Featuring choirs of the Bega Valley and beyond!
Spring Sing is back again in 2025 on Saturday, 6 September! This all-day singing workshop will take place at the Windsong Pavilion, Barragga Bay, and will be facilitated by local choir directors Dan Scollay and Geoffrey Badger. The event will culminate in a public performance in the afternoon at 3.30 pm.
Spring Sing provides a wonderful opportunity for choirs from the … Read more »
by Linda Sang
Here we are in September and all those back-yard chooks are revelling in the increased day length (even if those days not yet reliably warm) and are pumping out large numbers of fabulous fresh eggs. If your poultry has access to fresh green grass, insects and a few worms plus your delectable kitchen scraps, those eggs will have a deep orange-gold yolks and dense egg whites. So here … Read more »
by Angela Marshall
Here we are in September and all those back-yard chooks are revelling in the increased day length (even if those days not yet reliably warm) and are pumping out large numbers of fabulous fresh eggs. If your poultry has access to fresh green grass, insects and a few worms plus your delectable kitchen scraps, those eggs will have a deep orange-gold yolks and dense egg whites. So here … Read more »
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 … 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 »