Good morning daily

[T1 Terry]

Good morning everyone, its gunna be a warm one today. The BoM says it will make 40° today, so it will be a hide inside the house afternoon. I am going to catch up with an old workmate that lives just around the corner from the inlaws place here in Mulwala. He's getting a bit but still looks as healthy as ever.
Stay hydrated and stay out of the sun if you can. Have a top day, safe travels.

Good on him if he's getting a bit, probably why he looks fit and healthy

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

Gunna be another very warm one again today, spent the morning wiring up a 2.5mm sq length of orange flex to a 15 amp plug so I could wire it direct to the air conditioner.
When I ran it on the way home from Lithgow, it was noisy and rattled the whole vehicle just about, but now it's running reasonably quiet .... although the anchor bolts are out and the vent cover is off at the moment ..... maybe it was over tightened down to the roof, some of that closed cell foam between the air conditioner and the roof and more between the metal anchor points might help .......
I'll wait and see if it makes it bearable top work in the motorhome, it read 35*C on the Ibus display when I turned it on at 10am .......

T1 Terry



T1 Terry

[Newcastle George]

Good Morning All. Julie,Sean and I went for a swim at the ocean baths yesterday evening, 6:30pm but spent about 20 minutes driving around trying to find a parking spot. The water was quite cool and there were large swells crossing the pool.

I got up this morning and cleaned Julie's car, inside and out, before the temperature made it unbearable. 31* here now, 11:25am, with 34* predicted.

George

[native pepper]

Raining here, 16 outside 22 inside. Supposed to reach 23 and probably will and rain some more, if not will go for a ride and check out a sidecar for sale. Grass is so long up to my thighs in places so will have to put the slasher on the tractor and mow. My last horse is over 30 and going downhill fast, she's very lonely after her brother died from old age over a year ago and sadly nothing I can do other than comfort her, but she's a moody bugger and some times won't let you get near her. She's getting worse lately and don't think a companion horse will help as she seems to have given up and no amount of good feed seems to help. Borrowed a horse she knows from a neighbour to see if it helped, but she pissed the poor boy off and constantly hassled him until we him took home and he was pleased to leave, couldn't get out of the gate fast enough and wanted to trot home. Women, can never tell how they will act.

[Keith Morris]

As demands for national apologies are in vogue, here is one that Prime Minister Albanese might give to Aboriginal people:

We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the English language, which in turn opened the accumulated knowledge of western civilisation to you; along with the value of thought and enterprise.
We apologise for circumnavigating and mapping Australia, thereby enlightening you as to the size and location of the continent that you have inhabited for 60,000 years. Prior to this, you had no comprehension of the continent over which you claim ownership rights.
We apologise for providing you with free doctors, hospitals, medication and medical care, which have helped you to live longer than you ever did before colonisation. We apologise for Britain colonising this continent before some other country such as France, Holland, Portugal or Japan, inevitably would have done.
We apologise for giving you law and order, which has helped to prevent you from slaughtering one another in tribal conflicts, which at times involved eating the victims.

We apologise for developing agriculture, which today feeds your people; whereas before you survived by living off the land and often starved during drought. We apologise for building housing for you, which you have largely neglected, vandalised, or destroyed. We apologise for providing you with clothing made of fabric to replace the animal skins that you wore.

We apologise for constructing roads and railways and building cars, so that you no longer have to walk great distances over harsh terrain in extreme heat. We apologise for giving you a national television station (NITV), which you routinely use as a political platform to condemn the country that provided the finance and the technology for it.

We apologise for giving you vehicles, boats, petrol, firearms, fishing gear and other modern technology, which you now use for your 'traditional hunting and fishing'. We apologise for subsidising your travel costs to attend family funerals.

We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands, while other citizens have to pay rent and associated costs. We apologise for giving you concessional business, housing and study loans. We apologise for our 'racist' police who unfairly arrest you for the high rate of theft and burglaries that your people commit.

