Blepharospasm

## new youtube thingo on the bottom of this page!! Fun music!!

I have returned from the desert to the far South of Australia ... just in time for the Hobart winter. You may have noticed Hobart is on the edge of the world ... so's the weather ... but I'll become accustomed to it.

A minority of sufferers get minimal or no result from Botox injections and have to find other treatments. For some, Botox diminishes in its effectiveness after many years of use. An observed side effect in a minority of patients is ptosis or eyelid droop. Attempts to inject in locations that minimise ptosis can result in diminished ability to control spasms.

Stress management and support groups can help sufferers deal with the disease and prevent social isolation. WOOHOO! T'ank goodness.

On July the 10th Charles Du Cane shall be entering the Siren's ballroom for to make loverly music. He has akksed me too makes loverley mosaics with him toos.

jxo

Amata

Am here in Amata for the last time ... pity, the locals are highly amusing.

So I was playing last weekend at the Lane in Alice Springs when all of a sudden, across the mall at the Town & Country, a huge bloody fight breaks out between two or three guys ... I look at J9 and we rush to our instruments and start playing some chase-music just as the cop-cars come vrooming into the mall ... some chicks throw themselves into the fray and then get plucked back out and into the paddy-wagons and off to the watch-house. Charming wenches that they were. And still the band played on ... the atmosphere was electric. Come to the Lane Restaurant for a fine relaxing atmosphere, fine food, wine to boot and a good old fashioned fisticuff face-slamming.

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See you at Wide Open Spaces
I'm on 1:30pm with J9 yet again.

Fregon

I am sitting in the doctor's house in Fregon ... she's in Sydney - so she doesn't need to know about it at all.

She has internet connection which is nice.

It's funny trying to flap your way through cultural divide in mental health work. You're never quite certain whether what you see is what you're getting. Perhaps I'm getting bugger-all correct.

I wish the health-workers would turn up to work. They usually have a better idea about what people are talking about - partially because they come from the same culture ... and partially because they speak the same language.


But still, gotta say - playing with Anangu is kind of fun - they're a most interesting bunch of people. Highly dramatic. When they have an argument, they don't bother hiding it - in fact, they let the entire community know
... perhaps because in small communities you can't hide it

... or perhaps as an open invitation for anyone else to express their grievances
... a large group exercise to exorcise all negative feelings out of their souls and into the ether


... I don't know ... perhaps not.


There's a festival down the road from Alice in a couple of weeks -

Wide Open Space Festival
























I'll be seeing ya there.