The weather’s turned - again ! This time I know it’s my fault. Sorry. It has been so hot lately that I took the plunge and put away my winter clothes yesterday. After all, it was close to 30 degrees so I thought I would be safe. It was so warm at night that the cane toads were out in force. Great big lumbering monsters baring me from the outside world.
I always enjoy changing wardrobes. I discover clothes I’d totally forgotten so it’s almost like getting a new wardrobe. One of the benefits of getting older, I guess. Anyway, today it’s cold again, the toads are hiding but they reminded me of the news article which triggered the following poem
Evolution?
Pothole was a young ringer
working his way out west
eradicating the prickly pear,
an imported cacti pest.
The cactoblastis grubs,
introduced to eat the pear,
became a bigger problem -
sugar cane its favourite fare.
To stop the devastation
of important cash crop earners
the cane toad was suggested
by some scientific slow learners.
Cane toads over-run our state
from coast to western border,
ugly poisonous interloper
defying our natural order.
The cactoblastis has now gone,
prickly pear's an exotic fruit,
soon Pothole's prodigy will send
our toads to China, earning lots’a loot.
F.Mackay. 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
24th August
Well, the election results were certainly interesting. It is estimated that it will be at least ten days until the results are known. The first hung parliament since the war. Certainly shows how the voters feel about their choices. I’d certainly like to hear what the negotiations are with the two leaders and the independents, but of course we won’t.
5th September is Fathers’ Day. The origins of this special day are younger than I’d have thought. I found this on the internet (where else?) and found it interesting.
While mothers have had their special day since 1914, fathers have only recently officially received the recognition they so richly deserve. After all, dad is the pillar of the family unit, the one who made us feel safe, loved to tickle and tease, and above all gave us a sense of security. While mom was the pillow to fall on, dad was the rock who held us up. Here are some thoughts and facts on Father's Day, dedicated to every man out there who proudly wears the name DAD.
Origins
In 1909, listening to a sermon on Mother's Day, Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd felt inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts and felt there should also be a Father's Day. Her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, had as a single parent raised his six children in Spokane, Washington after his wife's death. She initially suggested June 5th, the anniversary of her father's death, however, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924 but the all-male U.S. Congress was mindful that passing a measure so favorable to males could be seen as a conflict of interest. In 1926, The National Father's Day Committee met for the first time in New York City. Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday in 1966, but the holiday was not officially recognized until the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1972 when he signed into law a permanent U.S. Father's Day to be observed on the third Sunday of June.
Inspiring Words
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain I'm sure we all remember our teenage years and how true and insightful this statement by Mark Twain is. Here is another of my favorites: It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton
You’ll note that the dates are different in the northern hemisphere. This caused confusion in our family, with children in different continents and hemispheres.
I hope all you DADS have a great day and, although I no longer have a dad I will make his favourite pud. for him
Plum Duff.
His was a favourite, and very filling, dessert in earlier times in Australia, although it was more suited the to colder climates from whence they came. It was probably eaten with a hard sauce or, if the family was affluent, cream.
Ingredients
1/4 cup plain flour, 1/4 cup s.r. flour, pinch salt,1/2 teaspn bicarb soda, 60gm suet, 1 egg, 2 tblspn sugar, 1 cup cooked prunes cut into small pieces, 1 teaspn mixed spice.
Method.
Sift the flour, salt and soda. Shred suet and rub into flour. Beat the egg, add sugar and then the prunes. Gently fold in the flour. Tip the mixture into a floured pudding cloth, gather at top and tie securely. Place in a large pot of boiling water and boil for 3 hours. Dried mixed fruit can be used instead, or with prunes. Delicious cold as well. My dad used to take it for ’smoko’.
Life’s Lesson (from Dad)
My dad taught me to make gravy,
how to save the juices from the roast,
blend in flour to a smooth paste
over the right spot on the wood stove.
He showed me how to stir in fluid
from the vegetables to add flavour,
said there was no need for seasoning
if the food was cooked properly.
Frances Mackay 2010.
