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Canberra In Autumn

Yesterday around the middle of the day I had a leisurely stroll around parts of Braddon and Reid, in an effort to document Autumn in Canberra. Autumn in Canberra is a time of contrasts and a time when leaves start to fall. Some plants manage to drop their leaves before others even get started changing colour, some don’t change colour at all. This mixture produces a spectacular natural scene of beauty, one that is best expressed in pictures.

I was planning on taking these photos on Tuesday, but a certain event involving stairs and gravity prevented it.

So here I present you with 28 pictures of Canberra in Autumn, taken in the full glorious light of the middle of the day.

Beautiful isn’t it?

Samuel

8 comments April 20th, 2006 at 10:14am

Chief Turnip’s Incoherent Babbling

ACT Chief Turnip Jon Stanhope has been in the news a bit lately, one of the many reasons is a possible plan to close some schools, and the ABC had a rather interesting article about that yesterday.

The article featured this baffling quote from the Chief Turnip

We cannot continue to sustain a government school system where there are, in the context of the level of expenditure, which we make or investment in education and maintain a school system at that level of under use.

Even if you change a few words it still doesn’t seem to make sense, and as such it is impossible to work out whether or not there is a typo in amongst that. I decided to send a copy of the quote off to the Plain English Campaign, and nominate Jon Stanhope for a Foot In Mouth award, which is awarded for “a baffling quote by a public figure”.

Shortly after sending an email to the Plain English Campaign, I received a response from Dave Smith. (We previously met Dave on Samuel’s Persiflage #1.) Dave said

This certainly deserves a nomination for the foot-in-mouth award and I will see that the judges get it.

He also went on to say that

The judging for the awards will take place in October. I will let you know if your nomination wins in November.

It will be interesting to see if our Chief Turnip wins this prestigious award or not, it seems like the kind of award he could be very proud of.

Samuel

3 comments April 20th, 2006 at 08:49am