Boy it's hot

Boy it's hot here in Launceston! Yesterday it got up to 35.7C and now it's
37.4! I went to Adelaide in 1955 around Christmas and it was the hottest place I have ever been to, This however beats that and there is no sign of this heatwave ending.

What else can I write about? I fully intended to comment on the Obama Celebrations but this has been extensively covered in numerous blogs and reports. He has been in office now for 10 days and it is obvious that he has a vastly different style to George Dubya. I sense this Global recession will last for quite a while and has shown that it is immune from stimulus packages and political rhetoric.

It is too hot to write anything so I will wait until it cools down.

Robin

Memories of Launceston's trams.

Yes that Barbara Streisand song is in my memory bank today when I read Alison Andrews article in today's "Examiner" It was on Launceston's Trams which ran from 1911 to December 1952. I must have been 2 or 3 years old because I wasn't walking at that stage and have a very vivid memory of going on to a tram with my parents to my aunt's residence in Wentworth Street. We got on in Charles Street, outside the CTA Club, where the Target store is now and tram turned into Brisbane Street and then went up High Street and stopped at Wentworth Street, where High Street ends and Talbot Road commences. I remember the distinctive sound and smell of the tram and this was the only occasion I traveled on them. When I came to St. Giles in October 1952, they must have been running but I can't remember them.

Hobart had trams for another 10 years and I remember getting on at Seymour Street on the New Town line and going into Hobart.Their trams hissed and were far more noisier than Launceston's.

Robin

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I'm back

I know that many of us are deeply worried about the Israeli incursion into Gaza. The two sides don't seem to want to cease this senseless slaughter, which has its roots back in Biblical times.
It seems to me that the Israelis launched this raid in the dying stages of the Bush administration
and seemed to want to lock the incoming Obama administration into their strategies. Let us hope that Peace will come soon and the fighting on both sides will cease.

Robin L. Harwood.