Yenn

I  have been to France a couple of times, but not to Paris. Lovely people out in the towns and villages. They really do like somebody who shows an interest in them and tries to speak French.

Roo is one of my favourite meats, good flavour, but I have eaten much more rabbit, just sorry I cannot get it in Qld.

As far as lying goes, the USA is up there with the best of them and it would appear that there is no place for truth in our own past government.

Try Singapore. The best fleshpot, or at least it was when I worked there in 98 and 71/2. Food is perfectly safe.

Now Ukraine are saying they need more arms to turf Russia out of the country.

What are we doing? We want Russia out of Ukraine but we are not willing to let them attack Russia, meanwhile if the Russians are driven out, they still can attack Ukraine over the border. It looks as if the West is willing to feed arms to Ukraine, but gutless in fixing the problem. Nothing is going to stop Putin except force from the West, which should have been used a year ago.

Of course they don't believe it, they are just promoting the biggest insurance scam in the world.

I was a swineherd, pigs ass I was.

I don't know if

London has fogs now, but November was the month for smogs when I was there. This was fog filled with coal smoke and I remember people falling into the Thames and drowning. I once walked down the Great West road and the No 91 I think bus followed me on my way home from school. I don't know what the bus did when I turned off at Lampton Crossing. It is a long walk from Chiswick to Heston.

Republicans got into the white house when Trump was elected. He should never have been promoted as heir candidate because it was obvious he was a mas narcissist.  He told lies and denigrated anyone who disagreed with him and was an all round fool, but he was the republicans fool.  Now he has hoodwinked half the party and they don't want to lose him, so he is controlling just about half of the US politicians. What a mess and we see other potential dictators acting in the same way. Bolsanaro at the moment and our own Scott Morrison took a few leaves from his book. It looks like the end of our type of civilization and the start of Putinism or Trumpeting.

How many instruments in your band?

Devon glorious Devon. I spent a year in Devon at St Giles in the Wood, first time I saw TV. The Queens coronation in the village hall. Those South coast counties vary wildly. I was born in Kent and would consider it not suitable for habitation nowadays, but it improves as you go West, so long as you avoid bath and Bristol.

I don't envy anyone trying yo build or renovate in England. A relative of my wife had a job as a bureaucrat making decisions about building applications, She admitted to me that she didn't really know what she was doing.

Where are we going? Not you and I, but Australia.

We seem to me to be heading for oblivion.

Our current aim seems to be to get rid of coal. No burning it or using it and definitely  stop mining and selling it.

Our biggest income earner seems to be coal, so what are we going to produce in its stead?

Another big earner is agriculture, but our government has so pissed off our major buyer that many ag. products are not acceptable there. Another case of primary productions big drawback. The buyer sets the price.

Education was touted as the big earner, but I don't know where it is now, post covid.

Tourism seems to have dropped out of the picture, again because of the pissing off of the Chinese.

Manufacture. Whats that? Do we manufacture anything nowadays.

The booming industries seem to be health care and that is not what I would call an income creating business for the country. The same can be said for the biggest growth industry, namely disability, which again contributes nothing to the country money wise.

We don't seem to have any direction, nor does anyone seem to be worrying about it.

I forgot the military, we have been first to raise our hands to join any fight in the past so long as the USA has been the leader. Sadly most of those fights have been started on spurious grounds, and one of them is still going on after 80 years. Viet Nam, Iraque and Afghanistan we should not have been involved in. All the while we sit back and do nothing about what is happening in Ukraine, a place where we could have done some good if we hadn't listened to Joe Biden.

We seem to be like s headless chook, looking for handouts, but doing nothing to look after ourselves.

We will end up rather like a mixture of South Africa and the worst parts of USA.

Please tell me I am wrong, I would so like to have something for my great grand kids to look forward to.

Don’t tidy up.I just did because I moved house. Now I cannot find any of the tools I need, they are in my hangar, plus I still have to finish building a work bench. Slow but I am getting there.

Trees near a house. I would go for a Se Oak. They sound nice. Eucalypts are dangerous and they drop on still days with a terrific crash. They also fall into black soil and will later burn, creating pipes underground where the clay has been burnt. Doesn't help erosion problems.

My New Year resolution is the same as last year and again it will not be broken. Don't make a resolution although I suppose I have.

All the best to all of you.

It appears that Tara is a bad area and when the police went to find out about a missing person, they had done a risk assesment and decided they had everything covered.  They say there was nothing to alert them to danger from the brothers. I wonder why they sent in four police, when they would usually send two at most for such a mundane task.

I reckon they knew something was going on and just let it get out of hand. Now they want to make out that it was all unexpected so they are not held accountable for the deaths.

Those locals were not all bad, which is shown by Alan Dare going to see if his neighbours needed help.

There are many ferro cement ships built in Australia. They are built of a steel inner frame composed mainy of chicken netting on a thin re bar base. This is plastered from inside and outside all in one session, trowelled to a smooth finish and kept moist until the concrete has finally set.

A mate of mine built one which was so well made that if you tapped a bulkhead with a hammer, it would ring like a bell. as far as I know it is still sailing in New Guinea 50 years later. The same technique has been osed to build domed buildings, dating back centuries to roman times.

It does seem that the area was not the best, but the news article I read made out that all blockies were the same, which is just bullshit. Do gooders or self proclaimed experts trying to push their barrows.

What about A, B, C etc. their names are not their sounds unless you subscribe to the pronunciations that the education authorities tried to install years ago.

As I said, all caused by living on a block!

Could the police saying there was not enough evidence have been correct? If so they would not want to bring a case to court that failed, because we cannot try a person a second time for a crime. Once found not guilty Lehrman. Could not be charged again. Maybe the government is paying out Brittany Higgins, so that she is cashed up and will bring civil charges against him.

Whatever happens it is a real fiasco, probably on a par with the media and prince Harry, but far more damaging to the people involved. I am thinking Drumgold and Scumbag should get together.

Dan Andrews ran a government where nobody could recall making any decisions. Morrison can recall, but lies about it.

I see in today’s news that the shooting in Qld, near Chinchilla is caused by people living on blocks with no water or sewerage or power. They are second class citizens deprived of all the niceties of city living and supposedly missing out on everything good about city living. This is just because they are cheap to buy.

I have just sold my el cheap block for over half a million dollars, which is probably nearly as much as I earned in my working life.

Living on a block is far superior to town living, room to move, you don’t have to listen to neighbours and their dogs and kids on motorbikes roaring around the streets. You can supply your own tank water which is nowhere near as nasty tasting as town water. The kids can be brought up in a nice environment and there is the school bus for them.

I can not see what could cause people living that lifestyle to want to commit mass murder, but I can see that it is a great opportunity for so called experts to come up with a load of crap.

I have moved into sloburbia on Boyne Island and while I have water and sewerage I also have traffic noise, neighbours and it also seems hotter. The only plus is that I no longer have the maintenance, such as weed and fuel control. I don’t feel any need to go out and kill people any less than I did in the last 43 years living on a block.

Old Man Emu admires his ability to polish the turd. I think he is the turd and not fit to hold a seat in parliament.