by Mark Evans
Whether you subscribe to the meteorological view that spring begins on the first day of September or to the astronomical view that it starts with the equinox on 2 September, this month marks the season that many consider the beginning of the gardening year.
The word ‘spring’ has a rich etymological history. In English, it comes from the Old English springan, meaning ‘to leap, burst forth, or … Read more »
Ghost Cities
Siang Lu
University of Queensland Press
Reviewed by Wendy Tucker
Lu’s Ghost Cities just won the Miles Franklin award, certainly the most lucrative and probably the most prestigious literary prize in Australia. This was a bold, risky and brave choice because there is nothing safe about this novel. It is savage in its satire, hilarious in its observance of absurdity and, yet, surprisingly moving. It is also impossible to slot it … Read more »
Wild weather in early July washed away 200 metres of the track along Long Swamp at Haywards Beach. The storm event resulted in cliffs where vegetation fell away, taking the track with it. The 1.2-kilometre Long Swamp track is on Crown Land and is managed by a volunteer group, the Bermagui Flora and Fauna Reserve Land Manager (BFFRLM), on behalf of Crown Lands.
Crown Lands told BFFRLM that the full length of the track will … Read more »
Bermagui residents want an explanation for how ‘mud sludge’ was allowed to run off from the Sapphire Cove Development site into the harbour. The answer it seems was inadequate sediment control and monitoring at the site.
When the coastal low hit Bermagui, mud, dirt and silt from the site washed across the golf course, into the ecologically sensitive mangroves, the usually pristine harbour, out to sea and into the Bermagui River, close to oyster … Read more »
Brian Ayliffe and his ‘sort of museumy thing’
When I bragged to a neighbour that Brian Ayliffe was The Triangle podcast feature interview this month, she quietly said, ‘Brian is my hero. I would follow him anywhere. In fact, I did follow him into some pretty hairy situations when he was my captain in the fire brigade.’ Others made similar remarks about what Brian has done in this community … Read more »
July gave us beautiful sunny days when flooding rain and hailstorms weren’t hitting. Loads of citrus at the Share Shed kept winter colds at bay, thanks to oranges and tangelos from Angela, grapefruit from Rici, lemons from Sally and sunrise limes (a cross between a native lime and a calamondin which is a hybrid of a cumquat and a mandarin) from Didi. Many of us attended a bonfire party at Greg’s that rocked, and so did … Read more »