Yearly Archives: 2021

We Wish You a Merry and Blessed Christmas

All of us from the Yaraka hotel wish you a happy and blessed Christmas and – hopefully – a New Year a little less complicated than 2021.  Our Christmas celebrations…

Yesterday, and now today

Let’s go back to a late afternoon in 1986 and the change of season has started. The temperatures are neither too hot or too cold. The skies are a light…

My Life of Mystery as a Married Man

There is the known, there is the known unknown and there is of course the unknown unknown. The known is something that we can identify and relate to; the known…

Regional Versus Remote Australia

Where is the Fair Go for remote businesses like us? We trust that our regional readers of this newsletter will not be offended with the following comments. The reason being…

Green, Green Grass

The Thesaurus is not very kind in its list of words defining ‘arid’.  Obviously ‘dry’ is one of the leading descriptions followed by names such as ‘parched’, ‘waterless’ and even…