You would need to be young, fit and have a full load of testosterone on board!
I created this blog to talk about my home region. I've used many images, including archival images but mostly I've used my own images.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Talking about the weather ....
Here I was, yesterday, lauding over how lovely the spring weather was down here.
Then .......... A bloody great, big, low pressure trougth moves in over us!
We've collected 25mm of rain from 8am yesterday to 8am today!
Then .......... A bloody great, big, low pressure trougth moves in over us!
" ....Southern Tablelands District Forecast
Issued at 5:42 am EDT on Monday 15 November 2010
for the period until midnight EDT Thursday 18 November 2010.
Warning Summary at issue time
Flood Watch for the Murray River Downstream of Hume Dam and Castlereagh River.
Weather Situation
A high near New Zealand extends a ridge to southeastern Queensland and a low pressure trough lies across western and southern New South Wales. The trough will move to the northeast during Monday as another slow-moving high moves southwest of Australia extending a ridge across the southwest of the state.
Forecast for the rest of Monday
Cloudy. Scattered showers. Winds northeast to northwesterly averaging 10 to 20 km/h becoming light later in the evening. Temperatures in the low 20s during the day.
Goulburn: Few showers.Max22 Yass: Shower or two.Max23 Canberra: Few showers.Max22
Fire Danger Southern Ranges: Low to Moderate [0-11] Australian Capital Territory: Low to Moderate [0-11]. ..."
We've collected 25mm of rain from 8am yesterday to 8am today!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Understanding finance - Aussie humour
Bryan Dawe and John Clarke discuss how the financial system works.
This is sublime Aussie humour!
And, On Asylum seekers and refugees:
And on the 'Voting punters':
This is sublime Aussie humour!
And, On Asylum seekers and refugees:
And on the 'Voting punters':
Lest we forget!
In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae, May 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
The Australian War Memorial will conduct the national Remembrance Day ceremony later this morning. This year's ceremony will include a tribute to Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Governor-General Quentin Bryce will deliver the commemorative address at the War Memorial, the symbolic focus of Australia's Remembrance Day ceremonies. The formalities will include the traditional minute's silence at 11:00am, to remember the moment the guns of the Western Front fell silent in 1918.
Since 2004 the names of those who have died in war are added each Remembrance Day to the Roll of Honour at the Memorial. It contains the names of more than 102,000 Australian war dead.
This year the names of 10 soldiers killed in Afghanistan will be added to the roll.
Similar Remembrance Day ceremonies will be held around the country.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Going 'Bush' for a few days.
When Rhonda gets home this evening we are heading off out into the "bush' (as we call the outback rural areas in Australia). Going to do some 'fossicking' out around some old gold mining areas. This morning, I have to go and see if we can get our little caravan out of a friends shed on a sheep property - probably blocked in my huge mounds of lucerne hay bales. If I cannot get that out, then we will consider camping or staying at a motel or country pub.
A country pub - this is the one at Boorowa, accommodation is on the upper level - rooms only open onto the verandah:
A country pub - this is the one at Boorowa, accommodation is on the upper level - rooms only open onto the verandah:
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Movember Australia
Some information from the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia:
Prostate Cancer Statistics
What is the chance for a diagnosis of prostate cancer:
For a man in his 40s - 1 in 1000
For a man in his 50s - 12 in 1000
For a man in his 60s - 45 in 1000
For a man in his 70s - 80 in 1000
•Each year in Australia, close to 3,300 men die of prostate cancer - equal to the number of women who die from breast cancer annually. Around 20,000 new cases are diagnosed in Australia every year.
•Each day about 32 men learn news that they have prostate cancer - tragically one man every three hours will lose his battle against this insidious disease
•One in 9 men in Australia will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime
•Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Australian men and is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men
•As many men die from prostate cancer as women die from breast cancer but... a national survey by PCFA in 2002 showed that while 78% of women felt well informed about breast cancer – only 52% of men felt informed about prostate cancer
•The chance of developing prostate cancer increases:
•as men get older.
•if there is a family history of prostate cancer eg a man with a father or brother diagnosed with prostate cancer
•Early, curable prostate cancer may not have symptoms. While younger men are less likely to be diagnosed with it, they are more likely to die prematurely from it
•Simple testing by a GP can indicate prostate cancer
•Early detection can be achieved with PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) blood test or DRE (Digital Rectal Examination) testing. Our research in 2002 shows that only 10% of men surveyed between the ages of 50 and 70 had taken these tests in the previous year.
•Some groups are at greater risk of prostate cancer
•... for example, for every 100 men who dies of prostate cancer in a metropolitan area of Australia (such as Melbourne or Sydney) 121 men will die in rural Australia. Various factors may include lack of awareness and education about prostate cancer, distance from testing and treatment, poor GP awareness and limited access to specialists (such as urologists)
•The Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia states that veterans have a 53% higher mortality rate from prostate cancer than the average population
•A recently published international study showed that firefighters have a 28% higher risk of prostate cancer.
What is the chance for a diagnosis of prostate cancer:
For a man in his 40s - 1 in 1000
For a man in his 50s - 12 in 1000
For a man in his 60s - 45 in 1000
For a man in his 70s - 80 in 1000
•Each year in Australia, close to 3,300 men die of prostate cancer - equal to the number of women who die from breast cancer annually. Around 20,000 new cases are diagnosed in Australia every year.
•Each day about 32 men learn news that they have prostate cancer - tragically one man every three hours will lose his battle against this insidious disease
•One in 9 men in Australia will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime
•Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Australian men and is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men
•As many men die from prostate cancer as women die from breast cancer but... a national survey by PCFA in 2002 showed that while 78% of women felt well informed about breast cancer – only 52% of men felt informed about prostate cancer
•The chance of developing prostate cancer increases:
•as men get older.
•if there is a family history of prostate cancer eg a man with a father or brother diagnosed with prostate cancer
•Early, curable prostate cancer may not have symptoms. While younger men are less likely to be diagnosed with it, they are more likely to die prematurely from it
•Simple testing by a GP can indicate prostate cancer
•Early detection can be achieved with PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) blood test or DRE (Digital Rectal Examination) testing. Our research in 2002 shows that only 10% of men surveyed between the ages of 50 and 70 had taken these tests in the previous year.
•Some groups are at greater risk of prostate cancer
•... for example, for every 100 men who dies of prostate cancer in a metropolitan area of Australia (such as Melbourne or Sydney) 121 men will die in rural Australia. Various factors may include lack of awareness and education about prostate cancer, distance from testing and treatment, poor GP awareness and limited access to specialists (such as urologists)
•The Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia states that veterans have a 53% higher mortality rate from prostate cancer than the average population
•A recently published international study showed that firefighters have a 28% higher risk of prostate cancer.
So, if you can a chance to either participate in "Movember", or, to support a "Movember" participant with sponsordhip, go for it!
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