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Going Bush!
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On the Indian Pacific train you depart Adelaide 6:40 pm reaching Port August at 11pm; then Tarcoola 4:20 am; the siding of Bates at 7:40am. We have a brief stop at the former township of Cook at 9:45 am. We should reach Forrest in Western Australia about 1:54 pm; Rawlinna at 2:26 pm and Kalgoorlie at 7:10 pm.
As a condition of entering the federation of Australia WA Premier Sir John Forrest insisted on a transcontinental rail link with the eastern states via Port Augusta. Work began in 1912 and was completed in 1917. Water for the steam engines was obtained from bores across the Nullarbor but the high salt content meant steam engines rusted out very quickly. Coal was shipped from NSW and transported across the Nullarbor to tiny rail sidings and left in stockpiles to fuel the steam furnaces. It was a costly and relatively slow way of crossing from SA to Perth. The journey involved several changes of gauges from Adelaide with the first at Terowie where the 5’3” rail gauge line ended. The 3’6” gauge from Terowie meandered north through Quorn and down through the Pichi Richi Pass to Port August. Here was another change of gauge to the new standard line across to Kalgoorlie.
At Kalgoorlie a further change of gauge occurred back to 3’6” the main gauge used in WA. The first train to cross from Sydney to Perth without a change of gauge was in 1970. The first air-conditioned train to cross to Perth from Port Pirie was in 1951. The original trip from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie took 42 hours but was later reduced to 29 hours by 1936 when the new direct line from Adelaide to Port Pirie opened. Today we travel the same section in 19 hours from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie.
Nullarbor.
This flat limestone plain is the largest area of karst landscape, with numerous subsurface caves, in the world. It stretches 1,200 kms from near Ceduna to near Norseman in WA. On it southern border high limestone cliffs face the Great Australian Bight; to the north the limestone plain becomes the Great Victoria Desert, a typical sandy desert. Nullarbor comes for the Latin “nullus” meaning not any and “arbor” meaning trees- hence no trees. However, this does not mean the Nullarbor lacks vegetation (or interest). Around 800 species of plants including saltbush and blue bush grow across the Nullarbor or its edges. Wildlife is plentiful but water is not. Somehow Edward John Eyre and his overseer John Baxter, managed to cross the inhospitable landscape with the help of his Aboriginal friend Wylie in 1841. The pair was saved by a French whaling ship on the coast near Esperance. After receiving food and water Eyre and Wylie continued overland to Albany to complete the crossing from Streaky Bay.
Eyre was award the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in London for this incredible journey. After the journey Eyre took up land in SA and became Protector of Aborigines near Blanchetown (Moorundie).
The Characters of the Crossing.
The stations/sidings which you will probably not even see as they whizz by include a list of many of Australian
Prime Ministers and the eccentric Daisy Bates. In order, after Tarcoola which we pass through during the night, the sidings are: Barton; Bates; Ooldea; Watson; Fisher and Cook where we stop for a short time. Beyond Cook where the line is straight for a very long distance the sidings are: Denman; Hughes; Forrest (which has the major airport); Rawlinna, Chifley; Curtin and finally Kalgoorlie.
Barton. Sir Edmund Barton, 1829-1920, was an Australian born NSW scholar and politician. A staunch federalist he became the first Australian Prime Minister in 1901. He was the driving fore behind the writing of the Australian Constitution. He pushed for the White Australia Policy and got an act to repatriate Kanaka workers from Queensland. He resigned in 1903 to become a judge of the High Court of Australia.
Bates. Daisy Bates, 1863-1951, was an eccentric Irishwoman who migrated to Australia in 1884. She married in 1885 but seldom lived with her husband. After a five year trip to England she returned to Australia and took up living with remote Aboriginal communities, firstly in the Kimberlies and then at Ooldea in SA. She lived at Yalata or Ooldea from 1915 to 1934. She favoured segregation of full blood Aboriginal people, maintained they practised cannibalism and was unpopular with academic anthropologists but she had many articles written in newspapers to popularise her ideas and her work. She died at Prospect and was buried in North Road Anglican cemetery.
Ooldea. Ooldea has been an Aboriginal camping place for aeons as it has permanent water. Ernest Giles the explorer was the first white person to discover the water here in 1875. Ooldea became the rail siding for the Maralinga nuclear testing site and it was the home of Daisy Bates for many years.
