Each state of Australia adopts a favourite plant for its gardens, something that thrives in the local climate and needs little attention after it’s planted. Here’s what Western Australia uses in their gardens. In my old state of Queensland, Poinsettias, Jacaranda trees (see above) and Bougainvillea are regulars in its suburbs. In Western Australia, the […]
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Don’t you just love the wildlife that makes its way right to your home, says, ‘hello,’ stays for a while, and then is free to go when they’re ready to leave? Living on the coast south of Mandurah always guarantees us a daily assortment of wild bird visitors. In our town, the most prevalent species
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Brisbane Photographer Maxine Sewell, 32, was found hanging from a cliff near the Story Bridge by early morning commuters this morning. It is believed she was taking photos during last night’s fierce electrical storm. Fortitude Valley police are saying little about today’s grim discovery. ‘This just looks like a terrible accident. Her phone and handbag were neatly
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Fresh food is best, right. Well, a little of the ‘old country’ has just arrived at our home. One of our pullets has laid her first tiny egg! We are back to having homegrown eggs for our homemade breakfasts! It’s always exciting to see little chickens grow and then turn out their first tiny eggs.
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Eyes closed. Listen. Can you hear the sense of loss in her voice? Some say she lost her lover to the sea a millennia ago and will cry every day until the time he returns to the shore. Sit still on any Sandgate beach and the She-Oak Tree will fill your ears with long sighs
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Something just occurred to me. I’ve always lived by an ocean. I’ve relocated several times but the water has never been far away. Once, I even lived on it. I guess that’s because I was born of a water sign. Yes, this Virgo now lives by it once again. I’m not the sun-kissed type of
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The ground was already saturated by weeks of rain. Every reservoir and dam was filled to the brim by January eight, 2011. There wasn’t any space left to store water. No one expected it would be needed. The whole state had been in drought for years — but it wasn’t going to remain that way
The Dayboro Floods. A Day When A Small Country Town Went Underwater. Read More »
At first, this environmental disaster appears to be done on purpose, thoughtless individuals tossing waste away indiscriminately on a desolated beach. A trail isn’t far from it. Dumping refuse here on a covert basis could be easy to do. But there’s a problem with that theory. It’s only shoes. There’s nothing else (some socks) with
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It was just sitting there, waiting to be found and rescued. Without help, they didn’t stand a chance. So I did what I could do to bring the bees back from the brink of disaster. I’m an apiary novice. It’d become a fully fledged hobby if I had a hive at home. I write novels,
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Coal. It comes out of the ground ready to go. Solar panels come out of the ground, ready to… hang on… they don’t come out of the ground ready to go. The substances that they’re made of have to come out of the ground in separate locations. After they’re brought together, it then takes traditional
The Environment and Renewables. One Step Forward. Fifty Steps Back. Read More »