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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Listen live at Tasmania Talks dot com dot au as
many A Talks Merril moments on the line.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is Mary Knowles, good a, Mary Knowles.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Good morning. How are you. I must apologize for not
being able to be contacted the other day. I had
major communication problems and was flooded in.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh, well you were. I didn't realize you're off grid
Where you are? You've been off grid for ys is
that right?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes? Yes, thirty four years no power bill. Thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Wow. Wow. People dream of being off grid now. People
work hard to be off grid and you've been doing
it for decades. Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Absolutely, it's not that hard.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's not that hard. You must listen to this. It's
you know, power's going up by two hundred and fifty
six percent. You must listen to that and laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, not laugh for other people. But yes, thankful that
I'm in the situation i'm in.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's easier to be off grid now than it was
years ago, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, everything's so much more sophisticated now. It's a lot
easier to do. But it wasn't difficult when we did it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I remember talking to Jackie. We used to talk
to Jackie French every week about a million years ago.
And one of the meetings, because after the meeting, after
the chat on the phone, you'd say, all right, we'll
better go. But this time we just chatted a bit
too long and she said, nearly out of power. I
better go. And we said, what do you mean, nearly
out of power? And she said, oh, no, we haven't
been on the grid for years. And this was, you know,
twenty years ago. Probably we used to talk to her.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I totally get that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So there was a lot of people doing it back then.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, and you don't need a huge system.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, amazing. Do you have to skimp on power
or no?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, no, just write a normal household. Just turn everything up.
Don't waste power. When you go out of a room,
turn the light off. You go to the blue, turn
the light off. The the kids grew up out there,
they've become city flickers now, so when they come home,
they go out of the bedroom and live the lights on.
I have it. You need to get into.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You go around the power, You go around and sent them. Well,
we're all going to have to do it soon. If
the power goes up by two hundred and fifty six percent.
You didn't think you were going to be talking about
this this morning. How did the election go? There was
a few issues.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We have some oh oh yeah, well a little bit,
I guess. Yes, we lost some counselors and we've got
some new counselors on. We've had our investiture that was
on Monday. We have an induction on next Monday, and
then the following Monday after that, on the twenty eighth,
we'll have our first meeting. So let's hope we have
(02:23):
a good team.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay. And you've met them all so far obviously you have.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yes, yes, meet them all.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now do you know them all?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
No? No, there's some people there I don't know and
some of that I know of and don't know particularly well.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay. And the voting all went well at Northern Midlands
Council because it was the first yes.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yes, we had a high rate of I was
well into the eighty percents of you know, returns. So
I think they were quite pleased.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, they are they actually finding people who didn't
vote because this was the first time it was compulsory.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, I don't know. Yes, there was a suggestion that
that's what they were going to do, but I.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sort of wondered whether they're going to let people off
because quite often when it's the first time for something
like that, they let you off on the first one
and then get you the next time. So everythings possible,
they do it that way. All right, now, things happening
around the place. This is Meyrior moments. You're the mayor
Northern Midlands Council. You've got some stuff happening. Festival's festival's
garden show.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What's that? Absolutely well, without all the rain, this is
actually a wonderful time of year in Northern Tasmania and
in particularly in the Northern Midlands. So next this weekend
is coming weekend. We have the Lungs of Blooms which
is on both days this weekend, so it's a matter
of wandering through the beautiful gardens in Longford. There is
a ticket cost that's fifteen dollars, Tension is ten dollars
(03:44):
and you can get a weekend past the twenty four
dollars and children five. So they're raising funds for the
Helping Hand Association and also for Care for Africa Foundation,
so it's all going to.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
A good cause and that's on this weekend this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Come this weekend, yes, and you can get your tickets
through Facebook, Instagram or you can purchase them at the
Village Green okay. Yeah. And also this weekend, same fate
or same oacation. This is in the town Hall, the
Longford Garden Shower having their annual Spring Festival flower Show,
so yeah, that happens each year. It's a fifty fourth
annual flower show and they'll have roses and irises and
(04:24):
cut flowers and collections, collections of flowers, a children's collections
and that's a gold coin donation at the Longford Town Hall.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Excellent fevers free.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes, absolutely. And again over the same weekend we have
the garden Tour of the Blenheim Garden, beautiful, beautiful garden
at seven thirty three Cressy Road. That's got you get
a personalized tour of the garden and you can hear
all about the history and the history of the place
(04:55):
and the garden development over the last thirty years. But
also there's the unique Carlton Cox Lino Cut exhibition there,
so you can enjoy a glass of Tasmani and wine
or craft beer while you enjoy the exhibition and the gardens.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What we used to do open gardens a lot, didn't
they years ago? What happened to those?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yes, oh that's happening again. Actually, that's what this weekend's
all about.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They're coming back absolutely, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And on the Sunday we've got the Festival of Roses
out at Wilmoth, which is just stunning. Thousands of roses
in bloom in the National Rose Garden.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That is huge. How many how many acres it? It's
like about an acre or something, isn't.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes, we could even be more than that. It's just massive. Yes,
it's just lovely out there. So that's on on the Sunday.
