In our covid life it is always refreshing to see people putting a smile on others faces – and sometimes it doesn’t take much. Traffic controller Claire is one such person. She’s been working on the Princes Highway in New South Wales near Bulli for the last two months. She and the other traffic controllers…
Australia
Places to visit
In 2020 I’m answering a list of 52 journal questions. Read about it here. 10 places you would like to visit.It’s funny, when I was younger I had a long list of places I really wanted to visit. As I’ve aged, my desire to visit those places has lessened. It’s not that I wouldn’t visit…
Snake attacks driver
Australia is home to 5 of the top 6 most poisonous land snakes in the world. Number three is the eastern brown snake…not something you’d want to find in your car as you’re driving at 100km/hr (62miles/hr). But that’s exactly what happened to one bloke recently. He was on a main inland road (shown on…
Semester 2
Today is the first day of semester 2 in the school year. After the covid-ridden crash and burn of semester 1, I’m really hoping this is will be a better semester. The mid-year holiday (2 weeks) is a nice break because the Barbarians have no school work to do over these holidays (the term holidays…
Writing Retreat Cruise #4
It’s been a while since I posted about the cruise. Mostly because while it has only been 3 months, the way this year has gone it feels more like 3 years ago. This time I want to talk about the weather which was pretty miserable weather for the whole three weeks of the cruise. Unfortunately…