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Posted: 1/09/2008 | THE Olympics are over and it's back to the real world, with the Baulkham Hills Shire council elections just two weeks off. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 1/09/2008 | THE Olympics are over and it's back to the real world, with the Baulkham Hills Shire council elections just two weeks off. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/08/2008 | WE SEEM to say it every year of late: spring has arrived early. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/08/2008 | WE SEEM to say it every year of late: spring has arrived early. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 18/08/2008 | BOY, I'm weary. Dragging myself to work each morning feeling like I've just swum the 400 metres relay at the Olympics or fought a few rounds with West Australian lightweight Anthony Little. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 18/08/2008 | HOW deliciously sweet it was to see the former prime minister, John Howard, recently accepting life membership in the Liberal Party he all but destroyed during his lengthy tenure. (''Look kids, I shrunk the party''). | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 5/08/2008 | INDIGO: a colour between blue and violet (violet-cobalt in budgerigars). According to New Age belief, indigo children represent a higher state of human evolution, strongly willed and highly sensitive. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 27/06/2008 | PAULINE possum and her babies haven't been seen for eight months in the Allison's possum apartment. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 29/05/2008 | YES, May 17 offered up a different kind of wedding. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 22/05/2008 | IT'S only two hours and 2300km away, but New Zealand is refreshingly different for outdoor types. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 22/05/2008 | IT'S only two hours and 2300km away, but New Zealand is refreshingly different for outdoor types. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 19/04/2008 | I TRY not to look back, dwelling on the past, often a painful exercise, preferring to live positively day-to-day. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 19/04/2008 | JUST back from a 2700km round trip to southern Queensland with some mates camping on a grazing property aptly named ``Paradise''. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 26/03/2008 | AS far as reunions go, it was commemorative rather than melancholy. Ironic, since it was the 20th anniversary of the death of a Sydney tabloid of which I have so many fond memories. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 17/03/2008 | THE big political question right now: when Opposition leader Brendan Nelson - Mr 7 per cent - is rolled by Malcolm Turnbull, will he stay in Parliament? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 10/03/2008 | I KNOW, I know, I've done this self-indulgent stuff before. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 4/03/2008 | I HAD to laugh at a letter to the editor of the Herald last week by Matt Luxford: ''Well, at least we know where the Howard-haters have gone. Morphed into Morris-maulers, and good luck to 'em.'' | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/02/2008 | IF YOU have a late-20s, 30-something ''child'' still living at home, you're not alone. In Baulkham Hills shire it's the rule rather than the exception. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 19/02/2008 | SUCH a small word, ''sorry.'' Big on implication, but really a little word. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 12/02/2008 | KEVIN Rudd is trying too hard for his own good to be Mr Nice Guy. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 5/02/2008 | Goodbye too soon: The late Sandra Harvey was a fearless crime reporter of high integrity. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 30/01/2008 | DO you think your kids get it too easy, but are not sure what to do about it? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 16/01/2008 | DID I miss something at the Sydney Test? A terrorist attack, perhaps? | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/01/2008 | There's a greenie in all of us, but... | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 17/12/2007 | This carefully before moving house to the bush | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 5/12/2007 | AS the Liberals began to mend their shattered party, and the state buries a true hero, I couldn't help compare the differences between Bernie Banton, asbestos victim, and John Howard, the fallen prime minister. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 26/11/2007 | AS the full impact of the Coalition's election massacre reverberates across the land, this is not a time for gloating, nor grieving. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 20/11/2007 | AFTER a year of politics, politics, politics, the agony is almost over. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 6/11/2007 | WE have some truly memorable people from the Hills - hurdler Jana Rawlinson (nee Pittman), singer/songwriter Delta Goodrem, tennis star Lleyton Hewitt, Melbourne Cup ace jockey Glenn Boss, the former Blue Wiggle Anthony Field, netball champ Catherine Cox and young Australian swimmers, Kendrick Monk and Grant Brits. To name a few | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 31/10/2007 | THE CONCEPT of this email tickled my fancy, so I re-jigged it for the benefit of all those readers born during and before the 1970s. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 25/10/2007 | I can't help feeling the billions - plus the other billion wasted on Government advertising in the past 11 years - could be better spent. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/10/2007 | FORGIVE me, but I'm in a self-indulgent mood... A proud father, I'm going to waffle on about family, in particular Jane Catherine Kendall Allison, now 25. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/10/2007 | THIS is really a quite weird, surreal blink in time in The Hills. It's been 33 years to be exact, call it a generation. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 14/10/2007 | I'VE just spent a week in Queensland in the boughs of trees with panoramic views over various clearings of wavering native grass. Dressed in camo clobber, I spied on the passing parade of mostly deer and marsupials such as pretty-faced wallabies... | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | DEAR Hills and Hawkesbury residents: I understand that three or four thousand of you intend to take the forthright step of changing your vote... | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | DEAR Hills and Hawkesbury residents: I understand that three or four of you intend to take the dizzying step of changing your vote to Labor leader Kevin Rubb via his local henchman, the CFMEU's Nigel Gould. I urge you to reconsider for the future of this wonderful nation, your children and grandkids. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | IN MY July 10 Perspective column ``Hobart learnt well from its convict past'' I wrote how a wonderful holiday with the Redhead in Tassie was spoiled by parking police on the Hobart wharves... Well here's the conclusion. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | As we drove up to our retirement home on the shores of Lake Cathie, 10 kilometres south of Port Macquarie, the Redhead and I looked at each other. I was the first to react: ``Who stole the bloody lake?'' | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | Like some civic Cinderella, Castle Hill seems to have changed suddenly at midnight from being a nondescript town into a glamorous hub. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | One irate driver rang the city council and immediately got into a row with an officious official. ‘‘You shoulda read the sign, mate. Says permit, not ticket. Your fault.'' | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | It's the best place I've worked in 39 years in journalism and my colleagues are even nicer. None of us earns a fortune, but we're mostly locals who have sacrificed the big dollars of the city for a Garden Shire lifestyle. | CommentsComments (0)
Posted: 7/09/2007 | Alan Cadman lived by the numbers. He survived 33 years as MP for Mitchell by glad-handing his way into popularity the old-fashioned way, earning the numbers - the support of crucial members of relatively small branches. | CommentsComments (0)
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Musings of the Hills News editor, Col Allison

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