I'd favour cacelling any scores by North in that period. It is their responsibility to get their player management right regardless of technical and procedural debate above.

https://www.google.com/search?q=real+estate+valuers+adelaide

When my first wife and I parted we paid half each for a formal valuation on the basis I'd buy her out at that valuation.
She thought it was low and paid all by herself for a second valuation which was lower then the first.
She wasn't amused when I suggested we use her valuation...

The alternative is to sell and split the net proceeds. I'd be inclined to not prolong ther tension by doing the renos and just get it over with.

Greetings from Wallerawang NSW. Never heard of the place before agreeing to drop in on relatives of my lady on our way to Sydney...

Motel is pretty good and had a nice rump steak and fairly good though inexpensive bottle of Pinot Gris at the local pub. Systmn is pick it out at bottle shop price and pay $3.00 corkage for the glasses in the restaurant,

On top of the recent trip to Sydney I mentioned in the Travel thread,we are off to Melbourne to see friends of mine after Xmas, Brisbane in January to see my fiancee's sister, a contract medical job in Tassie for February/March, probable contract job in WA in June/July, then getting married in early November and then off to NZ for a few weeks.

Semi-retirement makes for a busy life...

There's some quality on social media, isn't there?

Fraser Anning uses tax payer money to attend Neo-Nazi rally

"He's a racist, he's supporting Nazi's and he shouldn't have used taxpayer money"

"What about SHY, she used taxpayer money to see whales with her daughter and she's fat"
The extreme right and left clash via social media. It's honestly a call to arms for all our problems in politics.

Both cases should not have used tax payer funds. It's Bronwyn Bishop all over again.
Yeah, I don't think opposing a neo nazi really could really be described as extreme left.
We have consensus here!

Can’t vouch for Furphy as a session beer, 99% of my drinking is just a pint or two at the pub, or sitting with a cold one when I get home from work on a hot day, so for what I need them for they go down well. Hollandia or Coopers Lager if I’m having a big day on the piss
I tried Furphy and Iron Jack while flying Tiger to and from Brisbane recently.
Not excited by either.

I have some Sapporo in my fridge at present which I like better.
We spent a week up there. in a nice apartment near Eagle Pier (at the Oaks) at a good "lastminute" price to visit my fiancee's sister who is a TV journo there..

Remembering my password to this site it's been a while
Me too, since my engagement.

I'm getting married again in November (I'll have just turned 76 by then) , and my fiancee's involvment in the theatre scene has filled my life up a bit. I was just recently in a play myself, playing a drunken, aggressive, self made, millionaire investing in a winery.

However, my log in is saved under a master password in Firefox, and so I don't have to remeber it.

The guests are an interesting mix. I had no children so just a few friends and a few close cousins at my end.
The rest are her connections; a few politicians, various local and interstate TV industry people, and theatre people - actors and directors.

PS: I recently had a go at appearing on stage as a drunken, pushy, millionaire interested in investing in a winery, in an internal play rehearsal for a new play being considered for production. (She cheekily said I was "type cast". I had to spank her for that!)

Bum Crack wrote: Pass on my regards to Ruth Cracknell and Brian Wenzel for me mate.

Don't know them, bur we did visit Ian Fairweather at Pearl Beach just before Christmas, and Rob Kelvin is my best man.

2020 - after getting married a couple of weeks ago, and doing a cruise around NZ in the next couple of weeks.

2020 starts with Brisbane for a week in January, working in Grafton for 11 weeks in May/ June/July, and planning to then take off to Vancouver to stay with a friend there, and come back via Hawaii, then on the horizon we are looking at a proposed cruise around PNG with a friend (and his wife) who was a field officer there before he became a TV Journalist here.

Psyber , interested in your thoughts on :

The response by Morrison at a Federal level -

The response by Marshall at a State level -

The way SA Health has handled the event -

COVID-19 and the risks it poses to the community -

If you could offer 1000 words or less I'd appreciate it.

TIA.

Personally, looking at it from a purely medical viewpoint, I'd have leaned toward an earlier and tighter response locking things down sooner, but I can see (from the people I know I've seen ignoring the policies) that there is a need to play on human Psychology and sell the community the requirements a bit more gradually.

