Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I drank a bottle of it there once..Good cure for cottonmouth.
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This from an email today by my mother, in Perth, a life-long avid gardener:
“As you know it has been pretty awful here. Everyone’s gardens are looking very sad – even quite a number of trees are suffering as the water table has dropped quite a bit.”
The water supply is fine, with the dams and new desalination plant doing their work, but for anything needing a soaking from rainfall it’s been a grim few years.
I’m sure Lex and other SoCal/Southwest Neplexers are familiar with these issues!
As my mother has never experienced a Northeast US winter, she doesn’t understand my constant carping about the wind, snow and enforced indoors life.
Carping about the weather, be it good, bad or indifferent, is something Australians have inherited from the British, according to my poor, tolerant American wife, who sometimes wields the “talk to the hand” in response to my whining.
Saying “talk to the hand” with an Australian accent to an American just doesn’t work – not at all – so I’m still working on some sort of snappy rejoinder for when she carps about other stuff.
The price of dumb chick shoes, for example…….
I had worked in Perth for a year and some change; this was one of the big issues always on the evening news. But, there are other places up north of Perth, like Exmouth that seemed a whole lot dryer…………although less populated.
Regardless, I thought WA was the place to be. Cottesloe, Freemantle, and Margaret River were awesome.
My only Perth “story” is that when in Sydney in ‘68 on R&R from DaNang, I bumped into a young gal from Perth who had hitch-hiked all the way to Sydney by her lonesome. I thought that took a lot of moxie for a young “frail.” Not so sure I would have tried it if I had been her…….
VX: Just to hijack a Perth story to Sydney. You hit Kings Cross in the good years. Sadly it has been all downhill from around that time due to the overwhelming drug influence. Perth is so far away I cannot even think about it.
Yeah, its been summertime water restrictions for as long as I can remember off the top of my head.
The desal plants help, but the big problem is that as fast as we can develop sources, plants and catchments, the population is outgrowing, mostly focussed in Perth. Happily, not having a lawn helps a lot!
Even so, out of the different cities I’ve lived in, Perth has always been my favourite.
CPLGolden,
Fremantle is definitely a great place, and some awesome seafood, too!
It seems 60% of Queensland has some, too.