And then next weekend we have from the Veranda Music
Festival that's just a wonderful, wonderful event at Evandale Quirky
Music on verandas all sorts of performers we've got you
(05:56):
just only name a few, Nellie Jake Boothed, the Bill
Evans Trio, the Cuser Brothers on the clatshow how to
pronounce that? And that's what this is. On the Saturday,
and they've got a harmonica workshop. You bring your own
harmonica along and I guess they teach how to play
it wow. And on the Sunday. This is only a
(06:16):
few of the different events on different verandas we've got
the Roundabouts, the Marvelous Hearts, Steve Cooper Trio, the Stranded
Whalers and they have a ukulele workshop then you bring
your own ukulele. So there's some certainly plenty to do
in Evandale, and of course the market on Sunday. That's
(06:40):
exactly right. You've got the market on the Sunday as well.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Sorry, that's just so you know, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We've just got quite a few things on for it.
On the twenty sixth in Longford, the Longford Jazz Club
have they're presenting Tony Pantano.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Doesn't he? Is he the Elvis impersonal?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I think so. Yeah, So I haven't actually heard in myself,
but I do believe that's right. And that's on at
the Longford Town Hall and the doors open at six
thirty and it's the tickets of fifty dollars, so I
don't know if there's tickets left that it's pretty popular,
I think. And then on the eleventh of December we've
got the Shannon's Classic Car Show in Campbelltown that's raising
(07:24):
money for the Salvation Army. That's their their car charity
show all for the classic vehicles from nineteen ten to
nineteen ninety and to get any more information you contact
Rod at zero four zero eight three one four three nine.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Easy. Yes, Yes, you got so much going on, it's.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
A perfect place to be. Yes, well not this, this
is for February. Don't forget that. The Evandale Village there
and Penny Farthing Championships will be back on.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yes, have you ever been talking into going for a
ride on one of these?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No, I'm not that brave.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No, tried to get me one on one years ago
and not bad, bad bad. I'm sure I'd be okay
while I was rinning, but after that it would all
be very bad. Off to the hospital line.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, that's right, And we have several markets on in
lots of the different towns. Campbelltown has got a market
on the November twenty seventh, Evandale markets on every Sunday,
and the voc has got a lovely Christmas market coming
up on Saturday the third of December. So yeah, there's
lots and lots of places.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
To explore amazing stuff. You're going to be busy, Mary,
Knowle's Northern Midlands Council. Talk to you probably next year.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Indeed, you have a good run.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
See you now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
List alive at Tasmania Talks dot com dot au
Listen live at Tasmania Talks dot com dot au as
many A Talks Merril moments on the line.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is Mary Knowles, good a, Mary Knowles.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Good morning. How are you. I must apologize for not
being able to be contacted the other day. I had
major communication problems and was flooded in.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh, well you were. I didn't realize you're off grid
Where you are? You've been off grid for ys is
that right?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes? Yes, thirty four years no power bill. Thank you
very much.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Wow. Wow. People dream of being off grid now. People
work hard to be off grid and you've been doing
it for decades. Oh.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Absolutely, it's not that hard.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's not that hard. You must listen to this. It's
you know, power's going up by two hundred and fifty
six percent. You must listen to that and laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, not laugh for other people. But yes, thankful that
I'm in the situation i'm in.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's easier to be off grid now than it was
years ago, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, everything's so much more sophisticated now. It's a lot
easier to do. But it wasn't difficult when we did it.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I remember talking to Jackie. We used to talk
to Jackie French every week about a million years ago.
And one of the meetings, because after the meeting, after
the chat on the phone, you'd say, all right, we'll
better go. But this time we just chatted a bit
too long and she said, nearly out of power. I
better go. And we said, what do you mean, nearly
out of power? And she said, oh, no, we haven't
been on the grid for years. And this was, you know,
twenty years ago. Probably we used to talk to her.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I totally get that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So there was a lot of people doing it back then.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, and you don't need a huge system.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, amazing. Do you have to skimp on power
or no?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, no, just write a normal household. Just turn everything up.
Don't waste power. When you go out of a room,
turn the light off. You go to the blue, turn
the light off. The the kids grew up out there,
they've become city flickers now, so when they come home,
they go out of the bedroom and live the lights on.
I have it. You need to get into.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You go around the power, You go around and sent them. Well,
we're all going to have to do it soon. If
the power goes up by two hundred and fifty six percent.
