They are removing the huge POLARIS pontoon from upriver which must mean that all the new bridge spans have been installed and that Nelligen Bridge is nearing completion. Next comes the long-promised water and sewer installation.
That's the progress here and in nearby Batemans Bay where the foreshore is bristling with new multi-storeyed apartment buildings and a brandnew aquatic and arts centre will open in just a few weeks' time.
The only step back in time was this morning's announcement that Labor had won the election. The great unwashed majority has embraced Labor's cause again. Trouble is, all great causes, like sewer systems, look good on paper; they get messy and malodorous when you get into the detail. But what great timing: now Albo can tell the whole world with misty eyes at the Quad meeting in Tokyo next week that he's the son of a single mum who grew up in a Housing Commission flat! I guess it's too late to emigrate, so it's a matter of 'grin and bear' in the hope they won't do too much damage before they get tossed out again.
Speaking of a good cause, Woodside's shareholders voted in favour of a merger with BHP's petroleum business which means that I'll be proud owner of quite a few Woodside shares come 1 June 2022. How it will affect their share price or that of the shares in BHP remains to be seen.
I'm waiting to hear from my dentist in Ulladulla to get an appointment to have that annoying back molar fixed. Five days on soup and sweet tea and the occasional paracetamol to deal with the worst of the pain have put quite a dent into my joie de vivre. Being twenty in the seventies was so much more fun than being seventy in the twenties!
