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2023-10-23 06:57
Day 9 (Tuesday) Last resort dayBruce is suffering bad bursitis, He had a really bad night. Damn. His facility for lugging luggage is compromised. Worry.No one is hungry for the big bre… Read More
2023-10-23 05:42
Adelaide Airport….Sam, the dad, brings the girls and, with massive long hugs, tells them their adventure begins here at Virgin checkin.They are off to Hawaii. Two girls, a… Read More
2023-08-23 13:30
Women in Media SA (WIMSA) 2023 update.Following along from the 2019 http://angrypenguin.blogspot.com/2019/ post which records the progress of WIMSA. Despite the rapid and ext… Read More
2021-01-30 01:57
As an Australia Day ambassador for the Australia Day Council of SA, each year I am invited by different SA councils to appear and give a spirited speech with a perspective on Australia Day… Read More
2020-02-02 23:05
Tatiara.That is our destination for Australia Day 2020.Tatiara is the name of the District Council region which has invited me along as its Australia Day Ambassador. It encompasses two signi… Read More
2019-09-25 06:08
The 2019 Women In Media Conference is over. One feels a little bit melancholy. There are some wonderful people on the state committees and one wishes one had had the chance to get to know s… Read More
2019-09-24 13:55
Another vivid sunrise over the Gold Coast sea. A quick swim in the shady pool. Back to Bond. The conference begins with a panel session of Pacific Islanders: Lisa Williams of the Pacific Fre… Read More
2019-09-24 12:40
A flaming Gold Coast sunrise wakens us. Lovely. Coffee, scrambled eggs, a quick swim in the shaded outdoor pool, a shower and off to Day 1 of the 2019 Women in Media Conference at Bond Univ… Read More
2019-09-24 09:06
Virgin has made everything easy for our departure to Coolongatta. Smiling assistants at the Adelaide Airport electronic checkins mean that there are no queues of touchscreen fumblers; a good… Read More
2019-04-20 13:24
January 24. The hottest day in Adelaide history. 45.3deg. The front door handle feels like a branding iron as I close the door behind us. The world is burning hot . The streets seem strange… Read More
2018-12-30 00:09
Heat wave. They say it may be 45 in Port Augusta. Oh, well.The open road emerges onto the Adelaide Plains. From here, the traffic starts to thin out.By the time one reaches Dublin, it is cou… Read More
2017-10-22 00:36
Remiss. Sitting in my files, needing to go on the record.My 2017 experience as an Australia Day Ambassador.A belated posting of my official report to the Australia Day Council. Orroroo and… Read More
2016-03-13 00:01
The glitter has gone from glittering opening nights. In a world obsessed by fashion, people are wearing tat.There are the gossip pages, endlessly preoccupied by photographs of stars and star… Read More
2016-02-01 13:30
Australia Day 2016Coorong District Council Every year Australia Day Ambassadors are shared out across the land at the behest of urban and regional councils.This year my invitation came fro… Read More
2015-07-14 15:10
Day 9- being the last leg of our Eyre Peninsula road trip in honour of Australia Day 2015.In the morning we caught up with the Internet by setting up in the lovely old reception lounge of th… Read More
2015-07-14 14:34
Day 8- in which our Eyre Peninsular road trip in honour of Australia Day takes us to KIMBA It had grown cold during the night. My American quilt was too thin, even with two sarongs on top. W… Read More
2015-07-14 11:51
Day 6 Australia Day, 2015. Lock, Eyre Peninsula. Alarm clocks went off bright and early and we readied ourselves to meet Kim and his Council colleague, George, to drive behind them from Ell… Read More
2015-07-14 01:04
Day 6 - In which the January Eyre Peninsula road trip brings us to Elliston. It was a wrench to leave Lincoln and that lovely hotel. We piled our road trip luggage on hotel trolly, astonis… Read More
2015-07-13 23:59
Day 5 - SAT 24 JanuaryPort Lincoln Next morning, Kim Callaghan came calling with his grandson, Tyreece. I made us cups of tea and entertained them in our heavenly hotel room with its glorio… Read More
2015-07-13 15:40
