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There was a time when Tasmania had its own bank. Well technically it still does, as some institutions have received banking licenses in more recent times, but the Bank of Tasmania was originally founded in 1845. It was later swallowed up into the gigantic Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Now this quaint old 19th century bank building - original sign still in place - is a shop dealing in the local arts and crafts. It stands, as you can see, within a stone's throw of the old Beaconsfield gold mine.
Alas, I have some bad news to pass on in relation to banks in Beaconsfield. In the modern building to the right of the Bank of Tasmania stood the home of the only remaining bank in Beaconsfield. One of those institutions I mentioned at the beginning: Bank of Heritage Isle.
On May 8, 2020, this bank closed its doors and all of its branches in Tasmania. And so now little Beaconsfield is without any banking facilities.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6745409/bank-closure-leave...
Such is the way of life for rural towns in this obnoxious era of conglomerates and Globalisation! You'd think there was a "plan" to get us all to move to cities wouldn't you.
In 1973, after the sudden death of their daughter, Jim and Val Hursey relocated from Dover in southern Tasmania to Stanley. They set up a fishing company, taking over many of the boats that belonged to previous fishing interests and became quite rapidly the major player in the Stanley fishing industry.
But more tragedy struck in 1986. Their son, Patrick "Kermie" Hursey had heard distress calls in Bass Strait from a lone kayaker who was attempting a crossing. The weather was extremely poor and the seas mountainous. Taking his vessel "Moya Ann" along with a deck hand, Patrick set out for the site that rescue aircraft had located. Unfortunately the vessel was swamped by the huge seas and went down. Patrick was lost at sea, but the deckhand Phil Critchlow was able to be saved.
The kayaker adventurer, Tony Dicker had circumnavigated Tasmania in a kayak four years earlier, and this crossing of Bass Strait was to be a final preparation for an around the world attempt. Unfortunately Dicker was also lost in this tragedy. Recently a film has been made about Tony Dicker's adventures (which I haven't seen). But this article neglects to mention that although it is sad Dicker died in the attempt, no mention is made of the death of Patrick Hursey in the rescue attempt.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7251463/how-a-filmmaker-st...
One commentator put it succinctly, "The tragic loss of the fishing vessel Moya Ann brought resounding condemnation for adventurers risking the lives of others while seeking personal fulfilment."
The male (left) of this Australian spider has expanded his flaps and is waving his legs, to attract the female on the right. This species was discovered by Stuart Harris and scientifically described by myself and David Hill a couple of years ago. You can read the story behind it in the description to my set of this species, and in this article in the Canberra Times www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/how-amateurs-discove...
To see similar spiders in action check out my YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/user/Peacockspiderman
More about these spiders on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/PeacockSpider
With some of the #firesnearme smoke from the NSW SE coast..
see google.org/crisismap/australia
We are surrounded, at a safe distance so we get smoke from all points of the compass except NW at the moment..
We had a house full of smoke last night.. 04-01-20
See other latest images for that date.
Here is the map of the devastation over the Blue Mountains.. www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/
See more links below
If the wind changes, we could get more smoke!
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6594812/moruya-and-west-mo...
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www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/galleries/72157722981617565/
see image used here...
www.flickr.com/groups/a_personal_viewpoint/discuss/721577...
Link to air quality and weather sensor data. Australian PM2.5 AQI. map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#11.62/-35.1889/1...
Canberra "Pill Box" bus shelter.
For those that are interested:
2013
the-riotact.com/act-government-putting-a-stop-to-the-conc...
2018
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6072326/gang-gang-bus-shel...
some of many species of wild and introduced grasses and weeds producing pollen now!
There is a lot out there in the #Livingthedreampaddock
Got the ANU Pollen App. Now.. but
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7069273/the-graph-that-sho...
See the story in the ANU Reporter...
It is going to be a monster pollen year - ANU Reporter
A walk in and around Urban and Suburban Amaroo and back, 14th Oct 2021
Way up the north end of the #livingthedreampaddock
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
Copied from a SUSS newsletter.. all safe!
see google.org/crisismap/australia
"This new Year Year is not like the last"
from Nicholas Stuart of the Canberra Times.....
l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/s...
My New Discovery!
