Just browsing the Kalgoorlie Miner web site and gained a reminder about this story. An 11-year-old boy on a camping trip discovered a skeleton when he went for a pee. I received a message from the boy’s mother following a similar story we reported a week earlier. That involved a tradesman finding bones while having [...]
Leaving Kalgoorlie
It’s starting to sink in now that we’ll be leaving Kalgoorlie soon to start a new life in Mount Gambier, South Australia. I haven’t written much about it so far because everything has been up in the air regarding Dad’s health. He has pancreatic cancer and his condition has deteriorated in the past week. I [...]
E-waste disposal
We’ve made three trips to the rubbish tip today, getting rid of odds and ends we don’t want to take to Mount Gambier. The biggest items were an old lawnmower that doesn’t work and two unwanted broken hard drives I couldn’t be bothered repairing. Kalgoorlie-Boulder has possibly the only free landfill site in Australia; certainly [...]
No sign of winter
The temperature at Kalgoorlie has been hovering in the high 20s for the past week and there is no sign of a cool change in the forecast. The weather we’re having would be considered balmy in summer at Mount Gambier. I’m not enjoying it though. The flies are back and the cool mornings are gone [...]
Sex romp
I started in journalism 21 years ago but never had a sex romp until Friday. The front page of the Kalgoorlie Miner read: “A Kalgoorlie man who assaulted his girlfriend with a sex toy during a sex romp foursome was fined $1000 in Kalgoorlie Magistrate’s Court and urged to seek counselling.” The bloke whacked his [...]
