Out The Back of Kinglake West Hall…Six Months After Black Saturday

Download now or watch on posterous KinglakeWestHall.mov (6317 KB) The Hall at Kinglake West is very intact, with no sign of damage from February’s fires, sitting only a hundred metres or so from the local CFA. However, if you go out the back and look over to the left side, the trees tell an important [...]

Just Near The Kinglake Diner

The Diner itself and the shop next to it are intact, but these trees show how close things were during the February bushfires. Sent from my iPhone

Classic Car Meet Kinglake

Life goes on and there’s still social outings in Kinglake. This is a meet occuring outside Kinglake’s National Park Hotel. Sent from my iPhone

Kinglake West Six Months After Black Saturday

Sent from my iPhone

Returning to Kinglake

My start in social media began with relaying/retweeting important information on the #bushfires and #vicfires hashtags over on Twitter and I’ve already made visits to two of the affected areas from February’s Victorian bushfires…Flowerdale and Kinglake. Tomorrow, Sunday July 12, I’ll be out at Kinglake West assisting with a community event, so I’ll be seeing [...]

House-cleaning…

This coming Monday is Special Rubbish Day for our neighborhood when, once a year, we throw out roughly a cubic metre of anything we no longer need. Interestingly enough, in the week before this day, you’d be surprised how many people go round and collect stuff from their neighbors’ batches if it’s useful. It’s been [...]

Experimenting With Video…

I’m predominantly a text and prose man, although, as a former cartoonist, I do think visually.  However, with the events of this year it’s taken awhile to move toward video and/or videoblogging. Yesterday, I did some personal experiments with filetypes, cameras available and what video-serving sites were available.  My eight-year-old step-son practicing on his bike [...]

Marysville A Few Months Later…

I’ve just come away from watching tonight’s ABC Four Corners program about Marysville. It was a sharp reminder that, while some of us got through February with families intact and friends safe, those in the towns worst affected weren’t quite so fortunate. For Marysville’s CFA captain, Glen Fiske, there was the double blow of watching [...]

Catch Up Time…

It turned out a busy few weeks, not the least of which was because Victorian school holidays were in the middle.  But that didn’t mean the time didn’t produce some topics to blog about.  Far from it. There’s one topic I’m holding on, while I work to resolve an issue with it by myself:  the [...]

iPhone Tweeting…

On February 7, my first real understanding of the bushfires that day came not from the internet on my home computer, but through a Twitter client on my iPhone.  That initial app actually was handy, but was eventually joined by a few more that added more functionality to the mix.  And while most of my [...]