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What does 2026 hold?

By Geoff Marshall, Manager. For Tamborine Mountain Community Care Association (TMCCA), 2026 will see much of the same as for 2025.  We shall continue striving to provide Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) services to registered clients […]

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Filling Your Cup

I’m not a fan of new year resolutions.  Mainly because they tend to become a wish list of things I never quite achieve, leaving me feeling disappointment in myself.  Perhaps you feel the same.  What […]

Leeton Lee. Image supplied.
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Leeton Lee

By Barry Chick The guest speaker for the November meeting was Leeton Lee, who lives with his growing family on the mountain.  A very knowledgeable man, Leeton shared with us some of the work he has […]

Katie O'Brien and Daenerys.
People and their Pets

Katie and Daenerys

Some of our readers may have seen my gentle giant, Daenerys in and around our Tamborine Mountain News office.  Daenerys, five year old Bullmastiff, loves a puppachino from the nearby café before starting her ‘work’ […]

One small place on earth

Unknown fungus

Unknown Fungus – MacDonald National Park.  Over the duration and extent of my biodiversity project, experts have told me that some species I have asked them to identify are new to science, most notably certain moths […]

Living with Dogs

Only bad owners, not bad dogs?

There is no simple answer as to why dogs attack people, particularly their owner or a family member. BSL (Breed Specific Legislation) has not eliminated or reduced attacks, in fact they are increasing.  Yet dogs […]

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New beginnings

Happy new year to all my readers and yoga students!  Most of the world follows the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendar with 12 months, 365 days and a day being added to February in […]

Antarctica. Photo by Sienna Gardner.
Travel

Sienna’s expedition diary

“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still […]