[Wombat]

You may not be aware that 1 September is a very important day for wombats - the start of a new wombat year. Burrows are freshened up, we groom a little better and we can be seen fraternising with other wombats at dusk. In my case I share some river frontage with Anastasia, Gladys and Dan, we get on quite well.

Marsupial New year is also a time to make resolutions; I’ve decided that the goings on at CASA are too much for my muddle head and that therefore I should wish the DAS and Board Chairman all the best and shut up because there seem to be things going on that I don’t understand.

I once happily burrowed into an earthen dam wall with spectacular and unfortunate results. I think that Chairman Binskin and DAS Spence are considerably brighter than me. I have wondered why such accomplished folk would take on the responsibility of CASA when both have reputations and years of service in front of them and can only conclude that they know what they are doing and that we must wait and see.

It is difficult to see the sky and stars from a burrow; I think I’ll leave off speculation and concentrate on earth moving. Good luck to CASA. Even a wombat can see that Covid is going to reshape everything.