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Yeah, more news but we have to brag about family.

I think Examiner stories disappear into the "pay to access archive" fairly quickly, but if you remember me saying last week that I had to go and look after nephew because niece, sister & mother were going down to Hobart. This is why (the kids go to Youngtown):

Mime theme gives school gold at festival

The [state final of the] multi-school contest, Wakakirri, an Aboriginal word meaning "to dance", was held at Hobart's Wrest Point last week.

Youngtown performed its production, Sustainability, which focused on the work of mime artist Marcel Marceau.

The school's dance and drama teacher Belinda Stephens said the pupils decided on a mime theme to demonstrate sustainability in magic.

More than 100 pupils from grade 5 and 6 were involved in the production.

"We had no idea we would win and were ready to leave when they announced us as winners," Ms Stephens said.
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I think all the grade 5/6 kids were involved. Sister reckons Youngtown was the only northern school down there and she was particularly pleased that they beat all those other (7) Hobart schools, including some private schools like Hutchins that had perfect costumes.

More snowy

Photos of mountain from last week.

When I looked at these on a different computer when I first took them, they looked fine. Now on my computer they are much too dark. So some I lightened and some I left as they are. I suspect it's my monitor though (I do play with the settings on it.)


Monday afternoon, from Rosny on the eastern shore. The city and the river are between the black looking hill.

The mountain is, of course, Mt Wellington. There are other mountains around Hobart e.g. Mt Nelson and Mt Direction, even though they look more like hills but they fit the criteria for being a mountain. But the originally named Wellington is a real mountain, with a tree line and rocky summit, and its coat of snow on the coldest days. It sits there, brooding over the city with a very palpable presence. One thing I noticed when I first moved back north was the absence of the watching mountain.

The snow cover on Monday and Tuesday was particularly heavy. Not as heavy as in older photos but heavy for recent times.

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