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@Cbdave glad to see your message. Hope you have power and not too much damage. Stay safe and Viva la Mud Army and all those who saw a way they could help and did. Lismore was terrifying, so quick too. You are right, no point blaming the government, just gotta roll up our sleeves and get it done.

Nope .... waiting on today's, hoping Cbdave has dry feet and power where he is.

I used gum to get me through the first few months...after the first few weeks every second gum I'd just have a normal one instead...

Watching a tribute to John Landy, former State Governor, 2nd Person to break the 4 minute mile, world record holder, Olympic Gold Medalists and the star of the greatest Aussie sport moment ever. Passed yesterday at 91. VALE. This bloke was one of geros growing up. We were always told about him regardless, of the sport I competed in, when we're were being taught sportsmanship. @Cbdave keepin all you mob north of the boarder, and the cockroaches, in my thoughts and hoping the rain eases soon.

Meanwhile, from the future, it's Satdee 26 Feb, so in honour of @Boo's furbasy's namesakes birthday ..... yeah, yeah I know I said only Aussies this year, but it's a song about an Aussie...so there.

Lost an Aussie Music Legend today... probably better known for his manager skills than his prowess on the bass (although he was voted Aussie bass player of the year in 71) .... RIP Glenn Weatley... And no tribute would be complete without thanking him for mortgaging his house so his mate and client John Farnham could record the album that gave us the greatest Aussie song ever ...

Meanwhile, Down under ..... Happy Straya Day! Just to clarify, in the words of my Yorta Yorta mate Jase who's barbie I'm off to today.... we aren't frickin celebrating an invasion or the arrival of the brits but celebrating our bitsa society where we've mixed the best of everything for the awesomeness that we all are together. So about 15 of us are off to see a mate from Malaysia and his family take their citizenship and then we'll be off to the bbq for an international feast, some back yard cricket and possibly avround of goon of fortune. @Cbdave not sure if you've heard this 1 but today's the day for it...

Oh....blackberries in summer, climbing through the bracken ferns to get to the ferral blackberry bushes while staying at my Great Aunties house...she would make blackberry jam and then a batch of scones to eat it with, lecturing us the whole time not to go near the blackberry bushes cos that's where the snakes are.... Isn't it fun, when you think about these things you can feel the burn of the Sun through your tshirt and you can smell the eucalyptus on the air....it's like a time travel or is that just me.

I'm here.

Today my happy food memory is Lime Spiders..... a glass of lime softdrink with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.... makes me think of summer holidays on my uncles farm crowding into the kitchen to get a treat.... remembering putting on advocates concerts with the cousins, being torchered with bugs and spiders and lizards and snakes by the same cousins so getting an extra scoop to make up for having to put up with the boys all day.

So was off in the music thread sharing some Aussie music when the name of a band triggered a whole series of happy food memories...although in this case it's a drink. 5hen I got thinking about how some foods just make you feel happy when you eat them or think about them. So what's yours and why...

@Steven Drojensky my first memory of the Saints is being crammed into the boot of my uncles panel van with 4 other kids they were supposed to be babysitting driving to the beach and my uncle saying "now kids, this is music, listen, learn" ....sound track of my childhood. Also in those early days of panel van trips to the beach my soundtrack included Radio Birdman... And The Limespiders .... Now I want a lime spider....mmmm yummo

Right...had to hunt down this t model ford bloke cos his video were blocked...yep worth the research, pointed in the right direction by @Boo yet again. Now for some more Aussie flavour..

7. Poke holes in the top, fill with grass and use it to store the frogs, lizards or snails you spend the day catching. Hot Tip from experience: snails can eat their way out, just saying.

3. Use it to store your sticky tape and ribbons for wrapping.

8. Write a 'honey do' task for the kid and leave stuck to the telly screen so she doesn't miss it.

4. Leave passive aggressive notes all over the windscreen for shitty/inconsiderate parkers.

10.... cut the top of, decorate it with permos (perminant markers/ sharpies), pop a tealight in and have a fancy silhouette candle holder... Here are some I prepared earlier...(we'll 2litre and 3 litre bottles ... but same shit different bucket and all that) So what's 10things you cando with a Post It?

Popping in from the office to say to @Kris be kinder to yourself chooky. The first year is hard for many of us, some get lucky and quitting is easy, like flicking a switch....some get it really hard and it's stop start stop start very heavy slug BUT most of us fall somewhere in the middle. Every day you don't smoke you win. 1 step at a time, 1 day at a time and I promise you at least one of us here has felt exactly the same as you have at 1 stage in their quit.... you got this...trust yourself look how much you have achieved. @jillar wot can I say, Birdie is just a ditz..probably gets it from me. @Doreensfree... hoping fir a full and quick recover soon for them both. the summer storms have been wild this year, had to pull over on the freeway the other night because I couldn't see and cars were aqua planeing. Let me just say I was not comfy at all sitting in Emergency last night...I could just feel those little covid fruckers crawling all over me.

It's bin a while... but naughty naughty ( o ) ( o ) Yes I am a teenage boy

@Doreensfree ... omg how are Nicky and Chris weren't laid up too bad and are on the mend. Work is pretty good as they are supplying anyone going into the office with RA tests, so have a daily test pretty much.

Drinking a cuppa. So the kid has a broken foot. Plaster for the height of summer, what joy. Funniest Irish doctor who spent the whole time telling the kid how much she loved her name and ranga hair. And then her nurse was a scouser...was like having Doreen to look after us. They were taking bets on what the X-rays result would be. So for the Americans in the room....X-rays, plaster, some nice pain killers and a set of crutches.... cost $40 (Aussie money, so about $30 us) and that was only because I opted to buy the crutches. Social health ain't an evil thing my friends.

So right now, I'm sitting with said kid in the emergency room waiting for her to get an xray... why you ask? Because she thought jumping up and down on a foot that was asleep and numb to "wake it up" was a good idea... no so much now.