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When I returned from my month in the UK last year, I had a ten pound note left worth about $16A.
I went to the bank and asked them to change it to Aussie dollars but there was a $10 administration fee for any amount so it would have left me with enough for a coffee, so I kept it, as I might as well burn it.
In 1983, the Aussie dollar was floated allowing its value to fluctuate dependent on supply and demand on international money markets.
The Aussie dollar took a serious nose dive and at its worst was worth about half the USD.
This meant that if we wanted to go to the US, it was a very expensive exercise.
Now the USD is collapsing as the government prints money like there is no tomorrow, and the Australian economy is stong so the Aussie dollar had got as high as $1.10 USD, so all of a sudden it looks attractive to blow the dust off the passport again. There are elements of the Australian tourism industriy crying to the government that it isn't right because the American holiday makers have slowed down. Hello - we have been suffering for nearly 30 years.
Studio drama.
I decided to use some burning paper for effect, so got a metal oven tray to collect the dropping ashes.
Mrs Mail was watching me from the lounge next to the patio where I was doing it.
However, it was a little bit windy and the burning paper flared up quickly and I had to drop it. Of course, the wind didn't allow it to drop on the tray and it drifted off course over the black drop cloth and onto the patio floor.
The paper extinguished quickly but not before the hair on the back of Mrs Mails neck stood up.
I got the dustpan and hand brush, but as fast as I swept it into the pan, the breeze blew it out all over the patio.
So plan B was get the little vacuum cleaner from the garage and collect all the black cinders that were spreading all over the patio. I really should have got the house vacuum cleaner as it has a variable speed motor, which when turned up just might have drowned out the lecture from Mrs Mail.
Such dedication to photography - I really don't know where it comes from.
Cindery BLACK
7DOS - Lights theme
ODC - Foreign Challenge
President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stolenberg participate in a joint press conference, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stolenberg participate in a joint press conference, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official Who House Photo by Paul Williams)
Kodak Pony 135
Walgreens Film 400 iso
First roll (a test roll I guess) through the Pony.
We'll maybe wake up
in foreign cities where the sun's a ghost,
a figment of itself and angular
starched consonants braid the tongue at its root
so all sense of who we are is lost to words,
and nothing that we know can be unravelled.
- from "Salt" by Eugenio Montale
I'm not even sure which version of R2 this is, I don't remember the "sewage treatment" battle-pack but I must have bought it at some point.
Cool driftwood placed perfectly on the shoreline for photographers... in the mist. Conditions don't get much better! Wonder where it came from...Norway maybe?
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Legionnaires from 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2nd REP) board the French Navy Ship Foudre after deployment to Côte d’Ivoire as reinforcements during the recent troubles. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire 29 April 2011.
Foreign power on Cajon pass finds Norfolk and Southern mixed in with the usual BNSF suspects on Cajon pass.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivers remarks on the UN Security Council's vote on Syria on December 18, 2015, at the United Nations in New York City, NY. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Staff Sgt. Robert Eady conducts a well certification review Nov. 3, 2014, at Langley Air Force Base, Va. Nondestructive inspection technicians use X-ray to identify foreign objects in aircraft parts. Debris, no matter the size, can lead to disastrous consequences if introduced into an aircraft engine. Eady is a 1st Maintenance Squadron NDI technician. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Antoinette Gibson/Released)
Image made in Berea, Ohio, in the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. The train is sitting on the Berea siding of the Chicago Line of Norfolk Southern.
The 2015 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo - the annual event combining military spectacle, cultural performance vibrant music and international colour, set on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle.
Legionnaires from the French Foreign Legion during combat operations while serving in Afghanistan with ISAF - 2011
Photos: Adj. Pelote
A Romanian national from the 1st section "Les Aigles " (the eagles) of the 2nd REG , serving as a soldier with the French Foreign Legion, at Forward Operating Base Tagab-Kutschbach near Tagab in Kapisa Province on January 24, 2011. The French Foreign Legion, a military unit established in 1831, was created for foreign nationals of any nationlity wishing to serve in the French armed forces.
The majority of foreign registered vehicles I see over here to be motorhomes of somesort; the proximity to Newcastle ferry terminal and the historic city of Durham brings a lot of European visitors over to the North East especially now that the summer is here. This was spotted in the local motorway service station and looked very well used; I imagine its owners use it regularly for cross country jaunts.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China on June 18, 2023. [State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/Public Domain]
Kansas City Southern de Mexico SD70ACe's 4130 and 4085 take a siesta at BNSF's Murray Yard in North Kansas City, Mo. The yard was once BN's and CB&Q's primary classification yard in the Kansas City area, but now is used to stage non-intermodal trains and store locomotives.
Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with Ibrahim Al-Jaafari (right), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, in Baghdad.
UN Photo/Samad Al-Safy
30 March 2017
Baghdad, Iraq
Photo # 718817
With back to back trains having solid BNSF and KCSM (CPKC) power, is this VA or ND? Another ACe leader here, this time Southern Belle style, leading ethanol loads east along the James River towards Fulton Yard in Richmond, VA.
CSXT Rivanna Sub | Maidens, VA
CSXT B63321 w/ KCSM 4134 & KCSM 4902 (DPU)
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Day Memorial Plaque Ceremony at the Department in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2017. The Secretary paid tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country around the world. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
French légionnaires from the 2e régiment étranger d’infanterie and 1er régiment étranger de cavalerie with their ERC 90 Sagaie took part in a combined arms live fire exercise at the Moussoro, 300 km northeast of N'Djamena Chad, also taking part were French Air Force Mirage F1 Fighters and TACP (Tactical Air Control Party) In addition to an Air Force Puma helicopter and a medical team on board conducted a medical evacuation exercise.
After the first battles in the exercise scenarios, the Infantry requested the support of armored Cars, equipped with a 90 mm gun and Mirage F1 have carrying out several air-ground strikes with ammunition exercise, followed by strafing with cannon.
Maneuvers of this type are regularly organized by the force Epervier Indeed, coordinating air / ground is a complex field that requires regular training for the mastery of the procedures – 12th January 2012