Check this out:
http://stmarys.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/we-dont-want-a-bar-of-it/1461199.aspx
"residents fear that the core of the proposed hotel's clientele would come from outside the suburb.I guess that's us!They fear it will also attract antisocial behaviour, making the area unsafe."
Frankly, I think they moved in next door to us, if they don't like the area they can move out again!
I spotted this at about 7.20 this morning. I noticed it driving up the street it looked like it had taken off from the hill in the reserve as it was very low to the ground and just clearing the houses that face the reserve. By the time i took the pics it was higher in the sky and above the school. It was still low enough that when he burnt the helium you could hear the whoosh noise. Nice way to start the day.
First fire for the season. As you can see it still isn't quite dry enough for the pyros, but it is along the lines where the new saplings were put in. Lots are burnt. The total are isn't as big as it could have been, probably because it isn't dry enough for it to spread fast. It looks as if it was the grass left lying after it was mown down for the planting that actually burnt. I wonder how the rest of autumn will go?
Oh yeah, in the post about the planting I gave the saplings a year ... someone else gave them 3-4 months? She won, it's 3-4 months since that post.....
I only found out about this event because I drove past the school. It looks like the WASH house and Blacktown Womens and Girls Health Centre funded it. There were singers, which i missed, speakers I also missed them and drummers got to see them. they're very good the drummers I've seen them at other events locally. They got some members of the audience up and dancing on stage and some others to help with drumming.
Not sure what the speeches were about wither as i only caught the last 30 mins of this event.
But it's good that the hall/centre is being used. I got a couple of bags, some stickers and badges all saying Feminism is not an F word.
Maybe I'll find some info in the local paper about what else happened at the IWD day if so I'll post it here.
so happy International Womens Day.
This wasn't originally why I planted apple trees, but seeing as I'm really bad at keeping the bugs out of them and therefore don't get to eat any myself, this is definitely a second best reason for having them.
I would have liked to get some pics of how the rain affected the area, but that's the problem with rain, you don't want to go out in it to take pics! Ropes Creek rose quite a lot. I think it's highest was about 8 feet under the bridge on Forrester. If it hadn't stopped raining it could easily have flooded again. I think it's been over 10 years since it flooded last. When it does go the bridges on both Forrester and Debrincat go under about the same time, but now the bridge is up at Ropes Crossing we should be able to get in and out of the burb easier - it's higher than the other two. The planners did plan for once! We had to go all the way to Mr Druitt to get over the creek last time.
I wonder what the temperature was predicted to be? On my front porch it was 45 deg C at 5.30pm. With my portable air con unit it was 33 deg C in the lounge room.
This pic wasn't straight forward either. I was surrounded by dragonflies the whole time I was down by the creek, but they move too fast. No way I was getting a pic. Then when I was walking away I saw a flash of redfly pst me and land on the ground about 3 metres away. I couldn't see it on the ground but I knew it hadn't moved so I just stood still, zoomed my camera as far as it would go, pointed where I knew it stopped and snapped on auto. It was only when I got the pic onto the computer that I saw the dragon fly. Cropped the pic, sharpened (even on auto the focus wasn't very good at all), and here for your enjoyment is one of the many draganflies from Ropes Creek.
I've never seen them with their wings forward like that. Because I couldn't actually see it I don't know if it was moving it's wings and that's where the camera caught it, or if it was simply sitting with it's wings down.
ps, Hello Cathi!
