The narrative was in the windows of old.
The narrative is that the Fourth Estate is revolting. The Herald newspaper is under threat. It is said that Fairfax Press is about to sacrifice indepth journalism for economic gain with the sacking of essential staff members on the major city press and elsewhere. It is reported that staff are about to take strike action.
Our local newspaper has an important role that many of us appreciate. The associated major city Fairfax newspapers also provide commentary and good reading from the best journalists. High class journalism - that's what it takes.

The motoring writer in The Herald, Brent Davison, is not enamoured with the minor idiosyncrasies found in the Citroen C4. And he writes 'Can you dislike a car because some of its basic design points don't work or should that be seen as character-building? I see what he means.
We have always had a succession of cars. Some European carmakers just change the steering over to the right hand side and the controls remain back to front, even the pedals seem offset. Gears are for the left hand anyway.
Against this are all the rest of the cars that are designed with certain conventions for the driver who sits on the right.
Changing between these two style of cars each day or so adds to the driving experience. One obstacle is the motor horn which is just never there where you thought it was and there's momentary helplessness when someone is about to reverse into you or the like but of course this doesn't happen very often but then there's the blinkers etc etc....
Renault cars are in the photo.

Indoors or out? After a very rainy week, today was splendid at Broadmeadow Races. The track was heavy no doubt. A free pass to the races was available in The Herald and it was good to return to the races after a long time. Is a charge usual?
Below is Mighty Atom, a two year old filly in the first race. I noticed she started as a favourite but ended without mention. Her connections said afterwards she lost a shoe in the race. Bad luck?