Tammy's Turns

SKID MARKS:



Got to spend some quality time with Matt while in Melbourne, on this day Matt took me to the Melbourne eye or whatever it’s called, it’s a huge 35 story ferris wheel and the day we went was the first 43 degree day of what was to become Melbourne’s heatwave, everyone else was excited about looking out over the city, but i only had eyes for the out of control skid marks on the top level of the parking station, Matt delighted in calling me later to tell me that due to the extreme head the wheel had began to buckle and had closed down.

SNAP:

BOARDING PASS:

How prophetic those words on the sign were to turn out, this is just before Tyson and i were due to fly out at 3.00pm for Melbourne, we didnt take to the skies till 8.00pm, plenty of time for me to scam an arm full of Virgin Blue meal vouchers, i found the trick was to go up and ask for them just after an agro customer had exploded and ripped a new one to the poor staff behind the counter, they were so flustered they didnt know what they were handing out and even forgot to stamp them .. which proved handy for my meals on the return trip.

TRIPLE TREAT:

Weird tripple exposure of me and my mum and brother.

HEY CHARGER! :

Coolest car ever, saw this on where else but Greville St in Melbourne, i was in awe.

RETRO RED TRACKY:


I used to live in this red tracksuit when i was a kid, tho hip enough to break it up so it was a mix and match, in the bottom photo you can see Michelle, myself, Dani and Kylie on uncle Harry’s farm, great memories from here and it was at this farm i learnt to ride an adult motorbike, i was too small to put my feet down when i wanted to stop so i would ride around for ages and ages and then call out to my brother John when i wanted to stop and he would have to run along side the bike and catch me.

For dedicated Tammy fashion followers please note in the bottom photo the first appearance of my signature Converse Chuck Taylors, really i should have a sponsorship deal with them.

NEWTOWN LIGHT:

FANCY DRESS:

Each year over summer we would go to a big fancy dress party, i used to always clean up with first prize, this was another winning year for me where i went dressed as a pirate ‘Lookout in the crows nest’ my dad had actually made a birds nest to go around my waist and even put eggs in it, my poor niece Kylie didnt fare so well that year, she’s the one on the left of the photo with a bit of orange cardboard and some haphazard tin foil wrapped around her head as she tried to pass as a bottle of rum .. Kylie likes to remind people that she’s the middle child.

DAX DOWN SOUTH:


Made sure to catch up with my nephew Dax while in Melbourne, i was most proud to introduce him to Chad, Dax became a little too enarmoured with Chad and i shot him a sideways glance when he said ‘Lets hold his little paws up so they wiggle’.

MARCIA’S BIRTHDAY IN NEWTOWN:

Cant remember the name of the place we ate, but it had the yummiest, most fattening gobblesome vegetarian food i’ve eaten in ages, luckily i remember how to get back there.

HARMONIUM:

Photoshop gone made here, in the original photo i’m holding a hanky in my right hand, but it just looked way to gay and delicate, so i photoshopped it out and in the process made it look as if i have a manky pinky on my right hand, that will teach me to try and toughen myself up and redress sexuality by the power of photoshop (i can recommend the ‘Heal tool’ for getting rid of those pesky crows feet however.)

PHILLIPS 40TH:

ALL FOOD GROUPS COVERED:

Only in Qld would you find a store front advertising Knobs AND Freddo Frogs.

MEDICAL SUITE:


While in Melbourne, on a dare Tyson actually spend 15 hours in the Emergency Dept of the Princess Stephanie hospital pretending to be a doctor, talk about laugh! (Tyson, do you know if wooden speculums are tax deductable?)

SKANK FOOT:

BREE AND AMY:

My two little nieces who blew me out when i was visiting Qld by pulling out violins and cello’s and playing them with such talent and feeling, obviously my AMAZING musical genes ran strait to their pool.

PINK FLAMINGO:

Marcia and i out and about in Newtown.

SWINGER:

See!, i was born blonde!.

COOL DRIVE IN SLIDE:

PARIS IS BURNING:

VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR:


Over summer i once again got to channel John Laws, Allan Jones and Kyle Sandilands when i appeared on the ‘Let it be .. Beatles’ radio show, it’s always such a tread when the boys let me on, i close my eyes and for just the shortest second i can imagine i’m ‘Murray the K’ .. We’re what’s happnin’ babe!

FROM THE CRADLE:


How weird, when i scanned these photo’s and saw the embroidery on my baby pillow it was instantly familiar, i wonder if it’s possible to actually remember something, or respond to something from when you were that young?.

POSTER FROM MY KITCHEN:

FESTIVE ROAST:






The festive season brought along with it some of my favorite things, ie family, food and presents but not always in that order. One of the photo’s above is of a vegetarian festive roast which bless her little brynylon sox my sister went totally emo on and diced and sliced up just like your normal basted roast.

