As usual, a council campaign will be at community cost and, in the case of Surf Coast residents, possibly comfort as well.
Surf Coast Shire this week forewarned of a tougher future for householders under its 25 per cent by 2020 Renewable Energy Taskforce.
A media statement on the taskforce suggested that the shire’s target of a 25 per cent cut in energy consumption wouldn’t be limited to council activities. Not by a long shot.
The statement said domestic consumers accounted for 57 per cent of Surf Coast energy use.
No prizes for guessing, then, who the shire thinks should make the biggest cuts in usage.
This was reinforced in the statement’s concluding recommendation that local homes stay either side of traditional room temperature, with thermostats set at 18C to 20C in winter and 24C to 26C in summer.
So just a little colder in winter, and a little hotter in summer.
Just like the thermostats are set in the shire’s ‘Taj Mahal’ office headquarters – not!
Arsonists are usually underground types for fear of apprehension but apparently local firebugs take the description literally.
Well, that’s according to a coastal paper that recently rehashed a Crime Stoppers press release under the headline, ‘Authorities need help to dowse arson’.
Of course to ‘dowse’ is to search for something underground, usually water with the help of a divining instrument.
In the case of subterranean arson, perhaps a thermometer would be the tool of choice!
Then again, the authorities could simply ‘douse’ illegal fires in the traditional sense – with lots of water.
Double Take has managed to subvert the concept of cash-for-comment – with delicious results!
Following last week’s reference to Pizzas With Attitude winning Menulog’s Best Pizza in Geelong Summer 2016, Indy staff members were delighted when four boxes of the aforementioned product arrived steaming hot at lunchtime on Tuesday. All staff except Double Take, that is, who had taken the day off on annual leave.
To paraphrase Homer Simpson: pizza dough!
Anyway, the office freeloaders gave greasy thumbs up to the much-fancied freebies. Well worth the column centimetres, apparently.
So much for cash-for-comment – Double Take’s invented comment-for-capricciosa!
But why stop at pizza? Or takeaway even?
If a small reference in Geelong’s highest circulating newspaper brings forth a plunder of pizza, maybe some of the city’s finest restaurateurs might respond in kind. Mmmm, comment-for-a-la-carte.
So, now that we all know the rules, Double Take will set the meatball rolling: Le Parisien.
Table for 10, thanks Jean Paul.
And three cheers for the people of northern Geelong, whose sense of community was again on display in last week’s Indy.
The front-page lead told of donations pouring in to support a young family after they lost everything in a Norlane house fire.
A Facebook link to the story drew plenty of interest, and some insightful response.
“And to the ones that bag Norlane and Corio,” commented Margaret Farrell under the link, “this is what most of Norlane and Corio are like”.
Too true, Margaret, too true.
Now over to you, Newtown and Highton!
