Speaking of travel....

I took a little road trip to this place over the w'end. A friend of mine has a holiday home up here, so with the mercury heading toward the 40's again, i decided to skip Melbourne for the night in favour of some chillaxing by the lake with a coupla cold ones and check out the water ski show and fireworks. Went for a quick spin on the lake in the morning after breakfast before heading back to Melbz in time for getting my giddy-up on at the country races....

Lake Mulwala...which is a 3-4 hour trip from Melbourne and located on the New South Wales border.

Dunno...but it sounds funky!!

Hearty greetings sorceress...don't suppose you could conjour up some of that blue juice could you?

To the tune of....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8D4AsLzlM0

*blink blink*




Someone say chicken??


Actually there is a distant cousin of the Ostrich that once walked the land of the long white cloud (being New Zealand) called the Moa, which stood about 14ft on average (that's a whole lotta drumstick right thur!!), but it is now extinct on account of those blardi maoris having too many hangis....they probably couldn't ride it, so the next best thiing was to eat it! Sadly...it is no moa.

And therein is probably a conundrum for some.

They wouldn't know what genuine respect was if it body slammed them.

I guess respect differs from person to person.

For me to respect somebody...i have to at least like them.

*hands Z a vegemite sandwich*

Wow!...now that is some inspiration to visit right there Z. Awesome pics...thank you :-)

Speaking of french influence...i rather suspect the cuisine over there is quite something else no?

They call those 'tinnys' here. The only thing they're capable of tugging are eskys full of cold beers whilst out fishing for barra! :-)

That was rather entertaining actually :-)

hahaha...love Monty Python, but you win. Your bit of information is more useless than mine!

So you wouldn't mind if i threw that shoe of yours at your head because you left it lying around where i could trip over it?

I respectively disagree...

I have a healthy respect for the knowledge that some people have....doesn't mean i respect them, or even like them.

Afterthought...but that is only one aspect of respect, and i respect them enough not to p!ss in their pocket.

Ha!...are you paying?

Sheeeiiit...you call that a fight??

Edit because i almost forgot the obligatory

I've seen people who think that the world owes them something...even though they do feck all but complain about how "hard done by" they are.

So i quite understand what it is you said there. Unless you put in the hard yards...you're entitled to nothing.

Seems a fair call to me.

hahaha..that's too cute!

Thanks for the laugh Leigh

I'm entitled to be me...and ain't nobody gonna take that away.

Wait!...is that a song title??

Fer sure i'd go! I became quite fond of Tassie when i lived there for a few months wayyyyy back in the days when i didn't know how to keep still :-)

And yes!...we have to hook up by phone

But no laughing at my accent!

Ooo...aahhh...speaking of getting a grip.

Found this little snippet that y'all might be interested in....

Wrinkly fingers from sitting in the bath could have a useful purpose, according to research.

Wrinkles that form on skin after being in water improves grip on wet objects, scientists from Newcastle University claim to have shown.

The study compared the results of people taking objects out of water with and without the prune-like skin formation.

Author Dr Tom Smulders, publishing the paper in Biology Letters, said on Tuesday: "We have shown that wrinkled fingers give a better grip in wet conditions. It could be working like treads on your car tyres which allow more of the tyre to be in contact with the road and gives you a better grip.

"Going back in time, this wrinkling of our fingers in wet conditions could have helped with gathering food from wet vegetation or streams. And as we see the effect in our toes too, this may have been an advantage as it may have meant our ancestors were able to get a better footing in the rain."

In the study people picked up marbles of different sizes with normal hands or with wrinkled fingers after having soaked their hands in warm water for 30 minutes. They were faster if their fingers were wrinkled but it made no difference when moving dry objects.

"This raises the question of why we don't have permanently wrinkled fingers and we'd like to examine this further", said Dr Smulders.

"Our initial thoughts are that this could diminish the sensitivity in our fingertips or could increase the risk of damage through catching on objects."


So there ya go!!...but i have to wonder if they tested that theory with soap!