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I have recently cancelled my subscription to New Scientist after reading it every week for 57 years. Most of that time it was a company subscription until I retired. I cancelled because it is now written by politically correct teenagers. And because I can't keep up with an issue every week. It was great until about ten years ago.

It is very satisfying to use a heavy duty slasher on rough scrub.

Tree removal was not needed. Leave the tree, remove the plane!

Here is FH firing it up.

Keen are the best. I have been wearing nothing but for 20 years. SWMBO calls them clown shoes.

Dozens of houses lost in Harcourt and Sutton Grange, including my daughters. We are OK due to a wind change.

Heading our way.

I can’t believe choppers can fly in this wind.

Wish it was wet now. Choppers and fires around us. Blowing a gale.

I would try to keep a stiff upper lip.

My 1500 Beetle did the job perfectly 56 years ago and would do it again today. No fancy electronics needed.

According to this website the picture is of merchant Joseph Barry. See https://oh2e.tumblr.com/

It is about twenty years since I had a physical meeting with my accountant, I have forgotten what he looks like. He does tax for three companies and the family trust as well SWMBO and me. I used to scan all the documents for him, but now they all come in electronic form and I just download and forward them. We use physical mail for the stuff that needs signing.

HQ hermaphrodite.

I believe all cars have the indicator on the fuel gauge to tell which side. It is handy with hire cars.

I was driven in a Landrover from Tumut to Gundagai to watch the torch runner go by.

It is just plaine speaking.

Two blankets and a doona tonight.

I grew up in the shadow of the Barrier Industrial Council. School bullies became union officials. It was oppressive, but now it all seems so tame compared with the deep corruption and underworld ties of some of our unions nationally and here in Victoria.

So goodbye yellow brick road where the dogs of society howl

Well I hate unions and labor and don't feel all that good about the present Royal family. I am a trained Bren gunner. You should all live in fear!

The most thought-provoking bit was when his mate refused to let him use a piece of a coke can to shim his brake lever (as I recall). Because his mate rode a BMW and expected everything on it to be perfect.

My good friend Chatty gave me the following answer: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance argues that the deepest satisfaction in life comes from caring engagement with what we do, rather than from chasing abstract goals or rigid ideologies: by reconciling the “classical” mindset (logic, analysis, technology) with the “romantic” mindset (intuition, aesthetics, immediate experience), Robert Pirsig proposes that Quality—an unnameable but real sense of what is good—arises when we pay attentive, responsible care to both our inner lives and the practical tasks before us, whether maintaining a motorcycle or living thoughtfully in the modern world.

Jerry where were you a child to experience such antisemitism? In country NSW we had the opposite, nothing but sympathy for what had happened in the war. On the bookshelf were those slim green hard bound volumes about the war that most peopl had. One had photos of the concentration camps, skeletal people and open mass graves. I was not supposed to look at it but I did.