Watson. John Christian Watson, 1867 -1941, was the third Prime Minister but served for only four months in 1904. He was Australia’s first Labor Prime Minister and he favoured protective tariffs. He retired from federal politics in 1910. He was known for his “Viking style” beard!
Fisher. Andrew Fisher, 1862-1928, was Prime Minister three times, 1908-9; 1910-13; and 1914-15. He was a founding Labor politician. Whilst PM he oversaw the establishment of the Australian Navy, the founding of the Commonwealth Bank, the founding of Canberra and the splitting of the Northern Territory from SA. He was also PM when a start was made on the Transcontinental rail line from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie in 1912. Not surprisingly the first few rail sidings across the Nullarbor are named after Labor Prime Ministers, except for Barton, our first Prime Minister. The conservative/national/free trade Prime Minsters generally have sidings in WA towards Kalgoorlie!
Cook. This station and tiny township was not named after Captain James Cook but Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook, 1860-1947. Cook was the sixth PM in 1913-14. He began as a Labor politician but in the federal sphere switched away from protectionism to free trade. He served as a Liberal free trade Prime Minister. Cook agreed to the British request for troops to support them in World War One in France and Turkey.
Denman. Sir Thomas Denman, 1874-1954, was a British military man. He was appointed as Governor General of Australia in 1911. He conducted the founding ceremony for the establishment of Canberra in 1913. Denman interfered in federal politics and supported the PM who wanted complete Australian control and autonomy for the Australian Navy. Denman publically supported this. He was recalled to England in May 1914. Throughout the 1920s he supported Australia’s point of view in debates in the British House of Lords.
Hughes. William (Billy) Hughes was the first long surviving Australian Prime Minister as he was in power from 1915-1923. This record was not beaten until 1957 by Sir Robert Menzies. Billy Hughes lived from 1862- 1952. Hughes’ other record, being the longest serving member of parliament has not yet been surpassed. He was a politician for almost 52 years! Hughes served in earlier Labor ministries but split the Labor Party in 1917 by proposing conscription for the World War One war effort. He was expelled from the Labor Party! But he won the next election in alliance with the National Party. In 1923 he had insufficient parliamentarians to form government but he remained in parliament as a member of the United Australia Party which later became the Liberal Party. He died whilst still a parliamentarian aged 90 years.
Deakin. This siding is right on the WA/SA border. Alfred Deakin, 1856-1919, served as Prime Minister three times in the first few years of federation from 1903-4; 1905-8; and 1909-10. Alfred Deakin was a protectionists and finally Liberal in parliament. He was a great leader in the federation moment, a former Victorian Premier and is credited with starting the nation building process for Australia when he was Prime Minister. He was a scholar and a lawyer.
Reid. Sir George Reid, 1845-1918, was Prime Minister in 1904-5. He was a devout exponent of free trade and a Liberal but the other Liberal Alfred Deakin would not support him and his free trade policies. He went on to be leader of the Opposition against the Labor governments that followed him.
Forrest. Sir John Forest, 1847-1918, the first Baron Forrest of Bunbury, was an explorer, surveyor and politician extraordinaire. He was born at Bunbury in WA and became the founding Premier of WA when partial self-government was granted by Britain in 1890. Forrest led the explorers who did the first west to east crossing of the Nullarbor from Perth to Adelaide in 1870.
He was the first Western Australian knighted in 1891. He served as Premier of WA from 1890 to 1901 during the decade when the population exploded with the gold discoveries at Kalgoorlie. He acted for the establishment of a water pipeline to Kalgoorlie; he unilaterally rejected Britain’s control of WA Aboriginal Affairs and summarily ended it; he took government control of the Great Southern Railway to Albany; he repealed a section of the state Constitution which stated 1% of all tax royalties must be spent on Aboriginal people. From 1901 to his death in 1918 he was a member of the federal parliament aligned with non-Labor politicians. Although he supported federation he fought hard for rights for WA including the building of a transcontinental railway from Port Augusta.
Forrest’s reluctance to join federation until concessions were promised for WA led politicians and others in the goldfields to propose a new state called Auralia to enter the federation, even if the rest of WA did not. The capital of that state would have been Kalgoorlie. Once Forrest finally committed WA to join the federation this proposal for a separate state of Auralia was dropped.
The Forrest siding or settlement with only a couple for residents is known for its airport. It has the largest runway outside of a capital city in case it is needed for emergency or military use. Light aircraft use the airport as a refuelling stop across the Nullarbor.
