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They were also chairing it when the whole thing started a year+ ago..   Nev

The Libs are eating their own children (Metaphorically)A House divided against itself will surely  fail. The NATS have caused the Liberals pain by holding them to ransom on policies but Duttons FEAR campaign did not work  this time either. It was indeed a stunning win that the libs will have to come to grips with before they fall further from favour. The grubby media didn't sway the multitudes enough either and the Sky-2GB influence doesn't permeate much here either or Poor LEEN Hanson and the Greens lost ground with the Libs. Maybe Victorians are less easily fooled. I would hope so. Friedhamburger didn't take up the ASTON seat. He'll be doing OK at Goldman Sachs. HE forgot he was living in Victoria..  Nev.

The average depth of Bass strait is only 200 feet. Safer on the surface.   That's another bottom of the Harbour scheme.. Nev

He called her "Horseface", and got beaten by the "worst Candidate in the world". How does that  work?  Nev

They all look prettier through the bottom of a beer glass. Beware..  Nev

None of them bar Liz Cheney have the guts to try. That's the truth of it.. He then tries to destroy you.  'I've got dirt on all of YOU". That statement alone should indicate what type of person he is and how he operates.  Nev

There was a time when I really wanted to move to the US West Coast (Oregon) but not any more.. Nev

Not a lot of us left. .    I must have started "infants" early as I was about a year ahead of where I should have been for my actual age. I was only about 18 months older than some of my students. I was only 18 when I graduated Teacher's College.  Nev

Can you be sure of anything in the USA but uncertainty and divisiveness?  The "system" thrives on it.  Nev

He's no oil painting, whoever photographs him. Just as well he doesn't go  around kissing babies. Republican candidates?? HE reckons HE's got DIRT on all of them. Fine type to be the POTUS again.. Nev

He's uncouth and uneducated but knows how to play the "suckers and losers". His Lawyer took the rap for him and I'm sure has no need to cover up for him any more. . Re elected, He'll just get even with those who didn't support him and avoid Justice, for the crooked things he's done. Nev

59 is when  I was posted to Western Sydney  as a secondary teacher and first time away from home.  Nev

You fella's must be pretty old if you know these things?  Nev

Tastes like camels Piss I've heard.  I reply You MUST have more experience than I do in that regard.. Jerry, My vineyard was just West of Lake Boga at a place called Tresco between Mystic Park and Swan Hill..I got nationally accepted viticulture qualifications at Mildura TAFE. That's winegrape growing not winemaking but I knew many of the good winemakers in SA and VIC.  Nev

The advice from my kids was Short of money?? Just go  to the Bank and they will Give you some. I said "That's the easy bit. Paying it off is the hard bit".  Debt and interest works like Cancer. Eats you away. . Inflation steals the value of your money and you get taxed on an imaginary value increase. Nev

Especially doing it for Lawyers. You can forget the final payment when you get a bad one. They just keep on finding faults till you give up.  Nev

Maybe George told her or she just wants to forget.  Nev

It's considered to be the unrecoverable cost increases after the project is commenced.  This will knock you dead no matter what you do if it keeps happening.  Nev

I believe the San Andreaus Fault has been renamed  Labor's Fault.  Nev

C'mon some of it's pretty ordinary and shouldn't even be marketed.  Less of better is a good path and have it with food. Wine tasting at shows is done blind. There's nothing to identify the sample to the tasters. If you encourage/ recognise quality you  will get it. When there's a surplus in the market, that stuff gets used for making spirits Like Brandy. where it's distilled and you get F all for it.  and might even have to tip it out. as it deserves..  Nev

What's used to propel Mortars?. Nev

I'm saying my scepticism didn't change the course of anything. Of that I think  we can be sure. The "pacific rim of fire' is what you reference above isn't it? Nev

Jet Ex things use cordite don't they? During the war  and in mining towns also this stuff  was everywhere. Nev

Wines exported from here are exempt from the local VAT and are sold at below what we pay here to maintain the Market. American Oak was always too strong and French oak costs a monty.. The strong oak thing is pretty much over and was more a traditional thing than a selling taste thing. Its usually only added by Using "staves' not casks and are sometimes toasted.. Grenache is rare here but always had a good following in the  UK.  It's a very "soft' red and doesn't need to be cellared long . It's a good blend with Shiraz which will always be a more complex and satisfying red than Cabernet which I almost never buy  It's often grown in too hot areas for the deep colour.. One of the "must haves" of good quality is to have evenness of ripening which requires BALANCE of foliage to fruit quantity and light getting into the whole vine. Green berries or any mildew taint the taste of the whole  product.. The vines do NOT have to be old either. That's a MYTH. High output per acre is usually at the expense of quality. Vinyard soils don't need to be too fertile, just managed with trace elements (zinc) and water/nitrogen etc managed well and worms in the soil. makes nutrients more available to the plant. Nev.

It only had the "Status" of a "theory" at the time and I must confess to initially being a sceptic. Not that that changed the course of Science at all.   Nev