Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts

Friday 24 April 2009

Happy birthday, Mr. Shakespeare.

With his actual birth date unknown, the arrival of William Shakespeare into the world is usually celebrated in April on St. George's Day.


He may have written wildly inaccurate history into his plays, have littered the whole with crude stereotypes - but oh, the language soars.


Living as he did in the 16th century, William would of course find the modern world passing strange and, perhaps even stranger should he come to hear of Australia.


However there are some things he would recognize - national finances are precarious, soldiers are fighting overseas, terrorism and treason are often topics of the day and the government censor is beginning to breathe more heavily over shoulders.

Photograph: BBC News

Thursday 9 October 2008

We turn one today!

A years ago today North Coast Voices was created (though it took another full day to figure out the nuts and bolts so that we were displayed out there in the blogosphere and a few more days after that before we were indexed).
Thankyou to everyone who has popped in to peek at this baby blog or stayed on to have a good read.

Petering Time, clarencegirl, Clarrie Rivers, K. Roo, WaterDragon, and Boy the Wonder Cat

Graphic from Google Images