Someone, maybe Snuff wanted pictures of the Ten Mile Well, aka the Wattleup Pub. Pete F obliges. The review, “No chill out lounge music, no doof, no indifferent service. Just your own stubby holder behind the bar & the soothing tones of the TAB race & results callers to accompany your (icy of course) cold lager. Snug in the snuggery.” Yeah. I can dig it. Barkeep de Manhattes – This be wot we be. And the third rule? Don’t talk to Commies, obviously. I kinda like it.
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Yay First Comment, Where is Waddleup?
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Looks like either bikie or CFMEU graffiti.
Legend I looked it up. It’s surrounded by Henderson, Hope Valley, the Harry Waring Marsupial Reserve and the Alcoa Tailing Ponds. I don’t know where those are either.
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the alcoa tailing ponds are where large slices of the region’s early history are buried.
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Clarence?
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Nah, it’s in that most vibrancy-infested locales, Postans, formerly known as Caledonia, renamed in the late 1970s.
Man, that’s a rather neat locality, complete with a wastewater treatment plant, quiarries and Medina Agricultural Research Facility.
I believe there’s already a Worst listed in that area, but I can’t be arsed finding it right now.
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Oops: I meant “quarries”.
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You’re right BoT, EV gave a video presentation of the avenida de los héroes de cocos through the interestingly named Mandogalup.
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Just saw a sticker “Keep Wattle Grove Rural”. (ie tardish).
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high density aged care facility in among the horse paddocks
http://ruralwattlegrove.com/
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It had me at Well. But I think I’d leave the hegemony stick safely tucked up at home.
That aside, I wouldn’t be surprised to find Winton having a cold one in a tavern like this.
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No room for turn ups & arts kind of pony tail here Shazz.
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Bikies have pony talis too Pete
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and dugongs
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any my little pony talismans
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only just got it
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They do Shazz, but not ‘arts’ pony tails.
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Liquor licence would require shoes.
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But a mirrored floor would totally up the glassing stakes.
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I’d love to see you, preferably in skinny jeans, reinforce that rule at this establishment.
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And his brown cardigan.
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Yes, and pointy shoes.
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Sheesh. You make fun of me for wearing a flannie to Little Creatures, and then start slinging barbs about pointy shoes.
It may have been me requesting pics of the 10 Mile Well. I was out that way months ago with a client, and rued not getting a sneaky shot on some pretense. But it didn’t even occur to me that people actually went inside. The survival instinct just kicks in sometimes, doesn’t it?
I recall the pub is within spitting distance of a cocos nursery.
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I recall the pub is within spitting distance of a cocos nursery.
nnnnooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
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Twasn’t me, but now I’ve seen them, it could well have been. Classic, although I’m not sure about the iffy Snuggery.
p.s. I clicked on the image for a closer look at the colour coordinated Honda, but all of the pics link to a larger version of the 3rd one. Maybe it’s just my overtweaked browser ?
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Hmm, “Snuggery”: either a place to solicit some sneaky buggery from a macho process worker at one of the nearby industrial facilities, or a surgery (kinda reads such at first glance, does the sign) to extricate broken stubbie tops from someone’s khyber pass.
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I like the mobile library in the background. Snuff, just change 2a to 2 in the address bar & you’ll see there’s not much coordination going on.
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Thanks, Pete. It’s probably because I’m colourblind that it all looks good to me.
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Whilst looking up the location I find myself discovering there is a suburb in Perth called “The Spectacles”, and if Wikipedia is to be trusted it is a mixed use suburb in the Town of Kwinana that is
“considered to be the most valuable asset of Kwinana’s natural environment”.
One third of The Spectacles is owned by Alcoa and was originally intended for residue disposal.
With $250,000 spent on walkways and vibrancy I find myself stunned that this has never been covered on TWOP.
I guess not many are brave to head that far south.
(I like the pub. It feels like The Dianella Tavern, or the Midland one that was featured some time back. A little slice of suburbia in the country. And no one can tell me Wattleup isn’t a country pub.
They just need some “Skimpy’s”.
What does the Snuggery sign say? Something Black Bottle Something?
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Hardy’s Black bottle brandy. An integral part of early trifle.
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Or strife.
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Going to the spectacles would entail I head northwest. I’ve lived within ten minutes and never been there, even when in primary school and the science teacher took kids there to study frogs. I hear the vibrancy is worth the dosh spent on it, though.
