Enter the Belmore/Victoria Sts carpark! This is a brilliant skate, smooth, flat, lit at night. Myself and Donna hit the pavement and practiced ‘the robot’! Hopefully we’ll get more skaters down here soon. Live in fear of no-one turning up. Get slighty hysterical before I leave the house. Alas.More
Second WIRD skate
After missing WIRD’s first skatey get together last Sunday (due to ridiculous work commitments) I was eager to get out there and have a go! Five of us turned up to the carpark out the back of ****. Took some sweeping and bits of it were down/up hill. Not too bad. Apparently roller skating is…More
Second WIRD planning meeting
<img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XP1OuorBTN4/SjSNfYxMWmI/AAAAAAAAABY/8FioYC1vUek/s320/February+2009+062.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_ Thanks to those who made it to the meeting today! Despite the rain we had an amazing turnout of 15 potential skaters, managed to huddle out of the rain and nut out a whole chunk more of…More
Visiting a SRDL scrimmage
Yesterday a bunch of us did the trek to Sydney to watch a scrimmage. It was in a gym at Sydney Uni, with the track laid out in grey plastic tape (plumber’s, I think) and merch stalls set up behind the audience. I’m a bit intimidated.More
WIRD’s first planning meeting
1st planning meeting for WIRD – Oxford Hotel Slogan for today: Roller derby is a virus – infect everyone you touch! In a brilliantly successful first planning meeting derby and its logistics were discussed in the beer garden of the Oxford. The conversation was so interesting that after the meeting broke up several people from…More
Happy Birthday to WIRD, Happy Birthday to WIRD
Situation to date: After the ABC’s screening of ‘Roller Derby Dolls’ the topic of roller derby just wouldn’t drop. After several months of complaining about the lack of RD in Wollongong I decided to make it happen. Researched RD on the net and started the Wollongong-Illawarra Roller Derby facebook group in late December, 2008. By…More
‘Foster families are invisible in a system crying out to be fixed’, Letter to the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald
(Full text) It should be no surprise there has been such a rise in the number of children being removed from dysfunctional or abusive families (“Foster care crisis as families fall apart”, March 15-16). By 19 I had a criminal record, a drug habit, a child, a sexually transmitted disease, a dodgy School Certificate, and…More
‘Environmental Ennui: Compassion Fatigue’, Tertangala
(Full Text) Our newspapers and television screens are filling up with topographical images showing the progression and impact points of various natural disasters. Earthquakes, avalanches, hurricanes, tsunami, even avian flu, are all examples of the natural environment’s response to human habitation. Our attempts to shape and mould our communities are having long-term effects on the…More
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