Business, Community and Environment in the Yarra Ranges and surrounding suburbs
The Dandenong Ranges seems to be a mecca of alternative spirituality and life style. There are a multitude of groups, businesses and classes you can attend in the Hills and surrounding area to heal your mind, body and soul, using the power of alternate therapies. […]
On the eve of another Australia Day ‘celebration’, the conversation about this day and what it means to differing members of the community continues to rage on. It is nothing if not a topical argument that continues to divide opinion. For many Australians old and […]
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city Strung out on lasers and slash-back blazers Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters Talking ’bout Monroe and walking on Snow White New York’s a go-go, and everything tastes right Poor little Greenie, ooh-ooh Keep […]
Well it is the end of another year already, feels like this it has gone by in a flash, a blur of miscommunication, average decision making, anxiety and stress. I am pretty happy to see the back of it really, but the year was also […]
After seeing the original Star War film, A New Hope at the drive in when I was five, I have always been a fan of the franchise, even some what enjoying the disastrous George Lucas attempts at the first 3 episodes. Since Disney have purchased […]
There are many stories about the Dandenong Ranges, haunted houses, ghosts and mysterious happenings. I have personally been witness to several strange events that were difficult to define with a natural explanation. As a teenager my boyfriend and his friends would drive up to the top […]
Finally the cold winter is starting to disappear with some warmer spring weather in the hills, flowers starting to bloom and all those new little animals being born. Along with this abundance of growth comes the life giving pollinating minuture communitys of a variety of crawling […]
It has been around six weeks since I originality wrote about the Marriage Equality Plebiscite and accurately depicted the effect the process would have on the local and greater community. The debate has become bitter and petty and even violent, the process nothing but a […]
Over the last few weeks my beloved cat Fluffy became very ill. He was vomiting lethargic and not eating or drinking and as such he became extremely dehydrated, He was not looking good and after a less than positive, expensive and questionable diagnosis, I looked […]
‘In a road bicycle race, the peloton (from French, originally meaning ‘platoon’) is the main group or pack of riders. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near (particularly behind) other riders.’ A while back I tried to write a balanced and fair article […]