I say it, at about this time every year, and at the risk of boring you, I'll say it again: Where has this year gone to?
The problem is ageing - when you're a 10- year-old, a year is one tenth of your life.
When you're an octogenarian like me, it's only one eightieth.
Luckily there is no January edition, so that gave me a chance to relax a bit.
My February column reflected my ongoing mission to improve the dialogue between the teachers in secondary colleges and industry employers.
I reported on my very stimulating meeting with Andrew Harris of the Tasmanian Agricultural Education Network which is doing just that.
I based the March column on comments by Ali Dugand who was employed by Harvest Moon and was working up a dialogue between industry and the education department, which was a challenge.
I'll say it again: Where has this year gone to?
- Dr Mike Walker, Tasmania
The Harvest Moon crop she was working on was the carrot crop, so it made sense for me to follow this up in my April column with Mark Kable at Harvest Moon and write a column about: "Carrots - a beautiful weed".
I thought I'd better get back to the title of my column, so my May column had the heading: "Opinion polls need clarity".
I had a field day with this topic and, in addition to my normal practice of referring to the Macquarie Essential Dictionary, I had a look at what had been written in the Collins Concise English Dictionary.
I also said: "I've given my opinion on a wide range of topics over the years, and I won't bore you by commenting on each one - this year's can wait till the review of the year in December."
So here it is. In June, the column "a Pom reacts to Tasmania" records my visiting brother-in-law's comments as I drove him around.
July saw me back on to one of my hobby horses, "what is an ideal industry/school partnership?" and in August, when I fulminated that "principals must back agriculture".
The September column was a look at apples, given that Tasmania is traditionally described as "the Apple Isle", and that this is its main crop.
I commented on the saying that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" and how few people eat them.
"Farmers feel forgotten" was the heading for October, and I described in detail the disturbing data regarding their low self-esteem and how they felt unwanted.
I made the point that this probably didn't hold for farmers who were supplying down-stream processors such as Simplot.
In November I described the shocks to the system when you move from a very pleasant farm to an equally pleasant villa unit but one which is located right by a very busy main road.
Our next move, hopefully our last, will be to a house on a fairly large block, just up the road.
It's much quieter, is on a gentle slope right next to the river, with pleasant views, and, more to the point, has three sizeable raised beds for me to grow good fruit and vegetables in.
- Dr Walker welcomes feedback. E-mail him: JudiandMikeWalker@outlook.com
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