Went to a writing (newsletters) workshop yesterday in Daylesford Vic. This is spa and mineral springs country - a great destination for Melbourne folk on weekends.

Met interesting people at the workshop - all involved in their communities in various ways.

"Maureen" writes the newsletter for Hepburn REA  (Renewable Energy Association). That group has successfully organised a "wind park" (two turbines) for their community. They've got past all the hurdles and handed over the project to a "for-profit" cooperative that will implement and manage the wind park. The two turbines will add 4 Megawatts of wind-generated electricity to the grid, meaning 4 Megawatts less needs to be generated from brown coal. That's power for 2000 homes, 14,000 tonnes less of CO2 in the atmosphere.each year.

At around $10 million, this is a big community project, but these folk got their act together and it's all happening - note that less than a tenth of the cost will be spent by government (or rather us taxpayers) on this project, the rest by private investors including a lot of local residents. 

You can view the whole story at www.hrea.org.au .

And yes, I did learn a bit about writing newsletters too!

A new Buster Bold and Wendy X adventure has just blasted off! Fire up your imagination and write part of the story. Click here to go to the story page.

If you like a bit of sci-fi (time travel paradoxes), AND English literature (but aren't too precious about it), AND don't mind a few puns (well, lots of puns), then you might like the Thursday Next novels of Jasper Fforde (website http://www.jasperfforde.com).

Just suppose the Crimean War hadn't ended in 1856, suppose the British forces were bogged down in a stalemate that had lasted until the present day, suppose there was a government department in England named "The Toast Marketing Board". Suppose Wales was a Socialist Republic. And suppose Thomas Hardy's novels were supposed to be humorous!  If you can suppose all this you might enjoy Fforde's novels.

Haven't spotted them at the local library yet, but still hoping.

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This is the latest nook we have opened up on the Greypath website. The "Bookworm" is a spot where you can post your thoughts about particular books, genres, or writing in general. Happy reading (and writing)!

Dear members:  The Bugle Blog is really starting to shine thanks to your interesting postings. Some members have asked about the length of their postings and what sort of stories we're after. So we've prepared some guidelines that can be accessed by a link in the masthead (above). Because we don't want to stifle your creativity we have set up some categories for blog entries. You will need to classify an entry as belonging to the "Bugle Blog" in order for it to appear on this page. When you want to create a blog entry that doesn't fit the Bugle Blog "style" go right ahead... but classify it as a "General" blog entry so it doesn't appear on this page. Other members can still view your efforts by clicking on the blog link at the end of each entry on this page...see the example image here.

Hope this makes sense - please comment if I'm being obtuse or geekish!