gareth lacey

A few years ago I was the workshop manager that fabricated wind turbine towers (only the tower) they cost millions each and the company still lost money on each project, the company that we manufactured them for ,as part of the contract they had a resident engineer from o/s paid for and accomdation by us,also the documentation process was over the top, we had more staff on that side than in the workshop, at any one time I had 20 to 25 tradespeople in the shop, but 30 peeps in the office non producing , the costs were going up all the time , I feel that value for money in building these wind farms will over time get higher they do not have a long service history, and the wind does not blow all the time , great ideas for clean power(forgetting the HUGE enviromental costs to build them) nuclear is the only way forward

Raquel Welch

you got my email all good

Million dollar man Lee majors

Must have been a good bloke, his son was an axxhole

AS a ex squaddie in the brit forces i have used firearms as req of the type available at the time (early sixties) ,i believe that NO one other than trained personnel should have firearms, when i was a lad the local bobby was respected, he would give us young uns a clip on the ear and send us packing now it seems that the police are there to enforce more and more outlandish rules(covid as example), guns are made to KILL .in wartime yes soldiers and forces should have guns , but today do we need so many exotic types of guns that anyone seems to be able to get, there are more guns in Aus than when Howard had the national gun buy back, for me , the local beat police should not have a gun if he carries tazer,pepper spray, batton, on;ly specialized police with the right training should have access to guns , as you say we seem to be following the us , criminals will always get guns so yes the deterrent of being shot dead by armed police may work, as for DV more people should speak up about that, my rant over

I am welsh by birth, lived there till i was 15, my son who loves all things welsh wants to learn welsh, i said its only good if you live in certain parts of Wales, useless outside of Wales

In the Uk in the sixties i lived in a village called Gornal, in upper Gornal they spoke a different dialect, only 5 miles away and lower Gornal was the same

My heritage can be traced to the 13th century french,irish, english,welsh, what a 57 varieties are our family, but do the younger gen rally care, my son(of my second marriage ) is really into his Welsh background ,but my daughter (they are twins) has no interest, my son of previous marriage has no ties whatsoever he was born in Aus, go figure.

But dont call him"shirley" LOL

Many years ago in Brisbane my wife was riding her bike along designated bike path ,said path had ruts big enough to trap a wheel and she came off smashing and breaking bones in 2 fingers (at the time was a word processor operator ) so needed finger to type , informed council and put in a claim for 2 weeks pay, they denied liability , she went to her boss (she worked for one of the biggest solicitors/lawyers in Brisbane , took action against council still denied liability, FOi found that council engineers 18 months prior warned about possible accidents on said bikeway, arrived on footsteps on court day promptly offered a settlement her brief said no and wnt to court, we paid our morgage off with the settlement,and no fees were paid to her solicitors, fringe benifits ,the could have paid about 1000$ but were greedy, ended up getting 60k, moral of story go for the jugular

571

Same here OME clean water equals clean hair, used to use dandruff shampoo, still had dandruff, no longer have dandruff

I remember in the 70s hunting with the Sydney Hunt Club along the Razorback and having a drink at the tree , memories

Over the years since my childhood we had dogs, my Grandad and Dad trained cocker spaniels(not for showing) as gun dogs, were great pets as well most were sold on, as an adult i loved sheppards always had one till i came to Aus,after settling here (Sydney) had a bloodhound,great dane,golden retriever, blue cattle dogs, sydney silky(used to travel on my motorcycle between my wife and I), and the last dog was a sheppard named Lucy, I had to get her euthenised ,cancer of the hind legs was dragging around at the last, so since 2009 we have had no animals except for looking after kids dogs and cats , as you say we get attached and they dont live long lives and it is heartbraking to have them go ,i find that as i get older i dont NEED animals ,but still like them

We could live on the full pension , our all up cost which include groceries,car rego(x2) insurance ,phones ,rates,,repairs ,internet,and sundries comes to $18,700 per annum so doable on the couples pension , not much left over for anything else and flying would be impossible as well as owning n aircraft

I get a part pension, a whopping 127.80 per fortnight, being a self funded retiree and my wife cannot get pension till 67 and then will be meagre , but i think that if i relied on pension as my sole income i could not do much at all , just survive , i take my hat off to people who do ,it must be very stressful

To put a twist into this how much sxxt(faeces) do 8 billion people produce daily, annually ,a quick calc is .5 kilo per person( i am being liberal with the amount could be more) times 365 x 1 million is 18.5 thousand tonnes per year( the math for 8 billion is over my head)not just human waste but all the food, trash, used up goods so a lot of sxxt going where? that tells me that we have to many people on the planet, the amount of waste per person is staggering, there will be a time when there are too many people on this planet, i will not see it my grandkids wont see it but 100 years from now there will have to be drastic measures taken to reduce the population on this planet, that may come from a virus that wipes out most of humans, or destruction from global wars over water and food, it is not sustainable the way we are going,and i am not a total believer in climate disasters but more on the side of reducing population.

Welcome back Mark , we all missed you

Our family tree is back to the 13th century, a noble (Henry De Lace) Normandy was out of favour and scooted off to Eire ,married a local chieftens daughter and built a castle in Trim ,somewhere in that mix were some Vikings ,the De Lace family angicised the name to Lacey(still a lot of them in Eire) again went out of favour and scooted to Doncaster in UK, then on to Wales where my side of the family resided, most of our family emigrated to Aus in the sixties, my son who has had the genetic testing(primarily for medical reasons) then had it done for ancestry, wow that turned up some hidden genes , now we have Spanish, Celt from the Steppe, french,,danish,Irish,Anglo,welsh,Italian, some of these traces are from my present wife,s ancestry, so we are all i think a mixed bunch.As an aside my mothers father didnt return from WW1 untill 4 years later, surprise on his deathbed started talking fluent french and since then have found out we have some cousins there .

Had mine yesterday, no ill effects at all , worked all day on my build, but my wife was sick for a day or 2,go figure

After finishing my build i reckon about 7 or 8 years flying(im 73) till i hang the headset up

The so called black economy has to run, it all goes back into the cash flow of the countries,Im with you Dax, if they wont accept cash i will go elsewhere, the banks are taking the atms out in most small shopping areas, they cannot scam money if there is no charge, I still do the odd supervision project for a couple of companies and they pay me in cash, guess what i spend that on, aircraft supplies and parts for my build so it goes back into circulation, stop cash ,it will never happen in the remaining years i have left, and no i am not on a pension i am self funded.

So, decrease the hrs worked to say 4 per day, also decrese the wages to suit the hrs ,this will never happen but the employer is expected to pick up the tab? sorry work 38 hrs get paid for same hrs yes not the other way around( i had my own business for years and the increasing costs associated with employees gets higher and higher but the profits gets lower

My wife at 66 is stillnthe young woman i met in my thirties,vibrant,funny,fitter than me(tennis golf trekking)great work ethic only 3 months ago retired gives me space to do what i like keeps me on my toes 38 years married we still like our time away together great cook and i still have pic of her in my wallet taken in kings park perth in 1983 to me she is gorgeous