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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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In a chapter in The Memory Pool, Ellen Connor looks back on her involvement in the Save Fitzroy Pool campaign as a 14-year-old, a six- week period of rallies, marches, candlelight vigils, occupying the empty pool, watching Monkey Grip at a film fundraising night, meeting comedian and Fitzroy Pool swimmer John Clarke and learning about grassroots action. Today Fitzroy Pool celebrates the 25th anniversary of the successful campaign with free entry from 12noon to 3pm, food stalls, memorabilia, DJs and a visit from Santa! Hope it’s a great celebration @yarraleisure of a wonderful campaign to save a Melbourne icon.
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Wonderful placement of The Memory Pool at Balmain’s beautiful @roaring_stories bookshop. Thanks to Daniel and his team for the warm welcome yesterday and the chance to chat about The Memory Pool and sign some copies.
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#balmain #balmainbookshop #roaringstories #thememorypool #xmasbooks #summerreading #australianstories #swimmingstories #bookstagram #bryanbrown #trentdalton #shanegould #leahpurcell #merrickwatts #ashleyhay

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With this Saturday the 25th anniversary of the successful Save Fitzroy Pool campaign, there’s no better time to read Ellen Connor’s story in The Memory Pool about her involvement in the campaign in 1994 as a 14-year-old. Ellen traces her current participation in politics back to that time when she says she learned a lot about how to be seen and heard. This Saturday, 14 December between 12 and 3pm @yarraleisure is holding a celebration to mark the 25th anniversary of saving the iconic pool from closure with free entry, food vans, bbq, DJs, historical display and an appearance from Santa! But if you can’t make it to Melbourne you can relive the grassroots campaign in The Memory Pool!
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#fitzroypool #monkeygrip #helengarner #publicaction #thememorypool #savingpools #fitzroymelbourne #melbourneicon #historicpool #swimmingpoolstories

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Lovely to meet writer Charlotte Wood and writer Vicki Hastrich at Watsons Bay Library last night and to sign each other’s books. Also wonderful to hear summer reading suggestions from @ailsapiper Thanks also to @thewoollahrabookshop and library staff from Watsons Bay and Woollahra! So many great book ideas for Xmas from @newsouthbooks and @allenandunwin
#summerreading #thememorypool #watsonsbaylibrary #vickihastrich #australianstories #australianwriters #xmasbooks #bookstagram

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Purple power at peaceful Petersham Pool this morning! #morningswim #bestwaytostarttheday #loveswimming #lapswimming #watertherapy

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Great to have the opportunity to sign some copies of The Memory Pool at Collins Booksellers in Wagga Wagga over the weekend. Thanks also to the staff for the warm welcome on a busy Saturday morning in the store full of Xmas shoppers! .
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#booksigning #thememorypool #xmasbook #collinsbooksellerswaggawagga #waggawagga #australianstories #swimmingstories #bryanbrown #leahpurcell #shanegould #merrickwatts #danielkowalski #laurielawrence #trentdalton #booksoninstagram #waterwriting

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Hayley at Collins Booksellers in Wagga Wagga colour coordinated with The Memory Pool! .
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#collinsbooksellers #xmasshopping #xmasgifts #xmasbook #thememorypool #childhoodmemories #swimmingpoolstories #bookstagram #australianstories #booksigning

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Pub pool with pink and blue noodles.

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Poolside book signing this morning with the man who is known as ‘Peter the porpoise of Petersham Pool’! Great to be able to put a personal message on this very happy swimmer’s copy of The Memory Pool purchased at his favourite bookstore @abbeysbookshop .
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Three bodies with eerie pink glow and green cap this evening at Leichhardt Pool.
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#eerieskies #strangeatmosphere #smokysydney #nswbushfires #swimmingpool #summerinsydney2019 #summerinsydney #pinksky #leichhardtparkaquaticcentre #observinglife

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Appropriate photo for my pre-watching Shane Gould on @abctv #HomeDelivery with @juliazemiro tonight! And after the show if you want to know more about swimming legend #shanegould then do yourself a favour and buy my book, The Memory Pool. Shane’s chapter, ‘Learning about life in Pymble’ focuses on the early 1970s when Shane was training hard at Forbes and Ursula Carlile’s 25-metre indoor centre on Sydney’s upper north shore. As she says in the story, she loved training and pushing herself hard!

