Sunday, August 08, 2004
Australia all over
Since I now seem to have as many readers from the USA as I do from Australia (thanks heaps Katie and Daniel for pinning my map) I thought I'd tell you about a radio program you can listen to on the web which gives you a good insight into the real Australia. It's called 'Australia All Over' and it airs in Australia from about 5.30 am to 10am every Sunday. Colloquially it's called 'Sunday with Macca'. The presenter is a guy called Ian McNamara. People ring into the show from all over Australia, just talking about where they are and what they are doing and he has interesting guests. It's not a political show and not a sporting show, just real people doing interesting things in interesting places. Check it out.
Anyway, the reason I'm telling you about this today is because this morning, I got my 15 minutes of fame, world-wide, on Macca's show. There's a segment on the show called "why I live where I live". People write or email Macca about what they like about where they live. A week or two ago, I decided to send in a piece I'd written for a previous blog about the joys of living in Darwin, and this morning, Macca broadcast my letter. I missed it! Had been listening and turned off 5 minutes before but a friend rang and said he'd heard my letter and knew it was me, which was confirmed when Macca gave my name and suburb.
The rest of my week was spent in Katherine (famous for its Gorge) about 300 ks south of Darwin, where I was working at the Croc Festival. It was great fun. Now I'm off to the Croc Festival in Derby, Western Australia, so no more posts for a couple of weeks.
Yesterday my work group and families had a lovely lunchtime barbecue/picnic at Howard Springs Reserve where a delightful natural spring-fed pool teeming with large barramundi, turtles and other fish is surrounded with tropical rain-forest. We were farewelling our co-ordinator who is moving to Canberra (Australia's capital), thousands of kilometres away and as cold as Darwin is warm. It was an emotional farewell. He is an inspirational leader and a wonderful man and we are all going to miss him terribly.
Stay well till we meet again.
Anyway, the reason I'm telling you about this today is because this morning, I got my 15 minutes of fame, world-wide, on Macca's show. There's a segment on the show called "why I live where I live". People write or email Macca about what they like about where they live. A week or two ago, I decided to send in a piece I'd written for a previous blog about the joys of living in Darwin, and this morning, Macca broadcast my letter. I missed it! Had been listening and turned off 5 minutes before but a friend rang and said he'd heard my letter and knew it was me, which was confirmed when Macca gave my name and suburb.
The rest of my week was spent in Katherine (famous for its Gorge) about 300 ks south of Darwin, where I was working at the Croc Festival. It was great fun. Now I'm off to the Croc Festival in Derby, Western Australia, so no more posts for a couple of weeks.
Yesterday my work group and families had a lovely lunchtime barbecue/picnic at Howard Springs Reserve where a delightful natural spring-fed pool teeming with large barramundi, turtles and other fish is surrounded with tropical rain-forest. We were farewelling our co-ordinator who is moving to Canberra (Australia's capital), thousands of kilometres away and as cold as Darwin is warm. It was an emotional farewell. He is an inspirational leader and a wonderful man and we are all going to miss him terribly.
Stay well till we meet again.
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