Ten Canoes (DVD)

Ten Canoes



This is a wonderful film about Aborigianl Australians filmed in their own language (with subtitles, that are to be honest, rather difficult to read) It follows a young initiate on his goose egg gathering mission and his education by an older and wiser tribal elder. The story the elder tells the initiate is from the dreaming and follows the exploits of one of their ancestors. A very watchable, informative and interesting film. The extras on the DVD are also well worth a look.

Doing and Boing Rating 5/5

Cloud Spotting

Have you ever looked up at the clouds and seen faces, shapes and animals?  We do it all the time and it is a very relaxing, inspirational and meditative activity.  Below are some of our cloud pics, taken from our back door.  If you want to see some fantastic cloud pictures- go to the Cloud Appreciation Scoiety as they have galleries full :-)

Cloud Mountain

The Eagle and the Dragon

Moon Dog

Double Rainbow

I hope you have enjoyed our pictures.  If you want to learn about clouds then I can recommend the following books:

We The Aborigines

 We, the Aborigines




At first glance this looks like a wonderful book giving insights into Australian aboriginal life. It has some beautiful photographs, but the text consists of invented interviews with the characters in the photographs, and is often quite patronising. It does hovever give some insights into aboriginal culture and beliefs.

For this reason we have rated it 2/5.