A bitter blow for a wildflower festival

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I am hoping I’ll be able to post a photo with this but I thought I’d like to tell you about what turned up on my news feed this morning. We used to live in Ravensthorpe in south-east Western Australia. Hopetoun was 30 miles away on the coast. Apart for these two towns, there is nothing else for several hundred miles. For some years now, Ravensthorpe has run a very successful Wildflower Festival. There are week-long activities and it has the biggest display of wildflowers of any festival in Western Australia. Communications in that area rely heavily on the internet and the main provider has decided that this is the week they’ll upgrade the tower in Hopetoun, which will seriously impact the Festival. All the stores, hotel, etc rely on internet for just about everything. It’s hard not to see it as deliberate although the powers-that-be are full of excuses for their decision. The photo if it loads is of a Sturt's Desert Pea.