Spring is a moveable feast.
For Perth’s nectar-eaters, their season of abundance is already underway.
However, “honeyeaters” like Phylidonyris novaehollandiae – the New Holland honeyeater – cannot survive on a 100% nectar diet.
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Overnight, the Stirling Range – Bluff Knoll, especially – had its best snowfall in some years, and you can see it, complete with quokka….
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In marked contrast to most eastern Australian cities, Perth is enjoying a “proper” winter in 2018.
More than 150 mm fell here in July. As I type, heavy rain is falling, and it just might be snowing on Bluff Knoll, 400 ks southeast of here.
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No faux chateaux or Californianesque excess here: these seven Australian wineries are grand, not grandiose.
All will almost certainly offer you a lovely location, and a warm welcome from knowledgeable, unpretentious folks.
Each has a range of genuinely-excellent wines that begin at prices well south of $30.
Three will also serve you a delicious, affordable lunch.
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4.39 pm, Thursday 19 July 2018, southwest edge of Lake Monger.
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Today in Perth was one of this city’s not at all rare, uncanny winter days – the kind which turns visitors into immigrants.
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Chapter Two is international, and includes a musical bonus – audio of two of my favourite rain songs. (one of them is an “unissued” version)
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I live in a sundrenched metropolis. Today has been gloriously wild, intermittently very wet, ever-changing, mostly cool.
Many fellow residents of Perth regard such days as “miserable” or “horrible”, to be endured, not enjoyed…and not at all photogenic.
They are wrong/blind; dry, warm sunny days are not the only “good” kind!
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Three recent essays (one, delivered as a speech to The National Press Club) – each, very different – are provocative, but nuanced.
Richard Flanagan’s, Stan Grant’s and Don Watson’s words are worth reading, in full.
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This sequel to preceding post was made possible by yesterday’s long-awaited arrival of the lens that I ordered in January.
(Q: do mega corporate entities still treat Australia as a “distant colony, there to be exploited, rather than served or serviced promptly?” A: Yes, alas)
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