Steps in the right direction
Early in the new year my family swapped the smoke-filled air of our Blue Mountains home for the smoke-filled air of the Hunter Valley to spend a few days with several friends and their families. The kids loved the constant presence of kangaroos while the adults tried to smile, knowing the animals’ presence was most likely caused by their habitat being devastated by nearby bushfires.
At one stage several of us were playing cricket with a family of roos cautiously observing from fine leg. As the younger ones were batting, the adults and older kids would shorten the length of the pitch, the bowlers would switch to a gentle underarm action, the fielders would come in close and
