{"id":1513,"date":"2011-10-05T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:12:21","slug":"swimming-for-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/swimming-for-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"SWIMMING FOR STICKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-historical-building.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1513]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1517\" title=\"malmsbury-historical-building\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-historical-building.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Old historical building in Malmsbury\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-old-bus.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1513]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1518\" title=\"malmsbury-old-bus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-old-bus.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Old bus in someone's backyard in Malmsbury\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-bus-going-nowhere.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1513]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1521\" title=\"malmsbury-bus-going-nowhere\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-bus-going-nowhere.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Looking at a bus parked in a field in Malmsbuy\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-gracie-playing.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1513]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1519\" title=\"malmsbury-parent-investigate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-parent-investigate.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Parents investigating Malmsbury\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-water-fountain.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1513]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1520\" title=\"malmsbury-botanical-gardens-water-fountain\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-water-fountain.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"A rogue water fountain in the Botanical Gardens, in Malmsbury\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-gracie-fetching.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1513]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"malmsbury-botanical-gardens-gracie-fetching\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-gracie-fetching.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Gracie the border collie fetching a stick in the river at the Botanical Gardens, in Malmsbury\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malmsbury-botanical-gardens-gracie-playing.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent a lazy weekend showing our new housemates the Australian countryside. We thought we&#8217;d ease them in gently by setting off from the Malmsbury Botanical Gardens which is very British before taking them down the bumpy dusty dirt track into the bush filled with all our lovely venomous slitherers. I do love a town with character, and when people have old retro buses in their backyards you know you&#8217;re somewhere special.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a lazy weekend showing our new housemates the Australian countryside. We thought we&#8217;d ease them in gently by setting off from the Malmsbury Botanical Gardens which is very British before taking them down the bumpy dusty dirt track into the bush filled with all our lovely venomous slitherers. I do love a town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[374,78,220,87,89],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-australian-country-town","tag-countryside","tag-flemington-earthbag-garden","tag-gracie-the-border-collie","tag-weekend-away"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mamsbury-botanical-gardens-papery-seeds.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-op","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16518,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/16518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}