Comments on: Podcast 23 – Black Saturday February 7th, 2009

By: Rob McCormack

Rob McCormack — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:03 +0000

In reply to Dep Ni.

Hi Dep,
Thanks for your comment. You have made an interesting point, about humanity thinking we can control nature. We think we can, but in reality nature is much more powerful than anything we can do. I agree with you. The bushfires of 2009 here in Victoria are a good example.
Have a great day.
Rob

By: Dep Ni

Dep Ni — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 03:54:05 +0000

Hi Rob,
I was inspired from the podcast: Human beings are insignificant in front of nature. We should be respectful of nature instead of disrespectful of it. So we must always ask ourselves what we have offended it? At a time in our country, we were disrespect the natural rules and advocated ‘ man will conquer nature’, and got the punishment of nature.
Thanks for the hard work.
Dep

By: Rob McCormack

Rob McCormack — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:57:40 +0000

In reply to Pat.

Hi Pat,
Many thanks for your comment and your kind words about my Slow English website. Yes, New Zealand has had terrible natural disasters too and it is not easy to write about them. I visited your website at http://www.eslnews.org.nz and it is a very useful resource for those learning English – well done.

Have a great day.
Rob

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:36:39 +0000

Hello mr Mccormack,
My name is Pat, I am from Auckland(New Zealand), I must tell that it was a devastating happening to our lives here in NZ as well. I also run a blog dedicated to EFL studants and having to write about it wasn’t something easy at all, I still feel it quite recent in my mind and I want to tell you that I am extremely sorry for you all. Other thing I must say is what a fabulous blog slowenglish is absolutely fantastic!
In fact, you’ve done a relevant work here, yes, well done!
I wish you a great week
Pat