WE could all do with a little brightness in our lives after the dark clouds of 2020, and don't even mention the past wintry week, so treat your senses to some light relief with a stroll along the shared cycle and walking path that follows Farmers Creek from Geordie Street through to, in various forms, Tank Street.
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The pathway has been a success story for Lithgow Council initiative and has become increasingly popular as the various stages are completed.
The most pleasant walk in the column's experience is the most recent section around the northern perimeter of Glanmire Park where a number of factors come together in one very pleasant experience.
It has been a particularly good growing season and attention by Council's mowing team has the park more resembling a manicured lawn than a playing field. These days the only sport played on the 'lawn' is during the cricket season.
Some landscaping has been completed at the Albert Street end adjacent to the only black spot on the area, the very neglected cabana.
But the real enhancement on the other side of the creek is the effort by residents along Coalbrook Street who have clearly put a great deal of time and effort in transforming the once neglected strip between their back fences and the creek into something of a tree studded park.
Do your senses a favour and join the happy throng chilling out with leisurely (apart from the joggers) strolling , cycling, scooting and taking advantage of what Council has provided.
Best time in our experience is late on a sunny afternoon.
Get in quick before they make it a tollway.
Sneaky business
SEEMS we have a serial sign snatcher prowling our highways.
For the seventh time in recent years someone has nicked the highway sign at Meadow Flat indicating the Curly Dick Road turn off to Tarana.
Dunno why anyone would steal the Curly Dick sign; as far as we know no one has ever taken off with our Main Street signs in Lithgow or Wang.
One to remember
THAT COVID stuff has no respect for tradition. Latest to fall foul of the epidemic shut down is Lithgow's Remembrance Day service in QE Park.
No show this year and unlikely to be an 11th hour on the 11th day reprieve either.
It joins a long list of things we have lost in 2020. It was though perhaps fortuitous that our renowned Halloween street carnival was cancelled; the heavy rain and unseasonably cold weather front would have been an organisers' nightmare.
Ice storm
A somewhat freakish hail storm that blanketed the Marrangaroo area on Saturday prompted nostalgia for one correspondent.
With ice everywhere, even in the trees, she thought she was 'back in Switzerland'. Motorists battling the extreme conditions were having less romantic thoughts.
The season to be generous
FOR more reasons than usual, Christmas this year will have special challenges and the pleas for help will never be more real.
Annual support initiatives will soon be getting under way and your generosity will again be tested.
The local area's longest running Charity Toy Run, that organised by the Ulysses Club from Portland to Lithgow, has been announced for December 12, supporting Vinnies and the Salvos.
This year for the first time COVID regulations will mean that only new toys and books can be accepted.
Cash donations need not be in new notes. Collection points will be announced soon in the Mercury so start thinking.
Milestone
AN interesting milestone in the resurrection of the old Lithgow TAFE college has not gone unnoticed with extensive scaffolding now adorning the entire Mort Street frontage.
Predictably the project is attracting plenty of interest with the community anxious to see what emerges in the transformation of what has been an embarrassing eyesore.
