Home made Anzacs – Jen’s recipe
Monday, 24 June 2013
Thursday, 20 June 2013
World Refugee Day
All over this world, People want to live in peace – The manufacture and selling of arms must cease!
Monday, 17 June 2013
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Our Rights at Work are not, just red tape! – UK
We’re going to hear a lot about Europe from the Tories this year.
Cameron wants a referendum… his backbenchers want one sooner… and they all want to “re-negotiate, re-negotiate, re-negotiate".
But when they talk about negotiating in Europe to cut red tape, and bring powers back to the UK, what do they mean?
Below are just some of the rights at work that are guaranteed by European Law –
All these rights and more could be at risk if Cameron gets his way.
http://www.unionstogether.org.uk
Friday, 31 May 2013
Light & Shadow at Orama Lane - Katoomba
Early morning light on the Birds Nest Fern
(Asplenium australasicum)
The original stained glass window
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Bush walk to Echo Point – Katoomba NSW
Mallow and bee
Early morning mist viewed from Carrington Park
Pea Flower (Dillwynia elegans)
Mountain Devil (Lambertia formosa)
Overlooking The Three Sisters
A child’s baby rabbit carried in a basket to Echo Point !
Majestic view from Echo Point !
Monday, 20 May 2013
Thousands march to fight cuts to London Hospitals – 18th May 2013
Photo by Paul Davey – Demotix
Thousands of Londoners gathered to march from Waterloo to Downing street in protest against cuts to NHS hospital services and privatisation of essential medical services.
This demonstration was called by an unprecedented coalition of London residents, medical staff, trade unions and health campaigners who have come together to raise the alarm regarding the biggest threats to A & E’s, maternity units and in-hospital care for a generation.
Professor Simon Shorvon, a neurologist, attacked the decision to close four west London A&E departments. He said: "It will leave a huge swathe of residents far from a local casualty.
"Time matters in an emergency situation and being stuck in an ambulance after a coronary or stroke or life-threatening accident will play havoc with survival and recovery rates."
Closures planned across the capital include nine accident and emergency departments, a number of maternity units and thousands of hospital beds.
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Blue Mountains National Park - bush walk Katoomba to Leura Falls
Fossil Rocks Lookout
Leura Falls
Hairpin Banksia (Banksia spinulosa)
Bridal Veil Lookout – part view only !
Monday, 6 May 2013
May Day March - Sydney New South Wales 05-05-2013
Photo by Demotix
New South Wales Nurses and Midwifes Association
First prize for placards depicting conditions won by nurses, supported by their Union, dating from 1936
This May Day march was a uplifting! Strong, vibrant, colourful and the biggest for 10 years!
All Unions were involved as far as I could see, many community groups, inventive floats, bagpipes and brass bands.
First and second prizes were awarded to the best Unions and best political or community organisations in the May Day March. The basis of the decision was innovation, positive promotion of the organization or campaigns, signage, branding, colour, sound, noise and getting the message across of a proud past and a fighting future.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
May Day March – 1st May 2013
photo Wong Maye - E/AP
Thousands of Bangladeshi workers marched on May Day in central Dhaka to demand safer working conditions and the death penalty for the owner of the multi-storey building which collapsed last week. The building housed garment factories and has been the country’s worse industrial disaster, killing at least 402 people and injuring some 2,500.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Polyisobutene dumping at sea – Cornwall
Over the last few days in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset, over a thousand stricken seabirds including guillemots, puffins and razorbills have been washed up on our shores, dead or dying. The culprit: a substance called Polyisobutene (PIB) which covers these precious seabirds in a toxic glue.
Currently, it’s legal to dump PIB at sea. But a simple change to maritime law could change that and help prevent the scenes of destruction we’ve seen in areas like Whitsand Bay this week.
Happier days - Puffin running on the water at Whitsand Bay
Currently, it’s legal to dump PIB at sea. But a simple change to maritime law could change that and help prevent the scenes of destruction we’ve seen in areas like Whitsand Bay this week.
Happier days - Puffin running on the water at Whitsand Bay
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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