Oh joy: almost two minutes of frogs 14. 8.2012

Went home later tonight so you can’t see much in this funny little video but the frogs calling is to die for.

Hot off the press 19.4.2011

The fences will have to be rented for a bit longer in Laman Street because Councillors decided tonight it’s premature to remove them…

Heat wave rave 3.2.2011

I’ve been trying to think of the most beautiful places in town (as well as the most unpleasant). Send me a comment telling me your favourites – I imagine Laman Street, the coastline from Nobbys to infinity in both directions, King Edward Park, Blackbutt Reserve, Jesmond Park, anywhere that has a large Hill’s or Moreton Bay fig, the bike tracks at Lake Macquarie and Throsby Creek – and so on and so on. 

Geography, astronomy and meteorology 12.12.2010

At the vigil last night a high school student on her way to a  concert excitedly told us that her class had studied the Laman Street figs issue in geography – how’s that?

Competing arborist reports & Phil’s fig 4.10.2010

I’ve said from the first day that I read council’s arborist report on Laman Street that a single report is inadequate. I’ve also said with irritating frequency that the term ‘independent’ when it comes to consultants needs replacing with some new term which incorporates who the consultant is working for.

You can smell the coal dust today, not just see it 2.10.2010

Years ago I had a friend who loved gliding and he convinced me to go on a joy flight.  I only went once because it was claustrophobic and nauseating but what I did learn from it, apart from the fact that you can have all that space around you and still feel penned in, is that there are Weather Things called Inversions and I assume that’s what we have today.

Congrats to PWCS and council

A few posts ago I wrote a whiny email to the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group about how they need to consider growing a tree buffer zone in front of their growing coal piles on Kooragang Island.