By rights we should not have this leaf problem here in Australia as all our native trees are evergreens, mainly eucalypts no less.
Interesting enough we have about 2500 tropical islands here in Queensland and mostly uninhabited and none of them have palm trees except that have been planted there.
Rgds Ian
markn wrote:The clock changing always reminds me of the "politically incorrect"quip by someone like Churchill or Will Rogers that Daylight saving time was like the old Indian chief that wanted a longer blanket, so he cut a foot off the top and sewed it on the bottom..I guess we could get up an hour earlier...naw! It's dark by 5:30, the leaves are falling faster than I can rake them off the tracks, but the weather is perfect here in Virginia- it's always something. The really bad part about all this is the political ads this time of year but if I understand them, they say if we vote out the damn Reporkicans and vote in the damn Demoncats, they will fix everything including this winter doldrum problem and pay me a subsidy to not rake my leaves-or did I get that wrong?
No, you got it right. But remember Kerry voted for winter before he voted against it.
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
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I don't agree with Nic on much but i have had the same experience he had in North America. I have been there 4 or 5 times, once for 3 months and i have visited 20 cities in 12 states and i didn't even see a crime or even hear of one. Even the supposedly arraogeant darker type americans in Nan Francisco were pretty pleasant to me.
As for the earlier comments re crime in australia - its a bit like watching American Sitcoms - the telly here shows all the death and gore holliwood can produce, and the news shows all the murders etc etc so one could believe if you don't get mugged murdered and or raped when stateside, you ain't been. yet I managed a month in North America, drove the freeways of LA, and did not get mugged, raped or murdered or even experience road rage. Rather, I met some great people!
Sorry, we'll try harder next time
tangerine-jack wrote:What happens if I get offended by that last lawn jockey?
Have fun with your trains
Yeah Kim I think the name was derived from Senator Neville Bonner an aborigine ploitician.
Ian
Haven't you got somebody like a Neville in the White House then? Or is he more like a gnome? I bet Bush would go down well in the bush, outback - so to speak. Nevillles, I love it, wouldn't like to fall on one of them with his spear after a few beers.
Kim
Torby you are right and this was a pretty large one at that; but of course there is a more serious crime here in Australia nad that is stealing "Nevilles"; They are like garden gnomes but more in the image of Australian aborigines, usually with a spear and sometimes standing on one leg.
Jack mate; i can hardly bellieve what you have reported, this must be adifferent Sunshine Coast to where i live. I have been to that Kings Tavern or more exactly to Christmas Carols in the park acrross the road. Here on Kawana Island we have only ever had one crime; some one had too much to drink and stole someone elses garden gnome, i don't think we have even had a traffic accident.
Real trains run year round, so do I. If the weather is too nasty to be outside, then I have a million other projects to work on as well. Marty is correct, this is the time of year you can do the heavy grunt work on the railroad without sweating to death or getting carried away by mosquitos.
Daylight savings time makes no difference to me, if it's dark then I will turn the lights on.
Ian, what part of the Sunshine Coast do you live in??? Here is an exerpt from your own newspaper (yes, some of us Americans can and do read news from other places). You may not have guns, but crime and murder seem to have a home.
02.09.2006
Two knife attacks – one resulting in death – have sent shockwaves through quiet coastal communities in the past week.
Last Sunday Sunrise Beach teenager Sonny Baker was found stabbed to death in front of his home. Deon Paul Langworthy faced court on Monday charged with his murder and was then transferred to Princess Alexandra Hospital for surgery on knife wounds to his own hands.
On Monday night a 37-year-old man was stabbed several times in the stomach and his back at the Kings Beach Tavern. "
Well of course this is all an argument for living here on the Sunshine Coast, it was 38 Deg C at a train running down in Brisbane yesterday and bright sunshine but of course it was only 30 Deg here on "The Coast". It only ever rains here of a night time and we have no pollution, traffic problems, guns, or even poverty.
It is in fact springtime and we are recovering from a particularly harsh winter it actually got down to 15 degrees one night or two nights.
However we do have a controversy about daylight saving every onther state bt Queensland went on to daylight saving last night or is going onto it but us and it is hurting us in many ways.
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