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• STORIES OF THE COAST…
  
  The NSW South Coast town of Pambula has two pubs and two interesting shops. One is a bakery and the other is the local Switchfoot surf shop, the local board shaper.
  
  https://medium.com/pacificedge/the-shaper-60ff115c30af?source=friends_link&sk=9bbcec6e74bb3d9d62c72ee05ffafa76

  

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  The shaper

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  JUST FOLLOW the road out of town and take the turnoff, she said. Okay, we’ll do that I say, knowing how easily we could get lost following her vague …

• Ruminations on a wet night in 2019. It is almost time to pack and go.
  
  https://medium.com/pacificedge/a-life-unmoored-8894fb79a0ef?source=friends_link&sk=9a37b27ccba5b2a3b0af2598dae61f7c

  

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  A life unmoored

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  IT IS POURING. A steady downpour that is not torrential, just persistent. It dampens all other sounds. A grey sky and landscape suck the colour from …

• A memoir, a story. An adventure told about people in my past.
  
  https://medium.com/pacificedge/runaways-a-saga-of-escape-and-recapture-f0dd343c1170?source=friends_link&sk=0cd0cef75b724e2f8f3a7c32ab588f44

  

  Russ Grayson

  Oct 30, 2022
• THE PANDEMIC has given us many stories. This is one more.
  
  https://medium.com/pacificedge/the-blockade-runner-317ce285cc90?source=friends_link&sk=c040c5025743bc904818e54b652a3147

  

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  The blockade runner

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  IT STARTED when the French Canadian backpacker stepped aboard the Spirit of Tasmania, the ferry that carriers people and vehicles across the 250km …

• YOU can’t surf in Devonport… can you?
  
  https://medium.com/pacificedge/heres-the-question-can-you-really-surf-in-devonport-3866ed8aa605?source=friends_link&sk=3c2f0727e30a136be515ab5a8d0f0917

  

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  Here’s the question: can you really surf in Devonport?

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  CRUISING DOWN the highway tonight. Heading east. Cassandra Wilson soulfully singing Red River Valley. The van’s lights shining off a windswept …

• IN WEAPONISING HUMOUR the Ukrainians are doing something the Russians cannot do.
  
  https://medium.com/pacificedge/when-humour-becomes-a-weapon-6728c8484bb?source=friends_link&sk=35603ea7c0a0ef4a8a7c977d77acb15e

  

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  When humour becomes a weapon

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  The Ukrainians have enlisted another weapon in Russia’s war on their nation: humour. Is weaponisation makes it a communications tactic in the ongoing …