FEEL SOOO Warm...

SO ANYWAY, I HEAD west from Bigga down to Reid Flat on a beautiful gravel road, north to Wyangala Dam and then across to Cowra where the Lachlan River Hotel stands mute, shuttered and endangered. Half an hour later I pull over and adjust the music in my headphones to a song I need to hear.

Then, with the Lachlan to my right beginning its afternoon nurturing of mists that soon shroud the hills and chill the air, and with Skyhooks at full volume pumping out ‘Women in Uniform’, I pull up opposite the Gooloogong Hotel.

“Women in Uniform, sometimes they look so cold.”

(For those who don’t know the song, now’s a good time to check it out on Youtube, just search the band and the song and turn up the volume!)

When the Commercial Hotel here was apparently re-opened (I’ll get back to this in a bit) two years before the outbreak of WW2, “about 70 ladies … the guests