I have had to keep this under wraps for some time now but with the official publication of the excellent and detailed study by Tiina Liimets et al and the official press release from Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC (home of the worlds largest telescope) on 18 May, I can now reveal that as part of a long term study of the symbiotic star, R Aquarii and by using deep imaging techniques from Terroux Observatory outside Canberra, I have discovered new extended features, further out than the previously known hourglass nebula, around this dynamic star system. More follow up analysis of these faint features will hopefully point to new understandings of the early history of eruptions associated with R Aquarri type Symbiotic Stars.
Newspaper Article 30 May 2018: www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/former-strongman-wh...
The paper by Tiina Liimets et al: "New insights into the outflows from R Aquarii": arxiv.org/abs/1801.08209
The IAC press release: www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=1388&lang=en
Dynamic graphic showing the expansion of the R Aquarii inner nebula and jet, as revealed in this paper:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2rUPOh1ads&feature=youtu.be and www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kgRS9Y05o&feature=youtu.be
The colour image of R Aquarii by itself: www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/167507817/original
While my discovery two years ago of the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 253-dw2, associated with NGC 253, was pretty damn cool, this latest discovery is even a little more satisfying to me because while last time the experts approached me for access to my data because they could see something new in it, this time I found something new in my own data myself and then brought it to the attention of the leaders in the field of Symbiotic Star research, who subsequently did follow up confirmation with data from the largest telescopes on Earth and included my discovery in the paper above :)
To say I am excited about this is an understatement, we amateur imagers go about our nightly lives shooting pretty pictures of our amazing and beautiful night skies but this is not always to the exclusion of making real contributions to science and astronomy.
I am extremely proud to be able to contribute further to our understanding of the cosmos and its incredible and dynamic past :)
Mike
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Trails cut and railings all by Rob Calwell..
Agfa film
I worked here casually on weekends as a ranger for a couple of years in the 1980s
The trails and signposting was all laid out by an engineer named Rob Caldwell. He lived at the old Parkwood Homestead.
He constructed the picnic shelters from the concrete formwork used to build the Belconnen Mall Carparks.
He signposted the trails and made a small brochure to hand out with the ticket sales for the entrance fee. See below.
Along the trails are signposted Lookouts, labels for plants and trees and warning signs and handrails.
I used to take the entrance fees near the gate, describe the walks and hand out the small brochure and map you can see below.
When he hired another Ranger to mn the gate I would drive down Cusacks Crossing track, sometimes with the kids and hire out the canoes.
During the warm weather I would sell cold drinks from the beach or a canoe and on colder days I had a fire going from which I would "boil the billy" and sell cups of tea.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3b
I don't know if any of you watched Four Corners (ABC TV) this Monday and The Fight for Planet A on Tuesday (ABC TV) but the problems facing us are much bigger than the pandemic. Waste management, plastic use and misuse, greenhouse gases and energy use.
The science is clear that 8 billion people with the levels of consumption and energy use that we, Australians & others, are expecting cannot continue. The Fight for Planet A will intensify now and will get worse as your children struggle to get jobs.
Our Federal Government's gas led recovery plan will only make us all worse off! Stacking advisory committee's with fossil fuel industry reps is pretty normal for this government who is quietly doing harm while we look elsewhere. Industry asking for public handouts is also normal!
This is a photo of our Recycling Truck. I got a cheery wave from the driver as she expertly manouvered the big blue bins into the truck. Just a pity we neither have the recycling facilities, the products or the clean waste stream to do much about the effort we are putting into the recycling.
The message is clear REDUCE! Rant over!
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/slash-and-burn-program-...
And today's hazard reduction burn pictures and story in the Canberra Times
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/act-firefighters-make-f...
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My photography of the Total lunar eclipse, blood moon / supermoon visible from Sydney, NSW, Australia on 26th May 2021. ** The moon rose in the East (bottom right corner) and proceeded in a westerly direction.
I spent a lot of hours on the evening of 26th May photographing the various phases of the earth's shadow moving slowly creating the eclipse effect on the moon. Amazing to see but not so easy to photograph!
The moon, being a super moon was slightly larger than normal (I think around 7% due to its proximity to earth), but once higher in the sky it looked more like normal size.
I did not get great images of the "red" of the blood moon as the red was very dark, but I managed to capture one before the light started to come back.
