We have spent the last week or more trying to save one of our two dams. We had some sudden very heavy rain last week which broke our newly rebuilt bottom dam and threatened the spillway of the top dam (we worked for over a week in the summer building) and the integrity of the […]
Just like thousands of other Australians I lost a relative at Fromelles a hundred years ago today. Private Joseph Leslie (Roy) Martin Number 1584, 30th battalion AIF, an ex cadet, single labourer from Grenfell NSW, an uncle who would never be – disappeared that day aged just 20 – and has never been found since.
Interesting new toy if you have the loose change: http://www.gizmag.com/jet-powered-kymera-body-board-first-ride/43919/
Other people are always posting pix of the wonderful places they are visiting (and Facebook daily reminds me of places we have sometimes visited too) but we do so like home. If you don’t you are living in the wrong place! We were just putting off a visit to far North Queensland due to having
Phone numbers hijacked remotely. Gmail hacked. Logins & passwords stolen. Bank accounts breached and plundered…You need to know how to protect yourself. My posts will be a bit lighter the next few days as I rebuild computers, etc. This post is not about ‘ultralight hiking’ I know, but you are likely to be hiking a
There is so much more to learn. Its secrets should never be locked away from us (eg by spurious claims of respect for remote ‘ancestors’). I have enormous respect for these ancient ‘Spaniards’ who were the first people into America more than 20,000 years ago – not to mention their wonderful cave art eg Cave
The gendarmes decreed that we had to upgrade our firearm storage though they had (as far as we could tell) safely and happily lived in the same cabinet for over thirty years! We had to buy a safe. Fortunately gun safes have become much less expensive over the years. We carefully chose one from eBay
A Long View of Nature from a Small Wood: This looks like such an enchanting book: https://www.amazon.com/Wood-Trees-Long-Nature-Small-ebook/dp/B016PK9VOY#reader_B016PK9VOY Reviews here: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/the-wood-for-the-trees-the-long-view-of-nature-from-a-small-wood-by-richard-fortey-review-a3246291.html & https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/25/the-wood-for-the-trees-by-richard-fortey-review
Bearing in mind that it is pretty much illegal to carry anything for self-defence and that even something as innocuous as a credit card knife such as this http://www.iainsinclair.com/en/all-products.html will be considered by police to be a ‘prohibited weapon’ punishable by years in prison – and all this despite the clear inability/unwillingness on the part
Rechargeable Rocket Launcher – up to 100 metres height. This would be a great project for an idle weekend: http://www.instructables.com/id/Rechargeable-Rocket-Launcher/