5th September is Fathers’ Day. The origins of this special day are younger than I’d have thought. I found this on the internet (where else?) and found it interesting.
While mothers have had their special day since 1914, fathers have only recently officially received the recognition they so richly deserve. After all, dad is the pillar of the family unit, the one who made us feel safe, loved to tickle and tease, and above all gave us a sense of security. While mom was the pillow to fall on, dad was the rock who held us up. Here are some thoughts and facts on Father's Day, dedicated to every man out there who proudly wears the name DAD.
Origins
In 1909, listening to a sermon on Mother's Day, Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd felt inspired by Anna Jarvis's efforts and felt there should also be a Father's Day. Her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, had as a single parent raised his six children in Spokane, Washington after his wife's death. She initially suggested June 5th, the anniversary of her father's death, however, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924 but the all-male U.S. Congress was mindful that passing a measure so favorable to males could be seen as a conflict of interest. In 1926, The National Father's Day Committee met for the first time in New York City. Lyndon Johnson made Father's Day a holiday in 1966, but the holiday was not officially recognized until the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1972 when he signed into law a permanent U.S. Father's Day to be observed on the third Sunday of June.
Inspiring Words
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain I'm sure we all remember our teenage years and how true and insightful this statement by Mark Twain is. Here is another of my favorites: It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton
You’ll note that the dates are different in the northern hemisphere. This caused confusion in our family, with children in different continents and hemispheres.
I hope all you DADS have a great day and, although I no longer have a dad I will make his favourite pud. for him
Plum Duff.
His was a favourite, and very filling, dessert in earlier times in Australia, although it was more suited the to colder climates from whence they came. It was probably eaten with a hard sauce or, if the family was affluent, cream.
Ingredients
1/4 cup plain flour, 1/4 cup s.r. flour, pinch salt,1/2 teaspn bicarb soda, 60gm suet, 1 egg, 2 tblspn sugar, 1 cup cooked prunes cut into small pieces, 1 teaspn mixed spice.
Method.
Sift the flour, salt and soda. Shred suet and rub into flour. Beat the egg, add sugar and then the prunes. Gently fold in the flour. Tip the mixture into a floured pudding cloth, gather at top and tie securely. Place in a large pot of boiling water and boil for 3 hours. Dried mixed fruit can be used instead, or with prunes. Delicious cold as well. My dad used to take it for ’smoko’.
Life’s Lesson (from Dad)
My dad taught me to make gravy,
how to save the juices from the roast,
blend in flour to a smooth paste
over the right spot on the wood stove.
He showed me how to stir in fluid
from the vegetables to add flavour,
said there was no need for seasoning
if the food was cooked properly.
Frances Mackay 2010.
Monday, August 23, 2010
17th August, 2010
Four days until the election and it’s any one’s game. Despite all the debate about debates and question time and meeting the “real” candidates I am pretty sure the ‘great unwashed’ have made up their minds how they will vote. Thanks to postal voting, we’ve already voted. Now we have to wait and see what happens. I wonder which candidate will consider completing the Aramac road? I haven’t seen any of the candidates so, haven’t asked them if it is in their priorities. Should have done so before I voted, I guess.
Travellers beware of the kangaroos which are out in large numbers on the roads from dusk till dawn. Probably picking the green grass that is still visible along the drains. The number of dead ‘roos along the highway has certainly escalated over the past month and apparently the country roads are worse.
Starting the day.
I’ve just returned from our normal start to the day on the golf course. How lucky we are to have this gem right at our back door. The course is looking great, just ready for September’s Open. The wattles are out, really making it an idyllic spot. Our dogs love this part of the day and nag from 6am until we are ready to leave. Who rules our house?
To capitalize on Golf Day the Progress Association proposes to have a car boot sale at The Flying Doctor’s. Stalls are invited. To find out more information please ring 47 417378. It is hoped that this will become a regular event. Suggestions for encouraging participation would be appreciated at the next Progress Association meeting on Saturday 28th August at 5 pm.
Odd News
American road painters were left red-faced after they painstakingly inked the world "SHCOOL" outside a high school in North Carolina.