I took numerous photos and added these photos as a collage in Photoshop to try to show the full view of this total eclipse as I viewed it at Carlingford in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
A lot of work both photographing and making a collage, but well worth it.
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[Wikipedia]
A total lunar eclipse occurred on 26 May 2021.[1] A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy) with Earth between the other two, which can only happen at a full moon. The eclipsed moon appeared as a faint red disk in the sky due to a small amount of light being refracted through the earth's atmosphere; this appearance gives a lunar eclipse its nickname of a Blood Moon.
It was the first total lunar eclipse since the January 2019 lunar eclipse, and the first in a series of an almost tetrad (with four consecutive total or deep partial lunar eclipses). The next total eclipse will occur in May 2022. The event took place near to lunar perigee; as a result, this supermoon was referred to in US media coverage as a "super flower blood moon", and elsewhere as a "super blood moon".
It will be followed in two weeks by an annular solar eclipse on 10 June 2021 over the northern polar regions of Earth.
Another interesting site to read:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7264307/how-to-see-this-we...
Copied from a SUSS newsletter.. all safe at Jenolan...
Jenolan will be closed until 31 January. A number of cottages and the fire shed were destroyed including the caver’s cottage.
They have no electronic communication available and won’t have for some time –
24 structures have been burnt in Buchan Village – plus one death.
There is a hot spot to the west of Wombeyan caves in the Green Wattle fire and Wombeyan itself appears to be within the fire perimeter.
Wee Jasper, Yarrangobilly, Wellington have escaped thus far although a large fire is threatening Cabramurra in Kosciuszko NP to the south of Yarrangobilly. If westerly winds continue this might become a real threat.
The number of non-show cave karst sites that have burnt is very high across NSW.
No information from Yanchep.
Regards .........
see google.org/crisismap/australia
A decade ago, Ross Garnaut's landmark climate change review reported fire seasons would start earlier, end slightly later and generally be more intense.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6567568/ross-garnauts-fire...
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
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Also see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
On a local walk with some visiting ACE FOLK...
Gravel pit across in NSW we visited once in 1969 or so... and on li-Los after a float down from Uriarra Crossing
See the search for an historic panorama in a painting by a surveyeor in 1835, or so..
In the mid-1830s, government surveyor Robert Hoddle trudged around much of our region mapping property boundaries. Hoddle also fancied himself as an artist and painted several scenes of his surroundings, especially along watercourses.
However, as Hoddle often exercised a healthy dose of artistic license in his trademark watercolours, some of the landscapes depicted in his art are more recognisable than others.
One painting that has puzzled landscape architects and art aficionados for decades is his dramatic watercolour of the Ginninderra Creek titled, Ginninderry [i.e. Ginninderra] Plains, New South Wales.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6390402/solving-a-long-run...
How does physical activity help your mind?
Immediate results - If you take a short, brisk walk you may feel more refreshed and relaxed. You may also find this benefit will help motivate you to walk more often and for longer.
Improved wellbeing - Being active can help ease anxiety and depression, especially when done in natural environments like parks and gardens. You may find yourself feeling happier, more confident, and sleeping better.
More opportunities to socialise - Being physically active is a great way to connect with others and build a sense of community. As you participate in more activities and exercise you might find yourself socialising more often with friends and family or perhaps joining an exercise class or sports team.
see www.heartfoundation.org.au/Heart-health-education/Physica...
At Ginninderry West Belconnen Canberra ACT
Where to Now for the Bushfire Inquiries?
The catastrophic bushfires of 2019/20 in eastern Australia are likely to be repeated with greater severity, as south-east Australia becomes hotter and drier, and dynamic fire propagation becomes more frequent. The various Bushfire Inquiries will, no doubt, recommend changes to fire-fighting, fuel reduction and building practices which have, in the past, been based on common steady-state forest fire behaviour. When bushfires become powerful enough to generate their own weather systems, however, little can be done to stop them.
The best solution is improved planning practice and bushfire design standards which take account of the latest bushfire behaviour research to locate new residential developments away from possibly indefensible locations, using a precautionary approach. As our cities grow, new suburbs on the urban fringe are increasingly built in areas where fire is an existential threat, as people optimistically choose to live near the bush, unaware of the increasing likelihood of extreme fires.
An example is the Ginninderry-Parkwood Development on the ACT/Yass shire boundary, between the Murrumbidgee River and Ginninderra Creek. This area has steep slopes to its north-west, an ideal site for dynamic bushfire propagation, resulting in wide-ranging ember attack driven by the north-westerly prevailing winds. This has been demonstrated by extreme bushfire behaviour expert, Professor Jason Sharples, and colleagues who, using modelling theory, found ember loads were 13-115 times higher in the Ginninderry area when compared with those for a known 2015 fire on the Mornington Peninsula where 32 houses were damaged all as a result of embers. In a geographic setting similar to Ginninderry, 100 structures were damaged in the Tathra fire of 2018. Ember attack or spotting is the main means of fire propagation in these cases.
The Ginninderry development complies with all current planning and bushfire regulations but these are likely to be inadequate for the bushfires of the future. If so, residents and firefighters may be unnecessarily endangered and the government might be held responsible, since the hazard was known when development was approved. Furthermore, where buffer zones are inadequate, demand by residents for more severe control burning on the steep slopes to protect housing from fires, or backburning in the event of a fire, would compromise the biodiversity values of the gorges of the Murrumbidgee and Ginninderra Creek and the associated fire-sensitive Black Cypress Pine forest, as well as threatened species like the Pale Pomaderris.
In cases like this, there is a conflict between revenue from land sales, the demand for housing blocks, and fire and environmental requirements. Consideration should be given to the extreme risks associated with dynamic fires near potential residential areas before rezoning occurs. Another significant consideration is the possibility that insurance companies will refuse to cover such areas or will make it too expensive to do so. In this situation, the burden will fall on the community as a whole, not on those who have benefited from the development.
from Ginninderra Falls Association
Newsletter: MEDIA RELEASE – 21 June 2020
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
left over from our last trip. from Shoal Bay and Kendall in May.
Here posed next to an IKEA Xmas decoration bought awhile ago on special.
Not related to these, but
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6565926/losing-everything-...
It's such a special time when the family gathers around to help put up the Christmas tree, but without fail, they all seem to disappear when it's time to pack it all away.
One by one I take the decorations off the fake trees branches and enjoy a moment of peace despite the fact I have a big and lonely job ahead.
The quiet gives me a moment to reflect on how special our family decorations are.
Four porcelain angels each bearing the name of our children. A funny little laminated photo of my daughter covered in red glitter made for me when she was in kindergarten. Then there is the pink angel that's now rather bald that hung on my parents' Christmas tree, a special memory from my childhood home.
Each is beyond priceless to me.
As I hold them in my hands ready to wrap and put away for another year, the TV distracts me from my memories and more images of Australia's bushfire crisis fill my lounge room with the distraught faces of those who have suffered through an extraordinary new year.
If a bushfire threatened my home, I honestly thought I had everything I couldn't bear to lose on the list of what to pack up in the car and flee with.
The kids, the dogs, mementos of my father, paintings from my aunt, cards written by the children, but I never thought to grab the Christmas box...........
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Male of the newly described Maratus harrisi displaying to a female. If you want to see the scientific description for this species you can download it here
peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_96.1.pdf
If you want to see a related species in action, I have produced three videos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgAbyYDFeg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppP03ERHbUI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVDolRfgseY
For an article about this species' discovery go to my Maratus harrisi set description or read a front page article in the Canberra Times
www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/how-amateurs-discove...
For equally interesting species of peacock spiders check out my collection "peacock spiders"
www.flickr.com/photos/59431731@N05/collections/7215762742...
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
See this photo used here by Tim the Yowie Man.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3b
See the kids car seat and pouf we used at the movies or in the canoe. Still have the homemade pouf/cushion.
Once used in some movie a few years ago. .
You should see the Fantastic ceiling in this little church!
www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
see Heritage listing site www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/heritagesearch.aspx
P8200366 Church #roundAustraliawithSpelio
See where this picture was taken. [?]
see link on the God problem..discussion by Ian Guthrie..
www.bobbrinsmead.com/t_Distinctions_Part3.html
Sunday school and all that..
If we cut ourselves off from our inherited culture, and are ignorant of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, the hymns, psalms and paraphrases, we are diminished.
