Went home later tonight so you can’t see much in this funny little video but the frogs calling is to die for.
Posts Tagged ‘Lord Mayor’
Oh joy: almost two minutes of frogs 14. 8.2012
August 15, 2012Fig Watch – see you at the guardpost 15.12.2011
December 15, 2011
What's more dangerous - loose sandstone on the Town Hall or the fig trees in Laman Street?
People on Laman Street were fantastic this week – gathering from dawn onwards and sending updates through the day. (more…)
Operation Beanstalk 31.7.2011
July 31, 2011
Get a load of this – ‘Operation Beanstalk’ is alleged to be the name of the process of felling the Laman Street trees. Which rocket scientist on Council thought of that, do you think? Perhaps the same person who thought of the Laman Street Not-Sorry book and liquidambars as replacement trees for the Hill’s figs. (more…)
Black is the new black 4.6.2011
June 4, 2011
Here are the new painted Laman Street fences. (more…)
Feeling Pollyanna-ish 20.4.2011
April 21, 2011
October 2010
Went to observe the first meeting of the Laman Street working party tonight and came away feeling mostly optimistic. What a sucker. (Hope not.) (more…)
Hot off the press 19.4.2011
April 20, 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…
Wedding bells 13.4.2011
April 14, 2011
I went to a wedding in Sydney last weekend and enjoyed, in no particular order, a spectacular view of the harbour, lovely company, the optimism that always goes with these occasions, gorgeous readings – and fig trees as far as the eye could see. But not a fence in sight. (more…)
FIGS TO FENCES: ANOTHER DEBATE
April 11, 2011Heritage-listed trees 4.3.2011
March 4, 2011
Happy fig tree news this week from the Lord Mayor’s column in the Star newspaper, sent to me by a fellow treehugger. (more…)
Save Our Figs and other trees in Newcastle 