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…
Australia
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…
BOM update fail!
A few weeks ago I talked about the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and their weather app. If you remember, I was not happy my favourite feature of the app had been taken away and it hadn’t returned. Guess what, they’ve updated the app! But in a huge FAIL, I still don’t have my “feels…
Social distancing ingenuity
I have to laugh on the things people are doing in these weird times. This was advertised recently on the Gold Coast (in Queensland). Personally, I thought bikes were a natural social distancing form of exercise without the added chain saw. I guess it does mean you don’t have to pedal though. Have you seen…
Wombat attack
When visitors from overseas think about the terror of the Aussie bush, they think of snakes, crocodiles and spiders. You don’t usually think of wombats. But wombats can be cranky beasts when they want to be (I know, I cared for one when I worked at a wildlife park). Cranky doesn’t usually equate to vicious…