pmccarthy

Had a lovely afternoon today, probably within walking distance of Nev's place. Sun shining in through big windows and lots of lovely red wine. Well, I had two glasses as I had to drive back up the Calder Freeway to home. Opened a bottle when I got here.

Another lovely day. Do you think i have enough trees in my back yard ?

The English king Cnut had his name changed to Canute in history books to avoid embarrassing mistakes.

Was a lovely day for flying here in Vic.

I just got home from ten days at Noosa escaping the Vic freezer. Hadn’t been to the Sunshine Coast for thirty years. I was surprised at the development, it was like a linear city. Like the Gold Coast I guess. The main surprises were; all faces were white Anglo types, no Asian or coloured folk to speak of roundabouts every where seem to help the traffic flow electric bikes all over the roads, unregistered but doing 60kph without pedalling wealth, wealth, wealth, that we don’t see in rural Vic Now struggling to get out of bed in a cold house.

No, and why do you ask?

Back patio

Do the downstream boat tour at Kununurra and you will never go near the water again.

Tiger woods has the balls for it.

Playing twenty questions

8

7, for Sunday

A

We get a lot of Californian oranges.

10

Humpty Dumpty

Let it ride!

Getting my foot in the door

Once upon a midnight dreary

Academy Award nominees

150

I'm stuck on the high fives. Can someone explain how ten is correct?

The Soviet Union had very inefficient industries producing crap products. Their workforces were unmotivated. Perhaps they were better than Australia today, which has hardly any industry. Unions and collective bargaining just about destroyed Australia's mining industry and docks in the 1980s. They were saved by individual contracts and subcontracting parcels of work after the changes brought in by Hawke and Keating and followed up by the Libs. The CFMEU never got sorted out. Nor the fire brigades here in Vic. We are heading back to the bad days.

Exactly where we are headed. With no manufacturing, no mining and smelting, and collective bargaining setting wages through centralised unions. A majority of the population dependent on government support.

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