Good Morning Friday, 2nd May 2024

Good morning one and all another perfect Queensland day., it’s warm, it’s dry - what more can you ask?

Today I am in Barcaldine. The main thing it has going for this town as a tourist attraction is the Tree of Knowledge in front of the railway station. In the 1890s (I think) it was under this tree that a group of striking shearers formed an organisation that eventually became the Australian Labor Party.

Some years ago somebody poisoned the tree so only the trunk remains however the city council built a massive wooden box showing how the tree originally spread.

Just up the road is Muttaburra where an almost complete skeleton of a massive dinosaur was found - a Muttaburrasaurus. I was told it was the most complete dinosaur ever found.

You can gauge how far I have travelled and how far I have to go. Anyway that is my morning done and dusted.

What does the day hold for you?

Take care…

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Hi

Good Morning All.

Nice to see your trip going well Bruce.

Kinga is here for 4 hours later,we were supposed to be going on a trip to a huge garden centre and marine fish shop 50 miles away, but unfortunately I have to stay home,never mind always next Friday.

She will be gardening instead, she is very good at that.

I will be ordering some critters for the Reef Tank for delivery Tuesday , a Boxer Shrimp , a couple more of the red legged hermit crabs and a conch, then spending an hour or so sat in my wheeler in the kitchen.

Fridays is batch cooking, using up all the veg left in the fridge, a large curry is the thing for today.

Have a great day all.

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Good morning - Good travelling Bruce. I’ll bet your fish tanks are a picture swimfeeders. Can you post a picture or three?

I’ll be travelling this morning. An e-bike ride to the pharmacy and back. I know It’s nothing compared to a trip around Australia but it’s hell out there I tell you! The traffic, bumpy roads, a certain roundabout where you take your life in your hands. I could go on… :smiley:

Hoping everyone has a good day. :slight_smile:

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Hear hear!

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Morning all. Not sure what I’m doing. “Mrs G” off to visit relatives, leaving me alone to do some house jobs - but it’s another sunny day and I’m tempted to get my camera out and go for a wander. We need some minor building work done on the house and I may spend some time getting some estimates.

Everything depends on how I feel after I’ve had my coffee this morning. :coffee: :grin:

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Morning all – not so warm today but still sunny

Spent some time first thing repairing the bird feeder which the squirrels had damaged. Was expecting a phone call from my brother at 9.30 but so far he hasn’t phoned, well no news is good news I hope

Plan today is to change the bedding and laundry apart from that there is a coffee get together at the church this afternoon which I hope to get to.

Take care - have a lovely day everyone

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Good morning. Bruce, what an interesting piece of history! It’s nice they have preserved the tree as best they can. Funny name for the dino found. :rofl:

Mart - I agree with others, we need pics! :tropical_fish:

Graham - definitely go out with the camera! You never know what kodak moments you will find…

SheilaP - Prayers all is well with your brother. :pray:

60 degrees and sunny here. We still need rain. It’s only May and we are having to water the garden & orchard nearly every day.

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Good Afternoon Everyone… :039:
Sorry tis a bit late but I slept in this morning and didn’t get out for my walk until 8:00am.
A very nice sunny day but the cool east breeze kept the temperature down on yesterday but nice and fresh for walking and as a result, I had a very enjoyable three and a half miles along the canal towpath. Put in a bit of running but don’t say anything… :009:
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You wouldn’t think that a walk around the streets would be very enjoyable, but each day when I leave the canal towpath I take a long route through the ginnels and backroads through our rapidly expanding village.
There is very rarely anyone about so early in the morning, and I noticed that it’s quite educational as all the streets are named after poets…Here’s just a few…


Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote many plays – all tragedies – and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Wikipedia

Carla Woodburn is a poet who was born in Inverness. She was raised in Tain in the Highlands of Scotland and now resides in Clydebank - where she has now been longer than the Highlands.

Carla studied Business Administration, Event Management and Social Care in different colleges around the central belt. She has been writing since her school days, expressing every day situations through poetry.


Robert Burns, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, with the first line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may”. Wikipedia
Quite relaxing walking around these empty streets where most people are still asleep (mostly the elderly live here)


Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Wikipedia

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. Wikipedia

Interestingly there is no street called ‘Wordsworth’ ?

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