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A good 'companion read' for 'The Book Thief' is 'All the Light you Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr. No way would I watch either of them as movies or TV series - and the same goes for Captain Corelli...'

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MikeW

Haha, good old Fyfe! I remember an occasion at Brands, in the 1960s, where Jack Brabham (later Sir) blew an engine in spectacular fashion - there was smoke and shrapnel and a trail of oil and debris all down the track in front of the main stand. So FR went down to pits for some deep background. FR h...

Mike, a couple of links that may be of interest. Here in Oz, the State Gummints were granted the monopoly of power supply , so that they would not impose State Income Tax. That was fine until 'privatisation' became the great political fashion. Now we have so many middlemen between the producer and t...

Yes Paul K, the standard of literacy these days is appallingly low and getting worse, even on the Beeb - but what really gets my goat is small cars pretending to be parking spots at the supermarket.

MikeW

Yes, for the pollies it is just a big game. The Oz edition of 'The Spectator' once described our Federal Parliament as "Australia's unique combination of snakepit and kindergarten".
Couldn't have said it better meself.
MikeW

Well, here in Oz it is compulsory to get your name ticked off and be issued with a ballot paper. You can be fined for not doing that. No-one except you will know what you did with your ballot paper. 'Compulsory Voting' was introduced along with the Preferential Voting system. Preferential Voting doe...

I remember the Hobart 'Mercury' reporting that " ...a youth has been charged with possession of an unlicenced forearm."


MikeW

Hi Mike, How badly are you affected by those floods? Fortunately no major damage here, we just got the fringe of the rain event. On the Friday afternoon we had 266mm of rain, but the trough stalled between Ipswich and the coast, and many parts of Brisbane got 900mm - an almost incredible amount. Ma...

Hello Mike, greetings from flood-bound Forest Hill (the QLD one) Recently I had to replace the old Superbeast, which was the original W7 flying machine. My first port of call was here: https://www.australiancomputertraders.com.au/ I am sure there will be something similar in darkest Ballarat, or eve...

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows . I read a lot. I have a tablet full of e-books, because one more real book would probably collapse the floor 8) But a nice lit...