Things that Trouble Me When I Should be Sleeping

How did the town in north Central Victoria known as Yea get its name?

It's obviously a town that sprung up out of necessity to the farmers and possibly miners (I don't know much about the history of the area). But did it reach a point when those in charge were like, "Right, this place is no longer a place for passing travellers to spend the night. It's a town now, and we need to give it a name, yea or nay?"

A chorus of "Yea!" from everyone.

"Right, what should we call it then?"

No response.

"Right, well, tomorrow we'll come up with a name for the new town, yea or nay?"

"Yea!"

And because no one could come up with a name someone decided to just name the town Yea in honour of the fact that they always said "Yea!" to naming the town "tomorrow" ... which, if that's the case Victoria could've had a town called Tomorrow instead of Yea.

Either that, or they were smoking something funky and thought that naming a town Yea would be extremely hilarious and made it official before they sobered up.

South Australia is Full of Clothes Lines

Or so you would believe after watching the South Australian Tourism Commission ads.



Did you see all the different clothes lines?

There's at least five of them in that one minute ad.

And there's even more in the lates Tourism South Australia ad, but unfortunately I appear to lack the skills to track it down on Youtube. So we're just going to have to make do with this one ad.

But it's like the South Australia authorities wants everyone to know that South

Australia is home to the largest collection of clothes lines, much like Shepparton is home to the largest collection of model cows.

And you know that's exactly what people will want to see when going on Holidays; clothes lines ... hopefully they're Hills Hoists clothes lines since Adelaide is the home of Hills Hoist.

It can be a learning holiday for the family!

That'll be fun, going on a tour around the state learning all about the history of the Hills Hoist, because as we all know kids love learning about history. Especially when it's the history of something as mundane and uneventful as the good old clothes lines. Plus the parents can also have plenty of fun too.

The fun isn't just limited to the kids!

But all those clothes lines around the South Australian country side also serve another purpose. Yes, besides providing non stop excitement for the whole family, they can also be used to dry clothes on for families who are camping and need somewhere to hang their washing or just even wet towels after showering and/or swimming. And since there seems to be a clothes line in every possible location, finding one shouldn't be a problem.

Is there anything the humble clothes line can't do?

So next time you're planning your holiday don't forget about South Australia and their wonderful collection of clothes lines, which is quite possibly the largest in the world ... and is quite possibly more exciting than Shepparton's collection of cows. There's fun and excitement to be had by everyone!