Sunday afternoon

Hugh looked fit as I headed off to have a meal at the Mindil Beach market with Jeanette.



We chatted to this biker, who despite the evil scarf was an ok guy.

My new library and a new role

Recently I started a new role as the Reference Services Librarian with the Department of Health and Families, based at the Royal Darwin Hospital.

It’s a great team and I look forward to the different challenges of working in a special library, very different from those of academic and public libraries.

The library is in a garden setting near the Menzies School of Health Research, and the Centre for Disease Control (NT) and other facilities incuding the Northern Territory Clinical School in association with The Flinders University School Of Medicine.



Its also a short scooter ride from home!!

The Family Barnett of Brayville South Australia 1964

Having lost some images recently when a hard disk drive failed I am putting this one for safety's sake on the Internet!

Not sure where Mum was and I was the photographer. I guess it was taken by me with my Agfa Rapid format camera in about 1964 or 1965 .
Brother Chris is with our father who died in 1966.
Ann is sitting along side Michael then Anthony

Christopher Barnett my brother

I was searching through some old paperwork and photographs today and found this torn photo of my brother Chris. Chris still lives in France, he has been a French citizen for many years now. He is poor health and it was nice to find him looking happy and well perhaps nearly 40 years ago! He has been writing poetry and plays throughout the world ever since he left school. See this discussion of one of his plays which "Selling Ourselves for Dinner" which was commissioned for the Adelaide Festival in 1982

I scanned a couple of things last night. This article comes from " A Book to Write Poems By" published as a school text by Rory Harris and Peter McFarlane in 1983. Peter wrote about Chris working at his school:

The next is one of my favourite poems by Chris, which was also published in the same text:

Saturday morning at the Darwin Sailing Club

I took a brief visit on Saturday morning to the Darwin Sailing Club, at glorious Fannie Bay.

Birthday barbecue at Jayshree and Peters

Tonight Hugh and I spent a very pleasant evening at a barbecue at Peter and Jayshree’s home to celebrate Jayshree’s birthday. Julie joined us as well.


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Mindil Beach Sunset

I escorted Jo-Anne to Mindil Market to enjoy some red wine, food and the sunset with thousands of others.

Adelaide visitor

An 'old" colleague from South Australian TAFE dropped into my office today. I worked with Jo-Anne Rivers many years ago. She is in Darwin to do some training for the Health Library for ExLibris a library technology company. I invited her to have dinner with me at the Darwin Sailing Club and a pleasant evening was had.



She had fun texting a friend in Adelaide describing her balmy location!

Mindil Market Sunday

I enjoy a meal on Sunday at Mindil Market. Hugh and I usually have a run on our scooters. I also chat to Lenore, the lovely Juice lady where its really fresh juice,

and I also get a bite to eat from a huge variety of choices. It seemed to be a bit quieter tonight although the "Drumming Monkey" show had the children really jumping

ALIA Top End Garden Party

The Chinese Gardens at Charles Darwin University were the setting tonight for another successful ALIA Top End Garden Pary. Members of the library profession from most sectors enjoyed the lovely ambience of the gardens and as in previous years chatted on into the dark. A big thank you as the Convenor of ALIA Top End to my colleagues especially Marg,Bernie,Jessie,Suzanne for doing the organising. It was a great success and I should have said so on the night!








Interstate vistors included Damien from the ALIA Board and his partner Justine.

ALIA Top End meets at Northern Territory Library for NAC

A group of us met at NTL to meet Damien from the ALIA Board as part of the National Advisory Congress Regional meetings



Then some of us moved down to the Mindil Beach markets to wine and dine and chat.

Trip to Adelaide

Barbara picked me up early on Saturday morning at Adelaide Airport and on the way to her home we dropped in on Karen and then Gumeracha where we showed Chloe the delights of the Big Rocking Horse complex.

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