Celebrating Positives (offset of the Gripes Thread)

[Litespeed]

Onya bike buddy ..

 

Good to see 

 

Stay shiny side up

[facthunter]

Ride safely. Not just ON and OFF.    Nev

[old man emu]

We forget that in cold climates, the population dresses to keep warm. The clothing Jerry will buy will be designed for the conditions. If you wore it during an Australian winter, you'd die of heat stress.

[facthunter]

It's NOT THAT different, unless you live in the Kimberleys. I Haven't seen any snow ploughs in London. Climate where I live is about the same as Hobart and you get " Black Ice" even at 1400 hours at Harrietville And frosted roads within 5Kms of Here.. In Burra, when I woke up, my RED 1918 INDIAN was WHITE.  I've been in WAGGA when the temp never got over 4 degrees all day and I rode the whole day on a Rally.  Afterwards I got into the Motel Bed fully clothed and left the Electric Blanket on full for ages . Nev

[onetrack]

Ballarat has to take the cake for the coldest town in Vic. A horrible place to live, followed by Bathurst and Lithgow. I've seen -7°C in the Wheatbelt of W.A. on a bitterly cold July morning. The ground was solid white for kilometres. -3°C in the W.A. Goldfields and thick sheets of ice still in bowls of water outside at 10:00AM. I think those temps would kill me now. Didn't bother me as much, when I was young.

[old man emu]

A positive to celebrate!!!

 

Today I attend Gilgandra's Remembrance Day ceremony. We have an early education centre in town which seems to have a good enrolment. The older children were walked to our memorial and sat down to listen to the ceremony. Not that they attended to it without distraction, but they were well behaved. When it came time for the laying of wreaths, the little ones lined up and came to the memorial with commemorative poppies which each child placed in the memorial.

 

It wasn't "cute". I doubt that any one of them knew the significance, but by involving our young ones from an early age is a way to maintain links with the honourable histroy of volunteer military service of our forefathers. This link is a particulary strong in Gilgandra as it was from here in 1915 that the first of the locally organised recruting marches began - The Coo-ee March.

 

https://www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/learn/historical-research/world-war-one/coo-ee-march

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_marches

[old man emu]

Hey Nomad! What was sad about that?

 

[nomadpete]

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

Hey Nomad! What was sad about that?

 

The coo-ee march, and the glorification of the war.....

The thousands dead....

The futility of wars.....

The lack of understanding - that the young cannot comprehend the concept of sacrifice...

 

What do you not understand about the sadness of it all?

[spacesailor]

Not ' sadness ' at all !.

How many get to live " free " from the futility of war ,

Never , to even think that they will be conscripted for " Canon fodder " .

I am the very first in all  my ancestors not to be in the Army . ( unfit for the RAF ).

my grandfather would turn over in his grave . ( ONLY WOUNDED ,3 times in 3 wars ) .

spacesailor

 

[old man emu]

10 hours ago, nomadpete said:

What do you not understand about the sadness of it all?

Remembrance is a two-sided coin. On one side we remember the brave act those people made to enlist to protect their principles. On the otherside we realise the futility of armed conflict. Perhaps in the 21st Century we might instil in people the futility of armed conflict. Probably a forlorn hope, but still a hope. 

[facthunter]

Most returned Soldiers are Anti war, realising the cost and futility of it. Nev

[spacesailor]

Dunkirk! .

Great save ? .

But no mention of the thousands of " rail workers " taken to France to repair their Infrastructure. 

Left behind ,to be shot as spies .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

A Retreat, in this instance , is no place for a Holiday. Nev