I don't know enough about national Economics to be sure about the financial policies, but it makes some sense to try to prop things up in the shorter term in the hope of a quicker bounce back. However, I think things being fine in 6 months is a bit optomistic. Morrison seems to be handling the selling of reasonable compromises gradually well, but Marshall has been a bit on the back foot compared to the Victorian and Tasmanian Premiers. Still he is not a very outgoing personality, though pleasant enough to talk to, and he may be wise to let his Ministers take the spotlight. SA Health is doing reasonably well given we have not been prepared for a possible crisis for a long time, with successive governments pruning the health budget for years and assuming nothing can go wrong.. go wrong...

COVID-19 is a serious concern given its capacity to spread rapidly even before symptoms are manifest, and the lack of any endemic immunity in the community, though its fatality is relatively low in most of the population compared with some of the new virus strains over the last few years - obviously as someone in the vulnerable age group I'm taking it seriously, and I note even children are dying in some locations.

Singapore has done a good job.

I've downloaded the app, and will delete it when things settle down. In the meantime I don't care what they get off my phone as there is never anything that would worry me on it. I tidy it up regularly anyway. I don't use the phone for financial transactions as I prefer to do that via a computer I know is secure becaause I check and clean it every weekend. (I used to be a partner in an IT business iin Melbourne.)

I don't use Facebook etc. and I closed down LinkedIn after too many past patients started trying to contact me via that.

Many years ago I was interviewed by ASIO after my written correspondence with the Russian Embassy - about their health system and economic history - my then wife was studying Economic history at Uni.

I was quite cheerful about being interviewed and curious about what they were focussed on. The ASIO guy and I met and had a frank but civil discussion for about an hour, shook hands and parted on good terms.

I like this one.

My Oppo A 73 cost me $299 outright, unlocked, and is dual SIM plus has a slot for an SD card. My previous phone was an HTC which still works fine (and has a replaceable battery), but I wanted the better camera the Oppo offered. Apropos service providers. My experience is that Telstra and Optus offer the best coverage and that which is best depends on where you are. For example, in the Grafton region this time last year Optus seemed better than a co-workers Telstra service.

Using a second tier provider (like Amaysim) that operates through Telstra or Optus seems to mean your calls and texts get lower priority and may drop out or be delayed in high demand times of the day.

I agree that while the $40K grant for building a new home may be useful the $25K for a minumum $150K reno is pointless and unnecesary.
As a member, I have written to the party to say so...

Protesters must self-isolate, says AMA chief

Liz Main
The head of the peak body representing Australian doctors says any person who attended Black Lives Matter rallies over the weekend should self-quarantine for two weeks.

“No matter how much hand sanitiser, no matter much the masks were being worn, for those periods of time there is a risk of the virus passing," Dr Tony Bartone, President of the Australian Medical Association, told 3AW this morning.

“If everyone was wanting to keep the rest of the community safe, anyone who attended those rallies really should stay home and keep away from the rest of the community for at least two weeks.

“More importantly, if they develop any symptoms they need to get tested immediately.”

Dr Bartone said people should also keep in mind they may have the virus but be asymptomatic.

scare mongering at its finest, ffs open up business and sports 100%
Steven Marshall is fast tracking himself out as the premier. There is no coming back from these draconian restrictions now
There is no gain in scare-mongering for either of those medical people.

They are not politicians trying to win elections or get groups on side, and Tony Bartone is not paid by anyone to head the AMA. He is a practising doctor whose own income is likely to have been reduced by those people with general medical issues putting of going to their GPs and specialists to avoid the risk of catching CV at the surgery. ( I also know about "not paid" from times when I was treasurer of a medical specialist college and later its rep on the AMA-SA council and from recent phone discussion with Chris Moy who heads the AMA-SA branch currently.)

Medical newsletters and journals are full of concern about increased seriousneess of heart problems and diabetes issues because people are putting off their routine check ups.

We are not yet guaranteed safe as there may well be undiagnosed sufferers out there who can spread it as soon as we start getting over-excited and careless about spread. Caution makes sense.

Something else I noticed more this round was how 'matey' everyone is on the field.
I'm all for good sportsmanship, but gees I miss genuine dislike between teams.
It is a money earning industry and basically they are all members of the same very successful union, but I guess they could remember to pretend to hate each other like in the old non-professional days, when the club mattered more than the pay packet.
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5% wow, which orifice are you pulling that from?
i think youve swallowed the fear pill from the MSM.
There is no guarentee that a positive test is even covid, the test cant distinguish between covid and other viruses.
Ill say it again you dont even know you have it unless you get tested. What does that tell you?
Is there anyone in Hospital at the moment from all those cases in Victoria or are they just isolating at home or in hotels?
So if you are right why do you think both the Libs and Labor are backing the restrictions at a huge cost to the economy and to their own popularity?

