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The Antipodees.
Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
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Last post Re: Standard of English as it…
by PHXPhlyer View the latest post Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
Somewhere called Europe
Might have some relevance to a few
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21 Topics

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Last post Re: Greece, specifically sail…
by Ex-Ascot View the latest post Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
The New World
Probably not that new now.
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by Cacophonix View the latest post Tue May 09, 2017 1:08 pm
Effrika
Nice place if it wasn't for some of the locals
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by OneHungLow View the latest post Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:40 pm

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Only in Effrika

Last post by OneHungLow « Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:40 pm
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by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:36 pm
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This amused me just now; :))

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South African Company Producing New COIN Aircraft

The first Mwari surveillance and precision strike aircraft, originally known as the AHRLAC, has...
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Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:40 pm
Fire in Johannesburg today...

Last post by Woody « Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:47 am
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by OneHungLow » Thu Aug 31, 2023 11:38 am

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A t least 73 people have died - including seven children - in a Johannesburg building fire.

More than 50 others were injured.

Officials say it is...

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The site of the fire in Johannesburg, which left 73 people dead at last count on Thursday, started out as the Central Pass Office, which rigidly...

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Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:47 am
Moremi Air Prang

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:19 pm
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by Ex-Ascot » Wed Feb 20, 2019 3:29 pm

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Relax Cape. Understand that they plonked an Airvan in this morning. Statistics balanced. First since the tragic AKD in 2011. Seems no one hurt.

For...

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Major Blue have had their license withdrawn, Not that upset they are a Injun setup who arrived here with mega dosh and announced that they were going...

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Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:19 pm
Burning donkey cart issues in SA.

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by OneHungLow » Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:24 pm

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Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:24 pm
Farewell Bree Street Johannesburg.

Last post by OneHungLow « Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:43 pm
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by OneHungLow » Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:33 am

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Enough to make poor old Lillian Ngoyi turn in her grave.

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A panicked WhatsApp message from the Johannesburg...

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Allows for some ironic humour...

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Sun Jul 23, 2023 7:43 pm
Shark bites boat!

Last post by OneHungLow « Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm

by OneHungLow » Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm

Moment shark bites and begins to deflate boat full of tourists off South Africa coast!

The moment a shark bit and deflated a boat off the coast of...

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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Jul 15, 2023 3:55 pm
South African cheetahs fare badly in India.

Last post by OneHungLow « Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm

by OneHungLow » Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm

Another wild life scheme fiasco in the making.

India has lost its seventh cheetah since the start of an ambitious translocation project that aims...

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Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:13 pm
The British Empire in Africa

Last post by OFSO « Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:30 pm
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by OneHungLow » Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:35 pm

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I thoroughly enjoy these colonial vignettes and anecdotes and so I thought I might share this site with those who happen to find themselves alone and...

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OneHung, thanks for that post. An enjoyable read....

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Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:30 pm
African humour...

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by TheGreenAnger » Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm

Don't f@$% with the Sangoma!

In the great days of the British Empire, a new commanding officer was sent to a South African bush outpost to relieve...

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Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:12 pm
Greece, specifically sailing the Saronic Gulf.

Last post by Ex-Ascot « Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
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by G~Man » Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:12 pm

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Ahoy mateys.... and anyone else who knows Greece, @Mrs Ex-Ascot & @Ex-Ascot maybe....?

I am leading another flotilla of sailing catamarans in the...

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Sorry but we are Agean. Think RiS is your very best bet.

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Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:31 am
Oil, coups, misery and power struggles in Africa...

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm

by TheGreenAnger » Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm

PBS documentary on the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004.

Some scenes may be distressing. Well worth watching though. It sums up the...

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Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:06 pm
Always a laugh...

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Tue Aug 09, 2022 12:00 pm
SA Winery Ducks

Last post by TheGreenAnger « Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:21 am
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by PHXPhlyer » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:19 pm

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How duck 'soldiers' became this 300-year-old winemaker's secret weapon

(CNN) — South Africa's viniculture industry employs around 270,000...

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Vergenoegd Löw produce some fines wines and the ducks are very cute to behold. Well worth a visit if you are in that neck of the woods.

