Good morning tooter rooters. Hope your day is going better than this dude's (pic lifted from Reddit, reportedly from a town called Chidlow just up in the hills outside town) #Perth#BadDay#DeffoACarton#CantParkThereMate
I lived in #Perth for a year. And one of my fondest memories of Perth were the ravens. Those suckers were the size of chickens, I swear. They would perch on top of dumpsters or trees and stare at you with those beady little eyes, as if they were plotting your murder, and then they let out this long kaaaaaAAAWWWAAAH????
As if they are asking, "wtf you doin' here mate?"
Good times. 😆
Although they're no substitute for Melbourne's trams, I do like Perth's CAT buses.
The CAT (Central Area Transport) buses are free, frequent services that serve the inner city area. The 5 routes are colour coded (red, blue, yellow, green & purple).
A Perth set of windows for #FensterFreitag - within the somewhat bizarre mock-Tudor shopping arcade, London Court. The gent in the middle is Raleigh, I believe.
I'm really excited! I've just purchased tickets to see Eddi Reader in concert at The Perth Concert Hall. The gig is on Sunday, April 21st, 2024. This will be the first time I've seen her perform.
A review, hopefully with photos, will follow shortly afterwards.
Hello from Perth deep in Makuru. Makuru is the Noongar season for Perth’s wet and cool winter. Indeed its been raining intermittently all week and the birds are busy nest building and yelling at each other. Ducklings and cygnets very soon!
6 months and 14 months after a blisteringly hot bushfire in #westernaustralia .
It was the Feb 2021 Gidgegannup fire that destroyed homes and scorched everything in its path. It was so hot the land had only just begun recovering 6 months later.
You usually see the kinda growth in the first picture within weeks of a cool burn. The soil turned to sandy ash, with all the soil microbiome destroyed. I'll be going back soon for a 29 month update.
Will be going to various museums, Rottnest Island/wadjemup and the Busso pier underwater experience, plus some beaches and breweries. No hiking/really long walks. Open to other tips!
Today, like many other West Australian teachers, I'm not going to work this morning.
It's interesting that our industrial action is represented in the media as about pay. We're not striking over salary - we're striking because the system is broken.
My son has had no Phys Ed teacher all year. He's had a procession of relief teachers which, for a special needs child, is extremely distressing. He attends an inner city public school, but staffing shortages are statewide.
Speaking of special needs students, I'd like to look after my own without having to skip lunch to ensure their needs are met.
I'd like the Education Department to give me a personal device so I can do my job
(more efficiently). If I want a laptop, I have to lease one.
I'd like an acknowledgement of how teaching has recently become more difficult and demanding, especially during #COVID19, when we kept schools open and tried to keep students safe.
I enforced the mask mandate far more often than a rank-and-file police officer. I've probably been threatened and assaulted more times than many police officers too. And the statewide mobile phone ban? Guess who enforces that every single day.
So many of my colleagues have left teaching: re-trained or resigned due to burnout and stress. Who suffers? The students.
It's not about the pay. We're tired, and we need support. We're underfunded and under-resourced. We need to improve conditions for students. We need to fix the system.
Who knew that I lived in such a dangerous place? 🤣
FYI when I moved to #Perth in 1999 there was a serial killer murdering women and I was a tad worried about it being a freshie on her first overseas jaunt ☠️😬
Ps: Adelaide was so quiet and provincial maybe that's why serial killers liked it there 😆
WWE ELIMINATION CHAMBER Discussion Thread 02/24/24
Tonight/This morning, WWE is LIVE from Perth, Australia with Elimination Chamber! The card includes:...