At Robertson, The Big Spud gets a face
Read all about it at The Nature of Robertson by Denis Wilson
As readers of this blog will have gathered, Miss Eagle loves community, tradition and social history. Miss Eagle's good friend Denis Wilson of The Nature of Robertson has posted to-day about a movie that has just been made about the town of Robertson. It is called, very simply, "A Place Called Robertson".The Southern Highlands of New South Wales is a beautiful and special inland region - and people from the coast who can afford a weekender or holiday house have long recreated there. These days the place is filled with all manner of tree-changers, including my friend Denis who settled on Robertson, a tiny village in the Southern Highlands, because the weather suited the growing of his favourite flowers, peonies. I say favourite flowers but I do wonder if they are still at the top of his floral list. This is because, if you follow Denis's blog, you will notice his penchant for those teeny-weeny things known as ground orchids.
I have got to know Robertson, just a little, and some of its talented inhabitants, because of Denis. You too can get to know Robertson if you read Denis's blog linked above.
If you go to the link about the movie you will find a link to the brief trailer. I fell about roaring with laughter ... so heaven knows how I would behave at the movies. The movie appears to be packing them out at the Empire Theatre in nearby Bowral and due to public demand there is to be an additional screening of the Robertson film on Friday March 22nd at 5.30pm for all the people who couldn't get in to the premiere. It is not a fundraising screening.
I wonder if the movie will travel. If not, I hope the ABC or SBS pick it up soon so we can all enjoy it and so those of us who have had a taste of the friendship and fun and creativity of Robertson can reminisce as well.
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