Dutchy wrote:McTag I'm sure you would have been a splendid host for your Aussie visitors, may I, on behalf of all Australians thank you most sincerely for your hospitality. Should you ever visit these shore, please call in, I will always have a good meal and cold beer for you.
No worries mate, you're welcome.
And thanks.
msolga wrote:G'day, McTag!
You are a bonza host!....
Hey, McTag!
I also complimented you on your fabulous hospitality.
(Just in case you missed my post! :wink: )
msolga wrote:msolga wrote:G'day, McTag!
You are a bonza host!....
Hey, McTag!
I also complimented you on your fabulous hospitality.
(Just in case you missed my post! :wink: )
You guys are just imagining what our hospitality was like, but you're right, it was great!
:wink:
Thank you, you're most welcome. Always glad here to do an Aussie a favour.
(The contact comes from the fact that my wife spent three years working in Sydney)
I was joshing you, McT! :wink:
But give us a yell when you & your better half are in the vicinity of Melbourne, OK?
Hey what happened to Kirky?
Here for just one day, then gone with the wind!
I went up the north coast over the long weekend.
Although we weren't too near any of the badly flooded areas, there was certainly a lot of water around in the central coast and Hunter regions. The trouble with sheeting, flooding rain like that, though, is that it washes away all the topsoil, and doesn't do anyone much good.
Still water restrictions everywhere - and will be for a while, I think. The forecast is for more rain this coming weekend, at least around Sydney and the north coast. I hope it's not too bad in the areas already flooded.
Forest fires, droughts, now storms and floods.
You fellows are sure getting the shitty end of the stick.
margo wrote:Still water restrictions everywhere - and will be for a while, I think. The forecast is for more rain this coming weekend, at least around Sydney and the north coast.
Amazing, isn't it?
Floods & drought at the same time!
I hope the water catchments managed to fill up a bit, though the last report I heard didn't sound too promising.
McTag wrote:Forest fires, droughts, now storms and floods.
You fellows are sure getting the shitty end of the stick.
Yes, we certainly are, McT!
Makes me wonder what nature has up her sleave for the next exciting instalment!
Yes, apparently a sad story of unrequited love.:
......Experts restoring a painting by one of Australia's best-known artists, Arthur Streeton, have stumbled across a 120-year-old love story concealed in the canvas. The impressionist work,Spring, which was completed in 1890, depicts an idyllic rural Australian scene, with a group of naked boys bathing in a hillside stream.
But when Michael Varcoe-Cocks, a conservator with the National Gallery of Victoria, examined it under a microscope, he discovered the words "Florry Walker's my sweetheart", inscribed several times. The gallery then X-rayed the work and found a nude female figure, which had been painted over. ......
There's another message hidden under another painting, too. Sounds like he was quite smitten, poor fellow!
A new hospital for Port Lincoln is causing quite a stir.
Tentatively named THE MARGE after Sprinter Marjory Jackson (The lithgow Flash)
A few Doctors and Nurses are not happy and believe the Hospital should be named for someone more related to medicine ie John Flynn founder of the Flying Doctor service.
Dadpad correction here, we're not talking about Port Lincoln here but the new $1.5 Billion Adelaide Hospital!
It is suggested in certain quarters it should be named after Sir Howard Walter Florey, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Yes, I heard some interviews with the locals about this on the ABC today. They seemed quite upset. What do you think?
I don't care one way or another, all I'm interested in that the Hospital provide good and proper medical service for the people of Adelaide.
<waving to Dutchy>
The folk the ABC interviewed appeared to have very strong views on the name. A bit of local politics, perhaps.
Most DEFINITELY msolga, I saw two leading Liberal Politicians on TV tonight having a go at the name, sour grapes if you ask me, as the current Labour Party set the wheel in motion for a new Hospital and named it.
So Marge if a Labor girl, then?
Msolga
Marjory Jackson is/was governor of South Australia I think.
Dutchy
Sorry bout that Dutchy. I was sure I heard this (in relation to Port Linclon) on the radio but couldn't understand the fuss about some two bed bush nursing hospital in a one horse town like Port Lincoln. :wink:
Are You watching the Footy?
All STARS Vs VICS. Todd Russell (Beconsfield Mine disaster) had a blinder before doing his knee. I wouldn't be surprised if those girls from the bush have a dust up.
Dutchy wrote:Dadpad correction here, we're not talking about Port Lincoln here but the new $1.5 Billion Adelaide Hospital!
It is suggested in certain quarters it should be named after Sir Howard Walter Florey, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Who? We would credit penicillin to another person altogether, a Scot named Fleming.
