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Bill Edmunds

Reflections about Life's Experiences

  • Remember When
    • Do you remember when . . . ?
    • Problem Solved
    • “Never in Doubt Chaps!”
    • One Fine Day July 2012
    • Golden Anniversary 2016
    • Perfection
    • 55th Wedding Anniversary
    • Ode to Joy
    • Cape Grim
    • Spider-Like
    • Toasted Sandwiches
    • New Beginnings
    • Young Love
    • Pickles
    • Southport
    • Rex
    • West Coast Wilderness Railway
    • Strahan 2019
    • Remembrance Birthday
    • Flinders Island, a memory
    • OBE
    • Ten Years On
    • Inner Peace
    • Queenstown 2019
  • Is it really 60 Years?
  • School Days
    • Bill’s overcoat
    • The Awakening
    • A Wild Ride in a Land Rover
    • School Train
    • Motherhood
    • Neighbours
    • Tiger Snake
    • Change of vocation
    • Lauderdale Beer Can Derby
      • Beer Can Derby 1, 1987
      • Beer Can Derby 2, the sequel, c1988
    • Blue Tongue Lizard
    • The Boundary Rider
  • On The Water
    • Red and Yellow
    • Wrassie
    • Bass Strait
    • My “Little Cabbage”, Petit Chou
    • Halcyon
    • Bass Strait Dancer
    • Oh to Sail Again!
  • Home: Welcome
  • Bill
  • Friends and Family
    • Bario wedding
    • Lasting Friendships
    • 5 Stacker
    • A Boaty’s Tale
    • SABAH
    • Turning 60
    • The Folly of War
    • Migratory Friends
    • Richard’s Replicas
      • The 1925 Sunbeam Tiger
      • 5/8 working replicas
  • Over the Handlebars
    • 1. The Downhill Run
    • 2. The ballad of the Mount Brown Walking Track
    • 3. The St Columba Falls
    • The Three Supascoota-teers
    • 4. Russel Falls
    • 5. Iluka Christmas 2020
    • 6. Room 14
    • 7. The Dynamic Duo
    • The Fall
    • Supascoota Christmas 2022
    • Blowhole Visit
    • The Tale of a Supascootateer
    • 5 Mile Beach: Walking on Wheels
    • Now there are Five
    • Transition
    • Sprawled in the Street
    • The Jordan River Trail
    • Bucking Bluey
    • Brush Tail
    • Rye Town Pier
    • Back Beach
    • The Mullum Mullum Trail
    • Capsized!
    • Pointing the Finger
    • How Old Lew Stole the Show
    • Priority One
    • Salamanca Market
  • Bits and Pieces
    • Evil Tentacles
    • Te-Wheke-a-Muturangi
    • Isn’t It?
    • Death of a carrot
    • A New Beginning
    • Unrequited Love
    • Bush Tucker
  • My Shed
    • Blown Apart
    • Sipper Wes
    • My shed
    • Vale Harry Quick
    • Coffee Sippers International 2019
    • The Men From Derwent River 2019
    • Sipper Ken
    • Farewell Bryan
  • Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia & Amyloidosis
  • Feeling Crook! (Ill)
    • A Diversion, March 2012
    • The New Normal
    • Covid-19 related
      • Covid-19
      • Tele-health
      • Easter (Corona Virus) break 2020
      • A Covid-19 Alphabet
      • Covid 19 Mutated
      • Masks
    • GASTRO
    • Fight in the dog
    • Pulse
    • Gaining Attention
    • The Only Way Out Is Through: September 2012
    • The Waiting/The Outcome
      • Mr Prime Minister
  • Seasons
    • Autumn
    • Fagus
    • The Wind
    • Bridport
    • The Magpie
    • Flood
    • In from the cold
    • Mountain Splendour
    • SPRING IN OAKDOWNS
    • Particularly Nasty Weather
    • Summer
      • Springtime
  • Between the Goalposts
    • Green and Gold Premiers
    • Never in Doubt
  • People
    • The Man from Melaleuca
    • John Coleman , The Man from Primrose Sands
  • The Headwinds of Time
    • Vale Bevis Ross
  • Dear Ron
  • It’s good to go exploring
  • Problem Solved
  • Paper
  • The Ballad of The James Craig
  • Dear Ron
  • Summer Lost
  • The Dying Days of Summer
  • For Better or Worse
  • Four Score
  • Eddystone
  • Thirteen Years and Counting
  • The Lion Roars
  • Oh No Not Again!
  • Old Bill
  • Green Peas
  • Nature’s Artistry
  • Santa’s Dilemma
  • Remember When . . .
    • A Tale of Two Strides
  • Remember When . . .
  • And So This is Christmas 2025
  • Keyless! A poem of despair
  • Diamond Anniversary 2026
  • The Taste of the Huon
  • At Anchor
  • Just Dreaming
  • Paper
  • Inequality!
  • Immigrant Trees
  • Bill’s Musings
  • A Journey through the Headwinds of Time
  • Relief
  • Fairies in my garden
  • The Last of May
  • Walking on wheels
  • Friendship
  • Effluent
  • Locked Down
  • Drifting and Dreaming
  • Paramedics
  • Remembrance
  • Bicycles on the Somme
  • April Appointment
  • Coastal Delights
  • The First of June
  • The Chill
  • Being a Principal
  • Values
  • Being a teacher
  • Beginning Retirement
  • Farewell to Staff

Immigrant Trees

Immigrant Trees

In autumn the immigrant trees
Shed their leaves everywhere,
Then they stand just like fagots,
Stripped of leaves, totally bare.
I wonder if Pauline one Nation
Wants to deport them all somewhere?

05/2026

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