Gee, the scammers are out there. Or a ghostly tale. I came across a website that piqued my interest the other day. A store called Hartley Daylesford was having a closing down sale – while they move to bigger premises. This was from their “about” piece. “Hartley Daylesford started as a small dream on Vincent […]

So Macedon MP and Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has decided that 12 years in the seat is long enough. She is no longer a minister and will not stand in the November election. Fair call. I think being a pollie would be hard work. You really can’t win – well the party can – but […]

A friend sent me a photo of a bloke practising his golf at Victoria Park in Daylesford the other day. Nice place to work on your handicap but only if you are prepared to yell out “fore” a lot as dog walkers dodge your golf balls. It’s a public open space, for all to enjoy, […]

Now and again, I am on the ABC Ballarat with Steve Martin for a segment called Paperchase. They call up local editors and have a chat about what is making the news in the region. So sometimes Steve calls me. It’s pretty early, about 7.10am on Fridays, so I am not sure if you have […]

Now David Bromley is all well and good, pretty commercial now, but good on him for making such a recognisable brand.
But I reckon Coles should have opened it up to many more Daylesford and surrounds artists and maybe either shared the walls around, or maybe offered to keep the artwork up for three months and then swap it out.
We have so many fantastic artists who we could showcase to all of the visitors who come to our town. We have a regular Artists of the Central Highlands page in The Local and Coles would be welcome to our data base.

As we scratch up an existence, grinding away for each dollar, collecting tax for a government that doesn’t appear to be doing much about things, we are entitled to ask questions. And the first question is WTF is going on with AUKUS? Embarrassingly and unresearched when it first hit the headlines, I thought it was […]

I got a letter the other day. A real letter. From the post office. Most of mine are emails these days so it felt quite special. Until I saw who it was from. It was from Medicare. Anyway, surprisingly, inside was a cheque. A real cheque. I thought cheques had been abandoned, pretty much along […]

Had a chat with Michelle Clifford from the Daylesford Community Op Shop last week. Many of you would know that somehow they received a bag of clothing infested with bed bugs. Yuk. They did all the right things; made sure their volunteers were safe, shut down and then chucked out so much stuff. Some people […]