Frankford

We went to Frankford yesterday, to have lunch at a cafe there, but it was very windy, very wet and very cold* (checks the date), and the photos were taken from the car.

( Shown in order taken. )

Forest protestors & OHS(1)

This just seems wrong in so many ways(2)

Workplace Standards to meet forest protest groups

Workplace Standards says forest activists and the organisations they represent will have to adhere to the state's workplace safety laws, which apply to volunteers. (The general manager) says forest protesters will have to wear hard hats and other protective clothing.


1. Occupational Health & Safety

2. You know that novel I did for Nano last month, with my outlawd/armed robbers in a SFish/futuristic setting? Now I'm wondering if they, no, that would be bad. But it's stuck in my head.

A house, a family and politics

We had that conversation again yesterday -- the one about Australian history and why isn't it better known (and if my mother is involved now includes a comparison between Jesse James and Johnny Gilbert) that usually takes places after an encounter with some little known but interesting aspect of Australia's past.


Yesterday, it was a visit to Home Hill, once home to the only Tasmania-born Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, his wife Enid and their 11 children. And that is everything that is generally known about Joe, other than some family connection to Stanley and maybe an occasional mention in regards to Depression-era politics. Which is a pity because, like many of these things, when you find out the larger story, it's interesting.

( It got long, very long and I am thing to still do this a/f/t/e/r/n/o/o/n/ evening so it's not proofread )

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For buffysquirrel

( Flower farms! )