Another employee, who did not wish to be named, told the US news station KSBW that the error had caused amusement within the company."We're trying to find someone who can spell and get them out there to fix that ASAP," he said.
The error was not the first misspelling in the area; just last month, a resident posted a photo on Facebook showing that the town's name had been misspelled as "Guiliford" on a detour sign printed by the state's department of transport. Spelling the word "school" has proved a challenge to other US road painters in the past. Last year a road crew directed Miami drivers to "SCOHOL. Maybe this is where Ms. Gillard’s ‘super teachers’ should be tried and tested?
.Warm Lemon Tart
It is our anniversary today and I’m making a special meal that includes this tart recipe I found
In the library’s Better House and Garden. If it works we may last together another few years.
Ingredients:
4 eggs, 1 cup sugar,1/2 cup almond meal, 1 cup desiccated coconut, 1 cup lemon juice, 270ml
Light coconut milk, 1/2 cup plain flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons castor sugar. Sifted icing sugar for dusting.
Method:
Preheat oven to 180C, brush 26cm pie plate with melted butter. Separate eggs and put yolks, sugar, almond meal, coconut, lemon juice, coconut milk, baking powder and flour into medium mixing bowl and whisk until just combined.
Whisk egg whites and caster sugar in a medium glass bowl until soft peaks form. Add whites to egg mixture and fold to just combined. Spoon mixture into prepared pie plate and bake for 30—35 minutes until firm to touch and golden. Serve with lightly whipped thickened cream.
Don’t forget, to keep this page interesting we need your input. Until next week, keep well. Frances.
Travellers beware of the kangaroos which are out in large numbers on the roads from dusk till dawn. Probably picking the green grass that is still visible along the drains. The number of dead ‘roos along the highway has certainly escalated over the past month and apparently the country roads are worse.
Starting the day.
I’ve just returned from our normal start to the day on the golf course. How lucky we are to have this gem right at our back door. The course is looking great, just ready for September’s Open. The wattles are out, really making it an idyllic spot. Our dogs love this part of the day and nag from 6am until we are ready to leave. Who rules our house?
To capitalize on Golf Day the Progress Association proposes to have a car boot sale at The Flying Doctor’s. Stalls are invited. To find out more information please ring 47 417378. It is hoped that this will become a regular event. Suggestions for encouraging participation would be appreciated at the next Progress Association meeting on Saturday 28th August at 5 pm.
Odd News
American road painters were left red-faced after they painstakingly inked the world "SHCOOL" outside a high school in North Carolina.
Another employee, who did not wish to be named, told the US news station KSBW that the error had caused amusement within the company."We're trying to find someone who can spell and get them out there to fix that ASAP," he said.
The error was not the first misspelling in the area; just last month, a resident posted a photo on Facebook showing that the town's name had been misspelled as "Guiliford" on a detour sign printed by the state's department of transport. Spelling the word "school" has proved a challenge to other US road painters in the past. Last year a road crew directed Miami drivers to "SCOHOL. Maybe this is where Ms. Gillard’s ‘super teachers’ should be tried and tested?
.Warm Lemon Tart
It is our anniversary today and I’m making a special meal that includes this tart recipe I found
In the library’s Better House and Garden. If it works we may last together another few years.
Ingredients:
4 eggs, 1 cup sugar,1/2 cup almond meal, 1 cup desiccated coconut, 1 cup lemon juice, 270ml
Light coconut milk, 1/2 cup plain flour sifted with 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tablespoons castor sugar. Sifted icing sugar for dusting.
Method:
Preheat oven to 180C, brush 26cm pie plate with melted butter. Separate eggs and put yolks, sugar, almond meal, coconut, lemon juice, coconut milk, baking powder and flour into medium mixing bowl and whisk until just combined.
Whisk egg whites and caster sugar in a medium glass bowl until soft peaks form. Add whites to egg mixture and fold to just combined. Spoon mixture into prepared pie plate and bake for 30—35 minutes until firm to touch and golden. Serve with lightly whipped thickened cream.
Don’t forget, to keep this page interesting we need your input. Until next week, keep well. Frances.
