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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]