Gone

No more blogs for a while. I’ve gone a drovin’, seeking places and spaces elsewhere. To forget about my self. And breathe. Be well, friends, and you, too, Earth.  Read More

Notes propped on the wall

Do you get angry in traffic? I used to.  Not now. And don’t want to again. So here’s some notes propped on the wall of this computer screen for future reference: I won’t come back to this house, except as a visitor I won’t be a gardening in the verge again I will . . . what? Yes, what, indeed? That’ll do, that unanswered question. Why this, why now? Poetry  read aloud by friends gave me a cold (and beautiful) shower... Read More

Of the Wallace Line, the company of friends

Lombok island sits on the Wallace Line; a ‘black and white’ boundary where there is an abrupt and complete change from one type of animal and fauna type to another type. It was discovered by Darwin’s contemporary, Alfred Wallace who drew it in 1859 and I quote: ‘[to show] the ecozonesof Asia and Wallacea, a transitional zone between Asia and Australia. West of the line are found organisms related to Asiatic species; to... Read More

Beautiful 3 minute vid of our country’s little creatures

The wonderful eye of photographer Emma Carol and her colleague, Ruth Hessey, is combined with a soundtrack by Steve Kilbey on this 3 minute vid. Enjoy: www.youtube.com…   Thanks, Emma and Ruth – and the Total Environment Centre who put it up there. Go the little critters who need us to act now, M (I’ve written about the disappearing ants of the Perth plain here: www.thefifthestate.com… - hang on little ants, we’re... Read More

Free mulch, free spring and other positives

Free mulch – Australia-wide While in Fremantle recently –  a very beautiful place to walk around – I met Tim Lawrence, whose business, MulchNet, provides free mulch across Australia. No catch here, just someone using imagination and wit. It works like this:  most landscaping and other mulch-making businesses have to pay to take the mulch to the tip if they can’t find a way to make it useful.  MulchNet allows anyone in any... Read More