And no, you don’t want any of the skimpys that do the kwinana/rockingham/byford/wattleup area, trust me…there are things in this world you just cannot unsee…
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I wondered if you’d ventured into this watering hole Rouei? Was there anyone apart from the skimpies there? If so were they wearing reflector jackets, work boots and beards? Or arty ponytails?
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They sound like rough skumpies, indeed.
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Each to their own Bento.
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rough trade from UnZud?
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I have been there, it was a while ago though. My local is the Marri Park- where the only people in anything other than reflector jackets and boots are the bikies in leather jackets and boots or skimpies in $10 K-mart lingerie. The only arty pony tail I’ve seen there is my own :)
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No tossers needed that far south stay north. Dick weed
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I see Teh West is still squeezing some more confected parochial outrage out of the George Monbiot story, with an actual editorial. They say that the Perth suburbs are quite wonderful, and many Perth folk have fond memories of growing up on a quarter acre of sand that they can call their own. Bet it wasn’t in Butler. Why else would so many Poms be coming halfway round the world to live here? The editorial acknowledges that the sprawl is unsustainable, and that planning is poor and that services and transport cannot keep up with the expansion, but that’s no reason to diss Darch. It’s really just about snobbery. Not a chip on the shoulder at all.
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ooh, The West’s got a reader’s poll:
‘Do you think Perth’s suburbs should be protected?’
protected from what? wolves? killer robots from outer space? Guardian readers?
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On the topic of poll’s, after the link Snuff left who else spent yesterday/last night trawling through the Triffids on youtube?
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yep – and blackeyed susans
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Geraldton.
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Why poms are coming was covered in rising lunch. No Pakis apparently.
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So how do we go about getting more Pakis in?
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Why pick on the Poms when there are also all the South Africans who have been “packing for Perth”?
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what a great pub
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How is the misty eyed reminisces of fat complacent baby boomers about how wonderful Manning or Shenton Park was in 1968 consistent with agreeing that our urban structure is unsustainable? It’s like an ex-colonial officer grandfather gathering you all around the Sunday lunch table, circa 1950, to regale you with tales of how butchering African tribesmen armed with fruit, back when the empire was great, ‘Seemed like the right thing to do at the time’.
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4 corners – Sri Lanka 2009
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Yeah didn’t sleep to well after that one last night.
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I wonder if our local population will get as vocal about that as they have done over the Indonesian abattoir disclosures.
Nah! Too far away, and they’re all black cunts and they don’t bring in any foreign exchange anyway.
I too slept badly after seeing it, even though I had a fair idea of what was about to happen when I was there in 1982.
The devoted Buddhists amongst the Singhalese people were very much aware that there were evil forces at play in their society which wanted to fulminate violent clashes between the two ethnic groups.
Their prayers, unfortunately, had little effect on the perfidious machinations of their upper class feudally derived rulers.
Ergo – as always – the non-combatants got used as cannon fodder and human shields in the most cynical and traditional manner.
‘Twas ever thus.
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Very old fashioned, indeed.
It’s the 16.09344 km well, now.
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I’ve always wanted to act in my capacity as the Director of The Metrication of Popular Songs Board, where we replace any reference to Imperial or US Customary measures with their metric equivalent for the Rest of the World, excluding USA, Burma/Myanmar and Liberia (as well as the United Kingdom for road lengths), such as “And I will walk 804.672 kilometres, and I will walk 804.672 kilometres more, just to be the man who walks 1609.344 kilometres to fall down at your door”.
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Monkey has shown he can use a camera:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3676032/Cheeky-monkey-reveals-his-primate-snaps.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News
this is nothing. The West Australian has been using trained monkeys as both photographers and journalists for years now.
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But can they do this ?
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Those Rules appear to be inconsistent. I’m not sure the patrons of the Ten Mile Well Tavern would appreciate having this conundrum thrust upon them when they are splashing the boots. No skimpies?
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Splash.
Splash not.
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I’m not so sure RWL, I’ve always taken the soporific tones of the TAB to fulfil the function of holding the terrible silence at bay while the interior & perhaps patrons are witness to nothing ever happening, nothing to be done.
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I knew I recognised that colour. With apologies to Samuel.
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Nice work Snuff, that’s some excellent vibrancy from the power station at 0:19. Any of that in the play TLA?
