“There is no skeptic at the end of a fire hose”

That line, delivered by Peter Marshall, Secretary of the United Firefighters Union [Victoria Branch] made the crowd at the Climate Change Rally roar its approval, and I yelled right along with them.

Must see talking cat video!

Okay, you can blame the Daughter for this! She just introduced me to Sylvester the talking kitty, and I’ve wasted half an hour watching Sylvester and friends on Youtube.

The videos are hilarious, and Sylvester looks just like my Golly. Golly talks too…

Euthanasia — killing? or the gift of love?

I’m sitting here with Golly in my lap. He is my brain damaged cat who made a miraculous recovery. Neither he nor I are in any danger of dying any time soon, but as I look at his trusting little face I know that someday I’m going to have to make a decision…

A day that makes teaching worthwhile

There are days when things should go right, and don’t. Then there are days when anything that can go right does. I have just had one of those days. :)

As some of you know, I’ve been totally immersed in a course that will allow me to…

National Day of Climate Action — be seen, be heard!

I caught up with my assignments 3 days ago, and since then I’ve been catching up with everything else in my life that’s taken a back seat over the last couple of months. So apologies for the flurry of blog posts, but I have to get in quick…

Melbourne Climate Change Rally in Pictures

I’m not the world’s best photographer so I struggled to capture the feel of today’s Climate Change rally in Melbourne, but these pics should give you some idea of what it was like. I’ll follow up with my impressions of the rally in a second post, but for…