Celebrating Positives (offset of the Gripes Thread)

[onetrack]

10 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Nasho said:

I could get any girl I want, a lady working in a shop once told me. The thing is, she didn't tell me how.

Well, according to the current U.S. President, the technique is, you just grab 'em by the pu**y, and they're all yours! It's that simple, apparently!

[facthunter]

Having squillions of dollars (or appearing to) makes that work better.. I couldn't believe Don's that Hot in the Cot.   Nev

[spacesailor]

GON  , It does feel like a wasted effort.  Polling that is ! .

When will we get to vote by computer .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Polling is different to Voting. Nev

[nomadpete]

13 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

18 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Well, according to the current U.S. President, the technique is, you just grab 'em by the pu**y, and they're all yours! It's that simple, apparently!

 

I think that only works on women who already checked out the size of your bulging...........

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Wallet

 

 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 02:57 AM by nomadpete
FFS got me again.

[nomadpete]

1 minute ago, facthunter said:

Polling is different to Voting. Nev

True!

A pole dancer told me so!

[facthunter]

In an Olympic Village a fellow walking around was asked "Are you the Pole Vaulter? He replied No , I'm Austrian, but how did you know my name was Walter?"  Nev

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

30 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

GON  , It does feel like a wasted effort.  Polling that is ! .

When will we get to vote by computer .

spacesailor

I don't know why they don't bring it in for the common voters, it would be near impossible then to scribble nasty graffiti on the on-line virtual ballot paper. 

Edited yesterday at 03:14 AM by Grumpy Old Nasho

[octave]

Life is mostly pretty good 

 

[onetrack]

My positive for this week is; SWMBO and I spent an enjoyable 3 days renting a coastal AirBnB house about 200kms North of Perth (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) to celebrate our 35th anniversary and to unwind a little, and get in some beach time.

It's been a very hot and humid March, really unusual for this time of year. It's been around 34° - 36° for a couple of weeks now, and the nights are staying above 20°, which is very warm for this time of year.

So, we took off on Saturday morning, up the Mitchell Fwy and onto Indian Ocean Drive for an enjoyable 200km drive on a very good road. We got there around 2:00PM, checked in and kicked back for a while, then went out looking for some dinner. We weren't all that hungry, so we grabbed a couple of chicken kebabs from a local cafe, and they turned out to be pretty ordinary. Ah well, can't have top quality food, all the time!

Saturday was hot (34°), but there was a threat of a thunderstorm brewing. There was a trough just offshore down the West Coast (typical Summer weather pattern) and sure enough, we had a ripper of a storm during the night. The wind (Easterly/Nth. Easterly) picked up, and we had lightning and some very loud thunder, that even woke me up! But no rain where we were. Further down, Perth and N.E. of Perth got some rain (3.4mm in Perth).

 

However, when we woke up Sunday morning, the wind was howling! - 35-40kmh, gusting to probably 50kmh. It was quite unpleasant, so we jumped in the car and took off for a drive to Jurien Bay, about 26kms further North. JB is quite a decent-size country town now, around 3000 people, and they have big-city subdivisions and suburbs! - a lot more than the last time we visited (a few years ago now).

We toured around JB and checked out all the recent development, and then stopped at the Sandpiper Tavern for lunch. We shared a Greek Lamb pizza and a large Garden Salad, and it was very good.

 

We went back to Cervantes in the afternoon and checked out Thetis Lake and the 3,500 yr old Stromatolites there. We drove on further down, and discovered a delightful beach called Hansen Bay beach, and decided we'd come back in the morning. We went back to the house, had afternoon tea, and I had a snooze for a while! All this touring is tiring!

Come dinnertime, I fired up the house BBQ, and we cooked up some delicious Aldi Scotch Fillet steak, ate it with a nice garden salad (we made it before we left), fried onions, and thick potato slices fried on the BBQ. Delicious!

After dinner, we kicked back by watching a fascinating doco on SBS about the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral! I highly recommend this doco, it's really eye-opening, from the carving of new Cathedral statues, the repair of many old damaged statues, the massive amount of woodwork and timber installation in the roof - right through to sand casting new lead sheeting (in the U.K.) for the Cathedral roof!

 

Monday morning, the wind had totally abated, so we went down to Hansens Bay beach, and had an enjoyable nude swim, because there was no-one around! - we had kms of beach to ourselves! Late morning we headed back to the house.

During Saturday night, a number of serious bushfires started up between Cervantes and Perth (mostly around Lancelin) and these fires resulted in both major highways back to Perth being closed for all Sunday, and into Monday afternoon, while the fires were fought by ground crews and water bombers.

 

We were concerned that both highways were still closed at lunchtime Monday. Our AirBnB host was very good, and advised us we could have an extended checkout, and could stay for the rest of Monday if we wished, as it was obvious the highway closures were making it difficult for everyone, and making for a very long detour inland, to get back to Perth!

There are virtually no other roads North and South in the region of the fires, because there's huge areas of Nature Reserves and original native vegetation in the fire areas.

 

However, by 1:00PM, we found the Brand Hwy had been reopened, but this still meant a detour of probably 30 kms inland, as Indian Ocean Drive was still closed. Accordingly, we left Cervantes at 2:00PM, did the detour to the Brand Hwy, and we were back home by 4:30PM with no dramas.

All in all, it was a very enjoyable break, but it would've been a lot better if the weather on Sunday had stayed the same as Saturday and Monday (warm and light winds). However, you can't alter the weather, you just have to take it as it comes.

 

This is the place we stayed in. It's bigger than we really needed, but because we left it a bit late to book, everything else around town was booked out. It was a very nice place to camp, though.

 

https://www.property.com.au/wa/cervantes-6511/drummond-crcs/30a-pid-14918743/

[rgmwa]

We got that thunderstorm too and it was quite impressive. Another one that came through about 3-4 weeks ago knocked over two 30m gum trees on the verge that hit the house, ripped off 30m of barge, guttering and eaves lining, demolished several battens and a few rafters plus at least a dozen roof sheets, punched a hole in the roof and ceiling in one room and knocked 40m of fence down. The roofers will be here most of the week. We had 20mm of rain in 10 minutes. The storm passed in about 25 mins but we were without power for three days and the NBN was only reconnected a week ago. The Bureau said it was a microburst. It sure caused a lot of damage in our area. 

[pmccarthy]

Had a positive day touring around Dubai. The buildings were as big and modern as I expected but the whole joint is much, much bigger. And nearly all built in the last Fifty years.

[onetrack]

And 45° every day, too, I'll wager! Dubai International Airport is staggering in its size.

[octave]

My transport to lunch.

 

[facthunter]

Couldn't you just drive to the Fish CO-OP?   Nev

[octave]

30 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Couldn't you just drive to the Fish CO-OP?   Nev

No, I need to travel in style.

[octave]

This was my ride today. The TSS Earnslaw. Built in Dunedin in in 1912 and disassembled so it could be transported to lake Wakatipu by train.

[facthunter]

On freshwater it will last a  lot longer. Nev

[spacesailor]

The wife & I had a very quiet 63rd wedding anniversary. 

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

Congrats, Spacey.. you've both achieved something very few even live to, let alone enjoy that long with the right one

[nomadpete]

Congratulations Spacey.