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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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Good night from the land down under @Snuchu

I get the snitches thing ... but its horrible that so much of the Americas are so violent ... for me its not a laughing matter ... but maybe you gotta laugh til you cry. Nite Nite

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plasmoSenior Contributor

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hoot hoot

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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chop chop

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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What are you chopping down @Appleblossom ??

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ethSenior Contributor

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Hi all I'm back on-line. Have been totally exhausted all week after the festival and the weekend away.

Hoping you all are doing ok at this end of today. Have read a lot of the last couple of days' posts now and am thinking of you @Former-Member sending you warm wishes.

To answer you @Mazarita our first night out was great after 5 hours on the highway. Dinner in the outdoor restaurant and a night in a motel room then an early morning swim in warm mineral water at Bitter Springs. Then a shorter drive in to Barunga community for the Aboriginal sport, music and culture festival. During the day there was weaving, bush medicine and bush tucker with the women and spear and yidaki (didgeridoo) making, spear throwing and yidaki playing competitions for the men and jumping castle, water slide etc for the little kids. Lots of football, basketball and softball comps for the kids from many Aboriginal communities and an art shed with works by several artists and a few art centres and the Barunga school. Also an area of stalls held by different NGO and gov't organisations talking about their work (and of course a couple of politicians!).

Then at night there was a road safety film competition by the schools the first night then lots of music on 2 stages the next 2 nights, my favourite being down by the small river. I enjoyed new works by Gurrumul, a pop-up by Katie Noonan (!!), Eleanor Dixon and Kardajala Kirri-Darra (Sand hill women), Serina Pech, Jen Cloher and Courtney Barnett, Wildflower band, but there were several other Aboriginal bands I just listened to from our camp as I was quite tired by about 10pm and they played on for ages after that. All that and camping friday to monday for $50 per person!

What with all that plus the sun, dust and wind exposure for 3 days I was wiped out coming home. Just as well my friend was happy to drive as I was micro-napping all the way, just zoning out over and over again.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Sounds amazing @eth. I'm sure you will be thinking back over it for some time, and I can understand you must be very tired, but hopefully quite satisfied as well.

Missing @Teej .....

❤️

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Unknown userMember

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hello 🙂

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Hi @Former-Member 😊

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cometSenior Contributor

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Hello @eth. Welcome back. What an amazing event to experience! I would loved to have been there. And all for $50. Incredible! Really glad you had a great time, can understand your tiredness. As @Faith-and-Hope (Hello) says, what beautiful memories... Yes best wishes to Teej also....Hello @Former-Member. Have a good night everyone.

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Unknown userMember

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Hello, I don't really know what to say. Hope you all have a good evening.
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