Rawlinna. This siding is named after the local sheep station, the largest in the world, with an historical homestead. Up to 80,000 sheep have been shorn in one year on Rawlinna Station.
Chifley. Joseph Benedict Chifley, 1885-1951, was a Labor Prime Minister for Australia after the Second World War from 1945- 1949. Ben Chifley introduced the Snowy Mountains irrigation scheme and founded the Australian National University in Canberra. He was no longer PM in 1951 but still a parliamentarian when he died in office in Canberra. He lost the 1949 elections on his proposal to nationalise the banks of Australia.
Curtin. John Curtin, 1884-1945 was the Labor Prime Minister for Australia during most of World War Two from 1941-45. He died in office in July 1945 just six weeks before the end of the War. His great contribution was to reject British proposals for the deployment of Australian troops to protect their interests and to put them under the command of General Douglas MacArthur from America who used our troops in South East Asia and New Guinea to protect Australia from invasion by the Japanese.
Kalgoorlie.
Gold was discovered here by Patrick Hannan and the city emerged overnight in 1893. The finds were so rich that it is still known as the richest mile on the planet. Thousands swarmed to the gold fields but deep shaft mining meant casual prospectors were soon just mine employees and most left the goldfields. By 1898 the town had a population of around 2,000 but only 500 were women. Once a railway line from Perth reached the town the population grew. The water pipeline reached the city in 1903 offering coastal amenities to outback residents! It was this small population of about 5,000 in 1900 that were in favour of joining the federation of Australia and creating a new state called Auralia. The port for this new colony would have been Esperance. The mine continued giving its riches to the mining companies. When it began in 1893 gold worth £421,000 was produced in WA. By 1900 the value of gold found in WA was worth £6,000,000! And the boom still continues in WA with nickel, oil, gas and iron and Kalgoorlie has the largest open cut mine in the world.
But relations on the gold fields have not always been cordial. Kalgoorlie is known for the 1934 Race Riots as mobs against Greek, Italian and Slavic mobs rioted, attacked and burned Greek and Slavic owned properties. Extra police were sent from Perth to quell the riots. The riot broke out on a Saturday night, a traditional night for drinking and violence. Foreign owned hotels were burned and residences lived in by foreigners had their windows smashed in both Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie. This was and still is the Wild West! Unlike the eastern states WA has always had more land than people and even into the 1970s virgin farmland was being granted or sold to new comers for little money. One of the last large cereal farming areas developed, which would have been in the state of Auralia, was at Esperance in the 1970s.
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Here is my new air conditioner just installed!
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The old one was dark brown and dingy. This one is cream colored and blends in with my walls. Tried it out and it's deliciously chilly in here.
Thursday 31 October 2013: Nyaung Shwe (ညောင်ရွှေမြို့) / Khaung Daing (ေခါင္တိုင္)
My free day at Nyaung Shwe began with a glimpse of the local monks on their morning rounds before rendezvousing with Anna and Miriam at breakfast in the Hu Pin hotel's almost open air dining area. Our plan for the day was to hire bicycles and to find the hot springs on the west side of Inle Lake.
But first we headed into the town market in search of woven plastic baskets... First seen in Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့) and again at Kalaw (ကလောမြု့), the brightly coloured modern versions of the bamboo shopping baskets had been top of my souvenir list for a while but had proved elusive in Nyaung Shwe other than at tourist shops, where they came with tourist prices to match. We'd almost given up hope of finding them in the market when suddenly we saw a flock of ladies gather around a pair of opening shutter doors... through which bundles of packet baskets started to materialise. We had chanced upon the town's best basket shop - and, after watching a few local ladies and gents make their purchases, three baskets were duly bought.
Next stop, the post office. Small and off the beaten track, we followed instructions from the hotel's receptionist team and arrived just as the post office opened. Josh's prediction that no post card would make it back home was to prove unfounded - which meant my recipients ended up getting two each, with stamps commemorating the upcoming Southeast Asian Games being hosted by Myanmar. Success all round.
Back to the hotel to drop off our baskets and to pick up hot springs kit, and then on to hire bikes from a stall on the far side of the market. Although not in as good condition as the ones we'd hired for our Bagan explorations, our Nyaung Shwe bikes were hardy enough to get us out and about along the lakeside roads which came both surfaced and not.