We apologise for aboriginal parents not sending their kids to school and then blaming us for their 'disadvantage'. We apologise for developing our oil and mineral resources, which you never knew about or utilised. We apologise for developing Uluru and Kakadu, then handing them over to you so that you can receive the tourist income.

We apologise for taxpayer’s money being paid towards your many annual celebration events such as NAIDOC Week. We apologise for working hard and paying taxes, which in turn finance your welfare, medical care, education, etc., to the tune of $35+ billion each year. We apologise for appointing Ministers for Indigenous Affairs in the Federal Government AND in each State and Territory, to focus on your particular needs.

We apologise for not appreciating your 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies, for which we pay you fees, even though these ceremonies were never part of your cultural traditions. We apologise for the numerous white-aboriginal activists who are living very well aboard the government funded, aboriginal-industry gravy train, while some of you live in poverty.

We apologise to those aboriginal activists, who after having had the benefit of a university education, are the most outspoken critics of the colonisation that provided their education. We apologise to the aboriginal sports people who make a good living from playing sports such as football, rugby and cricket, which were brought here by the colonisers.

We apologise for being critical of those who are genetically mostly European but identify as solely aboriginal. They condemn the white colonisers who were their own ancestors, in order to claim aboriginal victimhood. We apologise for recognising your Aboriginal flag, which never existed before 1971, and allowing it to flown along side the Australian flag.

We sincerely apologise and humbly beg your forgiveness for all of our sins; past, present and emerging. to make amends, we are only too happy to take back all of the above material and welfare assistance, and return you to your traditional, stone age lifestyle, somewhere in the Outback. Just let us know when you are ready to revert.

[T1 Terry]

We sincerely apologise and humbly beg your forgiveness for all of our sins; past, present and emerging. to make amends, we are only too happy to take back all of the above material and welfare assistance, and return you to your traditional, stone age lifestyle, somewhere in the Outback. Just let us know when you are ready to revert.

Maybe the first apology would for the audacity of the British to think they owned the world and could simply walk in and take over. To suggest the original inhabitants were "stone age" when the British turned up dressed like they were more part of a stage play than a conquering force, poorly armed and only won because they caught the locals unprepared.
The British were armed with single shot guns that were about as accurate over distance as a spit ball gun made out of a biro, where the original inhabitants had a weapon that would not only kill on contact, but return for another attempt if they missed, had methods of launching spears that had a greater distance and accuracy than the single shot black powder guns of the British had, and mixtures that the spear tip could be dipped in that would immobilise, or poison to death with only a grazing contact.
The British are very lucky the original inhabitants were not an organised force .... the British would have been slaughtered and no one would have known what had happened to them ... it's not like they could send a message halfway around the world to tell what happened.

Time to take the "British superiority" glasses off Keith, take a genuine look at what the British did to the people who were here originally ..... do you honestly think they are better off now than before the British set foot on the shores of this country?

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

Good morning everyone, its gunna be a warm one today. The BoM says it will make 40° today, so it will be a hide inside the house afternoon. I am going to catch up with an old workmate that lives just around the corner from the inlaws place here in Mulwala. He's getting a bit but still looks as healthy as ever.
Stay hydrated and stay out of the sun if you can. Have a top day, safe travels.

Good on him if he's getting a bit, probably why he looks fit and healthy

T1 Terry

If, if I had proof read my post properly, it would have read, he's getting on a bit in years now, but that isn't what I posted.

[Busman]

Time to take the "British superiority" glasses off Keith, take a genuine look at what the British did to the people who were here originally ..... do you honestly think they are better off now than before the British set foot on the shores of this country?

T1 Terry
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Well I certainly do. Your mocking of the british conveniently forgets what would have happened (and probably will when china gets around to invading) if some of the other peoples of the world had happened on the place first, would have been terra extincionus, not terra australus.

[supersparky]

Bill, the Chinese aren't going to invade us. They will just buy out whatever government is in power at their time of choice, and buy out all or most of whatever companies still remain in business. It will be a stealth invasion and some people won't even notice its happened for a while.

[Noggins]

This one has gone to the storage file as well ...

T1 Terry