Also, the medical information I've seen on AMA and other medical research sites does not support your claim that the tests cannot tell CV-19 from the other CV strains. I suspect youve been reading the nutter proclamations from anti-vaxers and anti-5G campaigners. Admittedly no test is 100% reliable and they never have been, but you have to look at the overall picture.

It is true some people have it and don't get severe enough symptoms to need hospitalisation, or even treatment, but then I have immunity from Mumps and Chicken pox without ever knowingly suffering from them (before the vaccines for them were available) because their effect on me was so mild. On the other hand the Asian 'Flu from the late 1950s left me semi-conscious and hallucinating with a temperature of 41C plus. (108F) for 10 days, and I was lucky to not die or be left brain damaged then.

daysofourlives wrote:i dont want to the bearer of bad news to you all, but someday you are all going to die thats the cycle, accept it or not.

I'm still working on surviving until I can get a new young body cloned and my memories transferrred!

Another man in his 90's gone, "with" Covid not "of" but the sheep dont notice these words and carry on projecting fear. What odds a man in his 90s dying?
Its almost as though they are testing to get the numbers up to create the fear. Majority of people testing positive are at home going about their business with a sniffle. I have no doubt the rest of the country will have its 2nd wave

There is no gain to a government in generating a panic for no reason. It is costing money and will make it hard to win elections by launching a generous budget in the next election year. It is true that most people get only a minor ilness but, if you want to take the cynical or paranoid position , the big concern for politicians and the bureaucracy may be that the numbers needing inpatient care while they recover will exceed bed availability in hospitals and make the government look incompetent to the general public, not the actual number of deaths. And younger people do die too - just in lower numbers.

In reality, the common humanity is that nobody should be just written off and left to die, regardless of the statistics. Preserving all lives matters. That is what is driving the concern. Personally I expect that as my general health is good - no heart or lung problems - I would only get a mild illness from the CV-19 too, but I'm not interested in gambling on that. Nor would I be if I were only 25 - there is no point in telling yourself there is NO risk at any age.

On top of that, we older people are not all liabilities at death's door and ready to be written off casually. My cousin in Dubbo was still actively running his farm himself at 96 and has only recently gone to stay with one of his daughters and her family having paid their house off for them.

They are "ex" for a reason, just smile and wave, it really annoys them when they can't annoy you.

True enough.
My first wife and I parted company in mid-1975 after 7 years of marriage, but kept running into each other in places where we had common interests.

First she was a bit snarky when I rolled up in my new 260Z, then when she saw me with the Israeli Army Sergeant (female) I was dating while she was in Oz for 3 months, and a few years later when I turned up in the dog pavilion at the Royal Show with the younger half-French girl who became my second wife. All that despite the fact the ex had moved in with a guy she eventually married only 3 months after we parted.

It even showed to her family - on one later occasion also at the Royal Show her sister said "Don't be snarky with my favorite ex brother in law!" and came over and kissed me.

The second wife lasted until she died in 2008 after 24 years together.

I met number 3 in 2014 and we married in November last year.

Apache, I agree there is a lot of bull going on in some media sources. It stirs things up and grabs attention and helps sell advertising. So you do have to be careful and a little sceptical interpreting it. However, that doesn't mean everything said in all the media or by government and medical officials is false. There is no realistic motivation for a national conspiracy to unnecessarily wreck the economy. Inconsistentcy may appear because even medical and statistical people will have differing views of how to interpret the raw data. Only time will clarify that.

I get the information I trust more from AMA and other medical publications, including those of my own medical specialist college, and am getting US medical data via Medscape. Locally the ABC seems to be fairly balanced and consistent with the majority medical sources. I'm looking at taking a medical locum placement in mid-September, but it will be in WA or northern Qld. I'd rather not work and not get paid than go to risky areas.

Virus strains all mutate and change as they go through populations, mostly to become milder forms because there is no benefit to them to killing the host and depending on fast transmission to survive, but genetic mutation is random and more toxic strains can emerge unpredictably.

