Mr Dog goes to Canberra
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what no entries about visiting the belconnen shopping centre - the best airconditioned box around; going up black tower - the only view in town; waltzing around the botantical gardens as you try and escape the flies; parading down northbourne avenue - just like being in paris, only better; bathing in the pond outside the war memorial, it beats bathing at the hotel or thankfully getting to canberra airport on friday and leaving the joint….the best thing about canberra is that you can leave!
try and have some fun
all the best
I’m sure you’ll manage to get drunk with Glenn at least once!
I was just thinking the other day that you I’ve never seen you wag your tail, but I see you plan to with Kevin Rudd’s dog. Or is that because of what’s hidden below the frame?
I do hope you can come up with some witty banter to impress Julia. Don’t nuzzle her leg — that doesn’t work.
Wow.
Will you get to sit near Annabel Crabb?!?!
Can’t believe I haven’t seen it before now, but if you substitute ‘Turkish Delight’ for ‘tea’ in frame 3.3 it’s obvious - Julia Gillard is a dead ringer for the White Witch.
Good grief! That evil monster Jonathan Green, unleashes Firstdog on the poor unsuspecting Canberra press gallery.
And then………
THE BASTARD RUNS AWAY!!!
Shame Jonathan, Shame.
One the best FD, several LOL moments
Oh I want to see a photo of Mr Onthemoon with Julia Gillard having turkish de^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h tea. That would be fantastic.
Lots of funnies, but the Steve Fielding one in particular had me cracking up.
Make sure you go to Koko Black while you are there… mmmmmm chocolate.
“Give us a smile, Pen !” Priceless.
Dog, can we have a doggy advent calendar in December ?
You know - you get to open up a panel each day and there’s a chockie or another FD delight revealed ! And the weak-willed amongst us will scoff them all on the first day……
I want to have Tony Abbott wash MY feet. Where do I find the queue?
And how can one be personally shouted at by Bernard? That sounds like an unmissable event.
Yer, how could he miss out fighting to get an undercover car park in Belco Mall, Michael?
LOVE IT, MR DOG. S.M.A. for you. LOL.
sorry but i can’t do twitter … too technologically illiterate.
too hot to remember how to write Small Achievement Award properly too.
Oh crikey I want your job. Also your boss, at least he’s honest about what he expects.
I second Mike Jones’s advent calender request. That would rock!!
I hear the new Portrait Gallery is quite lovely…you could maybe sneak a few of your own works into the collection while you visited…
PS Will you have access to the sekrit gardens and courtyards of Parliament House?? They are very cool and they all have fountains so that you can sit next to them and other pollies cannot eavesdrop on your plans. Actually I don’t know that for sure, maybe they just are there because they’re pretty.
Oh First Dog, how could you?
Life in the provinces will stultify your creative instincts-look what it does to the bureaucratsand public servants and how it screws small business. The very people who need outrageous ideas to enliven them.
The pollies wont notice, they are so far up themselves, and/or each other, and they would sell their grannies for a pint of beer…. Still it is your life. But ask yourself where great art has always flourished? In the squalid slums of Florence under the Medicis. In the neatly pruned free-ways and nature-strips of dinky little Canberra, or the battered back-streets, sordid bistros and tacky graffiti of Brunswick, Fitzroy or Chapel Street Prahran?
Still can’t draw a weeping clown or an orange with vase then - now thats art.
Aww Venise … do you reckon Canberra is an Idea Fairy Free Zone?
Not entirely it isn’t. Most of them hang out in Belco. The Parliamentary Triangle though, has Gatekeepers to keep the fairies out. They have no sense of humour over there, and that makes fairy wings go droopy.
So the trick is, Mr Dog, to go to Belco Mall when you feel the need for a fairy.
I can see this could get out of control again … someone stop me!
Is Mamas Pizza still there after all these years? Bring back yeeros at the Acropolis and schooners and ska bands at the original Civic Hotel and you’ll have Canberra as it should have remained (well, Civic at least).
Now its mostly shopping malls, franchises, big chain stores and high density, designer apartments - progress courtesy of the lovely economic boom? Are the Bega Flats still there to retain some semblance of realism and grittiness?
Ah, First Dog - when you’re not hanging around the parliamentary precinct, go out to the Cotter for a dip, pick some fresh mushies in the Brindabellas and spend a few hours just sitting in front of Blue Poles - now that’s Canberra!
Ps. Don’t share the mushies with Glenn Milne - they’ll f*ck with his medication….
@Dez … Mamas Pizza, I can’t recall. I hardly ever go to Civic these days, they don’t like visitors from the outer suburbs, unless you come in by bus and don’t call attention to yourself.
The Bega Flats are still there. Grimly hanging on, looking rough and like real life. They are being Considered For ReDevelopment. Tough - if you are public housing dependent. Hey, do you remember The Ark? Great Turkish restaurant, going back to 1985 with that memory.
Ah … I moved here at a time when the city emptied at Christmas. I recall walking along Northbourne Avenue … watching roos bound down the middle nature strip, and tumbleweeds struggling to outstrip each other through the traffic lights. True!
Like half the artificial capital cities of the world Canberra lacks soul! As First Dog is all soul I suspect some Faustian deal will unhorse our much loved pooch.
The Nick Minchins, Malcolm Turnbulls, Tony Abbotts, ironbar Tuckeys, Chrissy, Hissy Pynes, Kevin Rudds and John Howards of this world seem to open some spectral Pandora’s box on their first day of business. The rest is all mournful history.