Day: 18 August 2005

  • History of “The Backyard”

    History of the Backyard

    backyard poster
    Poster from launch of Backyard in 1999
    The Backyard story is one of people, place and communication.

    It began in the mid to late 90s when Local Radio staff started dabbling with emerging technology. At that time it was a cottage industry and most of the dabblers learnt web production in their own time and in their own way.
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  • The shearer


    DSC03331 – shearer
    Originally uploaded by RaeA.

    Traditional Aussie song

    Click Go The Shears

    Out on the board
    The old shearer stands,
    Grasping his shears
    In his thin bony hands;
    Fixed is his gaze on
    A bare-bellied yoe,
    Glory if he gets her,
    Won’t he make the ringer go.

    Chorus:
    Click go the shears boys,
    Click, click click,
    Wide is his blow
    And his hands move quick,
    The ringer looks around
    And is beaten by a blow,
    And curses the old snagger
    With the bare-bellied yoe.
    Chorus:

    In the middle of the floor
    In his cane bottomed chair
    Sits the boss of the board
    With his eyes everywhere,
    Notes well each fleece as
    It comes to the screen,
    Paying strict attention
    That it’s taken off clean.

    Chorus:

    The colonial experience man,
    He is there of course,
    With his shiny leggin’s on.,
    Just got off his horse,
    Gazes all around him like
    A real connoisseur,
    Scented soap and brilliantine
    And smelling like a whore,

    Chorus: