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Hi All,   Sticky, what’s the connection between yourself and the Camel?  Don't know how many million camels there are in Aust but quite a few.   They are quite a pest and do a lot of damage to the outback. We have so many we are exporting them back to the Middle East.  Put a new photograph of myself up yesterday, wife and I will be back in the UK middle of next month visiting my sister and brother.  So if you see this ugly head around you will know it is I. Yes they are my ears and I am not a wing nut or helicopter. Ken

Hi Garham/Stu, Looks like you did a bit of tripping around whilst you were here in Aust Graham.  This area (Canberra Region) is what they call a 'Cool Climate Wines' area; the main wine grapes grown around here are for Rieslings and Chardonnays.  Not a big wine drinker myself, prefer a nice cold beer on a hot day.   Must admit I always loved Sydney the most, but when my children married and settled in Melbourne, I have become rather fond of that place.  I did notice that Bath Rugby start there season today against Leeds in an away game.  Not a big follower of the RU anymore, too many stoppages for my liking.  If I had any school uniform around the house when my parents left the UK, I think that it would have been ditched. In 1963 we were very limited in what we could bring to Aust and my father being a builder had enough tools and other stuff to ship without any extras from four children.  Think my cap ended up in the Avon near the weir on completion of 4th Grade, and in 5th grade no cap was required if my memory serves me right.

Now to Stu, sorry that I mixed you up with Sticky and sorry to Sticky as well.  No excuses offered.  I guessed the Camels were part of a holiday, that you had.  Talking of the Gobi Desert.  It is funny you mentioned this place, a friend of mine who has backpacked all around the world and on his own some, went to China then down to the Gobi.  He was telling me how difficult it was to get there and what happened when he got there.  Three limos turned up when he was in some museum place or something and out of one-stepped Jimmy Carter (ex US President).  He got talking and has his photograph taken with JC and then out of nowhere came these helicopters and took Carter away.  Apparently it was the day after the 9/11 disasters in the US and security stepped in. Back onto the Camels, about the only thing I remember from School Chemistry was that the scientific name for camel dung was Sal Ammoniac.  Pretty rotten smelling stuff, so I imagine it is not good to play dutch ovens with Camels.  Ken  

Hi Garham/Stu, Looks like you did a bit of tripping around whilst you were here in Aust Graham.  This area (Canberra Region) is what they call a 'Cool Climate Wines' area; the main wine grapes grown around here are for Rieslings and Chardonnays.  Not a big wine drinker myself, prefer a nice cold beer on a hot day.   Must admit I always loved Sydney the most, but when my children married and settled in Melbourne, I have become rather fond of that place.  I did notice that Bath Rugby start there season today against Leeds in an away game.  Not a big follower of the RU anymore, too many stoppages for my liking.  If I had any school uniform around the house when my parents left the UK, I think that it would have been ditched. In 1963 we were very limited in what we could bring to Aust and my father being a builder had enough tools and other stuff to ship without any extras from four children.  Think my cap ended up in the Avon near the weir on completion of 4th Grade, and in 5th grade no cap was required if my memory serves me right.

Now to Stu, sorry that I mixed you up with Sticky and sorry to Sticky as well.  No excuses offered.  I guessed the Camels were part of a holiday, that you had.  Talking of the Gobi Desert.  It is funny you mentioned this place, a friend of mine who has backpacked all around the world and on his own some, went to China then down to the Gobi.  He was telling me how difficult it was to get there and what happened when he got there.  Three limos turned up when he was in some museum place or something and out of one-stepped Jimmy Carter (ex US President).  He got talking and has his photograph taken with JC and then out of nowhere came these helicopters and took Carter away.  Apparently it was the day after the 9/11 disasters in the US and security stepped in. Back onto the Camels, about the only thing I remember from School Chemistry was that the scientific name for camel dung was Sal Ammoniac.  Pretty rotten smelling stuff, so I imagine it is not good to play dutch ovens with Camels.  Ken  

Sorry about the echo Graham.  Hope your Badger was vaccinated.  Being serious hitting any animal on the road is pretty frightening, especially at speed.  If I hit a snake, I jam on the brakes and try to skin them.  Although law protects them, you can drive over snakes and not cause them any damage. Not that I have been brave enough to stop the car and go back and check.  My biggest problem with a 1969 Mini, I bought new, was keeping the distributor dry in wet weather.  They probably came with a distributor cover in the UK?  But here that was an additional costly option.  Ken