Only one stat i rely on 93 to 95 % of WU HU FLU cases have mild symptoms and fully recover.
True, but a small percentage do die, and while it is mostly older people who have age related medical issues already it can also take out younger people who have medical issues that compromise their resistance. It is inhumane to disregard that even if the numbers are small.

Incidentally, having seen some information suggesting there had been leaks of earlier strains right back in December, I'm beginning to wonder whether the tracheo-bronchal infection I caught on my cruise in December may have been it. Certainly it was the worst upper respiratory tract infection I've had since childhood.

Unfortunately, the antibodies formed during infection to this type of virus tend not to stay in the body at detectable levels. So I can't have that checked at this late stage. My wife was screened for CV pre-surgery in mid-May and tested negative. (Surgeons are taking the risk of catching it from patients quite seriously.)

363 in Victoria today, 4 deaths.
Face masks compulsory in Melbourne and Mitchell Shire from midnight Wednesday. $200 fines for non compliance

So its so contagious you need a mask to stop the spread but to test for it they need to stick a swab up your nose nearly to your brain?
Something doesnt add up there.

Sterile swab held in gloves by a person wearing a mask, gloves, and gown. Once it has been up your nose it goes into a sterile tube that seals, and is opened at the lab by someone similarly protected.

363 in Victoria today, 4 deaths.
Face masks compulsory in Melbourne and Mitchell Shire from midnight Wednesday. $200 fines for non compliance

So its so contagious you need a mask to stop the spread but to test for it they need to stick a swab up your nose nearly to your brain?
Something doesnt add up there.

Sterile swab held in gloves by a person wearing a mask, gloves, and gown. Once it has been up your nose it goes into a sterile tube that seals, and is opened at the lab by someone similarly protected.

yes but why does it have to go so far up your nose? If its so contagious why not just a swab of the mouth?
Simple enough: to achieve accuracy...
A saliva test is not very accurate or reliable, and to be most accurate you need to sample the thick mucus up in the top of the nasal cavity. Usually the back of the throat is swabbed too to get a sample if the muck trickling down into the throat from the top of the nose at the back,

I think the offenders are individuals of marginal ethics whichever party they are in.
(Remember Rann's villa in Italy and the issue about work done on it there and SA money that went to the village coffers.)

Whoever they are there should be an independent investigation to determine whether it was criminality or stupidity.
Either could suggest unfitness for office...

For the CV sceptics and conspiracy theorists:
This comes from a Dutch research Institute and was published in a US based on line Medical Journal.
I've cut out all the most technical stuff to keep it shorter and comprehensible...

Source: Radboud University:
"Current observations suggest that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes severe symptoms mainly in elderly patients with chronic disease. However when two pairs of previously healthy young brothers from two families required mechanical ventilation at the intensive care unit in rapid succession, doctors and researchers at Radboud University Medical Center were inclined to consider that genetic factors had a key role in compromising their immune system. Their research identified the gene TLR7 as an essential player in the immune response against SARS-CoV-2. A finding with potentially major consequences for understanding and possibly treatment of COVID-19.
That search quickly revealed mutations in the gene encoding for the Toll-like receptor 7, TLR7 for short. There are multiple TLR-genes, which belong to a family of receptors with an important role in the recognition of pathogens (such as bacteria and viruses) and the activation of the immune system. Hoischen: “A few letters were missing in the genetic code of the TLR7 gene. As a result, the code cannot be read properly and hardly any TLR7 protein is produced. TLR7 function has so far never been associated with an inborn error of immunity. But unexpectedly we now have an indication that TLR7 is essential for protection from this coronavirus. So it seems that the virus can replicate undisturbed because the immune system does not get a message that the virus has invaded. Because TLR7, which must identify the intruder and subsequently activate the defence, is hardly present. That could be the reason for the severity of the disease in these brothers.”

Another 4 male patients had a mean age of 26 years (range, 21-32), with no history of major chronic disease. They were previously well before developing respiratory insufficiency due to severe COVID-19, requiring mechanical ventilation in the ICU. The mean duration of ventilatory support was 10 days (range, 9-11); the mean duration of ICU stay was 13 days (range, 10-16). One patient died. Rapid clinical whole-exome sequencing of the patients and segregation in available family members identified loss-of-function variants of the X-chromosomal TLR7. In members of family 1, a maternally inherited 4-nucleotide deletion was identified (c.2129_2132del; p.[Gln710Argfs*18]); the affected members of family 2 carried a missense variant (c.2383G>T; p.[Val795Phe]). In primary peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the patients, downstream type I interferon (IFN) signalling was transcriptionally down regulated, as measured by significantly decreased mRNA expression of IRF7, IFNB1, and ISG15 on stimulation with the TLR7 agonist imiquimod as compared with family members and controls. The production of IFN-γ, a type II IFN, was decreased in patients in response to stimulation with imiquimod."
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A friend sent me an mp4 of a US young woman asserting that there was no problem in the US except in the south where "all those Mexicans are constantly drinking Corona beer!"

