Meanwhile, In Dubbo...

I'm back in Dubbo for Australia Day long weekend. While driving around looking for things I need for my trip North next week* I passed the Western Plains Cultural Centre (I'll pause here until you stop laughing) and saw this sign:

How could I not enter?

The room was small so they could only display a fraction of the items they showed in Melbourne.

Things such as Captain's Chronometer

Clockwork Universe; a working wall clock and Art

Fashion

More Fashion, with guns!

I'm afraid I am a bit more Edwardian in taste, where dirigibles, fixed-wing aircraft, the motor car, and steam engines are mixing together, and phonographs and film photography were available.

Speaking of phonographs, have an MP3 player with a bluetooth speaker (the little horn on the stand.) You drop an SD card into a socket under the hinged lid

A bedside lamp

Jewellery

Not seen: Random Cogs glued onto things.

I just wish the show was a little larger.

*On Tuesday I start the long drive to Darwin. The job there will take several weeks, so I'll be away from home for all of February.

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fatfred

2014-01-25 10:13 pm (UTC)

Green with envy!
STEAM!!!

acelightning

2014-01-26 06:06 am (UTC)

I prefer ladies' steampunk costumes that would allow the lady to single-handedly operate a steam-powered flying machine. (Although I'm not all that well-versed in steampunk... but I've seen some random steampunk cosplayers, and the ladies are usually wearing riding breeches, or at least divided skirts. It's hard to pilot a dirigible when you're wearing a bustle...)

Oh, and apropos of absolutely nothing, this. (Do you have a couple of evenings free to read the comic all the way from the beginning?)

dewhitton

2014-01-26 08:27 am (UTC)

Gunnerkrigg is one of my Comics Trawl.

2014-01-26 11:19 pm (UTC)

Why am I not surprised? :-)
It was Kent Paul Dolan who tipped me off to Gunnerkrigg - he thought I'd have a lot in common with Kat. But I have a lot in common with Antimony, too.

Now I want a Verification Bat myself... :-)

2014-01-27 04:54 am (UTC)

I'll be your verification bat :)

2014-01-30 03:26 am (UTC)

*giggles uncontrollably at the thought of you dangling from a string on a stick*

"Touch the bat" :-D

reynardo

2014-01-26 06:25 am (UTC)

*is confused* - Didn't you just move into a place in Sydney? Or are you splitting into three identical triplets and going to all three?

2014-01-26 08:25 am (UTC)

I live in Richmond but still travel to Dubbo to see Mum & Dad. The Show started in Melbourne and is traveling the country to bring retrostyle to The Bush.