nomadpete

Well, it does look rather like Australian outback. But not a lot like Europe or Washington USA

Aaaah,

A creationist joke.

:-)

Oh, Marty! so you HAVE been stockpiling!!!!

Do you think your kids would eat them?

If my mum put them in my lunchbox, I wouldn't have been able to bring myself eat them. (I was just a kid remember). But I'm sure I'd be able to swap them with something tasty or useful!

If you ever grow tired of sunny days, golden beaches, predictable Tradewinds and tropical islands, you might stray south to Van Diemen's Land.

Walrus would be most welcome at the Living Boat Trust, and would feel happy in the company of others in the Wooden boat festival.

Sadly, I suspect that Walrus might shun my company, as I'd be bobbing about in my Tupperware sailboat.

That sounds like a likely scenario.

It's the way that capitalism works.

Those with the most capital will buy out an emerging competitor before they can get big enough to be a threat.

Litey, maybe you should change your signature.......

I'd suggest something like

"It's hard to soar like an eagle when you're knee deep in seawater and your only friend is a stuffed walrus wearing a crocheted octopus!"

I'm not so sure that 'cultural burning' is the answer for every case. Every picture I have seen shows large numbers of people involved in controlling the fire front, and well spread out trees.

It would never work in my 'back yard'.

Our trees are much closer together and taller. Our eucalyptus canopy is continuous.

And it would a very large number of minders (that we'll never find) to walk the fire through the fireground.

Also note that the cultural fire practices do nothing to prevent a lightning strike setting fire to the canopy, where the worst crowned out fires become firestorms.

Most of our recent catastrophic fires have been proven to have been started by 'dry lightning', in remote areas that have never seen 'cultural burning' because it's too rugged to hunt the frightened animals.

Too right, Clinton. Things are different now. I think the human race is developing an allergy to fresh air and sunlight.

Speaking of bad taste, I'd have to question the photographer's taste.

He took more than one photo.

Technology simply has no sense of humour!

I've go a naked Bike. It's a Yamaha. But I think it's MTOW wouldn't allow those two. They'd have to lose weight by some other more effective method.

Australia CAN become a world leader in innovation.

All it will take is a political revolution that beings TRANSPARENCY and HONESTY into our government, with a focus on acting in the interests of the majority.

It's not really all that hard.

So.

I'm waiting............................

Too many dad gags!

They don't see it the same way as we do. They see it as if these other invisible people are sitting right with us, and are included in our collective conversation even though the outsiders are talking about unrelated subjects. They are accepting the intruders 'via phone', as if they are physically present.

We 'oldies'see it as disrespectful.

Octave said,

"I can't say I have ever had someone pull out a phone mid conversation in a social situation. I guess I would avoid those people but is it really that common?  "

I see this comonly with under 30's kids.

They don't 'pull out' a home because it never leaves their hand.

Sometimes mid conversation with me (speaking of family related individuals or their friends).

Chatting happily, pause, suddenly glance at phone, quick thumbwork, then continue our conversation without losing the thread. All done in seconds.

That's how the busy younger folk are.

Too much static!

Congratulations on your departure!

Please keep us posted on your progress.

With 35kts behind you, it'll be a great ride north.

A Windlass panel?

That kind of new fangled electrickery has no place on a old hungover sea dog's oak n tar ship!

Jerry, I'm not wishing to offend, but have you ever considered the possibility that the farmers of Devon, just didn't appreciate ex bankers as neighbours?

Or you can make your own.

If you're making your own aircraft, I expect you don't have much trouble making a better beer than our crappy commercial stuff!

Good man.

The world desperately needs more old style pirates (not those modern Somali ones), to combat global warming.

Keep up the good work.

The rather rougher Aussie version reads....

"If you can read this, the bitch has fallen off again!"

I was going to suggest that banning corona (the beverage as well as the virus) might be a good thing. I never did understand what all the fuss was about with Corona, the drink. Corona (and fourex) drove me to discover better grogs.

Ha ha I hadn't thought about corona coming in bottles. Has a hunt started for the careless sod that opened the bottle and let it out?

I hope our government has taken steps to quarantine all bottles of Corona entering the country.