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Listening to Inspiring and Interesting Stories about Women

Today is International Women’s Day and this morning we attended a delicious breakfast  at the Vancouver Café and enjoyed the harmonies of  “Slap My Thighs and Call Me Barbara”  and listening to some stories about women.

Alison has started a wall of honour  for adding a photo and a few words about acknowleding women who are or have been in our lives.

We would like to expand this opportunity to honour significant women by adding a photo, or just a couple of paragraphs on the Gateway Blog.

Please click here to contact us and we can post it on the blog, there is no time limit, anytime this week.  Who is going to be the first one?

There is a designated area for dogs on Middleton Beach – a very generous stretch of sand – so please would dog owners desist  from using the beach close to where people swim and where they know that they can walk without the risk of stepping on a dog mess. (more…)

Meet Gnoblett and Gneville – two annoying little garden gnomes that ingratiated themselves into my garden and won’t leave. Their friend Gnorbert also lives there and is a particularly smug and intrusive little chap. So where is this leading? Down to the garden path to my new website which features  a wide range of entertaining and unexpected stories and audios to give you a good laugh! 

You can find out more about the Gnomes by visiting  www.annesimpson.com.au   and clicking on the In My Garden page where there is a free article called In the Beginning. Plenty of other free articles to sample as well! If you Register for the free newsletter aMusings you will receive another four free ebooks and audios! Enjoy…

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A work in progress!

There has been no lack of comments and opinions on our distinctive new entertainment centre on the Waterfront. Some have been very unkind, referring to it as some sort of monster… while others have put a positive slant on it and are confident it will one day be quite splendid – let’s hope so. Meanwhile in its present half finished state it doesn’t look too pretty but I firmly believe the end result will be fabulous. According to our poll, so do the majority of other people.

Meanwhile how about sending in some pics of really ugly buildings, that are finished, beyond redemption, eyesores, real monsters… from anywhere in the world!

The introduction of the Australian Government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is fast approaching and with it comes both a sense of uncertainty and opportunity.

South Coast and Great Southern land managers, local councils, business owners and residents will have the chance to better informed on the proposed scheme’s scientific base and on the legal, commercial and practical implications of the legislation.

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