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Further to my earlier post re a grape oversupply; A large Winery Group with a huge premises just 'up the road' (massive expansion of facilities only completed about 3 years ago) from here recently announced that it was making offers to quite a few of its contracted Growers to buy back their contract...

Now, for the erk who dropped a pop rivet mandrel in a Harrier intake causing me to eject some sorties later - a different finding...

Drummed out of the service?

50 years Jankers?

Fined the cost of the A/C?

My first Car was a brand new TA22 1974 Toyota Celica with the 1600 OHV engine. That engine lasted nearly 10 years and was replaced by a used 1600 DOHC engine which did about 80,000km before being completely rebuilt with 3/4 racing Camshafts. Suspension had previously been upgraded to a Race/Rally se...

The munitions factories in NATO countries are going to be busy from next week! (I heard from someone who works in one of these places that they have been working flat out until recently, then it all went a bit quiet). For the last few years it has been almost impossible to obtain Pistol powders fro...

Former colleague, old gliding mate of Pinky, Ah yes; Jan Coolhaas! Not so much an old Gliding mate but to me he was Mr Coolhaas! After all, he was a good 30 or so years older than me! I still have the scoreboard nameplate of his from the '72/73 (?) National Gliding Competitions when he was flying a...

TV news here in South Australia showed footage of the floods and then a very brief interview with someone supposedly from the Dubai Bureau of Meteorology ( or whatever it is called there) explaining how Cloud Seeding is occasionally used and how it works. The News footage then cut to some 'Climate E...

Likewise from me FD2. A glass of a Barossa Red being raised in your direction this very minute.

Love that one, Woody, but what does concern me a bit is that someone, somewhere, is stupid enough to believe that photo is genuine!

I have learned over the years never to underestimate the depths of Human stupidity!

I think the guys who shot down Doodlebugs used to record them separately from aircraft.

They did.

Vielen danke, k3k3.

Far far better than Australia could!!! I can remember quite a few years ago a Defence expert (or some Politician; really cannot remember exactly) stating that the Australian Defence Forces (at that time) could not defend Australia from an invasion of Filipino Boy Scouts! :)) I doubt that the situat...

A suggestion to Admin1; Maybe move the 'First Car....' to its own thread?

I would suggest that a few 'interesting' posts might be made...

There was a particularly nasty shooting at a school, here, on tuesday. A 12 year old shot and killed one other 12 year old and severely wounded two other 12 year olds. The pistol belonged to a close relation, father?, and the dead child is? a relation. The news tonight implied that society has fail...

Iran doesn't want to escalate to a full war

Because they know that they'd have their arses thoroughly kicked, or???

I suspect that the answers are varied and complicated.

Late on Parade as usual but bleated Happies to Probes and 1DC.

Glasses of Red raised in your directions!!

Seemed to be in an inverted flat spin.

I think Putin will look to find the flimsiest link to somehow implicate Ukraine. Apparently doing precisely that it seems. 8-| Claims that when apprehended, some of the alleged shooters were headed for Ukraine. I do wonder though, just how many ordinary Russian Citizens will swallow that. :-? I'm c...

Those will be the final posts from bob2s and Fox3WheresMyBanana.

The Funerals will be held on a day to be advised. I'm told that the Coffins will be closed.


(The above shamelessly pinched from elsewhere)

PHXPhlyer; Re your DIY innovation post; It's hardly a new invention. Something virtually identical was devised and used by some members of the Australian Army at Gallipoli in 1915.

Cannot view it probes, as it wants me to disable my Adblocker and/or sign in. Re Putin's massive 'win'; Saw on the SBS TV news here in South Australia some brief interviews with voters here in Australia and one bloke, with a fairly broad Aussie accent say that ..."Putin is the saviour of the West.."...