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…
Australia
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…
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…