What comes into your head when you hear the word ''pilgrim'' - not, admittedly, a frequent occurrence these days?
For some it may be the Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower, but for many it must be: ''Hobgoblin nor foul fiend/Shall him dispirit.'' Or some other lines from John Bunyan's great hymn: ''Who would true valour see/Let him come hither,'' which actually has an alternative first line: ''He who would valiant be.'' Anyone brought up in one of our Protestant churches will have sung that hymn, To be a Pilgrim. As a child I always used to belt out the hobgoblin and foul fiend line, albeit tunelessly.
Even today it's a favourite, and sometimes appropriate, funeral hymn.
Now, a group in the Church of England is so concerned about the seeping away of our inherited Christian culture that - alarmed by the discovery that even the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments are unfamiliar to many - it is offering parishes what it calls ''the pilgrim course'' to teach ''the basic tenets of Christianity''. ''Give us each day our daily bread,'' as you might say.
This seems an excellent idea, whether you are a believer and practising Christian or not. The fact is the Bible, in the Authorised or King James version, the Book of Common Prayer, Hymns Ancient and Modern and the Church of Scotland's Church Hymnary, with the metrical psalms and paraphrases, are as much a part of our culture as Shakespeare's plays, the novels of Scott, Austen and Dickens, the poetry of Milton, Burns, Wordsworth and Tennyson, or, for me and many other Scots, the Border ballads.
All represent a rich treasury on which we draw, often unthinkingly, without premeditation or conscious search. These days I would usually describe myself as an ageing agnostic who is no longer a churchgoer but one whose head, on account of family upbringing, school chapel and years of church attendance long ago, is so stocked with the words, phrases and sentences of Christian literature that they come unbidden to mind.
In the occasional moments of self-reproach, which may disturb even the most complacent of us, I find myself muttering the words of the General Confession: ''We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep ... We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.'' And (if I remember rightly): ''There is no health in us.'' Or the opening line of the Nunc Dimittis: ''Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.''
They offer a strange sort of comfort, even though one may have no desire at all to depart. This is partly, I think, because we know these words connect us not only to our own youth but to the generations that have gone before us.
Modern culture often seems to be horizontal. By this I mean that in the multitudinous Babel – or babble – of the world today, so copious in information, with our ears battered by sound and our eyes dazzled by computer screens, we may be ignorant of so much that has gone before. This is a form of provincialism. To be confined to one's own time is like being confined to one's own street. There is doubtless much of interest in that street but there is more beyond it.
A true culture is vertical; it reaches back into the past. Our inherited culture is Christian and, even if you cannot accept the message of Christianity or its fundamental premise that God created and orders the world, knowledge of our Christian heritage and literature is an enrichment of experience that may free us from the provinciality of the merely modern.
There is an exchange in James Elroy Flecker's play Hassan that makes the same point in another way. The Caliph says to the poet: ''If there should ever arise a nation whose people have forgotten poetry, or whose poets have forgotten the people, though they send their ships round Taprobane and their armies across the hills of Hindustan, though their city be greater than Babylon of old, though they mine a league into earth or mount to the stars on wings – what of them?''
To which the poet replies: ''They will be a dark patch on the earth.''
Well, today we do indeed mount to the stars on wings and mine a league into the earth or deep into the oceans. We know much that even the best-informed of our ancestors never knew, or even supposed might be known.
Yet, if we cut ourselves off from our inherited culture, and are ignorant of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, the hymns, psalms and paraphrases, we are diminished. We may indeed be that ''dark patch on the earth''. The 121st psalm says: ''I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.'' The hills we see, range behind range, lead us into the past, and the words of the past, coming unbidden to the mind, bring comfort and reassurance.
Telegraph, London
Read more: www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/the-past-is-always-prese...
Part of the LEGO Festival of Play, I had to make a 2.2m High LEGO Christmas tree, the only challenge was, I could only use 2x4 Green bricks, and 50,000 of them!
Here it is in the workshop before it left to head to the lucky winners.
I ended up making this tree and some Christmas gift boxes.
For a link to the lucky winners who won the tree, check out the links below:
(awesome people too! they were very cool.)
www.festivalofplay.com.au/news/article.php?id=498
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/treemendous-legolads-20...
