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I like how they describe south gippsland as close knit. It's super white, parochial and backward. Yarram while I was there had an art mural phase where a guy, heesco of Mongolian heritage painted a whole load of colonial white men doing farm / colonialist things. One woman and one first nations among about twenty murals. It was fantastic in its execution and economically developed the town, but it reinforced how stuck in the 1960s the whole are is.
Also - I had big wild mushrooms growing in my front yard down there at around this time of year. People would collect them, apparently they're a delicacy. I cooked one and it smelled like greasy dirt. Too easy to mistake them honestly for poisonous ones unless you really know what you're doing.
I knew a couple down there and the story is that he thought he was wonderful and the rest of the town thought he was a cunt. So that tells me they are very good at hiding things.
People are good at gossiping that's for sure.
Were they orange? Did you have pine trees? Alot of edible wild mushrooms look nothing like what you get in the supermarket. The ones that look like you could get them in the supermarket are normally the deadly ones
No they were white, brown underneath and looked a bit like the big mushrooms you can get at most supermarkets. They also looked a bit like death caps. No way I was eating the fuckin things. I grew enough potatoes and brassicas to feed myself anyway.