A smashing day out, albeit not successful in terms of our planned destinations: the hot springs at Khaung Daing (ေခါင္တိုင္) have been turned into a tourist spa, but we had a lovely time cycling through the countryside as far as the Hu Pin Khaung Daing Village Resort where we pottered around manicured gardens and up to the pagoda at the top of a long flight of steps, rewarded with beautiful views out over the lake, a chatty, tubby, monk and more glittering, mirror mosaic decor. It turned out the rest of our group were at the hotel too, lunching on the restaurant verandah along with two other western girls - the only guests we saw in the whole place.
Retracing our steps (tyres) towards Nyaung Shwe, we stopped off at the Innoo Ancient Pagodas and paused at Khaung Daing opposite the hot springs to climb up to the pagoda (and spotted the bubbling public pool at the base of the staircase), where the guardian provided tea and snacks as we rested in the cool interior. Lots of interesting village life en route in both directions - schools, markets, shops, restaurants, and temples of course, and super helpful people every time we stopped for directions.
Cycling straight through Nyaung Shwe, we went in search of the Red Mountain Vineyards from whence we'd hoped to watch the sun set with a glass of red wine... but we failed to find the sign or the road - I wish I'd seen this map before! Instead, after a refreshing, farewell, juice at the lovely Aurora, we headed back across the river to the tree lined avenue we'd cycled along in the morning, and found a sunset spot with a view out over the ponds to an old monastery and the hills behind with a lone fisherman checking his nets closer by. Both our days at Inle Lake brought beautiful late afternoon light.
Back in Nyaung Shwe and having returned our bikes, we stood firm in our resolve to deny ourselves a third dinner at the Aurora - tempting though it was - opting for the night market instead. Home to a handful of food stalls with a welcoming sign-cum-menu listing all the dishes on offer at the entrance, it was hard to choose between the family run stalls so we plumped for the one that offered a Shan style food with an English version of their menu. At 500 kyat a dish we feasted on dishes whose names took our fancy, and topped it all off with a takeaway sweet paratha from the adjacent stand.
A day which brought home to me my good fortune in hooking up with fellow adventurers, Anna and Miriam.
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Strength and Conditioning coach Rich Casella works with student athletes in the James Gym fitness center, fall term, 2021. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
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Please mark your calendars for our Spring Bread and Cheese Creek which will be are largest cleanup to date! These photos show the current sad condition of this historic stream. We plan to clean up Bread and Cheese Creek form the Berkshire section to North Point Road on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, All the assistance from volunteers and sponsor is greatly appreciated! We know this is a huge section of stream to tackle but I know we can do it!
This cleanup will be in conjunction with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s Project Clean Stream and it will be our fifth year working with them! This cleanup will also be in conjunction with American Rivers. We will supply trash bags, gloves, water, snacks and lunch. A limited supply of waders and tools will also be available for sign out during the cleanup.
Remember, there plenty of ways for volunteers to participate. We will need every type of person of every ability level to contribute and assist with the Clean Up. Though it is true we will need people to dig out shopping carts and haul trash to the dumpsters, we can use people to run water, food, tools, and trash bags (both empty and full) to individuals in the creek. People to sort recyclables from the debris removed. People will be needed to work the grills as well as many other less strenuous activities. We are also authorized to sign-off on Community Service and Service Learning Hours for students. The more people we have, the easier the work will be for everyone. Please feel free to pass this information on to other who might be interesting in helping as well. As my grandfather always said, "Many hands makes the work light". We run our cleanups as a family event with all age groups welcome by developing plenty of ways for volunteers to participate.
Our cleanups are part of an ongoing effort clean the entire stream by the 2014 bicentennial celebration of War of 1812 Bicentennial Celebration. (Bread and Cheese Creek has been noted as one of the highlighted location on the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail) The creek played a rather significant part in the Battle of North Point which took place on September 12, 1814. Both the American and British Troops camped along its banks. It is rumored that the young heroes Daniel Wells (19) and Henry McComas (18) used the stream channel to sneak up on British General Robert Ross killing him with their muskets before being killed in return fire. This important part of our history should not be left the eyesore it currently is and those who died defending our country honored in this way.
You can learn more about us through our website at www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org, become our friend on FaceBook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest or follow us on Twitter and/or join the Clean Break and Cheese Creek Group. You can also see photos of our past cleanups on Flickr and our videos on YouTube. You can also subscribe to out Electronic Newsletter.