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
..You, you give me something ...You're the one I truly know I dig ...
by Jamiroquai
Full moon attracts 'werewolves' (Headline from The Canberra Times - no kidding)
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Approaching Madura from Eucla, water from a jerrycan and fuel from a drum in the back seat. May 1965, A few years before the Eyre Highway was sealed.
This shot was taken when I was on the way to Perth for a new life, after first exploring the end of the longest cave on the mainland, Mullamullang, N37...see other images..
Read this interesting Blog on auto anthropology…. twoinadequatevoices.com/Auto-Anthropology
...and climbing the Bridge a couple of nights before leaving Sydney!
old cars found in barns in France..
au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/25703701/rare-car-collection-wo...
p120 replaced with original scan 1906x1500 on 31/01/18
there is a bigger uncropped file..
C:\Users\Bill Crowle\Pictures\Other Pictures\Photo Albums\1965
John mentioned on his deathbed, yesterday, 30/01/18, that he thought they bought it in Melbourne!
Now I am scanning his slide of this great shot, 17/08/25
He remembered on Dick's and my visit the next evening, how dust covered they were from having broken windows and the drum of petrol on the back seat...
Here is the link to the story of John's well lived life in the Canberra Times 50 odd years later......
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/johns-journeys-are-all-...
Ours was a 24/80. Says Mary! email 05-04-20 in a response to a Facebook exchange about what was the first car you drove!
No Madura or Mundrabilla on the pathetic Flickr map of this part of Australia...
Very tame here, but broken tiles, windows and large hail stones in south Canberra.
Manuka oval covered in hail, power outages, lines down and many damaged cars around the Parliamentary Triangle.
Holes in awnings....
Damaging winds and more to come, 16°C now dropped from 27°
116km gust at Canberra Airport.
Huge dust storms over Broken Hill- Bourke to Dubbo
We only got a few drops of rain.
Date and Time (Modified) - 2020:01:20 13:10:17 ICE file
BUT..
See local press report from the Canberra Times..
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6589994/canberra-storm-dec...
Photos of the damage..
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6589712/photos-of-the-hail...
Read and listen to.. www.rewiringaustralia.org/about
B5R111
See the story here by Tim the Yowie Man.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
At the confluence of Ginninderra Creek
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3bek
Christine showing her tree climbing skills...
Here she is at the National Tree Climbing Championships in CBR..
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/australia...
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Spencer's Creek Bridge, 1730 metres altitude.
"Kosciuszko's pioneer weather men
...The Kosciuszko project involved a summit station on Kosciuszko and a comparative station at Merimbula. With private sponsorship, Clement Wragge launched the expedition. In December 1897, with tent and instruments Wragge and his companions ascended Kosciuszko. Charles Kerry, a Sydney photographer and Snowy Mountains publicist, was with him. Mountain stockman James Spencer was their guide.
They arrived in freezing conditions and one of the Queenslanders went to bed one night wearing 29 items of clothing!"
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6437424/kosciuszkos-pionee...
Spencers Creek
James Spencer was one of the first people to run cattle on the high country, in the 1840s. One version says that Spencer fell off his horse into the creek. One of his stockmen is claimed to have said "If he wants a swim he can have the creek to himself", and the name stuck.
www.wikiski.com/wiki/index.php/Australian_Geographical_Na...
This year's peak snow depth climbed to 232 centimetres on September 20th, the highest in five years and 35cm above average (2022).
Link below
Behind the loos at Y section in Green Patch..
See note for her watching head location..
See my video of a black snake coiling up for the night....
Madison, who could smell their presence, spirit and "vibes" of the area.
An emotional experience to be assisted by her to hear the noises of the bush here, the goanna and our chat about the bush and ancient people who lived near her...
The snake allowed us to pass and watch her peacefully for sometime... This one is on Video from the ACE Youtube collection..
A Million snake bites around the world, but no deaths in Australia.. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6182067/australian-snake-m...
Publicity shot for the Conservation Council ACT Region.
Very late on a Friday afternoon, August 1, as people were heading off for drinks or to the pub or the snow fields, or tidying crockery in the office kitchen before heading home, the Federal Environment Minister, Hon Murray Watt, MP, quietly announced the go-ahead for the Canberra Airport to build a road at the end of a runway, giving the citically endangered Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon (lizard), which lives in habitat at the end of the runway, a red hot crack at extinction in the wild.
