"Dance with the Spirits”

Saturday 28^th November, 2017

Jindabyne

By Wanda Lach

This weekend the Polish community celebrated the bicentenary of the passing of their beloved Tadeusz Kosciuszko.  The 15^th of October was the 200^th anniversary of the death of the Polish hero

“Not only is this year 200 years since the death of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, but it is also 10 years since Lajkonik first danced on the summit of Mt Kosciuszko, in the historic concert organised by Puls Polonii "K...

Our dearest friend has gone from our lives and become a cherished memory.

She gave her all and more, loved her family and friends without reservation.

We shake our fists in anger, we wipe our tears from our cheeks, we drop our head in resignation.

A life snuffed out too early, taken by that insidious disease.

She was so positive, even when things did not turn out as expected she saw only the positive sides.

There was no time for negatives in her life – right to the very end.

Only p...

Friday the 17^th ended as a sad day.  Our friend for close to 35 years was no longer with us.

Our friendship began somewhere around 1980. We had been skiing in Falls Creek and were discussing with some people at our lodge how difficult it was to find accommodation in Thredbo at the spur of the moment during the ski season.  One of the guests commented that they stayed at a place close to Thredbo quite regularly that was advertised by word of mouth and that you could ring during the week an...

Ingredients:

• After the eggs are boiled separat...

“Kopytka”   (Polish dumpling)

Serve on their own with mushroom or tomato sauce or with onion/bacon topping

Serve as a side with meat or chicken with sauce.

Can be served sweet with a sprinkle of sugar and a little cream

I like mine fried with a little butter or with breadcrumbs done in butter on a frypan.

Ingredients:

1kg potatoes (ones good for mashing)

200g plain flour

1 egg

Rounded dessertspoon of butter

3 dessertspoons milk

Salt (to taste)

Savoury topping:  1 o...

For days at a time I don't turn on the radio. Why? I can't listen to the hype and tripe of the world gone insane.  I leave it silent, I look out through my windows at the long grass blowing in the wind, the blue sky scattered with soft clouds, the snow gums bending and shaking their leafy heads. A brace of ducks, barely visible in the longer grass, waddle this way and that. The rooster crows, all day at that, the cockatoos and galas sit on the 'chook-mahal'.  We are isolated from the brutali...

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The Shed

Finally we are building the shed! Slab was poured a while ago.  It is a daunting task. A 12x12m shed – can you imagine the span of the rafters? It’s all in steel too. A very good friend (not mentioning any names, Rob!!) has offered to come down and bring lots of tools and his engineering brain with him – could be interesting – two engineers from two different disciplines agreeing on what to do and how to do it!

We arrive at Sally Supreme – what? no water…...

For us 1^st worlders access to water and power are just simply taken for granted.. right?

At Sally Supreme we have no power except what our blue Gennie supplies, no town water – our water supply is pumped up from the Grosses Plains creek below up to our very small tank and then gravity fed to Sally – there’s o...