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Geoff White - pioneer Australian surfer and Vipassana teacher

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Contents First love Surfing safari South Africa 1966 Seychelles 1967 More Seychelles London 1970 Timeline References --------------------- 1. "My first love is surfing" Geoff White is a legend - surfing, meditating and working his way through life. Born at Coledale Hospital 1943, he grew up in the adjacent seaside town of Austinmer, located approximately 50 miles south of Sydney, Australia. Living just a short walk from the beach enabled him at an early age to develop a love of the beach and, during his teen years, surfing. On 30 September 2024, at the age of 80, Geoff was recovering from a heart attack as as he sat amidst former brickworks colleagues, lunching on bistro food at the Bellambi Bowlo. Therein he quietly pronounced thoughts of donning a wetsuit and hitting the surf once more: "I need to get back into it!" he said, mindfully, Geoff looks sixty, not eighty. He is healthy and hearty, full of life and wonder, smiling and b
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Christian Yandell's Peter Pan and Wendy 1925

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Christian Yandell: Australian Fairy Tales 1925 | Catalogue of Work | Christian Yandell | Peter Pan and Wendy 1925 | Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland 2015 | Whitcombe's Alice in Wonderland 1924 | Contents Neverland downunder Melbourne edition Yandell's illustrations Educational Supply Association Videos References ------------------- Abstract : Australians were introduced to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wendy characters through expanded English print editions of the original play which supplied the local market during the first half of the twentieth century. This began with the 1902 novel The Little White Bird - extracts of which were published in 1904 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - and the more substantial Peter and Wendy of 1911, with illustrations by F.D. Bedford. It followed on the successful 1904 London stage play. The first Australian publication to feature Barrie's Neverland appeared around 1925 in a little known abr
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Tom Bombadil, the Secret Fire & The Rings of Power

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Tom Bombadil: Amazon's Secret Fire | The evolution of Tom Bombadil | The Rings of Power 2024 | In the cave of Tom Bombadil, The Rings of Power . Source: Vanity Fair , 29 May 2024. Contents First appearance? S2 Episode 4 S2 Episode 6 S2 Episode 8 Commentary ---------------------- 1. The first appearance? During 2024 Amazon released season 2 of its 8-part television series The Lord of the Rings - The Rings of Power, and therein (episode 4 - Eldest) introduced the character of Tom Bombadil and his partner (wife) Goldberry. The latter was not seen, but only heard briefly in conversation with Tom. British actor Rory Kinnear appeared as the enigmatic Tolkien character, conversing with Daniel Weyman’s Stranger , who is a Istar - the Blue Wizard or Gandalf. This is perhaps the precursor to the famous comment by Gandalf at the end of The Lord of the Rings wherein he notes that, having defeated Sauron with the assistance of the Fellowship of the Ring,
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