Back in March I mentioned the farming community here was experiencing a mouse plague. Two months later and the plague is still with us, in fact, it’s spreading. It’s now hit my town. So far we’ve been okay and haven’t seen one, but you can’t buy rat bait or a mousetrap anywhere in town. The…
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Flood and Mice
In September 2019 Australia started to burn. Nearly 5 months later the fires were down to a smoulder and covid reared its head. A year to the day that Australia went into covid lockdown, we’re flooding. To top it off, much of the farming community are experiencing a mouse plague. It’s been 18 months of…
Facebook furore
If you haven’t heard, last Thursday Australia woke up to a Facebook ban. All news, and pages with news, had been wiped. The history behind it is new legislation in Oz that requires outlets to pay for the news they are reporting… makes sense, news outlets need to make money too. Google threatened to pull…
Normal here, but not everywhere
It appears this one has been doing the rounds. The question originally posed was, “What is something that’s normal in your country, but weird for the rest of the world?” It’s a little hard to answer, because how do you know what isn’t normal elsewhere? So I thought I’d put together a few things and…
Holiday here
With international travel locked down for Australia (in and out) for at least this year, possibly longer, we will all be holidaying Down Under. To encourage us to explore our wonderful country, Tourism Australia has a “holiday here this year” campaign underway. I am loving this campaign, particularly the ad below, narrated by a favourite…