February 13, 2012

Alpine Shire and Greenhouse emissions

A large chunk of the agenda for this month’s Alpine Shire Council meeting is devoted to Greenhouse emissions and climate protection milestones. The agenda confirms that council received funding to employ a Greenhouse Officer. I joked here when the job was advertised that I thought it was a horticultural position. But it’s no joke. Our [...]

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Busy on the home front

It’s been busy on the home front lately and I haven’t had time to write. I took Juliet to Albury yesterday for day surgery. It was a minor procedure and she felt fine when we left, but became very ill on the way home. We thought the nausea was motion sickness, but she didn’t recover [...]

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Freedom of opinion

Zimbabwe dicator Robert Mugabe has signed a new law to imprison journalists for up to 20 years for publishing false information. Zimbabwean journalists already faced long jail terms for publishing "falsehoods" under existing law. Under Section 15 of the Public Order and Security Act enacted in 2002, journalists could be jailed for up to five [...]

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Preparing for high school

It’s hard to believe that our eldest child is now at the age we have to select a secondary school for her in 2006. It seems only a fraction earlier than yesterday that Kathleen was starting primary school. I went with her to orientation nights at Bright P-12 College and Marian College over the last [...]

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Testing a new template

Regular readers will notice I’m experimenting with a new Word Press template. I was loathe to depart from my neat-looking pastels, and may return, but I’m rather keen to implement a three-column layout if I can make it work. The strength of this template is it uses 100 percent of the screen. I just need [...]

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