The Bush Bible and hearts…
I’m not sure how many of you understand how it works, news-wise in a bush residence?
We get mail out here twice a week – Wednesdays and Fridays.
We get newspapers delivered once a week – Fridays.
For a chick whose life once totally revolved around the news – who read at least two newspapers every day, who could recite by rote the state and federal ministers and most of the leaders of the western world and whose job saw her even document some of it – the current lack of newspaper news in my life is surprisingly acceptable. I do listen to ABC radio and check on twitter and online news sites for updates every so often. But the burning need to know what is going on where is a far less, well, hot. Kinda lukewarm really.
To be honest, I just enjoy the silences of my world, and I sometimes resent the intrusion of worldly reality into it.
One newspaper, however, DOES make it into our world. Every week. Down our driveway, into our houseyard and onto our patio table. To be unfurled and perused and studied and written on.
It’s called the Queensland Country Life – also known out here as ‘The Bible of the Bush’ – and pretty much everyone in rural Queensland reads this publication.
It’s filled with agricultural and regional news, and has interesting lift-outs on the breeds, people and enterprises who are the biggest and the best. Stories on the good stuff and the bad stuff, lots of opinion and bush colour. There are pages devoted to who’s been born and who has passed away, who got married and who are looking for partners (okay, these guys are incognito still, but it’s always interesting reading!).
It was something on the wedding pages this week, that caught my eye…
Page 77 to be exact…
Holy SMOKES…
Half a page supporting my little bush calendar… can you believe it? I am certainly still pinching myself!
To have not only the Country Life show such amazing support, but to also have HeartKids come on board has been fantastic. For the record, I did not approach either of them to help me out in the selling of these calendars, or make wild promises about how much the final donations might be. They simply liked the idea of bush calendars, helping heart kids and little bush schools.
I am so blown away by this support I barely know where to begin. Or end.
So I suppose I will just say THANKS (from the bottom of my heart).
Whether we sell ten or a thousand calendars from this ad, I will be delighted with the generosity shown this week by people who really didn’t have to.
And to those who have ordered one, two, five, ten and twenty at a time – you totally rock too!
15 Comments
Amanda
Awesome!
(and yeah – that paper is a staple at the farm ….along with the reader’s digest for some reason….)
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Bush Babe
I know… both about the awesomeness of the QCL/HK effort AND the Reader’s Digest thing. Some kind of Aussie bush thing, to have the RD in the smallest room in the house?
🙂
BB
debby
I think that both agencies recognized quality when they saw it. That’s what I think.
🙂
debby
testing. testing.
<3
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Jayne
Ahhh, we’ve sadly been deprived of Qld Country Life as we have The Weekly Times as our Bible of The Bush in this neck of the woods.
That’s marvellous, BB, well done and hope there’s plenty of sales 🙂
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debby
Sorry. I never knew how to make a smiley, but now I do, so I tried a heart. Doesn’t work. And I can’t delete it. Sorry to be messing up your blog…
😛
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Bush Babe
And here I was thinking you were just trying to make my comment count look more impressive!
😉
CeeCee
That was a relief—at first, I thought they’d ‘borrowed’ your photograph.
I’m so happy that you’ve been able to share your talent and support a great cause. Congratulations!
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Leenie
Your Queensland paper knows Good Stuff when they see it. Congratulations on the recognition. My 2011 BB Calendar is bringing sunshine into my room at this very moment. Which is a good thing since the barometer is at the bottom and snow is coming down in gobs. Attention well deserved, and thanks.
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Sal
Smokin! Top stuff for a top calendar – Good on QCL! 🙂
Lydia
Good on ya’ BB! What a great way to confirm the quality of your work! woot!
Name (required)
That’s great BB From your lover at Dingo
Bush Babe
I would like to point out that Name(required) is a friend of mine who apparently cannot read. G’day Elle and Harv!
🙂
BB
Leonie
Hey Manda, I was just flicking through the country life today at lunch – which weeks was the ad in?? 11th or 19th Nov?? I’ll have a double check tomorrow at work!! WELL DONE LOVE!!!! xoxo
Pencil Writer
What great news! Happy for you and your success. One day I’m going to get one of your calendars. One day…they are so beautiful!