The last time this blog got any attention was over a year ago … and how time has flown. What was once a busy blog site has become one of those abandoned, archived, lonely corners of the great web. I’ve been working harder at another, niche blog – Greenroom – and using Tumblr and Posterous
Continue reading ...This is something of a coda to my earlier couple of posts with the same title. Last night I read My Country during the Road to Recovery concert held in a paddock at the tiny township of Murphy’s Creek, outside Toowoomba. This was one of the settlements devastated during the flood on January 10, 2011.
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The Toowomba community, of which I am a part, is in a kind of collective post-traumatic state right now. I am sure we are not alone, and that other places are going through the same ordeal. It’s understandable, given the events of this past week; the horror began here last Monday with a deluge that
Continue reading ...An article I wrote about the flood disaster here in southern Queensland was published in today’s Melbourne Sun Herald newspaper and online. The published version was edited, as it needed to be. Thanks to my Editor (doesn’t that sound grand?) for making it a much tighter piece. I thought I’d post the full version here
Continue reading ...[forecast] Since well before Christmas the skies have been open above Queensland. The media have told the stories over and over: an area the size of France and Germany combined is under water. The NASA satellite put images to this fact. People have been evacuated from many towns. Lives and property and animals have been
Continue reading ...We’re in the last week of the year and it’s stocktake time. I’m clearing the shelves for the new year and making all of those resolutions that will be lucky to make it to Easter. Time to think about a list of what to do or not to do in the coming year. Everyone else
Continue reading ...It’s that time of the year when remembering things to be grateful for is on many minds. This one is out of the archives – I published it 2 years ago – but it remains relevant. It popped up in the list of just-read posts on my blog this morning. Here it is I almost
Continue reading ...Ah, yes … some things never change, though I see this ‘Ordinary Voting Officer’ is using a fountain pen. Voting in Brisbane, 1937 Originally uploaded by State Library of Queensland, Australia
Continue reading ...Like many who use social networking software to engage in conversation, I’d characterise myself as a heavy Twitter-user. And the more I use Twitter, the more followers I get; it’s the nature of viral communication. I’m now followed by 1400 + people – small beans compared with some. Now, I follow some who don’t follow
Continue reading ...Yesterday the new solar panels on my roof started generating energy for the first time, joining the smaller hot-water solar system I’ve been using for a couple of years now. I was fascinated to see the wheel on the old meter spinning backwards for the first time; the energy company will put in a new
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