore State School. It was a one-teacher school then, where all the pupils, about 40 of us ranging from Grade One to Grade Six, sat in the same room at six-seater desks. Each morning we assembled in rows outside the classroom, in the same ar­range­ment as our desks inside. A grid of wooden pegs driven into the ground, and barely protruding above the grass, marked exactly where each of us was to stand.

As we stood to attention on our marks, the teacher made an­nounce­ments and exhortations from the verandah. Then, row by row, we marched up the stairs, across the verandah, and into our places in the class­room to the strains of the Colonel Bogey March played on a gramophone.

Boundary Street, West End 4101, 6 October 2020.

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Tuesday 11 August 2020

Crime scene template

Amazon.com sent me a message, with new recommendations for you based on your browsing history. Among the recommended items was a Crime Scene Drawing Template (Thoroughly Capitalized In That Annoying American Style).

Is this something I should add to my kit of tools for recording heritage conservation crimes?

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Saturday 18 July 2020

Burra Charter video

My colleagues at Australia ICOMOS have dug out this old video and posted it on YouTube.

I had a part in making that video, which was originally dis­trib­uted on VHS video cassettes, before YouTube was a thing. My first in­volve­ment was in 1993 when I drafted a pitch that Aus­tralia ICOMOS used to raise funds for the project.

It took a few years to get going. In 1999 ICOMOS engaged me to help again. I advised on script development, focussing on com­mu­nic­at­ing useful messages about conservation. I also appeared in two of the segments​—​do as much as necessary, but as little as possible (Newstead North shearing shed, near Inverell), and listen to the community, appreciate cultural differences (Mus­grave Park, South Brisbane).

Caring for heritage places: introducing the Burra Charter.

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