FROM THE RIDGE: Nature can be both remarkable and cruel
16 November 2020
The annual bludgers have recently turned up.
I’d been expecting them.
Good word, bludger.
FROM THE RIDGE ARCHIVES
FROM THE RIDGE: Rooting for a better America
9 November 2020
"Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.”
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.
They’ve all come to look for America.
FROM THE RIDGE: Biodiversity is a natural occurrence on-farm
4 November 2020
I read a piece the other day by an earnest greenie calling our paddocks pastoral monocultures. They argued that we needed far greater biodiversity than a simple construct of ryegrass and clover.
FROM THE RIDGE: Next three years will be very telling
28 October 2020
Not such a great surprise at the outcome of the election, but the magnitude was bigger than anyone expected.
FROM THE RIDGE: Trump’s in a league of his own
12 October 2020
This column comes with a reader advisory.
If you are in that small minority of impassioned folk who are convinced that President Donald Trump is the best thing that has happened for America and the world, then I suggest you stop reading at this point.
You won’t like this.
FROM THE RIDGE: Surprising discovery on inhospitable Venus
23 September 2020
David Bowie in his song of the same name asked the question: Is there life on Mars?
And we all thought there just might be.
Humans have been asking that same question for over 200 years.
FROM THE RIDGE: Five weeks is a long time in politics
14 September 2020
If all had gone to plan, we would have had an election at the end of this week.
But the pandemic put paid to the best-laid plans and the election is now still five weeks away as politicians frantically work the hustings.
FROM THE RIDGE: A drought was on the cards
7 September 2020
It's the end of August and the rush for me of lambing is abating and docking is about to start, but I’ve been thinking of the drought and the things I did and the things I didn’t do that perhaps I should have.
FROM THE RIDGE: Blast from the past becomes lesson of order
29 July 2020
Something other than politics, covid-19 or the state of the world, I believe, is in order – and perhaps desired – this week.
This photo came into my life last week. Or maybe back into it but I’ve never possessed it, seen it, or even thought of it for 40 years.
This tale is about memory, or lack of it, reminiscence, and the order that some folk have in their lives, which I find remarkable.
FROM THE RIDGE: Is Collins a reincarnation of Rob Muldoon
20 July 2020
From the Ridge: Thanks Judith for agreeing to have a chat with us. Congratulations on finally securing the top job as leader of the National Party. I had a brief fancy that an unnamed homeless guy who tagged along at the back of caucus ended up being elected.
