Archive for the 'General' Category

Yesterday I had the privilege and delight to be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Mannum Garden Club. If you are visiting my blog as a result of that meeting - welcome. Mannum is a farming centre and tourist town on the River Murray about half an hour’s drive from my home […]

Contrary to what my regular readers may have thought, I have neither dropped off the planet nor shuffled off this mortal coil.
I’ve been busy.
With my nose in the books.
I’m in the thick of studying for my Master of Arts in Creative Writing course. Plenty of assignments due at the end of term yesterday. We now […]

At the beginning of the year I joined the BIGBY - the Big Green Big Year. Carbon neutral birding seems a good thing to do. I was planning on getting a lot fitter this year anyway and hopefully lose a few excess kilos from around the middle. Doing most of my serious birding in the […]

I thought I would look back on some of the posts on this blog written during 2007 and pick out a few highlights. New readers to this blog may then get a feel for the types of articles I have written. Of course, you can always go to the archives section on the side-bar and […]

Christmas Greetings to all my readers.
I hope you had a great day. Here in my part of Australia in was 28C (82F), bright sunshine with not a cloud in the sky and a gentle breeze. It does not get much better than that. We had a quiet Christmas with just a few family members […]