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[V8Ian]

I've always wanted to visit Victor Harbour, haven't got there yet.
It's colder than a brass toilet seat in Murdoch, here, down to 24⁰ today.

[scarry]

bit it wintry today , how is Alfie Langer Land ?

Dave

Bloody freezing,i think the temp has dropped below 20 degrees this afternoon.

Looks like it will be time to bring up some firewood.

[Saitch]

Bloody freezing,i think the temp has dropped below 20 degrees this afternoon.

Looks like it will be time to bring up some firewood.

Too right! Helen got the fire going around 1300 as it was only 19°. We got down to 11° overnight with 35 kph+ winds.

[Hogarthde]

I envy you blokes with fires, electric in this unit

at least with a fire you can get warm 4 times:

[Saitch]

15° at present. Feels like -5°

[4bee]

i know 4bee lives in the Hills so don’t go there, 😎

Weeeeeeeeeelllllll I never.

Have had Eldest Daughter's horses over the years here & enjoy their company & am very at home with them as well as Dogs. Had Dogs forever it seems & 'er indoors had dogs back in the UK so have had a long association with those as well. Our Rose Garden claimed another lot of ashes on the weekend when my youngest placed her Labrador's ashes here. That is two lots & I will have to start sending her a rental invoice. Just glad she doesn't own a horse or I would get a phone call one day, "Eeeerrrr Dad.....

We have never met but by yiminy you really do have a great positive personality from what I have been reading here. During my early riding lessons with the late Marian Malecki (Bend ze knees, bend ze knees) at Burnside, I too have come a few gutsers mainly due to my lack of awareness that the horse is going to change direction at a corner (what was I thinking?) while my body & brain thinks it is still going forward at the turn.

But they were great animals & as soon as they unloaded you they would stop dead in their tracks & wait.

Jeeeezuz, the ground can be very hard when one hits it like a sack of wheat, & his were big horses, but I cannot recall the hands height now as I have crept on a few years since then but they were certainly tall.

Keep on smilin'

[bblaze]

7 degrees, feels like -1.7
****ing with rain
cheers
blaze

[4bee]

I've always wanted to visit Victor Harbour, haven't got there yet.
It's colder than a brass toilet seat in Murdoch, here, down to 24⁰ today.

Well old sport, you won't even find the joint with that spelling of Harbor. No Kid. It is spelt the American way.


edit.

Originally the name was "Victoria" Harbour but it was changed by the Captain Richard Crozier of HMS Victor when he called it Port Victor when surveying the environs in 1837. Governor Gawler named it Victor Harbor in 1838 but as time went on it became known as 'Port Victor' until 1921, when it reverted to Victor Harbor.

[Bulletman]

I've always wanted to visit Victor Harbour, haven't got there yet.
It's colder than a brass toilet seat in Murdoch, here, down to 24⁰ today.

Had a great Christmas and new year in victor harbor several years back . look forward to my next visit there.

35 here today , about 10 more than that in the shed at work. I dream of 24 , don't even have the air con set that cold .

Cheers Buletman

[scarry]

Weeeeeeeeeelllllll I never.

Have had Eldest Daughter's horses over the years here & enjoy their company & am very at home with them as well as Dogs. Had Dogs forever it seems & 'er indoors had dogs back in the UK so have had a long association with those as well. Our Rose Garden claimed another lot of ashes on the weekend when my youngest placed her Labrador's ashes here. That is two lots & I will have to start sending her a rental invoice. Just glad she doesn't own a horse or I would get a phone call one day, "Eeeerrrr Dad.....

We have never met but by yiminy you really do have a great positive personality from what I have been reading here. During my early riding lessons with the late Marian Malecki (Bend ze knees, bend ze knees) at Burnside, I too have come a few gutsers mainly due to my lack of awareness that the horse is going to change direction at a corner (what was I thinking?) while my body & brain thinks it is still going forward at the turn.

But they were great animals & as soon as they unloaded you they would stop dead in their tracks & wait.

Jeeeezuz, the ground can be very hard when one hits it like a sack of wheat, & his were big horses, but I cannot recall the hands height now as I have crept on a few years since then but they were certainly tall.

Keep on smilin'

Funny isn't it,we always leave our dogs at the vet when they go,just what we do.

SWMBO will probably do that with me as well,when the time comes

Never had anything to do with horses,but one year i recon around '73 we came across a very young Brumby foal,with a dead mother on Fraser island.We were on our way to catch the barge, going back to Brisbane.The Dingos had eaten a fair bit of the mother,and were chasing the foal around ,but luckily apart from a few cuts,it wasn't badly injured.We caught the foal,and brought it back to Brisbane in the back of the Series 3 LWB,with the four of us kids in the back as well.My father tied up the foal,but i can't remember how.Most the gear was loaded out of the car,and into the trailer and some onto the roof rack ,and some went into the other vehicle that was with us.I do remember stopping at the servo in Gympie,and putting a hose in its mouth to give it some water.

And i think the barge owner's name was Gordon,he couldn't believe his eyes,when he saw the foal in the back of the Landy.

Friends of ours out Moggil way had a heap of horses,and they looked after it,and had it for as long as i can remember.

FWIW,on another trip,we had to bring back a whale skull,it was from a carcase that had washed up the year before, for the QLD museum,but thats another story.

Now what was this thread all about?

OK,just finished painting the sections of the garage that were well overdue for a paint,and SWMBO is sorting out about 250 books,many are going to the second hand book shop.