Day 4Port Lincoln- on our Eyre Peninsula road trip en route to Lock for Australia Day. Surprisingly, one woke ravenous and we were glad of the breakfast buffet downstairs. There, the iPads w… Read More
2015-07-13 15:01
Day 3 As well as the potplant, Blossom, for a constant supply of very hot chillies, we carried an assortment of provisions, as one can when on a road trip. Our big wicker basket was full of… Read More
2015-07-13 12:37
Day 2. Soft rain and grey skies greeted us on Wednesday morning. The pet chilli plant was able to feel the elements for a while and I went for a swim in the lovely motel pool before we packe… Read More
2015-07-13 11:50
It's a road trip.Destination: Elliston on Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Day 1.The red Rav hummed north up the Port Wakefield Road out of Adelaide. Dense traffic gave way to a steady flow of ro… Read More
2014-09-19 01:20
Oh to be in Scotland, now the vote is here. I used to live there. Oddly enough, I was first female taken on as a general reporter by The Evening News in Edinburgh. The paper was in its North… Read More
2014-08-24 22:27
The interesting thing about writers' festivals is their sudden ubiquity. There are so many festivals, it is amazing the writers have time to write at all. Once upon a time, writers were for… Read More
2014-04-25 05:26
Who dreams up these nonsensical questionnaires? What rock band are you? What era should you have been born in? How English are you? What flower are you? What is your spirit bird? What sort… Read More
2013-10-27 02:55
Very Important Tweeps have trounced the grand old status of the Very Important Person. Now, suddenly, smart social media marketers have clued up to the fact that the Twitterati are the commu… Read More
2013-08-16 09:31
The ire is roused by the sudden discussion on Adelaide's ABC 891 radio about a student actor turning down a semi-nude scene in a student production. The girl's mother has come onto the radio… Read More
2013-04-08 13:16
Enough with cooking competitions on the television. Sage Adelaide journalist Helen Covernton (below right) whisked Masterchef off the screens and into the domestic dining room to create the… Read More
2013-01-19 01:07
Choice. It is a terrible thing to undermine our ability to choose - whether it be clothes, political views or groceries. Hence, the big two supermarket chains of Australia are performing a p… Read More
2013-01-07 12:58
It is almost 20 years now since first I heard the ricochet tinkles of modem connecting to the Internet. It was love at first flickering light, so to speak. From my desk in suburban Adelaide… Read More
2012-12-11 06:30
Something precious was lost when the world stopped smoking. A tradition of "offering" was stolen from the tentative processes of social overtures. The proffering of a cigarette packet, one c… Read More
2012-09-03 09:03
Anyone working with animals could have told them aeons ago. And did. But today, finally, the massed wisdom of science has acknowledged that animals have consciousness, just like man. Cross… Read More
2012-05-04 01:23
Google, what are you doing to me? To others? It was you, wasn't it? Sent the email warning that "legacy" blogs were endangered and required to be moved. You are receiving this message becau… Read More
2012-04-28 00:13
There comes a time when the new blood of the Internet has made it all a bit hard to keep up with. Those of us who leapt into cyberspace the moment the window opened got used to things th… Read More
2011-10-31 00:25
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has won. He played hardball with the unions and a flaccid Labor government was not there for the workers. The $5 million-a-year Irishman can now move forward and "moder… Read More
2011-09-23 03:40
So Zuckerberg, Facebook supremo, proposes that his 750 million users use their Facebook pages as lifetime scrapbooks - posting childhood pictures and records of rites of passage and family m… Read More
2011-08-22 11:25
Would it not be great if one could take this as one of those correspondence-exchanged issues reminiscent of the late, great Henry Root? How funny was he! How not funny is this.This is the st… Read More
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