One for our Uk friends just finished the evening meal switched over from the news it was 35 degrees Celcius today only two weeks into summer. Bought an inside outside set of remote weather units in fact two its 26.5 degrees inside 34 degrees outside 50 degrees in our roof space (no wonder pen blanks mature quickly up there). The program we switched to was called the Dales in Yorkshire hosted by a man born in the area Ade Edmondson. He said on intro today its summer here but Ive got me coat on if its not raining here it soon will be, well we would appreciate the rain.
Conversations about tinnies and such go straight past me I have never tasted one in my life I had an alcoholic uncle that was as close as I ever got to it. I played cricket enjoyed Aussie rules footy 18 a side much like Gaelic football was ever aware of how to win in grace and lose gracefully enjoying my sports.
Quite satisfied at having finished work in the roof and running (read walking) around on the roof now finished my exhaust fan to atmosphere works a treat in early evening reducing the temp in the roof down by 10 to 15 degrees.. Not long back using the electric chain saw i demolished an 18 inch limb with four ton of a type of oak tree in my back yard it was about 15 feet up cut it into lengths up there and chucked it into my neighbors yard. This tree is highly valued by Richard Raffan as he said it was a prince of trees to turn wet. By permission of my neighbor retrieved and disposed of the tree to a mulching place that accepts this stuff. This tree was planted in the 60,s.
Canberra was planted and encouraged to be a garden city so now excess street trees by the thousand are consigned in old age to a huge acres of tree dump and turned into mulch after timber getters have their share of so many exotic trees. Each street in Canberra has designated planting and when we built our first house in 1955 we were allocated 40 trees and 50 shrubs free for the collection in our yard from the govt nursery. The street tree outside our home is well over a hundred feet tall 5 feet across the girth sheds leaves all the year really its a forest Eucalypt. Planted in the 60,s.
Our population here grew from 1941 when I came here from Sth Australia from 10000 to now 400000 of course not that many turn pens and is the federal centre of govt in australia.
Received another death sentence this week thats just one of several over the last few years but new meds enable me to carry on sort of so I intend to have a beaut xmas and new year in the company of my family and friends we buried a young lady close friend of my youngest daughter today 43 yrs of age so permanence is never guaranteed.
Kind regards Peter.
