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My shout for a Crown as the General leaves the building…

January 19th, 2005

General Peter Cosgrove will not be renewing his contract in July 2005. I have much respect for the man inside the Uniform.
I will miss his wisdom, judgment and compassion.
Not least of all for statements such as this,

“We should not rush off on jingoistic sentiments or warped ideas of mateship and the ANZAC spirit. Those ideas are true. But they are outcomes. They are not motives. So our decisions as a nation to go to war must be the most serious we ever take. Only when the decision is irrevocable and accepted, let then the people perform to the ANZAC spirit which is uniquely Australian and compounds our effect wherever we appear. But let’s not ever use that as the reason to put on khaki.”

…and who will post into the position?
Air force blue should be the next leading colour…
Probably Air Chief Marshal Houston.

Image from here

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Thank you…

January 6th, 2005

..I’d like to thank my partner, the girl-child, Rantzalot (Sir), my father, my mother, my step-mother, my sister and brothers, my grand-mother, Mrs. Woods from grade 4 (who helped flash up my English), my
oops, wrong scrap of paper
..to all and any who nominated me and my opinions for an award.

…and the winner is my bloggalactic hero BARISTA!

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Paper money thanks, me back’s buggered…

January 5th, 2005

For some time, I was based in and around Darwin, Northern Territory.
While there, I purchased and lived on five acres of ‘virgin’ bush in what was known as Kakadu Stage 3. If anyone knows the area, it was Sunter Road, Humpty Doo.

This was a most beautiful, quiet and remote wilderness.

Nobody paid their rates to the Litchfield Shire Council, because the locals had the idea that you have to provide something to charge a fee!
I can recall one typical local, usually at the Humpty Doo Hotel saying,

"You don’t even grade the bloody road (note singular), I’m not paying any bloody rates"

These are uncomplicated, hardworking, honest, good people and Allan Brooks is one such character.
Of his wheelbarrow odyssey, Allan was quoted as saying,