Present of the day for me was ‘Delores the rampantly gay cat’ which was flown back to me all the way from a Las Vegas souvineer shop, the last photo is of the delicate detail you can see in it’s plastic contours.

MY FIRST CHRISTINE:

SOCK IT TOO ME:

Yes it’s true, i actually have a ‘thing’ for sock puppets, dont ask me why i could’nt explain.

THERE’S GOT TO BE A MORNING AFTER:












Thanks to the kindness of my sister in filth and depravity Miss Beryl i was lucky enough to land an invite to the Sydney Lord Mayors New Years eve party, to describe this as over the top glam and excess would be a gross understatement, never before have i seen so much free alcohol flowing, it was truely eye boggling, line after line of champagne and wine was lined up along the many bars. I texted a friend later in the night ‘Money and status does not bring class’, it was a sobering and valuable lesson to see so many pillars of society drunk and tripping over, exiting the toilets with their skirts tucked into their panties, slurring and being vulgar and racist .. i commented to a Govt minister friend who was also there ‘I may be a shit kicker from Wollongong, but at least i know how to carry myself’, it was a fantastic night tho, i’m certain there was no better place on the planet to spend New Years Eve, a perfect warm summer evening on the forecourt of the Opera house.

RANDOM MOBILE PICS:

ROUGH NUT:

More pics from the old photo album, i look like such a little rough nut in this photo, i’m sure my inner queen was weeping at being forced to wear a flanno, nice reminder tho at how stuck together like glue Michelle and i were (still are, tho from a distance now alas)

ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS:




In December as is tradition a group of us gathered to listen to Paul McCartney’s new album (are they still called albums?) ‘Electric Arguments’. Each time Paul releases a new cd we all make a pact not to sneak any listens before we can all gather and sit down and listen for the first time together, these have been some of the best nights ever, probably the best was hearing ‘Chaos and creation’ for the first time, we were all left dumbstruck at how awesome it was, as usual Janelle spoilt the boys by organising a huge feast for us all to gobble and masticate over .. i wonder if Nana Mouskuri fans have gatherings like this.

PROJECTED IMAGE:

Another graphic used at Phillips party.

TABLE OF KNOWLEDGE:

One of the drawbacks of living so close to North Beach is everyone that visits me wants to be taken to be photographed at the table of knowledge, the old Kebab guy is gonna come out with his knife one day and go me as i seat another person for a quick photo op, if you need to Google ‘The table of knowledge’.

B/W:

I remember as a kid this path seemed so long, weird how perceptions change, size, distance, now we fly around the world without a blink, sometimes i miss the days when the paths was as far as you could imagine.

9150:

This summer was all about travel, some modes a little less glam than others.

MISS MARILYN’S WHEEL:


While in Melbourne i got to spend some quality time with my friend Matt, we became pen pals years and years ago and now we’re older we’ve taken the friendship from the pen into real life. While i was with Matt he had to one up me by producing a photo of him as a kid at Moomba in the presence of Daryl Sommers and the one and only ‘Miss Marilyn, oh course Matt also lets me know each and EVERY time i see him that he saw ABBA at the Myer Music Bowl in 1977 .. not that i’m bitter.

RANDOM MOBILE PIC 2:

Here we see Dee Dee making her return in the Xanadu show at the Beaton park tennis club, fantastic, the crowd had tears in it’s eyes with emotion .. or it may have been from the Amyl being passed around.

MOOBS:



In January before my annual Melbourne holiday i went to Qld to visit my family and to see my sister for her ##th birthday, while there i caught up with my brothers family and this was long overdue, i hadnt seen my nephews since June 2006, my littlest nephew Danny is now a towering man, i also had some uncle things to teach them, as you can see in the 2nd photo i have past on the ancient secret of arm folding across the chest to hide, flatten and disguise man boobs in photo’s, not saying any of them have a set of jugs on them .. but as i have learnt it may come in handy for them in the future.

RANDOM PROJECTIONS:



For Phillips birthday party i put together a slideshow projection that took up most of one of his huge white walls, i love some of the images i selected to be shown, some really cool graphics.

RAIL ROAD KILL:


I was telling Tyson how on the way to Qld i saw a discarded kiddies puppet thrown on the rail tracks at the airport, i took a snap and showed him, when we flew back weeks later from Melbourne Tyson stopped me as we walked over the bridge to look down upon the still visible but trauma evolving and disolving puppet .. gee, and poor Woody felt hard done by after being left under the bed.

RANDOM MOBILE PIC 1:

I love shit like this, i came home one day to find this megalon head in my carport.