pmccarthy

I read a book once about trucking. It said corrugations and bull dust only appeared with pneumatic tyres. When trucks had solids, up to the 1920s, it wasn’t a problem.

Ditto, looks great, you deserve it.

There is a type of soft rubbery material that reverts to black crude oil over time and blackens your hand. I threw out a set of screwdrivers like that. Yesterday I spent a few hours replacing the foam surrounds around the speaker cones in my 30-year-old stereo, which had turned to black grease. And I have a pair of binoculars that have gone like that, I am reluctant to throw them out but they are black and sticky.

A friend just came back from the USA, says that ordinary people are just getting on with their lives and seem unaffected by it all.

What is that supposed to mean?🧐

New research also shows that they were making complex copper alloys, deliberately adding trace elements to adjust the properties such as strength and hardness.

In my thirties I used to dream I was flying a light plane from Paris to London then realise that my licence had expired, I would wake up in a panic. When I got my licence back the dream went away. If Freud is about sex, you know what to do.

You beauty, we are getting there!

There is a theory about earthquakes and rockfalls and the phase of the moon. I suspect that statistics don't support it.

Then is queer another name for a choirboy?

The difference between 60 years ago and today is the "culture" of the people. When everyone grows up in the same culture, they know what is acceptable and only a small minority cause trouble. For example, in Broken Hill we had explosives and guns everywhere, but it was not a problem. Then "outsiders" move in, not part of the culture, and in ignorance or indifference they do things that require regulation. We had an Asian visitor who shot sheep, and claimed he was just hunting like the rest who were shooting kangaroos. Multiculturalism requires much greater regulation, but that is not effective if the newcomers do not respect the regulations and their enforcers.

Total eclipse of the heart

I flew a Cherokee over the Liddell power station just after it opened. I can’t believe they just blew it up.

Father Hartigan was my mum's teacher in Narrandera.

SWMBO and I have a few cars so we have left and right indicators, and one on the dash! It isn’t a problem for us.