Fruit Fly info evening

If you're growing (or aspiring to grow) fruit in our area, you need every available piece of information about combating fruit fly. So well done to the Seed Savers Albury-Wodonga working group who have put together a session on exactly that.

Bonuses from Brian's renovations

There were winners all around after our friend Brian's renovations recently. You see Build-It Bloke's work contributed to a great outcome for Brian's reno (along with other clever tradies). In addition, our place has reaped the rewards - in a kind of flow-on effect way.

The straight-forward part was that we bought a sideboard Brian no longer had a need for (he's removed the wall it was up against and added built-in storage instead).

The bonus was that from the panelling, picture rails and doors that were no longer needed at Brian's, Build-It Bloke also made us a new storage cupboard and a partition wall in the back room (laundry).
It means a smarter and neater use of that fairly 'dead' space for us.

Here's a pic of the space. Usually it's full of stuff, and the fridge has been sitting against the wall on the right hand side.

After (not a great pic, sorry)Before

The features are the large cupboard (with a cavity for the sliding door to the kitchen which slides behind it), a partition wall, which will help protect the fridge from direct light and heat, and at the back the picture rail and some hooks have created out-of-view hanging space.

To top it all off, Build-It Bloke made a coat rack from some wood we'd already used for at least two other purposes previously, and re-used reo bar.

The back room doesn't know itself after all this.

Replace Hazelwood

Now here's a fun way to show your support for the replacement of Hazelwood power station ...

On Saturday 17 July, Hazelwood power station - Australia's most polluting power station - will be relocating to Wodonga. Well....not quite, but if you come along to La Trobe University at 1.00pm you will get to see (and eat) the world's largest cake replica of Hazelwood - a Guinness Book of Records record-breaking feat!

Please join us at this family-friendly occasion to help send a strong message to our leaders that we want them to replace Hazelwood with clean energy.

For all the details see our flyer

Click on the image below for the full size flyer.