Hmm, am I misunderstanding Murray Watt's job description?
conservationcouncil.org.au/blog/2025/08/04/the-australian...
www.canberratimes.com.au/video/local/x9o4asi/earless-drag...
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
"Honey, who shrunk the house? " as Tim the Yowie man from the Canberra Times headlined his story in Panorama of March 17 2018.
see an update " Panorama " 8th Jan 2022
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7568255/lake-house-gets-th...
The miniature house won first prize at Weereewa the Lake George art festival, twelve years ago. Fro brick, iron, and timber on the then dry Lake bed...
So after a morning drive to see Kate's new lamb, we headed down the Nanima road to Lake George to find it.
The car GPS was hopeless beside the Federal Highway from around Gearys Gap at getting us back down Hadlow Drive and across Brooks Creek to the Bungendore Rd highway crossing! Never trust them in Australia and remote places...
The sunken house, made from conventional materials by sculptor Dave Argaet as his "Sands of Time" entry in the 2010 Weereewa Festival. It won first prize, reports, Tim.
When I saw Tim's photo in the "Panorama" story, I thought the shed must have gradually been buried over the years by the rising and falling of the waters of Lake George...
Many thanks to "Tim The Yowie Man" for his research and story.
200th Anniversary, "Discovery", by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, see Tim the Yowie Man..
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=816300282542739
I didn’t bother walking out to check if I could stand up inside…
#Roundaustraliawithspelio
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Lingerie Football League All-Star Games Tour; Sydney, Australia
Tonight the American born Lingerie Football League enjoyed its virgin game on Australian soil.
All Phones Arena was blessed with the privilege of staging the first game in Australia.
What was on offer? - tits and ass of course, and a good spread of athletic talent. We really enjoyed the girls individual celebrations after they scored the all important touchdowns, made even more visually titillating with spray tan thanks to the all important sponsor - Mobile Spray Tanning.
If your into NRL you might be into this, and if your into pro wrestling aka sports entertainment, you will probably have a strong appreciation of this unusual, titillating and exciting sport that seems to be perfect for a good number of Australian alpha males.
Well done players and promoters for putting on a heck of a show. Looks like this special brand of footy has already developed more than just a grass roots fan base down under in Australia.
Promo...
The 2012 LFL All-Star Game will feature 32 of the most athletic and beautiful women across the league as the Western and Eastern Conference teams clash in front of projected capacity crowds in Sydney and Brisbane, two cities that the LFL has identified as being potential homes for two of the franchises in 2013. Expect these games to be as explosive, combative and competitive as all the LFL games are as each player strives to impress for selection into the teams in 2013.
LFL Football, described at the 'ultimate live sports experience', has developed one of its largest international fan bases in Australia having developed a cult-like following on Australian broadcaster Fuel TV since the league’s inception in 2009. As much success as the LFL has enjoyed in the US, internationally the appetite for LFL Football has been even greater being broadcast in nearly 43 countries and drawing near capacity crowds in previous international game play in Mexico and Canada. The appeal internationally has been strong enough for the LFL to announce the formation and kick-off of several international leagues to include LFL Canada (Fall 2012), LFL Australia (Summer 2013) and LFL Europa (2014).
Newsflash: Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy Is Not A Fan!...
Federal Minister for Sport Kate Lundy: "Stop the Lingerie Football League in Australia. Our daughters deserve more. The LFL is about giving viewers an opportunity to perve on women in gear that looks like it's come from an adult shop. It's called the Lingerie Football League because it's almost exclusively about the underwear."
Women of the match?
Chloe Butler and Liz Gorman seemed to get over pretty well with the Sydney fan base. Not bad looking for football players, and multi talented for certain.
Websites
Lingerie Football League (Australia)
Lingerie Football League
All Phones Arena
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Canberra Times: Sport
Walk down the creek to shoot the sun through the smoke from the NSW bushfires.
A decade ago, Ross Garnaut's landmark climate change review reported fire seasons would start earlier, end slightly later and generally be more intense.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6567568/ross-garnauts-fire...
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