Bruce Tuncks

This guy down the street thought that his deceased mother had a buried lot of money in the backyard. He sure did a lot of fruitless digging.

Yep, that's the risk you take when replanting. How to know what will be the in variety in five years time is the challenge. Personally, I like Merlot and chardonnay too and shiraz as well. Not fussy is my thing.

Your money would be in a metal box connected to the mains and with lots of plastic separating the metal box from the earth. The mains connection would not be obvious to somebody digging from the top. Please don't mention my name if you really do this.

I like the idea of electrifying your money-bin but I reckon it's illegal.

Red, I couldn't scroll with your posted thing, so this maybe odd for you to understand. How can they take your money when it looks like they are giving you about 450 dollars? Once I was the subject of a pfishing email and I should have noticed that the email was a fake, but they were using the paypal website stuff and I didn't notice that the originating country was Italy! They sure knew how to appeal to a cheapskate, they said that some person had used my details to buy oil filters in Ballarat, and I would be charged for them if I didn't act.

I'm hoping to get a letter from the real ATO just so I can treat it like a scam.

Fake glass huh nev. I never knew about that stuff. Anyway, I hasten to report that the young guy who answered the phone at the BoM actually didn't know about the phone call cost on account of never trying to ring it himself. He also said that the Edenhope rainfall readings were "pending", and could be so for a month. I should have asked him why they lied about the rainfall with their zero figure when it had clearly rained a lot, but I was too slow to think of this. Maybe I'll call him back, depending on who is paying for the calls. gosh it's hard being a cheapskate, and you get no sympathy either.

I'm trying to buy a cheap amplifier stethoscope, but there are sites used to selling to the medical profession and they are too expensive for me.... any assistance would be welcome. ( cheap for me is less than $100 for a good-quality thing)

Here's another thing I've noticed.... the river areas are getting much better at producing good wines. Or maybe as the alcohol has bitten, I have become less choosy?

Plenty of changes going on in established areas over here Nev. I reckon the main reason is to change the variety.... years ago, chardonnay was the in variety, now I reckon it may be Merlot. I reckon it's the hardest decision of all to make. Changing the rootstock at the same time would be quite easy in comparison.

Well I did ring that number and the phone was answered by a young guy who told me NOTHING. He sort of said that the rainfall could be held back for more than a month, and he couldn't tell me if the phone call would be billed to me or not.

I don't believe in prophets nev. When one can prophesise the next cross-lotto numbers, i will change my mind.

A telephone..... for which I may be the payer! bugger, this is not fair. They are the ones I am trying to correct..... gosh, we got zero rain when Heathcote got 180mm in one day, surely this must have got somebodies attention. In fact the rain at edenhope is above average for this time of the year. q: is the call a free one?

About the rainfall at edenhope west wimmera victoria. The "official " sites say that NO rain has fallen this month, but it is actually about 60mm. I would like to tell them about this but their sites have no way to tell them..... advice needed please.

His land-rover had a clip-on folding shovel, and he decided to surreptitiously bury the dog and pretend he never saw it. Clang! the shovel hit an old urn and a genii appeared when charles wiped off some mud. " since we have been thatcherised" the genii said, "you have one wish". Charles, not being too slow, said " can you fix this corgi up so I don't get into trouble?" The genii pulled long on his goatee and finally said " I'm a very powerful genii, but bringing something back from the dead is a big ask... can you try again?" Charles thinks.... he says " can you make my mum like Camilla?" The genii pulls on his goatee even longer than before... finally he says " lets have another look at that Corgi"...

Spacey, did you hear about the time prince Charles killed a Corgi at Balmoral? When he ran over it with his royal land-rover?

I reckon Netanyahu has done a terrible job. How they were caught by surprise when they should have infiltrated hamas is only the start. It was clear from the beginning that Hamas was only doing it to make the response look bad, and Netanyahu has played right into their hands. He should have given more time/s for civilians to leave as the US wanted, and worked harder at making the hamas thugs look like the bad guys. And he should have nicely asked the surrounding Arab countries to take some refugees and thus made them partially guilty in the sad outcome. I reckon he is too dumb to be leading what I hoped was a smart nation.

My ( very pro Israel ) son in law says that Gaza was given to the palestinians, complete with operating factories, by Israel. The first thing the palestinian-hamas did was to stop the factories making money. Is he right?

From the depths of the crypt at st Giles Came a scream that re-echoed for miles Said the vicar" good gracious Has father Ignacious Forgotten the bishop has piles?" ( from the Alice Springs school in 1960 I think. were they Anglicans, I wonder)

I think that its really the prevailing westerly winds that are mainly to credit for keeping sa vines free, fruit-fly too, for the stone fruit in sa. But every year, we hear about whole suburbs being quarantined and stripped.

So for all these years I've worked hard to keep SA philloxera-free and they only needed to use grafted stock? bugger.

How much is keeping South Australia free from philloxera worth? Any guess nev?

Well I like Bradfield's idea, which I reckon could be considered to be the diversion ( Plus pumping) into the headwaters of the Diamantina river and Cooper's Creek. I wonder if the Snowy scheme would have passed those same tests as they are applying to Bradfield. BUT here is my question.... how much water is going into the murray-darling , the Diamantina and Coopers right now?

I like your post nev, but the fact is that we had a referendum on the monarchy subject and I lost. To this day, I can't decide if Turnbull was a fool or a traitor, so bad were the pro-republic arguments.

getting back to nth Korea, I reckon we are seeing how a monarchy starts... you have a really good murderer as a dictator, and he becomes so powerful that he can pass on his authority to his son, even if that son is goofy-looking. But, I hasten to say, as time passes, the plebs get more powerful and begin to limit the king's powers. This is what we have these days in GB.... which is counted as a democracy, I think. It can't be a very good democracy, or we would have a vote on Charles' tenure.