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This week I was treated to a delectable high tea at Sibagraphics client, the incomparable high societea Tea House in Clayfield.
Diana from the Noosa Wedding Ring enjoyed the splendid Savoury high tea whilst I savoured the sumptuous Royal Ascot with Pimms, accompanied by tea sipped from superb Royal Albert china. With the attentions of the lovely teahouse staff amidst the olde worlde surroundings, I felt like royalty. high societea is thoroughly recommended for perfectly elegant Brisbane dining!
There’s a new Noosa golf holiday villa for sale at the prestigious gated community of Noosa Springs. Our client, Lianne Wamsteeker, is the exclusive agent for this lovely Noosa home, which has golf frontage, two terraces for entertaining, 3 bedrooms and spacious living areas.
Bigdaddy seems to have sorted some wheat from the chaff, reducing the value of reciprocal links and most particularly from unrelated sites. Matt Cutts’ post on the results thus far of the earthquake that was Big Daddy is good value for search engine optimisers.
Good quality, useful content that attracts inbound links naturally rules from now on it seems, though to get the ball rolling reciprocals are still necessary.
While I have long been a fan of fixed width 3 column site layouts, here’s a reference site which has a library of percentage based column layouts.
Looking forward to trying them with images in some of the columns. I have employed my own three column div layout designs on several of my sites using a fixed width method – for example view source at Success Foods, the Medicine Room, Mike Jackson, Eurofilter Asia Pacific and Richard’s Corner.
With the Queensland State government’s irresponsible fire sale of South East Queensland to southern immigrants and developers who feast from the spoils of unrestrained growth, the latest shortsighted move is to foist the self-inflicted water shortage problems of the profligate, ever-expanding Gold Coast and Brisbane slums onto areas close to our heart – the Noosa/Gympie region.
This is the third attempt to dam the Mary River and I predict the exploiters will lose this time too.
Apart from the direct impact on prime agricultural land and 900 outraged landowners, the area is home to at least three endangered animal species, including the Mary River lungfish, Mary River turtle and Mary River cod, let alone representatives from our national treasure chest of plant species with their potential valuable pharmaceutical use. The region’s forests form part of one of the biodiversity hotspots identified by Professor Norman Myers. This proposed travesty of a dam at Traveston Crossing is also likely to impinge on the health of fisheries along Wide Bay.
And what about the region’s old cattle dips and their arsenic loads which will leech into the dam? Humans are the only species who don’t seem to mind poisoning themselves in the name of so-called ‘progress’ – the long term self-defeating result of suspect economic irrationalism which relies ignorantly and unquestioningly on increase in population and production for prosperity. Prosperity for whom? our children’s children? I don’t think so.
No more dams! There are plenty of other more sustainable, responsible options to address water consumption needs in South East Queensland.
For more information, visit the Save the Mary River site, NUSER and the Sunshine Coast Environment Council.