Monday, August 9, 2010
10th August
10th August (Really this time)
What a strange winter this has been. Today is so dark and wet, and warm. And the nights have been hot and so windy. I can’t remember it being like this since we’ve moved up here. I hear that it is very cold down south this year, so we are all suffering. I guess southerners more than us.
Looks like Torrens Creek has missed out on ‘The Whisper’ again this week. Wonder is it because I put the wrong date on the page? Somehow I was a week ahead of myself. Now I’m behind. So figure…
In winter we seem to get more emails. If you are like me, you love the reminder from friends, and sharing a laugh with them. But there are some safety measures which need to be followed to ensure that people can not invade your mail boxes with spam, or add your address to their mailing lists, then sell that list to other nuisance users. Remember to always delete the sender’s address from the top of the message to prevent this happening. I learnt the hard way when some hacker infiltrated my computer and ran up $2000.00 around Christmas time one year. Not a nice Christmas present. The server was aware the account was overusing but did not warn us. So we changed servers. The following advice will help. (Thanks Gordon.)
E-Mail Tracker Programs --very interesting and a must read!!!
The man that sent this information is a computer tech. He spends a lot of time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to complaints about speed. All forwards are not bad, just some. Be sure you read the very last paragraph
He wrote: By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.comand/or truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites.
Advice from snopes.com VERY IMPORTANT!!
1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell to other spammers. Even when you get emails that demand you send the email on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus --- that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience. These people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease "how would you feel if that was your child" --- email tracking. Ignore them and don't participate!
2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers -- to validate active email accounts for their own profitable purposes.
You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them. You will be providing a service to your friends. And you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future!
Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and nothing more.
You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT! Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus attached! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's not make it easy for them!
ALSO: Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress of any other organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a "signed signature" and full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are just helping the email trackers.
Tips for Handling Telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...'
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 44 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
What a strange winter this has been. Today is so dark and wet, and warm. And the nights have been hot and so windy. I can’t remember it being like this since we’ve moved up here. I hear that it is very cold down south this year, so we are all suffering. I guess southerners more than us.
Looks like Torrens Creek has missed out on ‘The Whisper’ again this week. Wonder is it because I put the wrong date on the page? Somehow I was a week ahead of myself. Now I’m behind. So figure…
In winter we seem to get more emails. If you are like me, you love the reminder from friends, and sharing a laugh with them. But there are some safety measures which need to be followed to ensure that people can not invade your mail boxes with spam, or add your address to their mailing lists, then sell that list to other nuisance users. Remember to always delete the sender’s address from the top of the message to prevent this happening. I learnt the hard way when some hacker infiltrated my computer and ran up $2000.00 around Christmas time one year. Not a nice Christmas present. The server was aware the account was overusing but did not warn us. So we changed servers. The following advice will help. (Thanks Gordon.)
E-Mail Tracker Programs --very interesting and a must read!!!
The man that sent this information is a computer tech. He spends a lot of time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to complaints about speed. All forwards are not bad, just some. Be sure you read the very last paragraph
He wrote: By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.comand/or truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites.
Advice from snopes.com VERY IMPORTANT!!
1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell to other spammers. Even when you get emails that demand you send the email on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus --- that is email tracking, and they are playing on our conscience. These people don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease "how would you feel if that was your child" --- email tracking. Ignore them and don't participate!
2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of email is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers -- to validate active email accounts for their own profitable purposes.
You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them. You will be providing a service to your friends. And you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future!
Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and nothing more.
You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT! Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus attached! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's not make it easy for them!
ALSO: Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress of any other organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a "signed signature" and full address of the person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are just helping the email trackers.
Tips for Handling Telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...'
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 44 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
Monday, August 2, 2010
3rd August
Wow, we are certainly paying for our week of warm weather. It’s almost eleven and I am still shaking with cold. At least here we can be pretty sure that we’ve got a good day ahead. Lots of tourists escaping from the south now—and, I guess, the political arena. Yesterday saw the Variety Bash cars coming through town on their way north. What a fun way for enthusiasts to raise money for charity.
