It’s quite warm, there are no fires…

around here and the tv commercials are still giving me the sh1ts!

Current time 2.56pm, you lazy beggars are still sound asleep as I write and Santa was very good to me (with the help of my wallet, of course!)

I’ve spent two hours at the beach this morning, bl**dy sand nearly cooked me toes and the water was perfect. Noah’s Arks (sharks) nowhere to be seen…

Enjoy it wherever you are.

Regards

Wombat

Australian farmers, for buying up all those obsolete Boomerangs to use for materials for farm implements, then discarding the useless steel fuselage frames on their farms where they laid for years without rusting away until somebody decided they were worth restoring.

Wombat;)

Unfortunately, the Sydney area doesn’t boast many older aircraft as the major airworthy craft are located at remote country airfields.

But a couple of years ago, within the space of two days, I was treated to sights I had never experienced before.

I was parked in my car listening to the radio when I became aware of a multi-piston engined aircraft overhead. Thinking it wasnt a DC-3, which is about the only old piston engined multi flying in this area, I got out and looked up to see VH-EAG, one of only five airworthy Super Constellations, doing lazy circles over the suburbs. The display lasted for about five minutes and she wasn’t very high. Truly a magnificent sight.

Two days later, working at home, when I became aware of a god-awful racket overhead. Looking up again, two Harvards or T-6’s passed over at a couple of thousand feet. Great to watch, but hell, were they noisy – I had no idea of the racket they made.

Regards

Wombat

English is pretty silly

I totally agree with the sentiments expressed regarding simplifications which appear on this board, passing for English, and I agree that Playwolf is the worst example of simplification. (Sorry, Playwolf, but some of your messages are bloody hard to understand because of them).

There’s no doubt that the English language has some absurdities about it. I remember being taught at school about the most obvious irregularity about our language. Here are some examples of the grouping of letters “ough”.

Thought
Though
Trough
Bough
Through
Tough

That’s six totally differing sounds for the same four letters. There are probably others I’ve forgotten. No wonder English is tough for non-English speakers to master.

But it’s still no excuse for the abbreviations we have to put up with on this forum. Come on guys, put some effort in and get it closer to correct.

Regards

Wombat

Moggy

You appear to have come out of this reasonably well, although the cost appears a bit excessive, but I suppose that’s par for the course these days.

Out here, we don’t have deer to worry about, but we have ‘roos, emus, and, ummm, wombats… and cattle – any of which can decide that they have right of way over you. (In the country at least, in the cities, thankfully, the only problems are wayward bloody dogs!!!) Those of you who have ever met a roo or cow on the road at speed will know the damage they can cause to a car.

However, the one thing I found when touring Britain a few years back is that you don’t go equipping your cars with “deer bars” or somesuch, to protect your cars from the wildlife. Unfortunately, in Oz, many elements of the motoring community, particularly those driving four wheel drives, think that you simply MUST have a “bull-bar”, a bloody great iron, steel or aluminium monstrosity mounted, truck-like across the front of the vehicle, to protect your precious investment against wandering wildlife. Many of these vehicles never venture off road and see little activity outside built-up areas, but they are considered “macho” with the younger males and some others.

To put it bluntly, they are an obscenity and generally totally unnecessary. The damage they cause in collisions with smaller, unprotected vehicles is pretty awful. I would much prefer the situation which prevails in the UK.

Regards

Wombat:(

And I suspect never shall be…