I don’t buy into debates about what’s causing climate change. I just know it’s happening and that it’s not good. It’s happened in my lifetime. Gippsland and Melbourne always had wet winters. Always, but not any more. I played football and hockey on mud heaps. Melbourne football grounds were always muddy in July and August. [...]
Windy weather signals change of season
I don’t mean for this blog to become political, but those are the things that are interesting to me at the moment. I’m intrigued by the appeal of Sarah Palin to many Americans and the apparent mediation in Zimbabwe. Along with the ongoing WA election saga there would be plenty to write about. Instead, I [...]
Nostalgic for Kalgoorlie
I’ve been feeling nostalgic for Kalgoorlie this week. It’s a great time of year there, heading into Race Round (September 7-13) after Diggers & Dealers. The weather is perfect unless the wind picks up, low 20s, hardly any rain. Mount Gambier needs rain and nobody audibly complains about the fact there have been showers every [...]
Remembering the rain
We’ve spent about 10 days in Mount Gambier so far and we have hardly seen the sun. We assume it’s there because it gets faintly light for about nine hours and then goes dark again. There wasn’t much rain initially, just lots of fog, cloud and drizzle. That changed in the last couple of days [...]
Feeling the cold
Winters in Kalgoorlie are short and not very cold, but temperature is a relative thing. It does get down to zero in Kalgoorlie, but it’s a dry crisp cold, and days starting that way tend to warm up nicely. I only encountered a handful of days when the wind was strong enough and chilly enough [...]