It’s been an interesting campaign so far. All aimed at the larger areas of population. Even the coalition is forgetting our rural areas. I see Mr. Abbott (or Mista Rabbit, as Ms Gillard calls him) intends to drop the Broadband idea. With the cable well on the way to being finished here does that mean that we will still be relying on worse than Third World communications, that the work is seen as a ‘waste of money’? Will the work that has already been done be scrapped and - again - we will have a useless cable passing our doors, with no access to the benefits of speedy internet? How far seeing is that?
Congratulations to the Fire Brigade on Saturday’s burn-off. A large area was cleared with a minimum of fuss. Conditions were perfect and residents in town suffered little effect from the smoke. Thanks guys, shows what good team work can do.
The monthly meeting of the Progress Association was cancelled due to the town burn-off. Unless notified the next meeting will be held the last Saturday in August, as usual, at 5 pm.
Odd News from France.SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRA, France (Reuters) - A team of engineers plan to venture where no man has gone before after unveiling a pedal-boat submarine on the French Riviera.Nicknamed "the Scubster," the 3.5 metre-long one-man yellow submarine has echoes of the fancy gadgets from fictional spy James Bond.Powered by twin propellers connected to a pedal belt, the mini-sub can reach speeds of 8 km an hour (5 mph) if its pilot is in good shape, and can reach depths of 6 metres (20 ft)."I've been up in the air by pedalling, underwater with my bike and now underwater with a submarine," Stephane Rousson, the man behind the invention, told Reuters.The vessel managed an hour under water in the Mediterranean waters off the Cote d'Azur this week and is entirely controlled by hand or pedal. Hermetically sealed, the passenger breathes with a mask and a bottle of oxygen.Whether it will have commercial success remains to be seen, but Rousson believes it may capture the attention of an emerging high-end market of yacht owners with "pocket submarines.""And if it doesn't take off, I'll race it," said the 40-year old from Nice, who plans to take part in the 2011 International submarine race in the United States.(Writing by John Irish; Editing by Steve Addison)
It’s been an interesting campaign so far. All aimed at the larger areas of population. Even the coalition is forgetting our rural areas. I see Mr. Abbott (or Mista Rabbit, as Ms Gillard calls him) intends to drop the Broadband idea. With the cable well on the way to being finished here does that mean that we will still be relying on worse than Third World communications, that the work is seen as a ‘waste of money’? Will the work that has already been done be scrapped and - again - we will have a useless cable passing our doors, with no access to the benefits of speedy internet? How far seeing is that?
Congratulations to the Fire Brigade on Saturday’s burn-off. A large area was cleared with a minimum of fuss. Conditions were perfect and residents in town suffered little effect from the smoke. Thanks guys, shows what good team work can do.
The monthly meeting of the Progress Association was cancelled due to the town burn-off. Unless notified the next meeting will be held the last Saturday in August, as usual, at 5 pm.
Odd News from France.SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRA, France (Reuters) - A team of engineers plan to venture where no man has gone before after unveiling a pedal-boat submarine on the French Riviera.Nicknamed "the Scubster," the 3.5 metre-long one-man yellow submarine has echoes of the fancy gadgets from fictional spy James Bond.Powered by twin propellers connected to a pedal belt, the mini-sub can reach speeds of 8 km an hour (5 mph) if its pilot is in good shape, and can reach depths of 6 metres (20 ft)."I've been up in the air by pedalling, underwater with my bike and now underwater with a submarine," Stephane Rousson, the man behind the invention, told Reuters.The vessel managed an hour under water in the Mediterranean waters off the Cote d'Azur this week and is entirely controlled by hand or pedal. Hermetically sealed, the passenger breathes with a mask and a bottle of oxygen.Whether it will have commercial success remains to be seen, but Rousson believes it may capture the attention of an emerging high-end market of yacht owners with "pocket submarines.""And if it doesn't take off, I'll race it," said the 40-year old from Nice, who plans to take part in the 2011 International submarine race in the United States.(Writing by John Irish; Editing by Steve Addison)
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