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Old 15-01-14, 05:57
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Yes a number of restored WWII vehicles were lost in the recent Winmalee (Blue Mountains) bushfires. Second time the owner has lost vehicles in fires.

Another Vietnam vet lost a captured NVA AK47, I believe from the Long Tan battle.
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Old 16-01-14, 01:41
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I can't believe how nonchalant Keith is about stepping on a snake. It takes a better man than me to still be staying in the same house. Janet gave me the heads up about a harmless garter snake she spotted going into a brush pile that I had just made. It's been three years and I still haven't gone near that pile.
Hats off to the Aussies.
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Old 16-01-14, 04:28
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I can't believe how nonchalant Keith is about stepping on a snake.
<snip>.
Hats off to the Aussies.
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Barry
We have a couple of pet red bellied blacks in the hay sheds.

They keep down the mice numbers and being territorial seem to keep the tiger snakes in the creek away from the sheds.

When we take a bale of hay off a pile, you sometimes find a joe black sleeping, so you put the bale back down and pick up the next one. Much rather be bitten by a black than a tiger or brown. (Nasty pieces of work those browns.)
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Old 16-01-14, 04:54
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On the weather network the other day they had to come up with a new colour on their maps for the above 50 C temps just for Australia.
I'll take the frozen tundra over that.
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Old 16-01-14, 05:30
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Sitting in the 40+ degrees again here today. Geelong to our east last night copped a 30 minute bucketing (rain) at about 11pm but all we got was the edge of the storm which had no rain but lightning giving us 3 spotfires in inverleigh. All dealt with terrificly by the CFA.
Dry again today with another storm passing to our north, some thunder.
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Old 16-01-14, 05:45
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41.4c here at the moment I went to work for five hours and no snakes sited they probably stayed in the shade today.
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