ANZAC Day Tanunda

 

ANZAC Day at Tanunda went well.

Given that Monday was a public holiday during school holidays, we had an enormous turn-up at both the Dawn Service and the late morning Service after our march from the Tanunda Post Office to the Soldiers' Memorial Hall.

I attended the Dawn Service and marched, but I didn't attend the late morning Service.

The highlight of the Dawn Service for me was an address delivered by a senior school student from the local Faith Lutheran College. Given the age of the young man, his presentation was flawless, the content emotive and inspiring, and he didn't appear to be nervous at all.

After the Dawn Service we held a Gunfire Breakfast that many people attended including members of the RSL Tanunda, although most of us who are members had "jobs" to do. I worked in our bar serving beer, large amounts of Coopers stout, and pouring small amounts of Beenleigh rum into coffee, a tradition on this special day.

The Gunfire Breakfast was also attended by a contingent of RAAF serving members who had participated as a catafalque party (you can see several in the image above) or supported them. I managed to take a photo of the group.

Here they are outside our Hut. Those with weapons are obviously part of the catafalque party.

We appreciate and thank them for their service and hope that they will never be called upon to sacrifice their lives for their fellow Australians as many others have throughout the short history of our country.

We are so fortunate to live in a relatively free democracy with a decent standard of living and reasonably sound governments.

Every day I recall how very lucky I was to be born in Australia. If you are reading this and you're Australian, you should feel lucky too.

#Robinoz

My (Most often) Every Day Carry

There are numerous YouTube videos where people discuss their Every Day Carry. I hadn't thought of turning it into a topic of discussion until I saw a few of them, so here I am, disclosing mine.

I must state that I don't carry my Adidas bag everywhere I go. If it's a short trip somewhere to pick up a carton of Hahn Super Dry, low carb beer, I just take my wallet and car keys. Longer trips, I take the whole EDC.

The stuff people carry is interesting but essentially, most of us have a need for the same things, eg car keys, wallets etc. Knives, pens and other "stuff" is optional.

Here's a description of what I carry:

When I lift the front cover (image two from top) I have a few glass wipes because I wear prescription and sun glasses that always seem to need cleaning. This part has a zipper section so inside I can include some coinage just in case I need it and some plastic money eg, a $50 note for emergencies.  

When I flip that part back, it has some slots for credit cards in which I have business cards and slots for two pens. I have a Lamy metal pen and a Victorinox pen and usually do a crossword puzzle while reading the local paper and having a cup of coffee. Of course they also come in handy if I need to write something although these days I put record reminders in my iPhone most of the time.

My car keys (at left) have a souvenir from the British House of Commons on which I've engraved my name and phone number just in case I lose the keys, which is unlikely as I wear them hanging from a sturdy belt clip accompanied by another smallish keychain knife in which the blade is inserted. (Anyone would think I had a knife fetish)

In the section at right are a notebook in another sleeve, and a one-blade Leatherman. The Swiss Army knife I usually carry in my pocket. There is also a torch (flashlight) that has a removable clip that makes it small and easy to carry. 

So there it is, that's me in nine paragraphs.

#Robinoz

How App(lication)s can get us into trouble

 

My iPhone has this wonderful health app 💙that tracks my walking, allows me to enter blood pressure, pulse, cycling distance, BMI, height - that hasn't changed in the past 70 years, and much more.

One of the things it also does is allow one to track sexual activity. Why, I'm not sure.

I do recall when I was 18 to around 20 I had a little book into which I wrote the name and contact details of ladies who had helped me develop my intimacy skills. It was probably a skite book, although I can't recall ever telling any of my friends with whom, or how many women I had been intimate. I do recall that there were many pages spare when I decided it was a childish thing to do and decided to use it only to record names and contact details without any additional descriptions. 

Flipping through my Health App recently, I stumbled across the entry at left in my Sexual Activity log. It appears that at around 12 midday on Sunday, 23 August 2020 I had a "sexual activity" for maybe a minute. I've never been that fast!

Nowadays, I can't remember what I did a week ago, or where I've left my sunglasses, let alone what I'm supposed to have done on that Sunday afternoon. However, if I had had sex with someone for even a few minutes, I would have known. And I'd be surprised because while it may have once taken me a few minutes to ejaculate, it now takes longer.

So, my conclusion is that this is a misrepresented activity cause by something running amuck in the app.

Imagine if my wife was a nosy wife who looked through my iPhone (which she isn't) and came across this. I could be in real trouble.

Stay well and check your apps.

Robin

Can Australia - or any other country afford NetZero?

The almost feverish hatred of coal and closure of hundreds of coal-fired power stations across woke nations of the world before we had something to replace them with will go down in history as one of the most stupid things we've ever done. Especially given our current level of scientific knowledge and advanced ability in technology.

Replacing something that works inexpensively and efficiently with something that is expensive and inefficient shouldn't make sense to anyone.

But governments throughout the Western World have bowed to the woke progressives who have pushed an alarmist global warming agenda that demands we rid the world of excess C02, that gas that is 0.04% in the atmosphere and needed by every living thing on Earth. We need it and vegetation to create the air we breathe.

Some people are beginning to wake up to the fact that not only is NetZero unachievable, but it will also create massive use of limited funds that could be spent more wisely; solving hunger, homelessness, poverty, ill health, and bringing billions of people up to a decent standard of living to name just a few.

Six weeks out from an election, Australians must decide between two bad choices for a party to run our country for the next three years. Both parties subscribe to the UN's IPCC nonsense of killing off reliable energy to be replaced with ugly, inefficient, and highly expensive wind turbines and solar panels with limited benefits.

Most of the products that go into the above two solutions create millions of tonnes of C02 and other gases and pollutants, cause bird deaths, make beautiful hills look horrible, and take up much more space than a High Efficiency Low Emission coal-fired power station. They're also full of components manufactured or mined by slave labour or children in third-world countries.

Now, this video estimates the costs we'll face to kill off our reliable energy and replace it with a dud.

You can watch it here.

What will the high school students in 50 year's time say about us when they study modern history?

Robin

Related article: here.