I had a call from ABC Radio in Wodonga this morning. They want to interview me tomorrow for a story they’re running on local people who write blogs.
I just checked back and my very first entry was on July 9, 2003. It seems fitting to mark the second anniversary with a radio chat.
Listen in at 7.20am Tuesday if you can.
The population of Victoria is five million people, but I was the only one of them today on the summit of our second-highest peak, Mt Feathertop.
The mountain was awe inspiring, humbling, powerful and beautiful in a mesmerising package of contradictions.
Normally I have Friday spare to pursue private business, but I swapped it for today to [...]
I saw a disturbing report on SBS news last night about the Aral Sea disaster in Kazakhstan. The world’s fourth-largest inland sea has been decimated by commercial exploitation and mismanagement. Here are some of the facts:
Forty years ago the Aral Sea surface was 66,100 square kilometers with an average depth of 16.1 metres and a [...]
Well it’s almost sunk in that I’m a Dad again. The twins were dragged reluctantly into the world at 10.26am and 10.27am on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 almost two weeks before Juliet would have been full term in her labor.
The vital details:
James Peter, weight 6lb 12oz
Margaret Johanna, weight 6lb
Mum and babies are doing well. Hopefully [...]
I wrote this article in February 2002 in response to a campaign by Senator Julian McGauran and Tim Fischer to obtain a pardon for English officer “Breaker” Morant, who ordered the killing of prisoners in the Anglo/South African War.
I was annoyed that McGauran took up this issue without any community consultation. It was the only [...]
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
July 11th, 2005 at 5:47 pm
I’m afraid I won’t be listening - not at 7.20 am! Any chance you can plug the alpineshire.com forum again? Good luck, I hope someone’s up at that cold hour to hear you.
July 12th, 2005 at 8:03 am
Ray, I guess Leanne must have morning office duty? I didn’t think you could stay up till 2am most nights and be up again at six!
The interview went okay, thanks. I managed to plug http://www.alpineshire.com.
July 13th, 2005 at 8:23 am
Michael
The interview went well. Great to hear someone else (apart from Ray Kompe) on the radio.
Barbara