Year: 2026

  • A weekend in Toowoomba

    Friends invited us up for a night of jazz and a lunch at Myrtille the next day. We happily said yes to both and headed to their home in Toowoomba which is a high altitude volcanic plateau at 700 metres above sea level on the edge of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland. It has…

  • Australia Day 2026

    A woman astronaut and engineer, Catherine Bennell- Pegg is the Australian of the Year. A young man, Nedd Brockmann is the young Australian of the Year, a marathon runner, walking across Australia to raise money for homeless people. Others work to upscale job opportunities for Aboriginal people, they do research into dementia and brain cancer.…

  • Drunk as a…

    Parrot – Or in Aussie slang “Pissed as a Parrot”. Yup they get drunk too.Not just us dropping off the perch. Pardon the pun – they do too and they have a particular time of year, not far from our celebrations when they just get a little tipsy and wild. Drunk parrots and humans can…

  • Choices

    Normally I get dropped off at the radio on a Monday morning but C is away on a work trip. I could have driven in but I decided to walk and what a good idea it was. I walked through the Parklands. Soft rain was falling. I took my hat off and felt it on…

  • 2026- Could be,should be…

    A Happy New Year Xmas is over and the New Year is here. It’s time for some reflection of the year that has gone, forming resolutions for the new one, – there are many gleeful ways of breaking them before January is out -and maintaining a level of health and happiness we all wish for.…