The wettest ‘dry’ winter we’ve ever had or how Victoria’s Google search history, and Clarkes Hill’s rain gauge, both called out the Bureau’s ‘super El Niño’ this winter. Google Trends data has confirmed what one Clarkes Hill local, Robert Grieve, suspected all along: this winter didn’t just break the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast, it broke […]
We are about to tick over our 13th year of operation in the Central Highlands, and it’s never cost you a cent to pick up a copy of The Local; that’s a deliberate choice, not an accident. Because a free magazine reaches more people than a paywalled one ever could, and getting the real story […]
I am so bored talking about the council, potholes and how cold it is. Yes, it’s bloody cold, we have just had a huge bunch of ratepayers’ money that we can ill afford swallowed up in litigation (what was all that about, FFS?). So I thought I’d talk about a dark theory I spotted on […]
There are people who can fall down a shithole and come up with a gold brick, folks who can never get out of the shit and some of the community who simply drift along through life not giving a shit. Things seem to happen to certain people, whether it is good luck or bad luck […]
Craters of the Goldfields is my latest tourism idea. Every year my car goes in for a roadworthy. This is a self-induced chore so as I know the state of my tyres, brakes, lights, you know, the works. Some bloke in overalls gets down on his back with a torch and decides whether my vehicle […]
Wow, the world has gone and got itself into a tangle again, things seemed to swing so far to the left just a couple of years ago and now they are pulling to the extreme right. With racism comes sexism and all the other “isms” follow. Once you divide a community on the matter of […]
Wow, the world has gone and got itself into a tangle again, things seemed to swing so far to the left just a couple of years ago and now they are pulling to the extreme right. With racism comes sexism and all the other “isms” follow. Once you divide a community on the matter of […]
When Melbourne sneezes, the regions get a cold, although the opposite could be said during the pandemic, as Melbourne sneezed and folks decided to flock to the country. Humans are like lemmings when it comes to trends. I remember the program Sea Change, which pretty much invented the “seachange” movement, that whole idea of ditching […]
