Comment on electioning

After careful consideration of the campaign material presented by local candidates (that being signs in yards, stuff in my mailbox and similar materials), I have determined that there is a Liberal candidate standing for the Houses of Reps and 2 Green candidates for the Senate. Well, that will make voting easy. There's no choice to make.

Is this dearth of campaign materials wide spread or some weird local lethargy? Bass is supposedly a marginal seat (at the last election there was about 1300 votes/2% difference) and any other time, there's posters every where, stuff in the mailbox (currently I have a leaflet telling me a vote for Labor is a vote for the Greens (Uh?) and that's been sitting there by itself for the past week) and all the associated stuff.

Not that I'm complaining. It's just weird.

From 2007







*I do recall seeing a mobile billboard for a Labor candidate a few weeks back, possibly it is spending a couple of days in each suburb/town so as to get maximum coverage from their single sign

Paterson Barracks

I uploaded these photos last year and haven't done anything with them so....


Now as I've probably said before, Launceston likes to pass itself as a respectable late Victorian city, and we don't talk about the older days, do we?

Obviously that's different these days, and of course the older buildings are there, if not always obvious. There's St Johns church, the synagogue and some pubs. (Looks at that combination and laughs.) A couple of public buildings, but I really haven't done much on Launceston, have I?

( I shall do something about that, one day. )

I miss the worm count icon

I am making progress on the Big, Scary Thing. I'm counting scene rather than words. Word count will change but scene counts should remain the same. Also, 77 isn't as scary a goal as 100,000. Possibly I should call it something else, but "Big, Scary Thing" is better than "New Folder".

6 / 77
(7.79%)

I am being seriously distracted by a very silly ghost story though. Last November, I expected my Nanowrimo project to come in short. I wanted it to come in at about 35K. So to make up the difference and get rid of an idea that had been bothering me since my trip to Victoria the previous July, I wrote this ghost story. Just after the 50K (for both WIPs) mark, the cast were about to head off to Melbourne so I told them "I can't write the next bit until I've been to Melbourne again". They agreed, and we find a nice spot to end. Of course, at the time, any trips to Melbourne were vague ideas that might happen sometimes in the unforseeable future. Now that trip to Melbourne is at the end of this month. You can probably guess the rest.

I am not going to the gaol though. No way.

I wonder if they'd be happy with northern England instead?