Today I walked a longer route to my local shop to buy milk. Everything is looking fresh and green now the rain has finally come. I thought I’d check to see how the raingarden at the bottom of the hill was doing. The rain garden was installed by the council several years ago and has [...]
Our bus stop had a revamp last year. The old seat with its back to the road was removed, a new slab laid, and we waited to see what would take its place. Perhaps it would get a bus shelter like the one on the other side of the road, especially as this one is [...]
The bus at the corner of my street comes every 30 minutes. Every hour in the evenings and weekends. There’s a big difference between the every 15 minutes BUZ services where you just turn up at the bus stop knowing that a bus will be along in an average of 7 minutes, and standing at [...]
There’s a lot of talk about active transport these days. That often translates into a shared path on a massive intersection that nobody would use unless desperate. But it’s there, and it ticks the box. On Tuesday, I took my car in for a service at Brendale. It’s only a suburb away from where I [...]
This walk would normally take about 20 minutes. It was very hot so I walked slower and paused under trees to check my map, taking almost 40 minutes. That is where the phone is invaluable when walking. Like many Brisbane suburbs, Everton Park is not built on a grid system. Take a wrong turn while [...]
