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…

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…

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…

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! 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…

It’s been another interesting year as we proceed with our quiet retirement home lifestyle plans that never ever worked out from the very first day of our arrival here! But…

Okay, it was my fault. Grimo wasn’t here so I couldn’t blame him. I had just lifted an empty wheelie bin back in place and whilst doing so bumped an…

As I sit on the front veranda of the hotel this morning, a huge string of Galahs sit along the power lines displaying their colours against a light blue sky…

Let us ask you this; how would a population drop in your city or town of 1/3 effect your everyday living?   As an example lets take Ballarat with a population…

Those of us who are often caught saying, ‘those were the good old days’, said with a wry smile and a side inclination of the head and  nod, are most…