Do you remember the Louie the Fly ad? It would have been around in the sixties or seventies, I think. It’s simple and it has a clear message. Flies spread disease, potentially harming your children. BUT – we have the answer – MORTEIN. Those were the good old days when ads had a clear message…
The war in Europe drags on. Putin appears to have used Adolf Hitler’s program to mould his foreign policy – but now the analogy has come unstuck. When the Wehrmacht finally went into battle, the victories were swift and decisive in Poland, then nine months later in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. That has not…
The Capricorn Caves are not far off the Bruce Highway just north of Rockhampton. We’d passed the sign many times but today we booked a tour and headed south from Mackay. Although the rain event we’d heard about was mainly further south of Hervey Bay, the clouds gathered up here, chucking down a passing shower…
Mackay is a city on the edge of the Coral Sea, known by the media as ‘sugar city’ because the main industry in the area has been growing and milling sugar cane. Frankly, driving past endless tracts of very tall grass is… well, let’s be honest, boring. But drive inland for an hour and you’ll…
Peter and I were getting a bit stir-crazy staying at home so on the spur of a moment we decided to go on a little road trip up the Queensland coast. The plan was to stay a couple of nights with a friend at Airlie Beach, then go home at a leisurely pace. We’d been…
You’re right, I didn’t do my usual Saturday blog. But it wasn’t because of the floods in South East Queensland. That has happened further south of Hervey Bay. We had about 75mm (3″) over several days, which is no big deal here. The biggest impact on Hervey Bay is that the roads to Brisbane are…
I can’t help thinking that we’re living through 1939 all over again. Czar Putin has his troops massed on Ukraine’s border. All he needs is an excuse to invade. Back in 1939, Hitler had security service (SD – Sicherheitsdienst in German) agents dressed in Polish uniforms attack a radio station in Poland and broadcast anti-German…
It’s amazing how history repeats itself so often. Or maybe it’s not, people being what they are. I read this in The Australian the other day. “Australia’s new $45bn Hunter-class frigates will be ‘substantially’ slower, have a shorter range than originally intended, and could be vulnerable to detection by enemy vessels, a classified Defence Department…
We’ve had visits from kookaburras over the years but they’ve not been frequent until the last couple of weeks. One turned up and took a bit of the food we leave out for the butcher birds, which are also carnivores. Then over a number of days, it turned up fairly regularly. And it brought friends….
Australia Day (26th January) has been and gone, with the usual nonsense that has surrounded that date over the last several years. It’s the day in 1788 when Captain/Governor Phillip established the first British settlement at what would become Sydney. There were ‘invasion day’ gatherings in some cities, supporting the notion that was the day…