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Bechstein Model 7 uprigtht piano, concert size. In good condition - mostly original, but re-polished case. Stays in tune > 1yr. A robust musician's instrument with good tone.
I know it's frowsy but, when I have more time, I will build it inside a tidy steel box. This device will control the a/c in my absence, making sure my kids will stay comfortable. I'm waiting for FedEX to deliver a pilot relay and a programmable thermostat. The pilot relay may not be necessary, but I'm afraid the thermostat could not directly drive the 40 amp contactor. The manufacturer does not specify max current output, let alone for a reactive load. I'm not going to be here to operate the a/c should it fail, so it needs to be as reliable as possible.
Most all evaporative air conditioners are simple on/off devices; turn them on when you get hot; turn them off when you get cold. Since I'm not going to be home for three days, this device is necessary to modulate the a/c, so my cats will stay comfortable.
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An olod Fedders air conditioning unit. its a 1960s model with the heating feature. used in many apartment buildings. these are still pout there, if your lucky enough to have one, keep it and fix it. if you find one that someone is getting rid of, TAKE IT!
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Economical reliable Yanmar diesels provide the power, and there is an excellent navigation system on board which includes Raymarine E-Series touch screen plotter and autopilot. All the rigging and sails are in good condition.
There are two air conditioners in my flat. When I last April first moved in, one of them began leaking which prompted a phone call from management informing me of this quality of life abomination. At the time, in my ignorance, I didn't bother to inform the landlord: I simply started the other air conditioner up and, it working perfectly, didn't have to trouble myself over these infernal machines for a year.
Last week, however, that all changed. The other machine, which had held up so well as to beguile me into a false sense of climate-controlled security, unleashed a steady trickle of water - drip, drip, drip - onto the flats below. Nonetheless, what between the myriad professional revelations and the impact of years of spiritual checks inundating me this past week, taking care of this leaky contraption dropped off my radar, up until the verbal warnings given to me by the building management became written ones, to which I surely had to respond.
It took a few days to finally reach my landlord with whom I had rarely spoken since he took control of the flat a few months earlier. In the meantime, I had called the repairman - that same surly bloke who has visited me on numerous occasions during my stay in this building; a verily grim reaper of repairs - to attend to the matter of fixing the leaking units. He came, pulled the unit out from the wall after exerting himself mightily, and then judged the situation - hopeless. The air conditioners indeed were so old and were installed so ineptly that removing one from its precipitous resting place to examine, even, would destroy the machine as he had just discovered. The verdict was to scrap the air conditioners and to purchase new ones. The repairman left the carcass of the conditioner on the floor, and used its cover to plug up the gaping hole in the wall as best as he could.
The landlord and his wife eventually visited the flat a few days later. They had never seen the flat before, and had purchased it as though they were blind and dumb. Unfortunately, upon inspecting the awkward configuration of the unit and hearing its disrepair history, which I readily supplied, both they and I realized how we had been conned by the previous landlord, a shifty sales agent who knew how to cover structural blemishes with a wave of a hand and a few cajoling words. The flat, as far as they were concerned, was not as they had imagined in their ignorance based on the duplicity of the previous landlord; and little wonder that that landlord wanted me to take responsibility for the air conditioners, I realized! The new landlords, humbled by their tragic mistakes, departed my abode to consider their options, the foremost of which is to flip the flat as soon as possible.
Actually, it hasn't been too taxing to sleep without an air conditioner. I purchased a steady fan which can blow a comforting gale into my face for hours at a time without it offering as much as a flinch.
But, the bugs began crawling on the walls. They either came out of the air conditioning unit, or they came in from the outside, through the hole in the wall. I only noticed these diabolical, diminutive vermin a few days ago. I had just stepped out of the shower when I examined closely the wall and remarked, "crap, there are dozens of small bugs crawling on my wall!" The initial shock rattled me greatly, only to transform into an arctic chill deep within my bones when I saw a few of these insects on the frame of my bed. That they were the benign sort neither bent on eating my flesh nor crawling into my orifices was my prayer. Thankfully, they have so far stayed away from my pillow, settling instead comfortably on my wall where they have multiplied exponentially over the past few days. The landlord recommended getting the repairman to remove the air conditioning obstruction from my flat as soon as possible, and covering up the hole in the wall with plastic wrap as well.
There are two air conditioners in my flat. When I last April first moved in, one of them began leaking which prompted a phone call from management informing me of this quality of life abomination. At the time, in my ignorance, I didn't bother to inform the landlord: I simply started the other air conditioner up and, it working perfectly, didn't have to trouble myself over these infernal machines for a year.
