We left Cardwell early, there being no point in looking for breakfast there. It wasn’t far to Tully, a much bigger place than Cardwell. Maybe we’d be lucky there. The cane harvest was in full swing in Queensland. We had already passed a number of mills belching thick columns of steam into the atmosphere. Out…
From Townsville we hit the road fairly early. The place where we’d had breakfast the last time we were here was closed in a very final sort of way and nobody else seemed to be open, so we headed along the Bruce looking for a roadhouse on our way. We eventually settled for Hungry Jacks…
The political situation between Australia and China has been deteriorating for some time.
You could be forgiven for thinking this is a nice picture of a country road with views of the mountains (such as they are in Australia) but you’d be wrong. This is the Bruce Highway, Queensland’s most important road. Part of the A1 which goes right around Australia, it runs from Brisbane in the south…
By this time of year, Pete and I would have been somewhere else for a few weeks – overseas, interstate, or even seriously intrastate. We’d planned to be OS in April and on a Christmas cruise in December, but covid put paid to those plans. Still, it seemed a bit remiss in this, my seventieth…
Age, they say, is just a number. But some numbers are more important than others. I suppose seventy is one of them. Three score years and ten used to be the measure of a good life. To be sure, lots of people get past that number, more and more as health services improve – in…
This year keeps giving us strange, history-making spectacles. Last month we saw the grand final of the Australian Football League held somewhere OTHER than the Melbourne Cricket Ground in (you guessed it) Melbourne for the first time ever. Covid-19 had sent the city into a second lock down which made holding the footy at the…
Since this is 2020, the year of living very dangerously, this time of transition, marked by Hallowe’en and the night of the full moon, also includes an election.
Printers. They’ve become almost essential. Certainly, many companies are encouraging us to receive documents such as statements and receipts online. Which means we have to use our own paper and ink to print said document to save as a hard copy. Maybe some time we’ll be so good at keeping backups and what-have-you that hard…
While the world is going mad and we can’t go anywhere outside Australia, it doesn’t hurt to reflect on good times in the past. Here are a few pictures taken in Europe in better times. I expect we won’t be going back there any time soon. Ah, me. Good times. Apart from that, I’m setting…