Willow Court, background

This is background for the post I've been promising the_aspie_zoo since 2004, when I visited the old Willow Court site for a work conference.

I've posted many of these photos before, but without the descriptions. Only daytime photos, unfortunately. I managed to break the camera on the second day, so it wouldn't focus. I didn't realise this at the time because it was a new camera, bought earlier in the week, and I was still learning how to use it. I also left it in my motel room when we went to the dinner on the second night of the conference, because I'd been carrying it around all day and there was eating and drinking and general carry on planned for that evening. And you don't really expect someone to come in towards the end of a lot of eating, drinking and carrying on and ask who wants to go on a ghost tour, do you?

The site then.

( Slightly wider than usual photos, because I didn't resize most of them )

Willow Court, night tour

The dinner was a lot of fun, much eating, drinking and African dancing went on. Right at the end, when discussion about the best way of returning to the motel had started, two of the locals came in and rounded up a group to go on a ghost tour.

I do wonder about the wisdom of taking a dozen rather drunk adults for a walk through dark, abandoned buildings late at night. I also have to wonder at any of them adults who thought it was a good idea. No one fell down any holes though.

We looked through two buildings

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Various news things

Results of the local government elections were in today's paper. Every two years, half of the alderman stand for election (4 years terms) and the mayor & deputy mayor are (re)elected each time. This time around, seems all the mayors across the state were re-elected except in Launceston. Dean lost, although he still got re-elected as an alderman.

The Examiner: Ivan Dean concedes anti-mill impact.
ABC: Alderman Dean does not think his support for the mill was the reason he lost.


On the subject of the pulp mill, I missed this when it was in the news. Work has started to remove three protesters from the top of the Batman Bridge in Northern Tasmania.

In today's news: Fund manager Perpetual has defended its investment in timber giant Gunns, the company planning to build a controversial pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar valley.

And more on Gunns: Tasmanian timber company Gunns has offered to drop its lawsuit against 14 anti-logging campaigners if they agree never again to interfere with the company's operations.


And totally unrelated to any of the above, it's 90 years since the Light Horse Brigade's charge on Beersheba.