Trying to navigate through the traffic chaos around schools in mornings and afternoons is still a continuing nightmare and surely there's something that can be done.
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Orange High School is still the worst, particularly in Coronation Drive, with kids wandering across a pedestrian crossing one at a time, banking up east bound traffic as far back as Frost Street.
East-bound motorists on Coronation Drive still have to use an easier passage via Frost, Waratah, Kenna and Moulder streets to avoid the shemozzle outside the school. West-bound traffic just cop it.
It's not much better in Woodward Street with kids continually pressing the walk buttons on the two sets of traffic lights and crossing, again, one at a time.
In the afternoons they're everywhere like ants, dozens of them ignoring the lights and just wandering across in front of traffic wherever they like.
Probably because it's a high school is why there isn't lollipop controllers like other schools where the traffic is more orderly. Maybe introducing them would fix things.
Get the saying right!
Broadcaster Alan Jones' remarks about wondering whether Scott Morrison was going to "shove a sock" down Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's throat certainly caused an over reaction.
He was annoyed by her comments Australia "needed to answer to the Pacific on climate change". "What he meant to say was Scott Morrison should tell her to "put a sock in it."
It's a saying that's been around for 100 years but its origins are varied. Back then the only way to reduce the volume on a gramophone was to put a sock in the speaker to muffle it.
But World War 1 soldiers reckoned they should put a sock in the buglers trumpet or the pipers bagpipes, especially when others were trying to sleep. Or a loud snorer in the barracks.
The Cambridge dictionary says it simply means to tell someone to be quiet or stop making so much noise. So the Jones saga all seems much ado about nothing.
Creepy crawly menu
CSIRO boss Dr Larry Marshall wants to use our knowledge of insects to support the growth of a new insect industry as a source of protein in our diets.
He's busy this week with the University of Adelaide to identify which native insect species are the most nutritious to eat and has nominated witchetty grubs, bogong moths and green tree ants.
Insects could be an additional source of protein and as well create a unique export market, Dr Marshall says. We love tucking into a juicy steak but could we ever bring ourselves to hoe into a plate of insects?
However, with Orange promoting itself as some sort of food capital there's a huge opening for our restaurants to come up with some signature insect dishes.
No doubt foodies would queue to try delicacies such as Orange battered beetles, Glenroi grilled termites, Pinnacle poached worms or Canobolas caterpillar pate
No doubt foodies would queue to try delicacies such as Orange battered beetles, Glenroi grilled termites, Pinnacle poached worms or Canobolas caterpillar pate.
A hit on any menu along with Ophir gold grasshopper soup while the local winies could recommend the best drop to have with Warrendine fromage frais cockroaches, braised bees or fried locusts.
As Dr Marshall says, the idea of eating bugs might take a bit of getting used to but what's appealing is the investment in a new industry.
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