Last week, however, that all changed. The other machine, which had held up so well as to beguile me into a false sense of climate-controlled security, unleashed a steady trickle of water - drip, drip, drip - onto the flats below. Nonetheless, what between the myriad professional revelations and the impact of years of spiritual checks inundating me this past week, taking care of this leaky contraption dropped off my radar, up until the verbal warnings given to me by the building management became written ones, to which I surely had to respond.
It took a few days to finally reach my landlord with whom I had rarely spoken since he took control of the flat a few months earlier. In the meantime, I had called the repairman - that same surly bloke who has visited me on numerous occasions during my stay in this building; a verily grim reaper of repairs - to attend to the matter of fixing the leaking units. He came, pulled the unit out from the wall after exerting himself mightily, and then judged the situation - hopeless. The air conditioners indeed were so old and were installed so ineptly that removing one from its precipitous resting place to examine, even, would destroy the machine as he had just discovered. The verdict was to scrap the air conditioners and to purchase new ones. The repairman left the carcass of the conditioner on the floor, and used its cover to plug up the gaping hole in the wall as best as he could.
The landlord and his wife eventually visited the flat a few days later. They had never seen the flat before, and had purchased it as though they were blind and dumb. Unfortunately, upon inspecting the awkward configuration of the unit and hearing its disrepair history, which I readily supplied, both they and I realized how we had been conned by the previous landlord, a shifty sales agent who knew how to cover structural blemishes with a wave of a hand and a few cajoling words. The flat, as far as they were concerned, was not as they had imagined in their ignorance based on the duplicity of the previous landlord; and little wonder that that landlord wanted me to take responsibility for the air conditioners, I realized! The new landlords, humbled by their tragic mistakes, departed my abode to consider their options, the foremost of which is to flip the flat as soon as possible.
Actually, it hasn't been too taxing to sleep without an air conditioner. I purchased a steady fan which can blow a comforting gale into my face for hours at a time without it offering as much as a flinch.
But, the bugs began crawling on the walls. They either came out of the air conditioning unit, or they came in from the outside, through the hole in the wall. I only noticed these diabolical, diminutive vermin a few days ago. I had just stepped out of the shower when I examined closely the wall and remarked, "crap, there are dozens of small bugs crawling on my wall!" The initial shock rattled me greatly, only to transform into an arctic chill deep within my bones when I saw a few of these insects on the frame of my bed. That they were the benign sort neither bent on eating my flesh nor crawling into my orifices was my prayer. Thankfully, they have so far stayed away from my pillow, settling instead comfortably on my wall where they have multiplied exponentially over the past few days. The landlord recommended getting the repairman to remove the air conditioning obstruction from my flat as soon as possible, and covering up the hole in the wall with plastic wrap as well.
Condition: Near Mint (NM)
Sleeve condition: Very Good (VG)
$14.50
In stock
Label / Catalog: Polydor – 16077
Year: 1972
Country: Mexico
Format: LP - Album - 12" -
Sleeve: Storage wear
Jazz Blues Fusion is a live album by John Mayall. The first side is from a gig in Boston on 18 November 1971, and the second side was selected from two concerts at Hunter College, New York, on 3 and 4 December 1971.
Found this one online awhile ago, figured id share it. they are from this page here: www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?3220... :just so credit goes to the right people. correct me if im wrong on the date, but this has got to be older than my 1955 GE. perhaps this is a 1954 model?
55-17-EP CHEVROLET Impala Hardtop Coupe 1967.
Mid 90's, back in the analogue days I'd found this car for the first time at the very same spot. Also then already clearly in an used state. Since then I didn't return to this place.
Now I was very much surprised finding her here again.
Regarding its condition, state rules and environmental regulations I consider it as a miracle this damaged Chevrolet is still in the street.
Same owner since December 1971.
6 cylinder,
1724 kgs.
Amsterdam-Z., Ouderkerkerdijk, March 8, 2012.
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I was looking at this remarkable sight on Dundas street near my home and was thinking wouldn't Ivy be the best kind of air conditioning? shielding the house when it's hot, letting the sun on when it's old... seems pretty perfect to me? has anyone noticed the effect? I will grow Ivy on our building!!! I am, I bought a pot and landed it near the corner of the rail to the basement and the porch wall... it's growing!!!