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Two schools closed due to weather conditions

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Feb 24

The photo is of a butcher bird, one of many species which inhabit the area I’m about to talk about. Most mornings I check the fire and emergency site for Western Australia. Today, two schools have been closed due to heatwave...

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A blow for a small town

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Jan 24

We used to live in Ravensthorpe, a relatively isolated country town in the south-east of Western Australia. Over the decades, there has been sporadic mining in the area and the town has gone from boom to bust several times over....

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All good things come to an end

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Nov 23

From 1980 to 1984 we lived in the small country town of Ravensthorpe in south-east Western Australia. We were several hours drive from any other towns and, if the town needed a service of any kind, it was up to the residents to...

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Palace Hotel, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Sep 18

The photo I’ve used here is of the Ravensthorpe Hotel in south-east Western Australia. It is typical of the hotels of that era (early 1900s) with its wide verandahs and corner position. A great many small country towns have...

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Limited internet from a small town.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 10 Nov 16

Good morning, mylotters! I am so acostumed to having no internet problems that I tend to forget that it doesn´t happen this way everywhere. I am at my aunt´s house in San Fernando and this another world entirely. Where I live, a...

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Business from home

Skyeblue83 @Skyeblue83 (60) • Australia 4 Jan 07

Hi, I would like to start some type of business in my town, or most probably from my home. The only problem is, i can't think what to do. We live a very small country town, the most 400 people in town, about 1,000 in the...

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