http://bromo.nook.com.au My Nook Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:05:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No, it can't be true.  I must be dreaming, hallucinating.  For a brief moment (on the TV news) I think I saw a picture of the Minister of Transport, Lynne Kosky, actually riding on a train.  It must have been a very strange experience for her.  It certainly looked like ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/09/18/kosky-mirage/ Only a few weeks after installing a ramp for wheelchairs and pushers outside its new Child Welfare Centre in the old police station in Bridge Road, Richmond, workmen are today ripping it out and digging holes in the ground.  I've as yet no idea why they are doing it but ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/08/28/another-council-cock-up/ The consoling fact about the revelation that some two million people switch on to watch Kath & Kim on a Sunday night is that this means 18 million people have the good sense NOT to watch this lamentable pretence at humour. http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/08/27/unfunny-kath-kim/ As if the cafes spreading their tables into the path of pedestrians wasn't bad enough, we now have pubs and bars taking over our footpaths.  Nowhere is this more evident than in Bridge Road, Richmond, where our way is blocked by carousing, beer-toting louts (and loutesses) who show no regard ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/08/26/footpath-fiasco/ Waste no time in getting along to see Hannie Rayson's world premiere play The Glass Solider, which opened at the Playhouse in Melbourne's Arts Centre last night.  It's a startling, innovative, enthralling piece of theatre, based very closely on the story of an amazing local survivor of the first World War.  ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/08/09/the-glass-soldier/ What a pity  non-Transport Minister Lynne Kosky took matters into her own hand and dumped the idea of issuing our ticket inspectors with handcuffs to help them deal with difficult non-paying customers. Ther use of handcuffs would make their job so much easier and eliminate those nasty fights and scuffles when ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/08/02/time-for-restraints/ What a load of wimps.  Only eight months into the job the foolhardy elected them to do, Bland Bracks and Waterboy Thwaites have thrown in the towel.  Talk about rats leaving a sinking ship - and defrauding the voters by not completing their side of the contract with the electorate.  ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/07/27/rats-and-a-sinking-ship/ It seems I'm not the only one who finds our Minister for the Arts somewhat lacking in common courtesy and disrespectful of the portfolio she represents - even worse that the unlamented Mary Delahunty, in the view of many of our city's culture vultures. The latest Kosky cock-up comes via the ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/07/26/more-kosky-arrogance/ According to a huge headline in The Australian today the world has suffered the "Death of a footy salesman".  Death?  It's bad enough that so many illiterate commentators refer to Sheedy's "demise". But to record this event as death is going much too far.  Get over it; another coach has ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/07/26/when-did-kevin-sheedy-die/ Those invited to the launch of this year's Melbourne International festival of the Arts on Tuesday night were instructed that the function began at 6.30pm SHARP.  And they dutifully obeyed - and were in their seats on time.  They then waited, and waited, and waited - and were advised that ... http://bromo.nook.com.au/2007/07/18/ministerial-arrogance/