Mybalgohome

AROUND COMMUNITY Our Friday pizza night has brought on new games.  This one is called Catan and is lots of fun. Jeff was left holding the baby!!!  While a mother was being treated at the clinic from about 2am to 7am, little Elton spent some time with Jeff.  They gooed and garred together and became great mates. This family called into the clinic for an eye dropper to feed this young joey after they killed the mother for tucker.😆 Rusty is enjoying his time in our classroom.  Kamus' hand provided a nice pillow for a very pampered pooch!! Sunday sewing afternoon with some of the teachers.  We were making black skirts for the Elders who are entering a competition for Indigenous dancing.  We used a black sheet as fabric is very hard to come by up here. One of our local painters Gary Njamme enjoys painting AFL teams on canvas.  After my Cats one last year Jeff thought he would get one. OFF TO CAMP. 4 NIGHTS ON THE ORD RIVER NEAR KUNUNURRA  The kids enjoyed helping us pack up the swags!

  My Balgo Home - Special Edition (To the tune of Galleries of Pink Galahs - with apologies to John Williamson)   Noisy flocks of Cock atoos; Locals rarely wearing shoes; Children’s sores that tend to ooze; My Balgo Home. Summer heat with no relief; Orange sunsets past belief; Cool winter nights, sadly brief; My Balgo Home. Smiling kids with teeth of white; Town’s folk keen on one more fight; Milky Way so very bright; My Balgo Home. Hunting trips with Elder souls; Damper on the red hot coals; Roo tails cook in shallow holes; My Balgo Home.   Long walks through the prickly scrub; Watching footy from the hub; Dreams of nights at Halls Creek pub; My Balgo Home.                                               Sky of blue and earth of red; Kids come to school to be fed; Wailing grief when someone’s dead; My Balgo Home. N urses tending smashed up bones; Flying Doc on airstrip stones; Covid tests despite the groans; My Balgo Home. Bumpy roads that don’t forgive; Camp dogs scrounge e