Its excellent bait for carp, he says. The old fella wades over to me through the mush and says, Gimme a look, what is it your using? Ive never seen a young fella stand about for so long and not catch nothin .. . Well, I say, I’m not trying very hard, truth is I’m actually hoping not to catch one .. I don’t want to have to kill it. He chuckles. Look son, getta hold of one a these….
“There may have been no dams blocking the torrents of words. But those words were not advocacy, arguments or selling points. They were excuses, abuse of the opposition and rhetorical flourishes. One never got the impression that the King, or his economic ministers, were infused with and excited by ideas, or keen on the processes by which debate sharpened and improved a policy or a program. Indeed, particularly on economic matters (such as company tax cuts, the environment or kowtowing…
For eight months of the year I dont see rain and for much of that time I dont get to hear all the wonderful things that are happening in our world. It’s true, for some this would be ranked as a Utopian garden, but I dont even get fake news, although much of what I do get it would be preferred if I felt it was fake .. if I could be content for it to be fake. I do…
II’v just been having an interesting discussion with an old fella I once met mowing his camp spot up near Moree … He says the reason us youngsters believe all this Climate Change bullshit (here I think he means- Human Enhanced Climate Change) is because we fuck around with the time all the time. It started of with whether the sun was shining through the hole in the Cenotaph down in Victoria at the 11th hour this morning. I said,…
Seems the solution to any form of Climate Change – helped along by humanity or not – and subsequent ‘people movement’ is in legislation. Well, it’s worked before … More law. Pity we cant eat laws, we must have banks and banks of old overlapping decaying meaningless laws stored away in silos by now. How long have we been conjuring up laws, man made artificial laws? Let’s give it .. oh, say 15000 years – sure, perhaps God only gave…
Well, seems I’m back travelling with the Trogs .. watching the bush be stripped of its future soil just to build a little fire to watch. I don’t suppose anyone’s ever going to want to plant anything here again? Them’s the breaks. Gotta get born earlier. It’s not surprising that the Kings Minister for the Earth can only think in terms of filthy lucre – it’s their primary excuse for not doing anything. Cash! Not enough for this not enough…
Ahh, fluff. I’ll get howled down for this one as well, as usual. What is the go with the aboriginal people and rubbish? Why, wherever I go, beautiful or ugly places, city & country, mountain & beach, why do they teach their children to chuck their discarded fluff out of the car windows? I’ve watched a few lovely kids playing in the trees today – mum and dad sitting about having a smoke – then just as we’re all ready…
Mate we don’t recommend you go off the main road. Well, four years ago you gave away maps with just that recommendation. I think it was called nature tourism .. and it’s not exactly like I dont look like I don’t know what I’m doing out there, in our nature, now does it? It’s closed now, he says, we dont maintain it anymore. Well you never did anyway. Forestry did. It’s dangerous it’s not safe, it’s for the public good…
One of the consequences of getting in early and picking a nice secluded spot away from the noise and bustle in the world of free camping is no matter how hard you try not to, you must share. And no matter how small and secluded and away from the the moving city your spot is, if the moving city likes the look of your spot then the moving city is coming over to join you. It’s an exercise in sharing….
!Swap OUR refugees for NZ water! Now this is a good idea – NZ has plenty of Environmental Water and it’ll prevent Barney & his Boys from stealing our water … Again. Swap is probably not the right word .. we could get NZ to sell it to us. One of our refugees and $1 million for a swimming pool full of NZ water. Its a better deal than we got from Cambodia where we has to pay them $6…