Random thoughts and observations
According to BBC News, the deputy mayor of Delhi has died after failing to defend himself from a horde of wild monkeys. SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys. The city has long struggled to counter its [...]
This site is already blocked by my company firewall at work as “adult content” so I might as well go the whole hog and write this post. The Brisbane Courier Mail reports that a man was lucky not to find himself facing contempt charges when his highly embarrassing mobile phone ringtone rang out loudly in [...]
Kalgoorlie had 20mm of rain last night and some more during the day. The temperature rose to just 10 degrees. The average maximum in June is 17.5 degrees and the monthly rainfall is normally 29mm. It was a steady soaking rain on the sort of wintry day I was more used to experiencing in North [...]
The Miner received a letter to the editor this week from Ric Welsby in England hoping to get in touch with Bill Sullivan, who he thought was living in Kalgoorlie. The pair hadn’t seen each other for 20 years since their families departed Lae in Papua New Guinea for security reasons. They had both lived [...]
Our front page tomorrow will have a story based on this media release from the Western Australian Department of Consumer and Employment Protection. In summary, three Kalgoorlie fast food outlets have been slugged heavy fines for illegally employing children aged under 15. Regulations state that children under 15 can’t work shifts before 6am or after [...]