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Last post by TheGreenAnger
Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:21 am
Standard of English as it is in NZ

Last post by PHXPhlyer « Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
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by prospector » Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:36 am

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Was not aware we had this Department

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Dear Puzzled,
This was the original headline in the article:
Department of Conversation investigating after dolphin found beheaded on South Auckland...

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Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:20 pm
Careful, They'll be After Your Farts Next

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by PHXPhlyer » Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm

New Zealand to price sheep and cow burps to cut greenhouse gases
The proposal would make New Zealand, a large agricultural exporter, the first...

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Last post by PHXPhlyer
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:40 pm
This will have China really worried!!!

Last post by bob2s « Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
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by prospector » Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:20 am

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New Zealand must send strong signal to Pacific over China - Defence Minister Peeni Henare

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This Prme Minister has let the lure of Chinese money into his or other pockets blind him to response he will receive from the indigenous people in...

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Last post by bob2s
Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:03 pm
False passports, but not a problem for these folk

Last post by Pontius Navigator « Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
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by prospector » Tue Sep 14, 2021 4:58 am

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:-\

A man who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka has been granted refugee status in...

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Sounds like a bunch of savages.

When I was there in 1973 a newspaper report included ran amok with a machete of a Maori on the funicular railway...

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Last post by Pontius Navigator
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:26 am
Denel staggers on!

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:16 pm
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by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:15 pm

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Terry Crawford-Browne
The ANC and its militarist hangers-on just would not listen when it became glaringly evident during the 1994/95 Cameron...

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Who woulda thunk this back in the 70's...

A seven-strong group of SA Air Force (SAAF) pupil pilots working on aviation skills including piloting...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:16 pm
Sailing in Croatia---any advice

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:52 am
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by G~Man » Thu Sep 05, 2019 5:43 pm

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I figured I would ask the learned masses of Ops-Normal, as I am sure some will be able to point me in the right direction. I did ask on the other...

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And that's why I don't have a super yacht or a helicopter. :((

PP

Not much point in having a Superyacht in Arizona, well not before the...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:52 am
Never let it be said we do not learn from others mistakes

Last post by prospector « Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm

by prospector » Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm

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Among Europe’s dirtiest: ‘Green’ biomass power plant in Yorkshire burning ‘renewable’ wood emits MORE CO2 than UK’s coal – report...

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Last post by prospector
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:14 pm
Annecy

Last post by G-CPTN « Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:41 am
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by reddo » Sat Jul 10, 2021 7:09 pm

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Flew to Annecy yesterday. It's near Geneva. Interesting terrain around the place. Small airport. A lovely little FBO with that delightful personal...

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What I know of Annecy is that it was the home town of the French family with a daughter that I met during a caravan holiday in 1959 at Carshalton in...

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Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:41 am
Suprise revelations on Bob Hawke activities

Last post by prospector « Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am

by prospector » Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am

‘People’s PM’ Bob Hawke’s slavish service to US intelligence shows Australia has never been independent, let alone a democracy

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Last post by prospector
Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:08 am
In and out of Africa

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:30 am
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by Undried Plum » Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:44 pm

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John Barry did such a brilliant job with Born Free that it was inevitable that he would be chosen to write the score for Out Of Africa....

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One of my favourite pieces of music from one of my favourite films from an era in African history I find totally fascinating.

John Barry was a...

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:30 am
Pan African Parliament chaos...

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:00 am
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by TheGreenGoblin » Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:06 am

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So much for African unity!

Scuffles broke out during a meeting of the African Union parliament on Monday, as a week-long debate over the election...

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I sometimes wonder just how many of the NR Population who celebrated the end of White rule now secretly wish that the Whites were back in power. :-?

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:00 am
Some Local Excitememnt With a Happy Ending.

Last post by Pinky the pilot « Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:57 am
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by ian16th » Fri May 14, 2021 10:01 am

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A recovery project in the making!

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If you broke it, you didn't get to go home until you fixed it.

Yers!! Like the time I was once on a strip the wrong side of the Owen Stanley...

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Last post by Pinky the pilot
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:57 am

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