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Good God, that song is absolutely antique! I'd never heard of it before now.

There goes all my Danish penfriends!! 😄

That bolt has already been cracked from overload stress, for an extended period. Plus, the bolt shank corrosion is severe. So, it was bound to break. I have had to deal with more broken bolts and studs, than I've had hot breakfasts. They certainly test you.

A local crop-duster and farmer by the name of Gerald Repacholi pulled that stunt here in W.A. and had his pilots licence suspended. He took off from a moving trailer at Jandakot with a floatplane, after seeing it done in the U.S. Repacholi then became the subject of a CASA programme designed to force him out of the industry, and his fights with CASA are legendary. He went to jail for a couple of years for perjury. He managed to keep flying and crop dusting, but ended up having a serious crash that effectively ended his flying career. He also went bankrupt with his farming operations, expanding in a period, where several bad seasons occurred. See "the evidence of Gerald Repacholi" heading, in the court case in the link below. https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/AATA/2006/578.html?context=1;query=Repacholi;mask_path= https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/wa-pilot-survives-air-crash-and-blaze-ng-ya-336974 Gerald Repacholi died in 2017 at age 70, but his "cowboy" record in aviation still lingers on. I'm fairly sure he died from cancer, possibly initiated by numerous factors in his rough and tumble life. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/gerald-repacholi-obituary?pid=187224835

The HQ Holdens had the fuel filler right in the centre of the back bumper, under the hinged number plate! - so you could pull in anywhere and the hose would reach! I seem to recall some American cars had the fuel filler hidden behind a taillight that swung out.

Multiple hundreds of artesian bores are still uncapped. But the Qld Govt has introduced the Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers (GABORA) Water Plan 2017, which requires all artesian stock and domestic bores to have watertight delivery systems by 2032. I cannot believe the mindlessness of so many, so-called intelligent rural people, in leaving thousands of artesian bores uncapped, and wasting billions of litres of precious water, annually. Even more so, I cannot believe that someone hasn't harnessed the massive available heat from the artesian bore water, to produce energy.

Every crow I see is checking out the rubbish! - especially the wrappers around humans food! 😄 But I've yet to see one drop stuff in a bin - the converse is the case, they'll empty bins every chance they get!

I had to laugh in the Costco service station a few weeks back. Costco have signs saying something along the lines of, "pull in anywhere, the hoses will reach across your vehicle". I do this regularly. However, you do have to apply a bit of effort to pull the hose right out, to get it across your vehicle. There was a lady behind me who had parked with her filler on the far side from the bowser - and she'd called the attendant in a fit of annoyance, claiming "the hose won't reach, it's not long enough!" Naturally, she hadn't pulled the hose right out, only relying on the loose hose length available. The attendant pulled on the hose to extend it to her filler, and she was greatly embarrassed.

It always staggers me to see the number of bike riders who either ride with their feet down, or who hang their feet out well prior to stopping, or who hang their feet out, long after taking off. Seems to me that a lot of bike riders have either had bugger-all training, or they had dodgy instructors. Riding trail bikes around farms and bush soon educates you about keeping your feet on the pegs at all times, except when you're stopped. Seen more than one bike rider with a broken ankle, thanks to poor riding skills.

Headlights on at all times is the go. I do it, even in my car, utes and truck. Anything that advances your visibility is a plus for crash avoidance. Even the W.A. Police advise keeping your headlights on at all times. I get thoroughly sick of people in dark grey cars driving in gloomy weather and after sunset, with no lighting. I started to pull into a roundabout that runs around an unlit underpass several months ago, it was at least an hour after dark. As I started to move, a black car with not single light on it anywhere, flashed an indicator as it swapped lanes in the roundabout, just 30M to my right. Then he turned his headlights on. I don't know how he could even see where he was going prior to switching his lights on - and if that indicator hadn't flashed, I would've pulled straight into his path, as there was no indication of any kind that there was a vehicle there. Idiot!

Didn't know where to put this, a magpie on CCTV imitating the neigh of a horse. I've known they were reputed as clever call imitators, but I've never heard one do this. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2286842478814689

You don't have to! It crawls up by itself!

You meant LAMS? LAPD is L.A. Police Dept.

Yes, the amount of salt lakes in the W.A. wheatbelt is amazing from the air, you don't get the "whole picture" from the ground. The drainage systems in W.A. are very flat and the lakes existed when the Europeans arrived, but extensive clearing and the transition to wide agricultural use increased the level of surface salt accumulation - and where many of those lakes were originally just brackish, and sometimes even fresh water, they have now all turned much saltier over time. Extensive efforts to drain the accumulated salts from the agricultural areas have led to mixed results and it will probably be another 200-300 years before we see any more major changes to the salt levels. Possibly somewhat surprisingly to what you might think, very wet years don't flush out the salt immediately, they make the salt levels worse (due to slow drainage), and in dry years, the salt levels decrease, as the water tables go down.

It's an unfortunate part of the climate and the country we live in, that extended very dry periods are part and parcel of that climate. A read of Dorothea MacKellars, "My Country" is recommended.