Australia: any body want to talk about NSW?

[idris]

Just thought to ask if anybody else here might give a hoot about what is going on, or not going on, in New South Wales, or Australia in general.

[9vTech]

Is this the same area where all the fires are/were?

[cwatson]

I'm interested. Please update us.

[flatwater]

Always interested to talk with an Australian. I was in Pirth in the late 60,s and never met an Australian sailor I didn't like. Was supposed to go to inswich (sp) in july but with the economy the way it is , we decided to hold off a little.

[333]

Peace,

Heck yea, I have some friends that moved to Australia a few years back. Whats going on in the world down under? Whats the view like from there?

333

[idris]

http://www.abc.net.au

This is about the best source of information.

I had only the smoke from the fires, and some fierce winds and thunderstorms; now comes the Cold season: can still grow stuff, if it can stand frost.
The politicians are all mad. Note that New Zealand is going the hands off way of dealing with the economic fall out. http://www.nsw.gov.au/ (http://LINKADDRESS)

For other states, replace nsw with tas, vic, qld, sa, wa,

[idris]

Always interested to talk with an Australian. I was in Pirth in the late 60,s and never met an Australian sailor I didn't like. Was supposed to go to inswich (sp) in july but with the economy the way it is , we decided to hold off a little.
That's Perth W A. & Ipswich QLD. I used to work for them, as a civilian, in the late 60s, in Sydney: Got to have dinner aboard the USS Josephus S Daniels! All the boys were from Alabama. Delightful.

[idris]

Peace,

Heck yea, I have some friends that moved to Australia a few years back. Whats going on in the world down under? Whats the view like from there?

333
Plenty of Canadians and Americans here, have been since Capt COOK sailed up the east coast. Two of the officer were from the 13 colonies. [NY & I forget the other one]
Even this place where I live, one of the discoverers of gold was 'Alexander the Yankee' 1861.

[idris]

Presently, things are starting to look like a tad more central control & new laws that are more muscular than necessary: not that they ever use the old ones that would have done the job; the lawyers see to that, all knobbled in the courts, so that the crims get off & the victims are left out in the cold. We are free to have an opinion, just so long as it is the right one. Usual stuff: same old same old.
The more someone tells us how good things are, it is because some one else is holding something to his head, or cos he has got it good, and we had better not upset his journey to success by telling him that the bridge is out. [tho I think that such folk have begun to notice the tilt in their progress] ::)

[idris]

Latest & funniest: PETROV, People for the Ethical TReatment Of Vegetables [cousin of Canada's PETV]
"All that you have to do is send along your money!"
This was on a nation wide Sunday morning radio programme... 'Sunday Morning with Macka'

:D :D

PETA are about as popular as the proverbial pork chop in a synagogue { or mosque}.

[idris]

Winter has come! Snow on the Alps, floods on the plain: listening to Garth Brooks on Saturday Night Country Radio, and its wet and windy and cold: This state is trying to ban Biker Clubs. *I went to school with ended up in the Comancheros, don't think it did him much good, but he is still alive, just slightly mangled. It is called 'tarring them all with the same brush', and it bodes no good for the right of free association: the law here covers criminal activity, if it were put to its intended use. South Australia already has such a law on its books, to 'stamp out the criminal element'. I would not say that they were all innocents, but that is taking things further than needed. If you want a good belly laugh, check out Sam Nagasaki's once a jolly samurai, on
Naked Poets Vol 5 Loose Ends And Wobbly Bits
abc, as above, snc. It is a tad risque, but it is just so funny.

[idris]

Winter has definitely arrived: the whole view from the ridge is clouded out with fireplace smoke from town, and soon I will be hearing tales of the bird bath freezing over at night.
Have a stack of wood and have not even started on it yet.
The Boobook calls at night, and the possums screech. Beats the heat! FNQ [Far North Queensland} has a Dengue Fever outbreak: mosquitos and backpackers don't mix. The above mentioned laws are now in effect. In SA; the NT of SA; *& NSW.
Western Victoria is still drought bitten.

[EarthMama]

Winter has definitely arrived: the whole view from the ridge is clouded out with fireplace smoke from town, and soon I will be hearing tales of the bird bath freezing over at night.
Have a stack of wood and have not even started on it yet.
The Boobook calls at night, and the possums screech. Beats the heat! FNQ [Far North Queensland} has a Dengue Fever outbreak: mosquitos and backpackers don't mix. The above mentioned laws are now in effect. In SA; the NT of SA; *& NSW.
Western Victoria is still drought bitten.

Idris, I had a friend years ago who lived in Australia and I always found it so interesting that our seasons were always so polar opposite. Just when she was looking forward to spring, we were heading into autumn here in Indiana. It always made for some interesting conversations between us.

Enjoy your cooler weather. I know I'm always more than ready for it, when our turn rolls around.

[idris]

Ta: Foggy and frosty, and the need for woolly jumpers and more food, with clear, star-bright, high moon nights, where sounds carry far yet all is quiet, and the afternoon grow cool in the low-swung Sun, and the breeze does freeze and the toes grow numb. Olive picking has begun.

[idris]

Just in case any of you Hunters want to compare notes on how it is done here:




http://www.gamecouncil.nsw.gov.au (http://LINKADDRESS)

[idris]

We now have a dozen or so confirmed cases of Swine Flu, a Whooping Cough explosion [ those folk who would not vaccinate their children, they say] and 'the New Poor': out on the street because they can no longer make ends meet. And the usual bad behaviour, mayhem, child abuse, and other things that make one proud to be Human.
hereabouts, gale force winds have subsided, further North, more rain than they know what to do with. Getting cooler. *:'(
and the guy who thought that he had bought himself into politics is sounding more and more like a drowning man: drowning in his own ineptitude. Have not trusted that mug since he first big noted himself back in '99.

[idris]

Freezing Season has hit with a blast from Antarctica. Cold, dry air, with showers and snow on high ground. Been in the 40s Fahrenheit for two days running. Hot water bottle at my feet & a rug over my head, but is still too cold in my poor bed. But I did get to glean some Eggplant, Chili, and Zucchini from the place up the road. FREEZING!