Pru Bonham

Kudelka might have also relished the week's news of "non-minor" cracks in bridges and horse races over the wrong distance.

He might have preferred the John Denver concert a week later?

"Rusty Tins"

Incoming Sydney to Hobart line honours winner (soon) Comanche and outgoing Silver Moon in the Derwent off Blackmans Bay.

From my reclusive purple rose in Tasmania to your beautiful Neptune. Think mine is probably Ebb Tide.

Dark satanic mills.

We've had weeks of strong winds and driving rain in Tasmania but it's allegedly summer!

I think there was a public bus loop that went over Glebe and stopped near the Gardens. I know there was a little ferry on a loop, ran Bellerive, Wrest Pt, City, Gardens. Late 1990s; I was briefly living at Bellerive, caught it to work. Crossing Lower Domain Rd on foot was fraught!

#MetroTas Lack of a public bus service to the Tas Botanical Gardens is frustrating. Why couldn't the useful 562 route, via Queens Walk in New Town, be diverted to include either gate of the Gardens? Problematic intersections I know. Then how about an accessible mini-bus feeder service?

In 1991 Citizens for Hobart asked him to save the Imperial Hotel, a piece of significant Victorian architecture, and he did.

Scattered my mother's ashes over that bridge in 2001. There followed 7 years of drought, acid etching of sandstone, toxic algal blooms and many months of trucking in drinking water.

Tony "no changes to pensions" Abbott. Retrospective changes in 2015. Not fondly remembered.

Friends maybe 50 years ago who were N Qld locals said "Canns" - rolling the N not the R. They also said it was "MacKAy" with a long flat A and not "MacKie" as in Pie.

Arty shot of my cherry blossom from the deck & through the bird netting, as I am definitely not going inside the net in Tassie's gale-force winds today.

Normie glows!

Terry, thanks for reincarnating FU.

Hi Rob, do you know about care@home, their number is 1800973363. Part of TasHealth. My GP office told me to contact them. Once you enrol by phone at care@home they send you out a kit which they use to monitor you remotely for a week or so and they check daily. They can also send out medication.

If they were "good people" who are not racists then why were they so rude to staff in nearby restaurants and bars after the Hobart March? "Biting the hand..." #politas

Hobart was horrible today, quite scary. Not our Salamanca at all.

Two years ago today came the news that Metro was "cutting 150 bus services to improve reliability of service." This was termed the "Temporary Service Adjustment" but curiously is still with us. #politas

I never knew that little street had a name, Pasadene Pl NE. We lived at 650 NE42nd St for 2 years. Mostly the traffic noise from the bridge just blew over us.

Memories of 1974 living in a basement apartment in the U District of Seattle, almost under the Ship Canal bridge, right off the express lane. But we could see this Mountain from outside our door.

Thanks for your reply and info.

I should add that I am a member of a public transport access advisory group, which is supposed to be informed on such issues, but hasn't met for many months and now can't meet because of caretaker mode for several more months. #politas

Whatever happened to the single ticketing system on buses in Tasmania? Wasn't it promised by last Christmas? Caught a Kinetic bus to E Shore location yesterday because it was more useful than Metro. Kinetic doesn't take Greencard but does take a debit card which Metro still don't. #politas

Beautiful Sandy! I'm curious if you took it from the U District somewhere?

Wattle blossom, just flowering in Tasmania. I never know if spring smells like wattle or if wattle smells like spring.

Getting a little tired of Minister Palmer's little homilies too.

Thanks Ingrid. I read this while waiting 50 minutes between 3 and 4pm for a bus, any bus, in Kingston.

Often used to see Mt Rainier "floating" from our apartment near the Ship Canal.