Tired

I’m exhausted at the moment. I don’t know if I should even bother to write about the surprise visit of the toxic, poison in a pigtail, relative who is by some unfortunate quirk of genetic hoodoo, a part of G’s extended family. It might be good therapy though so I will keep typing and see [...]

Coburg Cemetery needs care

I finally got around to visiting The Coburg Cemetery approximately 15kms from the centre of Melbourne. I wanted to go because I find cemeteries fascinating. They are a vital record -historic, botanic and artistic. I rarely feel maudlin when I walk around them and I think in some way a visit is appreciated by such [...]

Vale old mollusc called Ming

St Kilda – Crossing the ships. Port Phillip bay is scheduled for deep dredging
Today I commiserate with the 405 year old clam that was recently dredged up off the northern coast of Iceland. He/she (I will call Ming “he”) was ”plucked” as one report so gormlessly put it from his habitat and so became the [...]