Litespeed

Oh piss boy..

But twenty years ago we had landlines, 000 answered the calls and things called phonebooths were everywhere. The service guarantee was real not a corporate lie.

In that case I will happily send a bottle of bleach for their celebration drinks.

The flying Merc was scary stuff, unless you are Mark Webber. After his car flipped then his team mates the brass balled bugger still got in the backup car and drove like hell, until it flipped as well. A he walked away both times, very stern stuff.

Goulburn screaming hot in summer and bloody freezing in winter. I lived there till 13. Still have family there and it's a nice little city these days. The freeway bypass was a huge thing and stopped trucks speeding through the mainstreet at night. Often a local got mowed down after leaving the pub at night and they were horrific when it happened, a bin bag job. Not a smart place for crims with a super Max goal and the police academy. Also home to one of the fanciest court buildings in the country. It was meant to be the Indian supreme court but the dumb poms sent the plans here instead. Been the richest town in the country from wool, they built it anyway.

It was colour and amazingly was actually based on Grace brothers in Sydney, strange but true. Hence the character "young Mr Grace".

'"Sure, I am blind rather than vision impaired . Do you mind if I call you intellectually impaired or do you prefer just plain stupid?"

Blue swimmers are worth the effort and excellent with a home made Thai chilli jam sauce. Lots around this time of year and some monster mudcrabs on Bull lsland. Never seen a spanner crab locally.

The lures work fine, fish can see colours we don't and have acute night vision. What's looks boring silverfish to us can be a bright kaleidoscope of colours to them. There is a real art cum science in making a quality lure. The lure he used looked like a 5 inch prawn and also has metal rattle beads inside the soft body and integrated hook. I can't remember the brand but the $20 at the marina fishing shop is a bargain as they work brilliant. Mate has caught 3 big Jews and lure is still perfect, most don't last long at all. 20kg of fillets @ $40 min a kg- the wholesaler price to quality restaurants is $800 of flesh for a $20 lure! Buying fresh Jew is not easy, rarely seen even at the markets. What do I do when bored of such bounty? Like all poor buggers, I eat Oysters. I ring a friendly guy and he delivers that day $15 a dozen for the best big Sydney rocks. Or I just grab them off the rocks myself. I also buy quality lamb,beef or organic chook and play chef. Here is a pick from my best friends houseboat, they are all plate size fish- Tarwhine(fast growing bream). They are actually treated as pets and love hanging about, like living at the aquarium.

I did some work for him, hence the wholesale price. Even so $350-$400 is about right price for budget brands like Kings.

Tonight was just your normal boring sameness for Lemon Tree Passage . The stars were shining and the F35's were doing night exercises in squads of four. I was sitting with a beer at my mates houseboat and another mate dropped in a lure. Less than a minute later he pulled in this little fella. A 90cm Mulloway "Jew" fish approx 6 kg of fillets. Biggest known catch was 1.7 meters and 48.5kg locally I must say it's damn hard living round here and finding a feed. What are you buggers eating?

I am soon re powering my "ship" with solar panels and 300 amp/hrs of lithium Ferro batteries. Mates rate at $600. Total cost with 400 watts of panels and the equivalent of 600amp/hrs of lead acid plus charge controller will be $1000. That will run power, lights and fridge/ freezer for almost a week if the sun ever leaves. New style 12v fridges are very efficient and no losses from inverters which are expensive and inefficient. For the usable amp/hrs per dollar the lithium Ferro batteries beat lead acid easily and have far greater life without the huge weight. The panels are flexible and very light unlike the glass/ alloy ones. 6 kg for 400 watts. They go on the hardtop above my top deck steering station, at that height weight matters for the pendulum effect. On a 10 ton vessel, weight Is not a huge problem but getting the lead buggers moved sure is. The 200 amp lead weigh 55 kg plus each, bloody hard to get on board from a tinny esp as I am only 65 kg. I will recycle the old lead and hopefully that buys a case of real 🍺, red Peroni naturally. 3 years ago this would have cost $3000. Happy days

A koala stamp with laurels for you Nev. Obviously a fan of my namesake "Philip" Adams. The lazy bugger is retiring this year to his normal job of farming. Only well into his 80's and still the sharpest knife in the draw.

Chokos, the secret part of McDonalds apple pie. Yes it's true. At least figs can be dried and stored.

Bugger Jo and Flo, these days it's Potato head Dutton for PM. Do nothing Dutton excuses the war crimes of Israel and wishes he was Trump.

Well here in Port Stephens it has been bloody wet. Followed by bright sunny days. My tinnie, named tintanic has 4 floatation seats to make it unsinkable. Alas over Friday it rained enough to fill it 2 feet deep- farrk. Getting off the big boat to bail the bugger was a challenge esp when a wanker came past at speed with a big wake. With only 2 inches of freeboard left it was dicey. However the marina is a bigger mess with a 16 ft glass boat sunk from rain and lots of submerged tinnies. Glad the southerly low didn't eventuate or it would have been lots of submarines. Yet again my mum at North Richmond is flooded in.

It's not that big a suprise from a country that allows a 16 year old to buy machine guns but won't let you drink till your 21. Not that we should laugh too much... We elected scumo Morrison.

It's easy to see why not. It's not the price, which would have been huge. It not they couldn't build it, but that's debatable, more a Italian specialist job. But can you imagine trying to sell that next to a HT Holden? It would make everything else seem dated, poorly made and extremely low tech- which is exactly what they were. The GTR-X would have been barely possible, the exotic Hurricane had no chance. A bit like Holden trying to make a Alfa Montreal or a De Tomaso Pantera. No chance in hell

Oh, Tv sucks , 15 years since I owned one. I view, sbs and streaming is the go. Everything else is just mindless crap to reduce the general IQ and keeps the sheepish ones content and stupid. Just like bread and circuses with added blood did for the Romans.

Sadly the Lancia Beta was a badly made Fiat in rusting clothes. No real Lancia parts involved except the badge, which normally fell off in disgust.. Once the late 70's arrived the Fiat takeover meant death to the real Lancia. The engine was a standard Fiat twin cam rebadged. It also came with built in rust, like all period Fiats. Even Malcom was smart enough to not lose his pants by buying such a dud. This was a bad period to be a Italian carmaker, even Italy got the accountants disease.

Spacey, Always best to raise the mast at the ramp carpark. I have seen guys drive away still mast up, it looks like death waiting. Powerlines will quickly turn the boat and owner into ash.

I always get a naughty pleasure watching the weekend warriors back their boats at the ramp. Even more fun when they return to the boat to discover they forgot the hull drain plug..😭

Les is that rare individual who actually deserves a state funeral.

Or the Tom tits

If you were doing a hand stand and it fell..... You could be the suppository of all reason...