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Friday morning at picturesque Petersham Pool

Friday morning at picturesque Petersham Pool

Apr 21 2017

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Introducing The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming
From Kiama to Coogee and north to Bilgola: a photo essay on six ocean pools
Coogee swim sparks memories of mostly triumphant trophy days
From Herbert Badham to Matthew Martin: the fine art of drawing & painting pools
Handstands and kookaburras welcome a new season at Petersham Pool
Red and yellow and purple and blue: celebrating the cap swimmers at ocean pools
Scenes from the morning steam at Leichhardt Pool

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Wonderful to meet Jo-Anne Larter today at her ‘memory pool’ First Basin Pool at Launceston’s spectacular Cataract Gorge. Jo swims still swims at the First Basin Pool each lunchtime when she takes a break from working at the family business, the chairlift over Cataract Gorge. You can read more in her chapter in The Memory Pool, ‘A water-lover in Launceston’. .
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Great to be talking about pools, swimming, childhood memories and the stories in The Memory Pool tonight with legends Shane Gould and David Bartlett at Fullers Bookshop in Hobart! Wonderful to also hear swimming pool stories from the audience! .
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#shanegould #davidbartlett #thememorypool #fullersbookshop #hobart #booktour #swimmingpoolstories #booksoninstagram

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Just a plaque and an exterior wall left of the circa 1938 Hobart Tepid Baths aka the Douglas Plaister Aquatic House. I imagine this would be a ‘memory pool’ for many Tasmanians; not always happy memories I hear especially when it comes to swimming lessons.
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#hobarttepidbaths #douglasplaisteraquatichouse #hobart #hobarthistory #hobartheritage #swimmingpool #poolstories #tasmania #tassie #swimmingpoolstories #learntoswim #swimminglessons #childhoodmemories #thememorypool #poolmemories #swimmingmemories #australianstories #tasmanianstories #booksoninstagram #authorsofinstagram

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Tassie swimmers, readers, writers, pool lovers, social history buffs, fans of Australian stories, come along to Hobart’s Fullers Bookstore at 5.30 pm this Thursday night, 20 Feb where I will be in conversation with Olympic swimming legend Shane Gould and former Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett talking about their stories in The Memory Pool. There’ll be time for questions and sharing your childhood memories of Tasmanian swimming pools, which I look forward to hearing. It’s a free event but to help Fullers with numbers go to events on their website and register. Hope to see you there!

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Loved the Water exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) with so much synchronicity with the themes in The Memory Pool. One question posed with Ruby Djikarra Alderton’s film Mayan which she made as a 15-year-old in Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land is: Perhaps we all remember a special body of water from childhood.
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#watergoma #qagoma #qagomastore #brisbanelife #brisbane #brisbaneartgallery #art #waterart #patrickpound #rubydjikarraalderton #olafureliasson #paulblackmore #judywatsonartist #angelatiatia #waterbooks #water #waterstories #thememorypool #australia #waterexhibition #seebrisbane @paulblackmorephoto

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A wonderful evening of water stories at Woollahra Library last night. Thanks to Ailsa Piper for her insightful questions about The Memory Pool, to Tony Doherty for his beautiful reading, to the audience for sharing their swimming pool stories, to Danielle from the library for her warm welcome and excellent organisation, to Elizabeth from Woollahra Bookstore for selling books and to Bronwyn Birdsall for her photography!

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Tomorrow evening, 13 Feb at 6.30pm I will be talking about The Memory Pool with writer Ailsa Piper at Woollahra Library in Sydney’s Double Bay. Also joining us is Tony Doherty, who co-wrote The Attachment with Ailsa published by @allenandunwin I interviewed Tony for The Memory Pool about his childhood at the Tambourine Bay Baths and his chapter, Captured in cool green wonder, is one of 28 stories in the book. It promises to be a great night of readings, discussion on the process of writing the book, childhood memories and swimming pool stories. To register go the Woollahra Library website. Hope to see you there!