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Well spotted, Pete. I doubt South Terrace looks much different, but can’t place that rotunda. Anyone ?
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check out 1’54” – Cott? Norfolk Pines? Kwinana Beach?
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South Beach!!!!!
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=south+beach&hl=en&ll=-32.077277,115.752732&spn=0,0.001737&sll=-32.077367,115.752742&sspn=0.000873,0.001737&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=-32.077367,115.752742&panoid=qBEV47KvRS0Y2ETYymkp2Q&cbp=12,262.93,,0,1.88
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Thomson Bay on Rottnest ?, vaguely remember something like that rotunda being near where the visitor’s centre is now.
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Def South Beach.
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I remember that sleepy sound exactly. Sound of 80s unemploymet benefit weekdays. Add sound of pool balls clashing every now and then.
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And the sound of the glass trays being taken in and out of the under bar
dishwasher. (yes youngsters, we used to have real glass. True story)
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Apparently the Lonely Planet doesn’t know about Ten Mile Well either:
http://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/travel-bible-paints-unpretty-picture-of-perth/story-e6frg3tu-1226087476492
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hard to disagree with that assessment, apart from the bit about Geraldton being a city on the move. Hopefully it will move to Queensland
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They like to brag about being on the same latitude as the Gold Coast (28º S), so perhaps that is a possibility, the difference climates (Csb/BSh transition vs. Cfa) notwithstanding.
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What hope do they have if they can’t even maintain the Wishing Well? Its called Mount Misery for a reason…..
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No mention of Rottnest? For shame…
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Perhaps Jesper had already done it for them DfoC?
Fantastic work Skink, never gets old.
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Lonely Planet had gained a bit of a reputation for vicarious comment, but it seems that this report is quite ‘hands on’.
Making a plethora of restrictive rules and regulations, then failing to provide the means to police them, is a recipe for the social dysfunction that
is becominghas become a hallmark of the Perth social scene.Political cop out rules. OK?!
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I can’t stand these people who sit there with all that negative energy. I’m glad I don’t know them in real life. loosers.
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I bet Tim got a hoodie for his birthday.
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I mean have THEY ever overpriced a latte? How many plates of fish and chips have THEY price gouged? Have THEY ever terminated public transport at 11pm? LOOOOOOOSER.
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Mandurah – cool!? who knew
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LA, if you’re going to do the Winton show it would have to be here.
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I get no link, but I would gues,, Fly by Night Club? The Mainy memorial changerooms in Gerro?
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I’m assuming he means the above mentioned tavern? Yeah I can really see us pack of metro-smart-arses going down a treat. Bento can sort out any trouble makers.
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Oh. I see. Of course. No.
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Yucky Pub
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Isn’t snuggery illegal in Western Australia?
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Decriminalised I believe.
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Or at least barely tolerated in those parts, so long as they don’t make a grand hoohah about it.
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Absolutely not a worst.
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Now I have an unsatiated curiosity about what Rule # 3 might be. This is going to bother me. Perhaps to the extent that I will have drive down to Wattleup to find out.
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Hope they don’t go all Wattle (Wicker) King on your arse.
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Do I mean Wicker man? Yes I believe I do.
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Probably best you introduce yourself as just ‘Fiona’.
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Of the Sinagra Fionas?
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The 10 mile well tavern eh? Having been a skimpy there myself I must say that it deserves some place in history. I always imagined tired bullock teams pulling in there in the 1800’s to water their beasts and have a beer on their way south, but that is probably romantic. I think it was probably built when it was a suburb called Wattleup which mysteriously disappeared, perhaps because it was too toxic to live there with the fumes blowing over it. Anyway, I have noticed that the Well has some rather sad habitués there, whenever I blew in, who always sit on the same bar stool, and “own” their spot, and I suppose drive home blotto because there are no houses within miles of there. But there are quite a lot of amusing fellows also, and a few aggressive drunks, (warning to skimpys: a big Xxxxxxxxxx with barely concealed misogyny, inflamed I suppose by the sight of my cute ass, but my favourite is an old fellow called George, well into his eighties, with a sparkle in his eye still. It’s run completely by women and that’s something, in a man’s world with men sodden with beer. I don’t know what they would do if a fight broke out…just leave them to it I guess. Anyway, it’s worth a visit on a friday night. It is strangely the worst positioned drinking hole in Perth but it’s sort of warm or cosy or something nice.
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Scratching his bullocks?
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