I can’t say it’s exciting at our place just now. The weather’s lovely this time of year and it’s cool enough to potter in the garden, catch up on few jobs. We’d rather be travelling of course but we wanted to wait until we’d had our second covid jab. That’s done, now. We were given…
The beach at Hervey Bay is a great place to walk but if it’s high tide or you’re looking for a new experience, there’s always the pier. It juts out into the Great Sandy Strait for about 850 metres to reach deep water. Finished in 1917, it was an important piece of infrastructure in times…
Although we tend to go to the beach for our not-often-enough walks, sometimes we go to other places. That might be because it’s high tide and what remains of the beach is hard to walk on, or it might just be too hot for comfort. Or we might just want a change. One alternative is…
Some of you might have noticed I didn’t write a blog last week. The news is full of the covid disaster in India and the never ending war between the Palestinians and the Israelis, while at home it’s about the latest covid stuff-up and people wondering when the borders will finally reopen. It all becomes…
Late autumn has arrived! It’s a lovely time of year here in Hervey Bay, with calm, warm days with maximums in the low to mid-twenties and cool to cold nights. The temperatures dip to ten degrees or less, time to pull out a light doona (duvet) for a few weeks, along with jeans and sweaters,…
For a change from walking on the beach Peter and I visited our local botanical garden for the first time in… about fourteen years. Like most such places, it consists of several hectares of native vegetation plus a few hectares of developed grounds – lawns, walking paths, water features and the like. After our recent…
It’s always interesting to read about China’s reactions to the latest ‘provocations’ from here and there, including, of course, Australia. Just last week Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced she had cancelled Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ Belt and Road agreement with China, citing Australia’s sovereign interests. China’s response was swift. “This is another unreasonable and provocative…
April has always been the month when we’re likely to be overseas. Like the time we went to Europe in 2010 to launch my very first published book, To Die a Dry Death.
I’ve had a mobile phone (cell phone if you’re American) for years. And years. I had my first one before 1990, back in the analogue days when a phone was a phone was a phone. I seem to remember regularly buying Nokia phones. I also remember when broadcaster Alan Jones was ranting on the radio…
It’s a week after Easter and we’re all still dutifully wearing our plague masks to the shops. I bet I’m not the only one who thinks it’s over-the-top ridiculous. I’m not sure what triggers the announcement that ‘the pandemic is over’ – you know, like ‘the war is over’, with much dancing in the streets…