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Suave raconteur and dinner party favourite. Once held the Olympic torch, has delivered newspapers to prime ministers, shaken hands with Prince Charles, wrecked Jason Donovan's skateboard, climbed 300 metre granite cliff faces, surfed with dolphins, appears on community radio and is in demand for these and the accounts of other thrilling exploits!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Space Hog

Yeah the actual band, remember those guys? An awesome one hit wonder with 'In the Mean time'. Which reminds me a persons 'best of list' will always be subject to mood and whim.

When I finished up at the radio station earlier this year I was given a lovely gift of '1000 Recordings to listen to before you Die' an absolutely must have for us music geeks. Its wonderful to search through the listings with a friend and comment on what was left out as much as what was left in. Of note is AC/DC gets one mention as does Bowie. Bizarrely Boston gets a listing. Boston the ultimate rock one hit wonder gets a listing.
Eno gets two.

JS Bach is split between artists who have recorded Bach (Vivaldi does not include the Kennedy recording, WTF?!?) and Bach works.

Anyhow, here is wonderful Spacehog with some mid 90's rock.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

That is my Tree

So the other day I signed up to be a supporter of the Wilderness Society. I'll give you a minute or two to visit the site.
The main reason I liked their pitch was not the haircuts or even the clothes. It was the chance to contribute a little bit toward helping the forests of Australia survive. We all need wood, heaven knows I use enough of the stuff printing things out. But I feel very strongly about farming wood.

The debates about logging old growth forests usually run along the lines of we need wood, growing trees will take too long, here's some we prepared earlier, good news guys if we cut it down it'll just grow back.
Then you get the regular noise about job creation for high school drop outs etc

Australia has about 15% of its original forest cover left. Most of the farm land is beset by water salinity, top soil erosion and a shrinking water table. In summer I've driven past wide brown sheep paddocks, with the flock clustering under the sole gum tree for shade.
Farming in Australia is badly managed as is the forestry industry.

I am an advocate of working smarter not being as wasteful as these industries have been.

When I got my welcome pack it included a picture of a forest giant that is now being sponsored my Ladybird and I. It would be nice to think that this tree will be there when I take Ladybird to visit it.

Finsh Line

The past couple of days have seen my wishes for a writing assignment come true. I just completed a very serious work document. Its a funny thing, but I really enjoyed the whole process (once I got started).
Well now its in the mail and today is back to the regular grind.