Doing it hard

Living in Central Victoria gives me the opportunity to enjoy an amazing array of birdlife.
Last year our home was home to a family of Tawny Frogmouths for a time until the poor young ones died.
Yesterday our home was paid a quick visit by another pair (may be the same?). They were not fazed by my pointing a 500 mm lens at them. Hope you enjoy the pic!

TAWNY FROGMOUTHS PAIR

Blogging Tips and Tricks by Sharon Greenaway

October Writers Explore – Sharon Greenaway
10th October 2011
The lives of 16 people will be even busier after attendinglast night’s BWC meeting as they beginto blog or revitalize their  existing skills in blogging. 
Many weresceptical about its usefulness but Sharon was convincing in her argument towriters that if you want people to read your work  regular blogging is an advantage, it presentsyou and your style of writing to the public – but only to those who read it.Therefore not only is it necessary towrite on your blog, since it is chronological you should write regularly, for example, 2-4weekly but you must also alert peopleto the fact that you have a blog.
But I am ahead of myself. What is a blog? How do you set oneup?  Among other things these questionswere answered while Sharon discussed and facilitated blog writing exercises.
Briefly, a blog is a network of communicating thoughts,happenings, news, facts, anything you choose, for either professional or socialpurposes on your own individual blogspot. It can be linked to a website and/or“advertised” through Facebook, Twitter, business cards, email etc.
Your free blogsite can be set up through www.blogger.com, an offshoot of google.Sharon suggests that a blog should be about 100-700 words and that any picturesattached ought to be converted to small pixels, say 500×500.
Your blog will be protected by a password with strongrecommendation to remember it, retrieval is very time consuming.

Overall, I found the evening well worth the effort to attend, it was very informative and wasfacilitated at a comfortable pace.
Thank you Sharon & BWC.

–         Christine Haddrick. [1]
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An email from another member on the night:
“Hi Sharon,

> Thank you for being our Writers Explore speaker. I know a lot of those
> that
> attended are keen after hearing from you, to start up their own blog
> [including myself] and I know of one that has already done so. She
> likened
> it to giving birth to a baby! Although I hope mine to be less
> excruitiating
> to initiate I hope I get the same sense of joy from the living product.
>
> Sorry that it may have taken a while for this message and the photo to
> come
> through – I thought I’d send the uncompressed file so that you have more
> scope to manipulate it as you would like. It is a lovely photo of you.
>
> All the best with everything Sharon and thanks again for the inspiration.
> Kylie
Kylie Hendy.

[1]Used with permission, first published in the Bendigo Writers Council Muse NewsNovember 2011.

Langley Hall Open House brings back memories

Nov 7, 2011 10:58am

Langley Hall in Napier Street Bendigo was open to the public for the last 3 Sundays as a fundraiser for the St John of God Horizon House, a project that aims to meet the long term needs of disadvantaged and homeless young people in order to break the cycle of homelessness that has beset these young people.

A trip back to the Hall was important for Mary and Ray Evans of Bendigo as they were married there in 1981. 

Bridget Gurry and her family opened the house as a fundraiser for Horizon House as she is involved in the Rising Light competition. Langley Hall was built in 1903 for the first Anglican Bishop of Bendigo, Henry Langley