Friday on My Mind – The future for recycled batteries Luckily, the no-name brand batteries worked and the magnetic light above the stove once again works – but only until the batteries expire. We are all of us dependent to one degree or another on the efficient workings of batteries, be it in our car or cars, caravans (the ones that draw energy from solar panels) or the many different types of batteries used in…
That’s the problem when the media over-simplifies complex issues and frames them as four-word headlines. Perhaps it was an ill-conceived monicker from the start. Then there’s that popular song by John Farnham which has assumed anthem-like status – “You’re the Voice, try and understand it.” Whatever they want to call it, allowing Australia’s first people to have a say in how they are governed is surely in the national interest. As we prepare in 2023…
Easter buns photo by AlisonYo, www.pixabay.com Friday on My Mind – Good Friday or just another day April 7, 2023 By Bob Wilson At the start of Joe Cocker’s live album, Mad Dogs and Englishman Joe mutter (incoherently) “Uh, uh – it’s Easter.” Pause – “I was just gonna say don’t get hung up about Easter,” says someone in the band, probably Leon Russell. A poor pun and in incredibly poor taste when you consider…
Friday on My Mind – We need volunteers – you, you and you! March 31, 2023 By Bob Wilson Last time I wrote about volunteering in Australia (2019), I confessed to having not done much of it at all. A lot can change in four years. I became re-acquainted with a former journalist colleague, Donna Fraser, who just happens to be chair of the Glengallan Homestead Trust. I had been to visit the partially restored…