Yenn

I have been to France a couple of times, but not to Paris. Lovely people out in the towns and villages. They really do like somebody who shows an interest in them and tries to speak French.

Roo is one of my favourite meats, good flavour, but I have eaten much more rabbit, just sorry I cannot get it in Qld.

As far as lying goes, the USA is up there with the best of them and it would appear that there is no place for truth in our own past government.

Try Singapore. The best fleshpot, or at least it was when I worked there in 98 and 71/2. Food is perfectly safe.

Now Ukraine are saying they need more arms to turf Russia out of the country. What are we doing? We want Russia out of Ukraine but we are not willing to let them attack Russia, meanwhile if the Russians are driven out, they still can attack Ukraine over the border. It looks as if the West is willing to feed arms to Ukraine, but gutless in fixing the problem. Nothing is going to stop Putin except force from the West, which should have been used a year ago.

Of course they don't believe it, they are just promoting the biggest insurance scam in the world.

I was a swineherd, pigs ass I was.

I don't know if London has fogs now, but November was the month for smogs when I was there. This was fog filled with coal smoke and I remember people falling into the Thames and drowning. I once walked down the Great West road and the No 91 I think bus followed me on my way home from school. I don't know what the bus did when I turned off at Lampton Crossing. It is a long walk from Chiswick to Heston.

Republicans got into the white house when Trump was elected. He should never have been promoted as heir candidate because it was obvious he was a mas narcissist. He told lies and denigrated anyone who disagreed with him and was an all round fool, but he was the republicans fool. Now he has hoodwinked half the party and they don't want to lose him, so he is controlling just about half of the US politicians. What a mess and we see other potential dictators acting in the same way. Bolsanaro at the moment and our own Scott Morrison took a few leaves from his book. It looks like the end of our type of civilization and the start of Putinism or Trumpeting.

How many instruments in your band?

Devon glorious Devon. I spent a year in Devon at St Giles in the Wood, first time I saw TV. The Queens coronation in the village hall. Those South coast counties vary wildly. I was born in Kent and would consider it not suitable for habitation nowadays, but it improves as you go West, so long as you avoid bath and Bristol. I don't envy anyone trying yo build or renovate in England. A relative of my wife had a job as a bureaucrat making decisions about building applications, She admitted to me that she didn't really know what she was doing.

Where are we going? Not you and I, but Australia. We seem to me to be heading for oblivion. Our current aim seems to be to get rid of coal. No burning it or using it and definitely stop mining and selling it. Our biggest income earner seems to be coal, so what are we going to produce in its stead? Another big earner is agriculture, but our government has so pissed off our major buyer that many ag. products are not acceptable there. Another case of primary productions big drawback. The buyer sets the price. Education was touted as the big earner, but I don't know where it is now, post covid. Tourism seems to have dropped out of the picture, again because of the pissing off of the Chinese. Manufacture. Whats that? Do we manufacture anything nowadays. The booming industries seem to be health care and that is not what I would call an income creating business for the country. The same can be said for the biggest growth industry, namely disability, which again contributes nothing to the country money wise. We don't seem to have any direction, nor does anyone seem to be worrying about it. I forgot the military, we have been first to raise our hands to join any fight in the past so long as the USA has been the leader. Sadly most of those fights have been started on spurious grounds, and one of them is still going on after 80 years. Viet Nam, Iraque and Afghanistan we should not have been involved in. All the while we sit back and do nothing about what is happening in Ukraine, a place where we could have done some good if we hadn't listened to Joe Biden. We seem to be like s headless chook, looking for handouts, but doing nothing to look after ourselves. We will end up rather like a mixture of South Africa and the worst parts of USA. Please tell me I am wrong, I would so like to have something for my great grand kids to look forward to.

Don’t tidy up.I just did because I moved house. Now I cannot find any of the tools I need, they are in my hangar, plus I still have to finish building a work bench. Slow but I am getting there.

Trees near a house. I would go for a Se Oak. They sound nice. Eucalypts are dangerous and they drop on still days with a terrific crash. They also fall into black soil and will later burn, creating pipes underground where the clay has been burnt. Doesn't help erosion problems. My New Year resolution is the same as last year and again it will not be broken. Don't make a resolution although I suppose I have.

All the best to all of you.