Somewhere, four hours' drive from here, a horse stands in the dark, in a new place he's never been before ( Read more... )

vicbushfirefund is an auction community where you can post things for auction, to raise funds for the bushfire relief. If, like me, you're not particularly cashed-up, but have/make things you'd be happy to sell as a donation, then pop them up there now...or at least before Feb 20 ( Read more... )

If you donate to the Bushfire appeals at Myer, they will match your donation dollar for dollar ( Read more... )

In the midst of all the tragedy, I bring good news, via someone lovely on melbournemaniac. Melbourne University is offering free veterinary care to all pets (including horses) injured in the fires. Please let anyone know that you feel needs it, and pass this on; with some animals bound to be terribly injured, vet bills would be very expensive, and for people who ( Read more... )

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I can't even begin to say how stoked and frankly really quite awed I am with the response to, and the direction of this. It's really exciting. Chapter six is by bell_man; go read it now!

Tag, drwally - it's all yours if you'd like it:)

( posted here so that someone from a community can see it. No extra news yet.:) )

Sorry about the spam for those not interested in this - normal programming will no doubt return shortly, but in the meantime, this is a really, really important issue to me, so please bear with me ( Read more... )

For those of you interested in this issueI spent a decent chunk of this morning talking to the head of the (now-ex) Lort Smith Animal Shelter, Diane Aitken, a really lovely lady who has come back from leave to the worst news possible, and who was good enough to share some information with me. Apparently the closure of the shelter is due to a long- ( Read more... )

It looks like people are already moving on this, bless them. Here is some info from a forum; I would suggest getting in on this particular petition rather than me starting my own - it's not that I'm too lazy to do this, but it looks much better if there are more signatures on a single petition, than a lot of disparate ones. PLEASE - download this, ( Read more... )

This is THE Exquisite Corpse Post, and chapters will be added, and linked to here, as they are recieved. I'm making it public, so please feel free to link to it from your own journals, and send people here for comments! It can also be found in my "Memories", or via the tag ( Read more... )