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A 7am swim with @rhylarina at Streets Beach, South Bank in Brisbane, the morning after The Memory Pool event at @avidreader .
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#morningswim #greatwaytostarttheday #streetsbeachbrisbane #streetsbeach #southbankbrisbane #brisbaneswimming #swimmingbrisbane #thememorypool #brisbane #brisbanelife

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A good night talking about The Memory Pool tonight with Ashley Hay and Diane Fingleton at @avidreader in West End, Brisbane! Thanks so much to @rhylarina for suggesting the event and for everyone who came along and shared their swimming pool stories!
#thememorypool #brisbanestories #westendbrisbane #ashleyhay #swimmingpoolstories #queenslandstories #australianstories #childhoodmemories #booksoninstagram

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Australian stories side by side @humphreysmanly
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Join me, Diane Fingleton and Ashley Hay talking about our swimming pool memories and stories in my book, The Memory Pool next Monday night, 10 February at 6pm at the Avid Reader Bookstore in Brisbane’s West End. There will be time for questions and to share your swimming pool stories. To register go to the Avid Reader website and clink on Events. Look forward to seeing all you Brisbanites there!

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‘In one corner was the original foundation stone from 1886. It never occurred to us how old it was, but we knew it was special,’ says Diane Fingleton in her chapter in The Memory Pool, Escaping to the Spring Hill Baths. At 6pm next Monday evening, 10 February I will be joining Diane and author Ashley Hay at the Avid Reader Bookstore in Brisbane’s West End to talk about our childhood memories of swimming pools. Spring Hill Baths are an icon of colour and history in Brisbane so it will be great to hear Diane’s wonderful recollections of the pool in the late 1940s and 50s. To register go to the @avidreader website and click on Events. It promises to be a great night of swimming pool stories. .
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Wonderful Werri Beach rock pool at high tide and just before the rain. Beautiful in.
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Poolside book signing and reading of The Memory Pool with Nick this morning, one of the regular swimmers at Petersham Pool.
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The Memory Pool is going on tour in February and March with events in Brisbane, Hobart, Perth and in Sydney at Woollahra Library and Cronulla Library. All welcome to come along. Some events are ticketed so to book go to the Events page on my website. Link in my bio. Look forward to seeing some of my Instagram friends there!
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#thememorypool #booktour #swimmingstories #poolstories #childhoodmemories #australianstories #bookstagram

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Grant the lifeguard, a contemporary of Olympian Michael Wenden, makes a rare appearance in the pool!
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One of the people I was grateful to interview for The Memory Pool was author Ashley Hay, who is also the editor of the @griffithreview . I had loved Ashley’s novel, The Railwayman’s Wife set in Thirroul, one suburb south of Austinmer where she grew up. There were many references to water and pools in that award-winning book which made me think Ashley must have swum at the Illawarra’s ocean pools as a child. After I met her at the @sydwritersfest in 2017 she confirmed her childhood connection to the double ocean pools at Austinmer and generously agreed to be interviewed for The Memory Pool. Her story, ‘Reflections on the water at Austinmer’ is one of four ocean pool stories in the book and today it was featured in the @guardianaustralia guardianaustralia special focus on NSW ocean pools.
An imaginative child, Ashley remembers the sensation of the bottom of her feet pushing off from the knobbly, rocky sides and hopefully looking for under-the-sea fairies in the pools like the ones in a favourite picture book, Peg Maltby’s Book of Fairies. She remembers being in the pools when the water was calm and when the waves came through creating that washing-machine effect and the beautiful reflections at night. ‘Because of their rectangular shape, they looked like paintings,’ she remembered. And in the mornings, the bodies of water were different each day and the palette and light were always changing. She also remembers looking out to the horizon from the pools edge and feeling like she could almost see the curve, and sense of the shape of the world!
So many rich and evocative memories of Austinmer’s ocean pools. Thank you Ashley for telling me your story.

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Bystanders, swimmers and the sculpture Oceanides II today at Fairy Bower Ocean Pool.
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In honour of all the lollies in The Memory Pool at dinner tonight our friends Al and Jacqui gave all the guests a bag of lollies like the ones I used to buy at Northbridge Baths - redskins, frogs, milkos, musk sticks and Al even found a Whizz Fizz. So thoughtful and cute and a reminder of all those sweet treats that were so much part of a day at the pool.
#lollies #childhoodtreats #thememorypool #redskins #whizzfizz #greenfrogs #redfrogs #musksticks #milkos #milkbottles #pooltreats #australianstories #swimmingpoolstories #placesweswim #booksoninstagram

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Blissful swimming in the rain today at Fanny Durack Aquatic Centre at Petersham! Hoping other parts of Australia particularly the fire-ravaged areas are getting it too.
#blissfulswim #beautifulswim #petershampool #fannydurackaquaticcentre #rain #bushfiresaustralia #swimmingintherain #lapswimming

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