Floriade page 2 “Visitors can wander around the flowerbeds inspired by the ‘Aussie icons, myths and legends’ theme.”

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Parliament House Old Parliament House Floriade Riding the Buses National Gallery National Museum Sleeping with Cops National Zoo CSIRO Black Mountain Tower National Archives High Court War Memorial The Big Dry CLICK ANY PHOTO TO SEE IT AT FULL SIZE	We heard music in the distance, and eventually found its source across a pond, a great big ‘concert street organ’ playing all your old favourites like ‘The Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ and ‘The Skater’s Waltz’. Two little boys were bopping away to the ‘Colonel Bogey March’ when we arrived. The organ has 442 pipes creating all sorts of different instrumental sounds, and is driven by a bellows, on this occasion powered by a portable generator. At the back, we could see the stacks of folding cardboard music, and one of them moving through the mechanism and folding itself up again.
Then we came upon a statue who stared at Tony for a long time, and then began poking people with his walking stick and giving lollies to children who were brave enough to approach him.
Who let all these Aussie gnomes in? There’s even a Dame Edna gnome in this group. It was enough to make Tony try to escape over the fence.
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