Unfortunately the file is too big to post. I'm not sure whether she was serious or it was a send up, but if she wasn't serious it was good acting!

Hidden insanity:
A young man I know through family who seems a quiet and sensible type with a Certificate 4 in Aged Care, suddenly came out in conversation the other day with the belief that CV is a trick being used by Scott Morrison and his Hillside paedophile associates to take as all over and inject us with tracking and control chips.

Wow!! he had seemed to be perfectly sane. I'm not sure whether he has just been convinced by nutters on the socal media he uses, or whether he has always been marginally insane and hidden it well...

On the other hand - the aged and their dispensibility:
My new Mother-in-law is currently driving her Kia Sportage, running the boat she keeps at the Yacht Squadron, and planning her 90th birthday party for early next year. She is also just finished her term as President of her local Rotary Club.

Starting a leisurely 12 day drive up to Darwin via Uluru and Jabiru with friends, taking in all the key experiences on the way. Then 6 days in Darwin and fly back. Travel companions are a guy who owns an International law firm and has done the trip before when he used to represent mining companies in Oz, and his lady who runs his Belgium office and works as a travel agent on the side. ( She got stuck here while on a visit when CV hit, and he is now running the law company by Zoom.)

My wife who lived in Darwin for three years is contacting all her old mates who are still up there.
We have hired a large SUV we can drop off in Darwin for the drive.

Greetings from Katherine! Left Adelaide on September 20th via Woomera, and did the Katherine Gorge cruise today. We head for Jabiru for a few days tomorrow, then motor on to Darwin for 5 days. We hired a Honda Odyssey with a couple of friends, and will leave it with Hertz in Darwin and fly back. And bonus! - one of the other couple is a Belgian based travel agent and got us agent discounts on everything.

Love the trip and the Oddysey - stable responsive, and good fuel economy.
So far I haven't exceeded 160 kph and that was transient while passing a road train - generally sticking to official limits.

I just turned 77 on October 19th - a bit startling to consider, but I'm still fit and healthy and most of my hair is still brown.
My only issue is mild Osteoarthritis at the base of both thumbs - both dislocated at times in my youth - OA is a wear and tear issue.
I mentioned it to a tradie who was starting a job at my place on the day and he said, "Jeez you don't look a day over 50."

He's in my good books!

And so they should.

Unions are needed in certain industries. But if you ever have issues with your employer, most of the time Unions will just pass the buck to Fair Work Australia. From what Unions used to do, to what they do now are completely opposite. And I'd much prefer Unions worry about entitlements etc instead of Climate change ...

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I'd agree with that. I support unions that focus on the basic needs and welfare of the workers they represent rather than move dominantly into party politics and social values manipulation.

As a medical intern (in 1968) I supported SASMOA when it first formed opposing the rostering of young medicos on duty for up to 130 hours a week - not good for them or their patients!! In the end we won a ban on being rostered on more than 85 hours a week, and time and a quarter for anything over 50 hours. Not great but an improvement...

(It commenced in 1969 - it didn't help our lot much, but it did the next batch.)

When challenged at a hearing by a bureaucrat about the fact that beds were provided and we got to go to sleep while on duty, I said, "Yes, and I had a great night last night - I got to go to bed six times between call outs !"

On your own?

Yes all the nurses were run off their feet and exhausted too that night.
Though one did knock on my door another night - of course I acted appropriately in the circumstances...

Relieved Christmas is over. Nice to catch up but overwhelmed by a small horde of under 6 year olds.
Step-grand-parenting is not my bag!

I wish you all well for the New Year.
F***, this post threw me

Well I'm about to go through it again, but at least the horde are a little older and more settled...
(I'm inexperienced as I never had children of my own - that I know of anyway...)

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all.

