Archive for month: December, 2021
Greg Baker Flies High!
in Life, Law & Culture
There are so many fetes, bazaars and exhibitions of one sort and another just now around Freo, you’d be forgiven…
REVIEW OF “GOULDIAN, THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL FINCH” BY COL ROBERTS
in Life, Law & Culture
Escaping Covid lockdowns hundreds a brand-new four-wheel-drives have traversed, mainly, the bitumen roads of the Kimberley in Western Australia. Most…
Don’t Miss The ‘Shady Booze Hounds’ !
in Life, Law & Culture
Talk about an eye-catching exhibition title! You just want to see it , don’t you? It opens Thursday this week…
Seen In Freo … At The South Freo Dog Beach
5 December 2021
Perfect weather this weekend. A little less hot than feared, with a gentle south westerly in, but hot enough for…
The Research Vessel “Pax” – What A Story!
in Shipping News
Inside she looked and smelled like the Black Hole of Calcutta, yet I felt like I had found a Rembrandt…
Places I Love – Meelup Regional Park
in Life, Law & Culture
You don’t have to go all the way to Broome to see the ‘Staircase to the Moon’ spectacle – we…
Book Review – Goldfields Girl
in Life, Law & Culture
Goldfields Girl, written by Elaine Forrestal and published by Fremantle Press (2020), is based on an historically verified, handwritten manuscript…
Book Review – Little Jiang
in Life, Law & Culture
Mei’s teacher at Honeywood Primary School thought it a very imaginative story and the class were silent when Mei told…
Book Review – My Place For Younger Readers
in Life, Law & Culture
Many Freo people will remember reading Sally Morgan’s My Place when it was published over 30 years ago, and now…
They don’t make boats like this anymore!
in Shipping News
Opening this Saturday, 4 December 2021 and running until Sunday 1 May 2022 at the WA Shipwrecks Museum at the…