July 2026

The shortest day, meaning the shortest hours of sunlight , has been and gone for this year.That was a favourite question of School Inspectors for kids in class, "How many hours in the shortest day?"

The pic below shows some of the newly finished and sold villas in our extended village. The green gates were on the far side of the second dark section of bitumen. The roofs up the top are on villas on the village next door. Six villas are completely finished with another eight almost there. Three of the finished villas are sold but only one has moved in.

This month is a different Kerkswhat since it is all the same topic concerning a trip we made in July/Aug of 2004. Unfortunately the length of time we took now escapes me but it was a good trip through areas many never traverse and I felt it better to include pics from the entire trip at once.

Lola lost her first tooth during the month and was visited by the tooth fairy that night.

Was good to have daughter Sue here to spoil me for my birthday. Thank you Sue.

I hope anyone with e-bikes or scooters has  checked out the new rules cause there are going to be a lot of unhappy parents when a police officer arrives to hand out a fine for young children riding one or a notification the machine has been seized and destroyed if it's capable of too much speed.

When is it going to be accepted that we can't allow true multi-cultural living in Australia as some things accepted in other cultures are illegal here in Australia? We can allow those aspects of exotic cultures that are legal but those not adhering to that rule should be deported immediately. Acceptable improvements derived from exotic cultures could be incorporated into Australian life with an  assimilatory culture .

Cheers for now,

Merv