Possibly not the right thread but

The smoke plume from the fire at Cherry Gardens whilst looking spectacular does not bode well. BIL is there fighting it as one of 55 appliances. Looks big and weather conditions against them.

Hope they get it under control.


Fingers crossed they do, is at Emergency alert stage, not sure how bad the wind is up there, hopefully get on top of it soon, havemnt called in strike teams as yet so they must be confident of getting on top of it

I live about 12 Km east from the nearest bit of the watch and wait zone reported last night and I did some weather research before concluding we could safely hit the sack. Two sites I searched showed the expected wind direction changes would move the front away from us.

That proved true - we didn't even get any smoke from the fires. It had all blown toward the north west. Friends at Hallett Cove and Grange reported the smoke was bad there.

Way back when I was aged 13, Jim MIlls, the pro at Kooyonga, was giving me free golf lessons because he thought I was a promising young golfer. However, I got bored with it and packed it in within a few months. Jim had lost an arm in and accident later in his life and still played one-armed. He was impressed that I could tee off using one arm too with reasonable accuracy. But, once I could do it I moved on to the next challenge -Tennis, then Hockey, then Soccer, then Fencing at Uni. (Fitted in Wrestling at one stage too.)

I do still own a set of clubs but haven't played in the last 30years...
I showed them to a mate who is a keen golfer recently - he wasn't impressed with the old technology...

I've always valued health and longevity and even as a child, and in my teens was committed to maximising my life and survival, and to making sure I had a good future career and financial security. My father was unemployed from 1928 to 1936 and my older sister was born in 1928, and so I knew the history of what they went through, later, when I was growing up.

So, I smoked about 3 cigarettes all told in a puff here and a puff there over a 4 year period between age 10 and 14. I've had two puffs on a MJ cigarette in my lifetime, and once sampled Cocaine in raw form straight of a tree when overseas. Alcohol? I purloined my sister's Hock, Lime, and Lemon, when I was 10 at a beer garden family gathering, invented the Creme de Menthe milkshake at 13, and otherwise didn't drink alcohol until I was about 23.

Now I enjoy a wine (or a few) most nights, but generally limit the total to safe levels. The only time I got drunk was in about 1976, when I had been guest speaker at a medical gathering sponsored for GPs by a pharmaceutical company which was very generous with good quality product that night at Ayers House.

It has paid off through my life, and is still paying off, as I'm fit and healthy in my late 70s now.

PS: Not that I never take risks my record speed up the SE Freeway was 240Kph+ in a Porsche 930 demonstrator back in 1980, with the sales manager in the passenger's seat...

It is not as straight forward as it seems.

Basically I've been a Republican since 1966, but I couldn't vote for the only model we have ever been offered as the "Presidency" would have become a gift to retiring MPs from whichever party had control of the Parliament at the time...

I'd like the role to be more like an Ombudsman who could protect the public from the power hungry.

My expectation is that the vaccine for CV will be like that for the Influenza virus. That is, as the virus is a frequently mutating one, there will be a new vaccine for the current strain each year.

Now, I'm putting my hand up for the AZ vaccine or any other I can get ASAP, just like I do for each years Influenza vaccine. That doesn't guarantee total immunity either it just reduces the risk of getting seriously ill.

Before we had Influenza vaccines, the Asian Flu nearly killed me in 1957 - I was bed bound, running a high temperature, and hallucinating for 10 days.

SKY News?? The only fan of theirs I know personally is my 89 year old mother in law who is a total right wing nutter and swallows all the conspiracy theories floating around too.

I've given up Muffins, Croissants, and Potato Crisps, in favour of Lite an Easy and Apples and Oranges and I've lost 7kg in the last month, helped along a bit by a nasty bout of Gastro I had while in Brisbane two weeks ago that knocked 3kg off me in 3 days.

April 4th - now down to 87.2Kg from 96.4Kg back about 6 weeks ago.

Bloke (probably mid 70’s) shuffles out of a “massage” parlour on Melbourne St not long ago. Couple of young tradies are walking past, “How’d ya go?” one of them asks. Ol’ mate looks up with a grin from ear to ear, nodding vigorously & gives the 2 thumbs up :lol:
Just gold.

not our man of the world Psyber?? :lol:

How dare you!
Women lineup and pay Psyber.............

Not any more. When I got married again in November 2019 my new wife put a stop to that!

