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Giving freely
Alice Miller students, with two bags holding many, many small gorse plants Students from Alice Miller school have started coming Fridays...
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May 18, 20222 min read
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Free range kids
More than a few of us had the good fortune of growing up in a world without so many screens, where the suburbs edged up to creeks and we...
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May 8, 20222 min read
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Talk to someone
We've just finished three workshops on how Riddell can respond to climate change. It was exciting to be with other people doing things,...
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May 7, 20223 min read
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Small steps make a difference
Sean McConnell, Riddells resident, has stepped up When there's so much that needs to be done, how do you decide what you are going to do?...
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Apr 28, 20224 min read
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An apology in advance
Shire consultation needs to provide a place for residents to talk to each other, so communities can form their opinions. First community...
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Apr 10, 20225 min read
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Getting back into place
I bought my 5 acres just out of the suburban part of Riddells Creek 12 years ago. I bought on impulse, driven crazy by the construction...
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Mar 20, 20222 min read
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No fences and no new tracks
There it is, as stark as can be—a single strand of barbed wire, at waist height, steel stakes at intervals, sturdy steel corner posts. ...
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Mar 20, 20222 min read
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A Reader's Summer
It's been summer The beach people have made their way to the beach, and the river people, if they were lucky, have idled a week away...
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Jan 20, 20222 min read
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On the mid-slopes
We were tipped out of covid straight into Glasgow and the climate change conference. I was ready for the liberty of moving around as I...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
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A mystery solved
Our Landcare group has made good progress in clearing the gorse and bluebell creeper from the northern corner of Barrm Birrm. Surrounded...
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Nov 22, 20212 min read
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