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Some of the best tennis ever this year. What a great showpiece for Australia the Australian open is! The final? Did Novak Djokovic pull a stunt last night and fake injury? Sure looked like it to me. His few stumbles he performed looked like the work of a second rate actor? But if it was an...

Bloody hell! Another atrocity by people who follow the religion of peace. All because of some cartoons? Cartoonists who also made fun of every other religion, but of course there is one religion who takes offence. These religious nutters are truly in a different league. There is a youtube...

Is everyone on the east coast of Australia enjoying the rain? It was certainly dry after a hot dry spring. I've had 60 mills so far and it's rained every day for a week. Hoping it goes away now for a bit so we can get our summer crops in before Christmas. Already have some sorghum and cotton...

One of my best mates passed away last night from motor neuron disease at 51. He battled it, or suffered it really as there's not a thing can be done about it, for 2 years. He had the worst type that effects you from the top and bottom. His first symptoms was that his speech was slurred and he...

This is turning into more than a crashed plane. Lots of weird things happening. No wreckage found. Plane just disappeared from radar. Missing passports. Phones of passengers still ringing out according to some rumours. Surely some wreckage would have been found now? It's a busy waterway that...

Ramsay Health Care. RHC. Ramsay health care went up by nearly 7% today. To $47.54. It's gone up by a factor of 10 times now in 10 years for me. Bought at $4.70, after being impressed with a RHC hospital after the birth of my 3rd daughter. Totally unattractive to share traders. Probably...

I've always had good eyes. But at 46 I've been noticing it's getting a bit hard to read small print up close. Was in a chemist today and tried a few reading glasses. Big difference. Got some 1.5 one's, what ever that means. All a part of getting older I suppose. Another stage of life, like...

{Edit: Split off from another thread. GeoffW} The Japanese offered to surrender? First I've heard of that? I thought they only surrendered after the US used the atomic bombs? See ya's.

Here's a brief summery then. Had a cracker of a sorghum crop last season. Hot dry start, then rain on Christmas day, then a wet January and February with almost half a years rainfall over those two months had one of the biggest crops we've grown. We averaged 8.5 tonnes to the hectare. Add to...

Anyone effected yet? Good luck. Looks bad ahead. Keep safe, houses can be rebuilt, but you only get one go at life. At least in my area, not many bloody trees, and grass is that short and stunted it's probably safer now than usual. See ya's.

I'm trying to build a camping hot tub. I've done it roughly before, just by a coil of gal pipe in a hot fire and water pumped though with a little electric pump. It's great for the kids to have a nice hot soaking in before bed, and then the adults can get in. All good fun. Takes a few...

Just a heads up that 4 corners tonight is doing a story on Nathan Tinkler. Sounds like it will be real interesting. See ya's.

How do people eat meals on here? We just had a wonderful meal. Pork belly and gravy, with mashed potato and green beans. Plus fresh buttered buns. The pork was perfect, juicy with crunchy crackling. So I'm a mix it all up sort of bloke. In each mouthful I have a portion of meat, spud...

We normally spend a few weeks in the January school holidays on the Gold Coast in a unit. I'm just thinking about trying something different, and I remember some good threads on here about SE Asia holidays. Any recommendations about good places to go to and things to do? We'd normally spend...

OK, so I needed a new work watch. I don't like spending too much on a work watch. It gets knocked around something terrible, knocked and scratched, gets covered in oil and petrol and other nasty stuff. About $100 I usually spend. The $20 Big W sort of watch don't last, and I would never buy a...

Just a quick question. Our little area had a centenary a few weeks ago. Now we are going to put down a time capsule to be bought up in 50 years time, with historical info in it. I was going to put all the photos on a long life DVD, but the wife reckons a USB stick would make more sense...

I did a weeks long fishing trip at Swains reef off Gladstone last week with 14 others on a commercial tour. Caught a heap of fish, coral trouts, parrot fish, sweetlips, spangled emperor, mackerals plus other stuff. All gets filleted by the deckies, and bought home. But the trophy fish to catch...

Looks like this will be another major flood event. 100's of mills of rain already and heaps more to come. I wasn't expected to get much at all, just light showers, but it's moved north a bit and I've got 25 mills already and some models have me getting a lot more now. Warragamba dam will...

Kevin Rudd turned out to be a terrible leader. Seems he was a 'control freak'. Wouldn't work as a team, couldn't organise his staff. Had hilarious hissy fits. His party couldn't wait to throw the little nerd out and replace him with Julia. He must realise he won't have anywhere the numbers to...

Might pay to watch this last few minutes. Great ending coming up. See ya's.