I had a brief chat with Steven Marshall at a dinner function last weekend recently, primarily about Mental Health Services and the John Mendoza walk out, and ambulance ramping. He was friendly and listened, but non-committal about policy changes in the area. I'm not surprised I guess I would have been too. I've also put my comments in writing to him and to my local state MP (Dan Cregan).

This is ******* bullshit.
Every time there is a case it is now standard procedure to throw a state into lockdown. Then it takes a few months to return to where that state was before the lockdown with regards to the "rules"
It seems to me that everytime a state gets close to full freedom another "case" magically appears.

If people cant see this has nothing to do with health by now i dont think they ever will.
One fng case, please,

This is the CCP reaction to losing the belt and road in Victoria, get their other puppet to cause chaos.

If it's not about health, what is it about then?

Its about controlling your life, taking away freedoms little by little.
Health passports are on the way, make no mistake, have a look at how people are controlled in China.
Also be prepared for the possibility of a lockdown in SA this weekend. I believe the State of Emergency runs out at beginning of May. Without the SOE they can not put the experimental vaccine into anyone.
The WA SOE ran out last Friday and surprise surprise there's a "case"
The QLD lockdown was also at the time the SOE ran out.
Surely more and more people are starting to see the scam that it is.

I volunteered to have the AZ vaccine and so did my wife - and many of my friends who are old enough to be eligible. I am a doctor and I wouldn't put either of us at risk if there was the slightest evidence it had not been adequately tested and the risks are no worse than any other vaccination.

Result with us, and multiple friends who have had this vaccine - minimal 'flu-like reaction.

Paranoia is rampant at the moment...

A report on ABC radio this morning of Deer on the SE Freeway near Mt Barker.

What makes me sad is that so many people got into Deer breeding when they though the Venison market was going to grow and make them money back in the 1980s and 1990s and spent huge money on fences, then finished up turning them loose when they could no longer sustain the losses. I had moved into Alpaca back then when I had a 20 acre property near Hahndorf, but I didn't get in deep because I didn't expect them to make big money - they were just to help maintain the tax deductibility of the property expenses...

I'm also sad for the Deer turned out, and for the country their hard hooves damage.

I remember Deer roaming the Dandenong Ranges in the 2000s too. I had a 4 acre property in the Olinda area then and the loose Deer often wandered in - which mildly excited my Irish Wolfhound. (They don't get very excited about anything.)

Why arent the fully vaccinated allowed to move around Victoria and all of Australia freely?

Very good question.
Isn’t that the whole point of vaccination?
No the point of vaccination is to make sure you don't get seriously ill or die.

The hope is that it will block spread, but at this stage we cannot be sure that the vaccinations guarantee you cannot be carrying and disseminating the virus to others even if it keeps you asymptomatic. Some optimists think it does, but that doesn't make it true. In the meantime we have to be cautious.

Greetings from Ballarat where I am doing a short term medical locum.
I'm glad I've had my first AZ shot and I'm looking forward to getting the second in mid-July.
My reaction to the first was hardly noticeable - just mildly fatigued on the second day.

The Influenza shot 2 weeks later had just a little more impact.

Over here in Ballarat we dropped into the local Dan's and picked up two bottles of Yellowtail Chardonnay, one of their Pinot Grigio, and a Chateau Tahbilk Marsanne for a total of $34.00. It beats $10 a glass for less well flavoured wine at local pubs.

Question for more learned folk than I.
Mrs loves ch94 and all the sh1t that goes with it.
One thing that has peeked my intrigue is what is the fascination with yanks and 2 sink bathrooms??

Is it just a yank thing?
And why???

Sent from my SM-G781B using Tapatalk We had one at our last house and it was fantastic.
Very handy if you are going out and have to get ready at the same time. I’d quite often use mine to have a shave and the missus would be using hers for makeup etc
My wife and I have a bathroom each.
When we moved into this house she grabbed the large and luxurious en suite with the spa and I have the general one down the hall where the bath and shower area can be shut off from the Vanity and loo. She also got the walk in robe and I've converted one of the bedrooms next to the central bathroom complex into a a dressing room...

Actually I like my set up better.

Only a matter of time [sure bet] before 1951 Melbourne Cup winner causes a lockdown in South Australia

Anyone else have to google this?
I would have had to had I cared to know right now - I may look it up later...

I remember that Comic Court won in 1950 because I scored a ride on him in 1952 when I was 8 years old and the Tremellen family had him at their property in Bowden for stud duties.