Michael Gorey

I’m becoming strangely addicted to Google Street View. This picture is from outside our house in Ceduna, where we lived in 1992-93. Kathleen was conceived there (more…)

I went to a dairyfarmers meeting in Mount Gambier today. It was like being home again, back in Gippsland when I was a reporter for “Stock and Land”.
There are 70 or so dairy farms in the South East of South Australia, so it’s not a dominant industry, but one that is certainly significant. (more…)

There’s a nice teaser on the front page of the Herald-Sun today. Beside a picture of the Queen is text: “Victoria’s royal request: Hand back our PJs, Ma’am.”
Intrigued, I turned to page seven and found it was somewhat misleading, but in a non-offensive way. The story was a beat-up but funny.
The City of Ballarat presented [...]

I’m taking a look at rssHugger.
It claims to be a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together.
“rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimisation, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is [...]

I was talking to a tourism industry leader last week and asked him what was South Australia’s top tourism attraction for interstate and international visitors outside Adelaide.
He surprised me by saying it was Kangaroo Island. I thought it should have been Mount Gambier’s Blue Lake, but imagined it was probably the Barossa Valley.
He said there [...]

Dad’s funeral was held today in Traralgon. Although he had been a very private person for the past 10 years there was quite a big attendance.
Dad believed in God, but not in organised religion, so there was a civil celebrant. I thought it was a tasteful, moving service and others told me afterwards they thought [...]

It’s very expensive to live in remote towns such as Kalgoorlie. It’s worse in the Pilbara, from what I can tell, but Kalgoorlie certainly isn’t cheap.
We had subsidised housing there, which made it reasonably affordable.
When considering a move to Mount Gambier we calculated the impact of losing the housing assistance against lower costs for education, [...]

We had a look around Moonta today. Some of the buildings date back to the 1840s.
Apparently Moonta was briefly the biggest town in South Australia while copper mining was in full swing. Many of the early settlers were Cornish.
The jetty was built in 1868 to encourage people to settle and purchase building blocks where the [...]

I bought a Sanyo Xacti nine-megapixel video camera through eBay from Hong Kong before it was readily available in Australia.
The gadget has only just arrived and I haven’t had much time to experiment with it yet, but first impressions are very positive.
It’s small and shoots high quality. There are recording options for television standard or [...]

Well folks, the packers come tomorrow and all our possessions will be boxed for removal by Tuesday night, including the computer I’m typing on now.
We’ll be living for three days without furniture before hitting the road on Saturday for our 2600km journey to Mount Gambier.
Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed that I’ve already updated my address [...]