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Annual Curtin family reunion with three Curtin’s - Jeremy, Frank, Steve and one Spruhan (me) whose mother Barby was a Curtin and a few copies of my book The Memory Pool purchased this afternoon thanks to book promoter and general all-round good guy and husband Bruce.
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#thememorypool #familyreunion #childhoodmemories #poolsofinstagram #poolmemories #australianstories #sydneystories #northbridgebaths #woolwichbaths #mooneysmudhole

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Great to connect with @carolineclements_ and @dillon.sr from @placesweswim this morning and share pool and swimming spot stories and sign each other’s book! . #placesweswim #thememorypool #bondibeach #swimmingspotsaustralia #waterbooks #swimmingbooks #poolsofinstagram #bondiicebergs #australianstories #booksoninstagram

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A very enjoyable morning down at Coogee Beach yesterday re-connecting with Paul Ellercamp and Suanne Hunt from @oceanswimsdotcom and presenting them with a copy of The Memory Pool, swimming the 1km event with my niece Rosie, cheering my brother Mark and others over the finish line in the more challenging 2.4km event round Wedding Cake Island, refuelling at the @coogeepavilion and delighting in the aquatic themed menu, attending the presentation and picking up a third place in my age group and photographing the lovely Ross Jones rock pool on my journey back to the car along the promenade. Thank you #coogee and @coogeeslsc and @oceanswimsdotcom .
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My morning at @abcinsydney : loving the author title on my visitor pass, talking about The Memory Pool with Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck, meeting rescued turtles and fellow swimmer @brendanjking who I am in awe of as last year he swam the English Channel! .
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#robbiebuck #wendyharmer #abc702 #abcradio #thememorypool #australianstories #poolstories #swimmingpoolstories #childhoodmemories #bookstagram #xmasgifts

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The Memory Pool surrounded by beautiful pool and swimming themed cards and scarves given to me at the launch of my book by my lovely nephew and nieces, my good friend Trish and my work buddy Jade! Thank you!
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#thememorypool #booklaunchgifts #booklaunch #poolart #watertheme #swimmers #swimming #swimmingstories #poolstories #australianstories #newbook #booksoninstagram

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Ten days ago I had a very pleasant conversation with Peter Goers on his Evenings show on @abcadelaide about The Memory Pool and pools in general. Yesterday Linda Kennedy, one of the South Australians I interviewed for The Memory Pool, caught up with Peter at ‘A Day at the ‘Burgh’ a festival of food, wine, music and the arts at Edithburgh. Peter is a fellow ‘pool tragic’ and he and Linda had a chat about her childhood pool, a rock pool her family called the Hollywood Pool on the Yorke Peninsula coast, one of the 28 wonderful stories in the book! .
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#petergoers #thememorypool #edithburgh #yorkepeninsula #southaustralia #seesouthaustralia #adayattheburgh #southaustralianstories #australianstories #poolsofinstagram #childhoodmemories ##swimmingpool #swimmingpools #swimming #waterbooks #bookstagram #xmasgifts

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In his review of The Memory Pool in The Weekend Australian Review yesterday, writer Phillip Siggins says: ‘A test for the success of this anthology is how deep it will take us on a dive into the world of the great Australian pool. A further related test will be how clear and distinctive are the voices of the tellers of these tales. Will their experience come through Spruhan’s transcription and retelling process with authenticity and immediacy?’ He then takes the reader through some of the stories: Shane Gould, Priya Cooper, five young girls dream for a pool in outback Lightning Ridge and a teenage girl’s involvement in the Save Fitzroy Pool campaign. He also refers to other stories in the book ‘from notable Australians that direct the gaze inward, that use the chlorine, hot concrete, icy poles and chips, and all the paraphernalia of summers past to understand teenage loneliness, the need for refuge, sexual beginnings, early injustices and aspirations’. Phillip Siggins concludes his thoughtful review with: ‘This collection passes the test it set for itself.’

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In the area so dropped into @harryhartogbookseller Miranda to sign a few copies of The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming.

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The Memory Pool connects with pool art! #Repost @melindamarshmanartist with @get_repost
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As often happens when you are interested in a subject you make discoveries of other creatives addressing the same theme. I am Loving this book of short stories, it’s sparking all sorts of memories of my own of childhood sensory recollections of swimming @swimmingpoolstories thanks for the great read.
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