Archive for month: March, 2022

Siren Sounds, Helicopter Hovers at South Beach – Great Excitement!
Thursday morning. Around 10 am. Suddenly there’s a helicopter overhead. Then it’s sounding its alarm. Is it a shark siren?…
Wordle – An Ode To
Wordle - An Ode To By Michael Barker Can you imagine a day Where you don’t wake to Wordle Unless…
One Day in Freo – The Whys and Wherefores
This year, 2022, as during the previous two years, Covid has disrupted so many things around Fremantle, including a number…
The book that changed me: how H.H. Finlayson’s The Red Centre helped me see country – and what we have done to it?
Books have been good to me: they have nurtured me, inspired me, taught me about life, helped me when the…
Interview With Bonnie Hancock – Amazing, Brave, Around Australia Surf Ski Paddler
On her The Paddle of Aus website, Bonnie Hancock rightly observes this: If someone told you they were going to…
Health MATTERS ~ Is too much salt in the diet bad for your health ?
DIETARY SALT and BP: Is there a sweet spot? For decades salt (i.e. sodium chloride) has been caught up in…
The Romance Of Wooden Boats – Exhibition Still Running!
The Wooden Boat History Exhibition is on right now at the WA Museum’s Fremantle Shipwrecks Museum. In an earlier article…
Interview with Hannah Fitzhardinge – Mayor of Fremantle
Hannah Fitzhardinge was elected Mayor of Fremantle last October. So she’s now been in the job 100 + 40 days…
Have A Russian Oligarch’s Yacht, Will Travel
International media are reporting that Russian Oligarchs are busily protecting their hard-earned and toys, like their luxury yachts, as international…
Omicron versus Delta – How Contagious, How Severe?
How does Omicron compare with Delta? Here’s what we know about infectiousness, symptoms, severity and vaccine protection Since Omicron was detected…