Check out my roller derby video. This is one of the first bouts that I went to. Yes it is a blood sport. For the boys there is even a Pole Dancer.
Affair Sydney is a blog about the city I love. I am passionate about Sydney, its checkered past and its inspiring present. This blog is for locals who want to get to know their city more intimately. It is for travellers who may want to glimpse aspects of Sydney that they did not not know exists. Most places I visit you will see through my eyes and I will also shine a light on some of the mysteries, stories that these places hide. Enjoy..........
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Dr William's Pink Pills
According to Wikipedia it was claimed cure chorea, referenced frequently in newspaper headlines as "St. Vitus' Dance," as well as "locomotor ataxia, partial paralyxia, seistica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, [and] all forms of weakness in male or female."
References
Cool Things - Pink Pills for Pale People - Kansas Historical Society
1902 'Advertising.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 7 November, p. 3, viewed 10 December, 2011, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14480536
Love a Poem
I found this poem in a 1934 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald. Oh yes I am a romantic.
1934 'LOVE.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 29 November, p. 18 Supplement: Women's Supplement, viewed 10 December, 2011, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17139223
LOVE
A sunny day, a child, a pearl;
A flight of the wild wind;
A blossom caught In a golden curl. Be gay, for Love Is blind!
A,tawny sky, a woman now,
Old and sad beneath the wind.
A dead leaf fluttering from the bough,
Be gay, for Love's still blind!
R.A.
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