Monthly Archives: December 2022

This weeks links (2022-12-25)

❝ Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. ❞ — Victor Borge In brief: 🌳 It’s time to ditch Victoria’s floral emblem – here’s what it could be (2022-Dec-26) [The Age] 📻🎄 Penelope Keith – … Continue reading

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Amelia Earhart

❝ Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. ❞ — Amelia Earhart Public Domain Media. Amelia Earhart, NASA history collection ❝ Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop … Continue reading

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#GravyDay

🎵 Hello Dan, it’s Joe here, I hope you’re keeping well It’s the 21st of December, and now they’re ringing the last bells 🎵 * Paul Kelly’s How to Make Gravy covered by First Nations prisoners with Pitjantjatjara translation (2022-Dec-21) [ABC|News] … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2022-12-18)

❝ “Bah,” said Scrooge, “Humbug.” ❞ — Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol In brief: 🐐 Gävlebocken livestream [www.visitgavle.se] 🎄 How to Celebrate Yule, How Do Pagans Celebrate Yule? (2022-Nov-16) [Cosmopolitan] 🏊 Summer Safety (2022-Dec) [Life Saving Victoria] 🌳 56 things … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2022-12-11)

❝ Blast this Christmas music! It’s joyful and triumphant. ❞ — The Grinch In brief: 🧗 Former rock climbing coach Stephen Mitchell pleads guilty to child sexual offences against six girls (2022-Nov-29) [ABC|News] 🧗 Rock climbing in Gariwerd (2022-Dec-16) [Parks … Continue reading

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In the December-2022 Sky

02 Dec – Waxing moon near Jupiter 08 Dec – Full Moon (Cold Moon) 08 Dec – Full moon near Mars 14 Dec – Lunar apogee at 405,869 km 14 Dec – Geminid Meteor shower peak (4–17 December) 22 Dec … Continue reading

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December – Garrawang – Kangaroo Apple Season

Garrawang – Kangaroo Apple Season (December) Changeable, thundery weather. Dhuling (Goannas) are active. Buliyong (bats) are catching insects in flight. Days are long and nights are short. ❝ Usually when a storm’s coming, rain birds, black cockatoos, yellow crested, they … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2022-12-04)

❝ Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have. ❞ — Anthony Bourdain In brief: 📺 Meru – This documentary follows three elite mountain climbers as they scale the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru in India, … Continue reading

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