Coronavirus reflections

Our local primary school Principal suggested that we should put pen to paper and document this moment in history, to create fodder for the historians of the future. So I’m doing my bit for posterity. I feel a bit like I’ve learnt quite a lot about...

Rapid climate change

Climate change: it’s NOT necessarily a gradual thing. “The end of the Younger Dryas, about 11,500 years ago, was particularly abrupt. In Greenland, temperatures rose 10°C (18°F) in a decade.” I found my eyes welling with tears at the climate rally...

Lucky he didn’t go to Dark Mofo

WARNING This post contains images some readers may find disturbing. But if you signed the petition to stop the work of Hermann Nitsch at Dark Mofo, and then went home to eat a steak, I reckon you should look at them anyway.   Lucky he didn’t go to Dark...