The North East Bloggers: King Valley Watchdog (Greg) - Alpine Opinion (Ray) - Albury Wodonga Online (Jack) - Dave form Albury (Dave) and Border Journal (Kieran) at one of their random meetings

What the local Blogs posted yesterday

• The expectation gap « Dave from Albury’s Weblog
  There’s been a lot of talk since Saturday about the value of the CFA’s ‘Prepare, stay and defend or leave early’ policy and whether or not people were given adequate warning about fires in their area. When you add that to the ‘greenie bashing’ that’s going on by some commentators it looks to me like the Victorian DSE and CFA are being lined up to be crucified over this tragedy … more

• Lame GP Merch « Dave from Albury’s Weblog
  Yesterday afternoon the package containing our tickets for Australian Grand Prix arrived with an unexpected surprise, free stuff. The Grand Prix Corporation is certainly not known for its generosity to patrons, so I was eager to see what had been sent. I needn’t have bothered.While we have mocked some previous years’ promo gear, the 2009 stuff is even less worthwhile.