You didn't think you were going to be talking about
this this morning. How did the election go? There was
a few issues.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
We have some oh oh yeah, well a little bit,
I guess. Yes, we lost some counselors and we've got
some new counselors on. We've had our investiture that was
on Monday. We have an induction on next Monday, and
then the following Monday after that, on the twenty eighth,
we'll have our first meeting. So let's hope we have
(02:23):
a good team.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay. And you've met them all so far obviously you have.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yes, yes, meet them all.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Now do you know them all?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
No? No, there's some people there I don't know and
some of that I know of and don't know particularly well.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay. And the voting all went well at Northern Midlands
Council because it was the first yes.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh yes, we had a high rate of I was
well into the eighty percents of you know, returns. So
I think they were quite pleased.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, they are they actually finding people who didn't
vote because this was the first time it was compulsory.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yes, I don't know. Yes, there was a suggestion that
that's what they were going to do, but I.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Sort of wondered whether they're going to let people off
because quite often when it's the first time for something
like that, they let you off on the first one
and then get you the next time. So everythings possible,
they do it that way. All right, now, things happening
around the place. This is Meyrior moments. You're the mayor
Northern Midlands Council. You've got some stuff happening. Festival's festival's
garden show.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What's that? Absolutely well, without all the rain, this is
actually a wonderful time of year in Northern Tasmania and
in particularly in the Northern Midlands. So next this weekend
is coming weekend. We have the Lungs of Blooms which
is on both days this weekend, so it's a matter
of wandering through the beautiful gardens in Longford. There is
a ticket cost that's fifteen dollars, Tension is ten dollars
(03:44):
and you can get a weekend past the twenty four
dollars and children five. So they're raising funds for the
Helping Hand Association and also for Care for Africa Foundation,
so it's all going to.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
A good cause and that's on this weekend this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Come this weekend, yes, and you can get your tickets
through Facebook, Instagram or you can purchase them at the
Village Green okay. Yeah. And also this weekend, same fate
or same oacation. This is in the town Hall, the
Longford Garden Shower having their annual Spring Festival flower Show,
so yeah, that happens each year. It's a fifty fourth
annual flower show and they'll have roses and irises and
(04:24):
cut flowers and collections, collections of flowers, a children's collections
and that's a gold coin donation at the Longford Town Hall.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Excellent fevers free.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes, absolutely. And again over the same weekend we have
the garden Tour of the Blenheim Garden, beautiful, beautiful garden
at seven thirty three Cressy Road. That's got you get
a personalized tour of the garden and you can hear
all about the history and the history of the place
(04:55):
and the garden development over the last thirty years. But
also there's the unique Carlton Cox Lino Cut exhibition there,
so you can enjoy a glass of Tasmani and wine
or craft beer while you enjoy the exhibition and the gardens.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What we used to do open gardens a lot, didn't
they years ago? What happened to those?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yes, oh that's happening again. Actually, that's what this weekend's
all about.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
They're coming back absolutely, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And on the Sunday we've got the Festival of Roses
out at Wilmoth, which is just stunning. Thousands of roses
in bloom in the National Rose Garden.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
That is huge. How many how many acres it? It's
like about an acre or something, isn't.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes, we could even be more than that. It's just massive. Yes,
it's just lovely out there. So that's on on the Sunday.
And then next weekend we have from the Veranda Music
Festival that's just a wonderful, wonderful event at Evandale Quirky
Music on verandas all sorts of performers we've got you
(05:56):
just only name a few, Nellie Jake Boothed, the Bill
Evans Trio, the Cuser Brothers on the clatshow how to
pronounce that? And that's what this is. On the Saturday,
and they've got a harmonica workshop. You bring your own
harmonica along and I guess they teach how to play
it wow. And on the Sunday. This is only a
(06:16):
few of the different events on different verandas we've got
the Roundabouts, the Marvelous Hearts, Steve Cooper Trio, the Stranded
Whalers and they have a ukulele workshop then you bring
your own ukulele. So there's some certainly plenty to do
in Evandale, and of course the market on Sunday. That's
(06:40):
exactly right. You've got the market on the Sunday as well.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Sorry, that's just so you know, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We've just got quite a few things on for it.
On the twenty sixth in Longford, the Longford Jazz Club
have they're presenting Tony Pantano.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Doesn't he? Is he the Elvis impersonal?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I think so. Yeah, So I haven't actually heard in myself,
but I do believe that's right. And that's on at
the Longford Town Hall and the doors open at six
thirty and it's the tickets of fifty dollars, so I
don't know if there's tickets left that it's pretty popular,
I think. And then on the eleventh of December we've
got the Shannon's Classic Car Show in Campbelltown that's raising
(07:24):
money for the Salvation Army. That's their their car charity
show all for the classic vehicles from nineteen ten to
nineteen ninety and to get any more information you contact
Rod at zero four zero eight three one four three nine.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Easy. Yes, Yes, you got so much going on, it's.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
A perfect place to be. Yes, well not this, this
is for February. Don't forget that. The Evandale Village there
and Penny Farthing Championships will be back on.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yes, have you ever been talking into going for a
ride on one of these?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No, I'm not that brave.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
No, tried to get me one on one years ago
and not bad, bad bad. I'm sure I'd be okay
while I was rinning, but after that it would all
be very bad. Off to the hospital line.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Well, that's right, And we have several markets on in
lots of the different towns. Campbelltown has got a market
on the November twenty seventh, Evandale markets on every Sunday,
and the voc has got a lovely Christmas market coming
up on Saturday the third of December. So yeah, there's
lots and lots of places.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
To explore amazing stuff. You're going to be busy, Mary,
Knowle's Northern Midlands Council. Talk to you probably next year.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Indeed, you have a good run.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
See you now.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
List alive at Tasmania Talks dot com dot au
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