Archive for May, 2007

Emergency? Forget it

If you ever think if using that emergency after-hours phone number posted on the door of the Yarra Health Centre in Church Street, forget it.  What you’ll get if you ring is a testy female asking why you’ve phoned that number and did you call a 1300 number. Emergency help?  No way.  She wasn’t interested […]

Butt out of national issues

Yarra Council  has done it again: got workers to sneak in at dead of night and hung another of its annoying banners over the facade of the Richmond Town Hall.  Ratepayers bear the cost of the making and installing (with very expensive cherry-picker hire) of these blots on the landscape.  We don’t get asked if […]

Fit to smoke

Isn’t there something not quite in sync with the students and teachers at the Australian Fitness Institute in Church Street, Richmond, taking their breaks outside - and SMOKING!  How fit is that?  A good example to carry with them when they begin teaching.

Library mayhem

There was a time when libraries were places of QUIET study, reading and reflection.  No more - at least not at the Richmond Library in Church Street.  It’s more like a creche or kindergarten with yelling kids allowed to run all over the place.  Study?  No way. It would be quieter out on the street, […]



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Inhabiting a parallel universe and walking to the beat of a different drum, I observe the machinations and misdemeanours of life in this funny old Yarra village we call Melbourne.

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