Progress

Dora Creek is on the up and up - there's a cash machine just been installed at the local cafe "Eats by the Creek". Before we know it we'll have traffic lights.

Well we probably need something at the intersection with the Main Road - trying to turn right out of Dora Creek means trusting your life to your accelerator, and to the brakes of the speeding gonzales racing across the bridge and around the blind corner from your left. I'm surprised that there aren't more accidents: perhaps its because the locals, living life at a more leisurely pace, are patient.

While I'm on the subject of cars, on to a related subject, fuel. Why is it that the Shell Station on the north side of Thomas St at Wallsend is always 3 cents a litre cheaper than the Shell Station on the south side of Thomas St? Always - well every time I go past, morning, noon and night.

But isn't it good to see the fuel price come down - especially now that it's summer and I don't have to travel into Newcastle several times a week. Bet it will be back up again come February!