G'day Art Thieme,

"Henry Lawson's poem Santa Claus In The Bush just begs to get a good tune" ...

OK ... OK ... ! After your previous remark, to the same effect, in another thread I looked through the file copies of Mulga Wire ... but couldn't find the prize-winning setting I mentioned.

If I can't track it down in publication, I'll see if I have the submitted cassette (it was years ago) filed away - and chisel the dots down on the rough stone.

(Some time ... maybe when the Antipodean weather stops trying for record high temperatures. We had the highest October [mid Spring] temperature ever recorded in Sydney, last month {38º C = ~ 100.4º F] ... and yesterday was threatened to be the highest November [last day of Spring] temperature ever recorded (42º C = ~ 108º F] ... but a cool sea breeze saved coastal Sydney - if not the inland suburbs!

Regards,

Bob (definitely no air-con ... !)