Things that go bump in the night.(day)

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Yesterday I was deep in the Aussie bush, beyond the black stump, miles from nowhere.
Sitting in my chair enjoying the nothingness when all of a sudden there is a load crash.
It sounded like a large, empty steel drum hitting the ground.
Baffled me, I continued sitting there in the bush, contemplating how grand it is being far from the maddening crowd

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Me gettng up erly around 3am to go for a pee and bumping into everything. I don’t turn on the light so as not to disturb “er who must get her sleep, the boss”

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Maybe it was one of those dodgy satellites Bretrick :thinking:

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I was in Blackall today, home of the Black Stump

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Excellent. I have never been there. Always bypassed it and went beyond the black stump, way out woop woop way… :grinning:

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That was the thought that popped into my head, a wayward space probe?

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I hate to be pedantic but it is “far from the madding crowd”

Sorry, but at school, in English Lit, it was drummed into me, I can’t help it. :grin:

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Well, I find crowds maddening, which is why I like to be Far from the Maddening crowd. :slightly_smiling_face:

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But not so far from the maddening space hardware :wink:

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I think the correct term means exactly what you want it to mean.

“To be “far from the madding crowd” is to be removed, either literally or figuratively, from the frenzied actions of any large crowd or from the bustle of civilization.”

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Did you ever find out what it was Bretrick?
It’s very difficult here to find the remote places where nobody goes, but when I do, I have to stop and listen to the silence and I get goose bumps…
:shushing_face:

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I never attempted to find out what it was.
Sounded at least 500 metres away in thick bush.
Nigh on impossible to track it down.
Did not waste my time and effort.
The Aussie bush is vast. Rather easy to find secluded places where there are no people.
Especially if one ventures off the main dirt roads.
I once set up a tent no more than 500 metres from a sealed road.
Every person used the walking track, which was 300 metres from my tent.
That tent stayed there, undisturbed for two years.
I lost the tent because a controlled burn off took it out.
Controlled burn off. Used periodically when the weather is favourable to burn off undergrowth.
Thus reducing the severity of a bushfire.

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Blimey Bretrick, here, the tent would have been nicked within 24 hours, with you still in it…
:astonished:

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As I say, off the well worn beaten track, safe forever.

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