Great stuff men.
I’m off to the PEAK DISTRICT for a week, the first time we’ve been away for years ciao!
I’m delighted your getting away for a bit RJ I hope you enjoy yourself young man.
I’ve led a sheltered life as you well know, but I remember visiting the Peek District in London’s Soho back in the 70’s, a lovely girl approached me and asked me did I fancy a good time, I paid a fiver and went inside into a little cubicle to watch what I thought was her taking off her clothes, the curtains opened and out came an auld Granny with varicose veins!, I woz robbed!.
enjoy RJ and come back with some more inspiration - in fact write a few up there!
As soon as I saw the thread titled “The Debate” I remembered something but as I thought it was amusing I didn’t want to put it into a serious discussion thread, that’s me you see, I can’t help it, always thinking of others first. ;-)
They were having a live debate on TV here back in the 80’s, it was all about testicular cancer, it was quite a lively debate and everyone wanted to have their say, the chairman was getting confused as everyone wanted to speak at the same time, he pointed to a member of the audience to speak “That Man over there to the left, the man with the blue tie and the grey jacket, the man with the horned rimmed testicles…” I kid you not, it was a live show.
That is quite ironic, folks who live in coastal areas head inland, folks who live inland head for the coast, change is as good as a rest.
psychologists have a term for that phenomena - I think they call it a “cock up”
The Harsh Reality of the Australian Bush
watching a news item here in OZ - old lady and her sister running a farm somewhere in eastern ozz - they have sold off 90% of their herd - and are hand feeding the rest - haven’t had any rain since November 2012 - even the wild kangaroos and emus on the station are dying around them. they asked her would you ever move “oh no” she said - sometimes it can get to 5 yr droughts and more.
she just feeds the cattle - potters around and rings around her farming neighbours for a chat!
Marvelous how good some folks are at surviving, they just keep going no matter what, fair play to those two Ladies I salute them.
Whats it all about? well Mars Barr had his own ideas when he wrote this.
When I came into this place I had nothing at all
Never asked to be here so I started to bawl
Blind as a bat and totally dumb
The first thing I got was a smack on the bum.
Violence is there from the very first day
How do they expect us to turn out OK?
As soon as I learned to open me mouth
I decided to ask what it all was about
“Why are we hear dear Teacher” I said
“Why do we bother to get out of bed”
“Get in the line and join the rest”
I ended up getting six of the best.
There yeh go, violence from start to finish, from the establishment, never from the child, makes me wonder will we ever change our ways.
remonstrance
rɪˈmɒnstr(ə)ns/
noun
plural noun: remonstrances
1. a forcefully reproachful protest.“angry remonstrances in the Commons”
Remonstrance, what a strange word that is, never knew what it meant and it only came to my attention when someone used it in an Agatha Christie audio book I was listening to recently and it stuck in my mind as strange words often do stick in strange minds. I was never educated beyond primary school level so I had to look the word up. My first impression of what it meant was a vision of Victor Frankenstein recalling his creation into his surgery and modernising it, he works on the monster then shows it off to his eagerly awaiting medical audience “and this, Ladies and Gentlemen is a remonstrance of the original” But it meant absolutely nothing near that.:shock:
well I was brought up learning the world “remonstrate” which I think is a close cousin of yours - medieval if you ask me or is that medi ‘evil’?
curiousesser and curiousesser as alice said is how or rather when do these words appear in our own vocabularies - remonstrate certainly didn’t appear in my primary school days - neither can I remember it appearing in high school days but I always did read a lot and then more post school studies so it may have just crept in as I grew older and wiser!
I used to think they were saying ‘Mid-Evil’ times, and that meant half way between really evil and not so evil times. We were thought about the immaculate conception when we were seven years of age and hadn’t a notion of what it meant, Is it any wonder I’m confused.
[CENTER]Kimberley Rambles![/CENTER]
well I have now begun settling in to my new abode - a tiny town of 5000 sitting on the mud flats of the mighty King sound which has the highest tides in Australia 11.8 metres.
It was the first settled town in the Kimberley and in some of its hey days saw tonnes of cattle herded onto ships. It once had its own meat works which for reasons obscured were re-located 200 kms south west into Broome.
it also is the real starting point for wild exploration of the entire Kimberley ranges from west to east. I have driven on several occasions from west to east and back again a good 12 hr drive each way.
A beautiful drive if you don’t fall asleep too often - stark Kimberley sceneries with 6ft termite hills in their hundreds - cattle crossing the road; slow down and be prepared to stop if necessary and sudden appearances of kangaroos, hit the breaks or speed fast quick - I have hit one of two.
but now I am exploring the town more individually as a resident so will start with my meanderings around a once boisterous drinking town of the Kimberleys
Sounds like interesting times in store for you Gumbud, very historical too everyone’s heard of Kimberly, Jacobs never baked a better biscuit.
I wish you the best of luck, and don’t forget to fill us all in.;-)
the mighty boab tree that greets me each morn at 5.45am as I walk the golf links with the dog - 22C and just nicely cool until it climbs to 32 midday but we have just started the dry season with no more rain and cooler weather. I still need to carry a tree whisk around with me to brush the few flies away but even they are reducing in numbers.
the walk takes me 30mins for now then home to raw chicken necks for the dog and noodles, cauliflower florets and seafood pieces dipped in prawn paste for me. Watch the news and then plan the day.
Years ago a fella I worked with suggested feeding my Alsatian dog sheep heads, but I could never do that, I feared he would become a bit wooly headed after a while.
no no Jem ya shear the heads first - cum on mon oh and leave out any horns they can get very horny othewise !
After several years of government-funded research,I can tell you for definite;
the biggest cause of dry skin in the UK is - towels!
any particular make of towel?
DAMN!
Y’know…even as I was preparing my post-grad dissertation,there was something niggling away in the back of my mind. I just KNEW there was something missing from my conclusional disseminations.
SOD you Gumbud-you just ruined my night!