“Happy Christmas” – ending a not so happy year.
Perhaps saying 2020 was not such a happy year is somewhat extreme as Coronavirus restrictions applied across the nation, and the effects, were felt everywhere but more harshly in some…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The intention of the Yaraka newsletters is to allow our subscribers to have a continuing link with this place and the happenings. Many of our subscribers spend time here and…
Emus – Yaraka – The World
We’ve had little time to watch or listen to any news over the last week. We’ve been too busy making it! You may or may not be aware that Emus…
Antiquity and Me
With a great burst of enthusiasm and delight the last news from Yaraka was about my Ross River virus/fever finally allowing my fingers to operate the keyboard on my laptop…
Chessboards, Rice & Locusts
The fascinating world of numbers is mostly beyond me, especially in the field of mathematics. One of the kindest school report comments I ever had was from my maths teacher…
Green and Gold, butterflies and frogs and insects. Water, water everywhere and no one to drink a drop!
Living as we do in our isolated wilderness sanctuary here in Yaraka, it is at times, reasonably easy to tune out worldly events and happenings. Not so this time as…
Back On Board Again
Back on board again! Well almost. The absence of news from Yaraka over the last couple of years has been deliberate – deliberate from the perspective that when fingers won’t…