1993 Hmmm, that was the year before my old employer made me redundant because of my age. :-)
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Out of curiosity Theo, how old ARE you?
I'm not old, some younger people with an improper perspective think I am. My dad is still vigorous at 92. Two of his children are pensioners, I'm the third child at 63. I think I'm fitter than my 41 yo son. I ride my bicycle and my motorcycle and fight bushfires for recreation. Went to a fire yesterday, in the rain, and got soaked through.
1993 Hmmm, that was the year before my old employer made me redundant because of my age. :-)
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Out of curiosity Theo, how old ARE you?
I'm not old, some younger people with an improper perspective think I am. My dad is still vigorous at 92. Two of his children are pensioners, I'm the third child at 63. I think I'm fitter than my 41 yo son. I ride my bicycle and my motorcycle and fight bushfires for recreation. Went to a fire yesterday, in the rain, and got soaked through.
Theo
They burnt of a big area of bush between Collie and Wellington dam the other night when we had -6 degrees. I saw two fire trucks heading out in the evening. I'm sure they did it just to stay warm and I can imagine them stoking it up a bit as the temperature dropped.
"Bleve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I noticed that when I first moved over there. Freaky. Do they still turn off the streetlights at 1am and have fatcat tell the kids to go to bed at 7:30? 🙂
LOL...nothing's changed. Except for the fact that the Fatcat promo is even more psychedelic than in 1993.
When I first saw it I thought it was some pisstake promo for a generic sketch comedy show.
The cold mornings in the last few days have finally motivated me to install the pot-belly in the shed. Works great. Now I have the pot-belly at one end of the shed and the evap air-con at the other. Why do I need the house?
The cold mornings in the last few days have finally motivated me to install the pot-belly in the shed. Works great. Now I have the pot-belly at one end of the shed and the evap air-con at the other. Why do I need the house?
So in 2 years when I plan to bicycle from Perth through the Goldfields and on to Alice Springs, I suppose I have to bring BOTH Canadian Army down filled sleeping bags with me so that I will be nice and comfortable. Here I use those bags when it gets to -40C, but when there is no snow to make a quinzee for sleeping accommodations I guess my tent will not be good enough to entrap any heat at all. I won't bother asking about the humidity. In the arctic it is DRY when it is cold. I doubt it is "dry" in an Australian "winter". Ken Winnipeg, Canada
So in 2 years when I plan to bicycle from Perth through the Goldfields and on to Alice Springs, I suppose I have to bring BOTH Canadian Army down filled sleeping bags with me so that I will be nice and comfortable. Here I use those bags when it gets to -40C, but when there is no snow to make a quinzee for sleeping accommodations I guess my tent will not be good enough to entrap any heat at all. I won't bother asking about the humidity. In the arctic it is DRY when it is cold. I doubt it is "dry" in an Australian "winter".
Here's a forecast for Alice Springs, for the next 10,000 years.
So in 2 years when I plan to bicycle from Perth through the Goldfields and on to Alice Springs, I suppose I have to bring BOTH Canadian Army down filled sleeping bags with me so that I will be nice and comfortable. Here I use those bags when it gets to -40C, but when there is no snow to make a quinzee for sleeping accommodations I guess my tent will not be good enough to entrap any heat at all. I won't bother asking about the humidity. In the arctic it is DRY when it is cold. I doubt it is "dry" in an Australian "winter".
Here's a forecast for Alice Springs, for the next 10,000 years.
Hot.
Not so, about a week ago I noticed that they had -2 degrees. So obviously it does get cool out there. In fact I just checked then at
The cold mornings in the last few days have finally motivated me to install the pot-belly in the shed. Works great. Now I have the pot-belly at one end of the shed and the evap air-con at the other. Why do I need the house?
Had a wet fog at minus 4 in Canberra last week. That was pretty cold riding and the wet stuff turned to ice on glasses which is no fun.
Unless you have different physics in Canberra, the wet fog was not at minus 4.
Theo
We had a bizarre cold, foggy day that week. It was minus 1 at 12:00pm and heaps of fog. You'd call it fog cos that's what it looked like but it was slightly more solid than fog (whatever the hell that means!). Someone reported snow as they drove to work but it turns out it was this extremely thick ice/fog that was hanging in the air.
On 2006-06-20, Bleve (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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Ken Pisichko said:
So in 2 years when I plan to bicycle from Perth through the Goldfields and on to Alice Springs, I suppose I have to bring BOTH Canadian Army down filled sleeping bags with me so that I will be nice and comfortable. Here I use those bags when it gets to -40C, but when there is no snow to make a quinzee for sleeping accommodations I guess my tent will not be good enough to entrap any heat at all. I won't bother asking about the humidity. In the arctic it is DRY when it is cold. I doubt it is "dry" in an Australian "winter".
Here's a forecast for Alice Springs, for the next 10,000 years.
Hot.
Except for night time, when the forecast is:
Cold.
-- TimC I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like. - Freddy Mercury
On 2006-06-20, Friday (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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Which reminds me of Shane Digney that used to ride down that same hill on his motorbike. Shane was one of Australia top underwater hockey players
Underwater hockey?
The ball couldn't go very fast under water because of water viscosity, shirley? That would be a boring game; more boring than rugby.
They use a 1 kg lead puck (or similar), with sticks that are probably about 10 cm long to push it around. Players wear a snorkel, fins, and mask, but no wetsuit.
Originally, the sport was created to help divers with their lung capacity and air conservation.
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On 2006-06-20, Friday (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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Which reminds me of Shane Digney that used to ride down that same hill on his motorbike. Shane was one of Australia top underwater hockey players
Underwater hockey?
The ball couldn't go very fast under water because of water viscosity, shirley? That would be a boring game; more boring than rugby.
They use a 1 kg lead puck (or similar), with sticks that are probably about 10 cm long to push it around. Players wear a snorkel, fins, and mask, but no wetsuit.
Originally, the sport was created to help divers with their lung capacity and air conservation.
It's also known as Octopush too 🙂
Some pools don't allow it as the squid (as the 'puck' is called) can damage pool tiles when it's played enthusiastically.
Karen
-- "I'd far rather be happy than right any day." - Slartibartfast
The cold mornings in the last few days have finally motivated me to install the pot-belly in the shed.
Does that mean you're staying in the shed until it's warmer out, or that you're planning to lose weight because you're reminded The Tour is coming up? :-)
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I was actually warmer riding to work this morning in Melbourne than yesterday (nice to rug up rather than poking my head out the door and going 'oh, it is not too cold today and not putting on enough gear). brrr.
"Graeme Dods" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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DeF said:
I know it's nothing to you Melbournites, Tasites and ACTites but it was a cold weekend for riding in Perth this weekend. We had a record low of -0.9 in the City.
Ah, so that's why I thought it was a little nippy when I got up the other morning. My brother in law was going on as if he was about to drop dead from hypothermia. I just stuck a t-shirt on under my shirt and felt fine. The locals are just soft! ;-)
