I love that feeling you get when you finish something. If you could bottle it I would get it by the boxful. I have that feeling now. This semester I have been lecturing at the Canberra Institute of Technology and everything has been online. I like to be well ahead of my teaching weeks, so…
Life
Death Road
Have you heard of death roads? I hadn’t until my dad sent me some photos of this one in Colombia. One look and you’ll understand where the name came from. This one is Trampolin de la Muerte – a route between Mocoa and Pasto. It’s about 65km (35 miles) along rocky road that will lead…
Tick Tock I HATE the clock
Yesterday 5 of the states and territories of Australia moved their clocks forward an hour to start summer daylight savings…for the next 6 months! I HATE daylight savings and I live in one of those places that has it. I’m a morning person and I am a warm weather person, so the thing I love…
Library goes above and beyond
Regional libraries in the Yarra, in Victoria, have been ringing every member over the age of 70 – all 8,000 of them! According to the staff, the library is a hub for the community and with the closure due to lockdown, it separated many people, especially the elderly. They rang to say hi, ask if…
Corflute madness
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and my home territory is about to hold the territory elections (17 Oct). There are very strict advertising laws here which I appreciate – no billboards for example, and thanks to size restrictions Maccas (McDonalds to the rest of the world) golden M’s are smaller. But it means when someone…