Ribh's D'Coopage

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[Ribh]

Don't know if you ever got it in the Americas but back in the 70's the Brits put out a show called Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. It was based around a complete incompetent who got himself in all sort of fixes. Well, we had our own real life version today.

This was last night.
The Aboriginal name for our bay means shallow, shallow water...
You don't moor boats in here
because...​

This is what happens.​

Yep, she's stuck fast
Yep, she went under.
Yep, she's still there.
Some mothers do 'ave 'em. ​

 

[Shadrach]

They are particularly bad this year. They have started early. Most are still out of control & we have a very long fire front ~ a great deal of which will be inaccessible & just have to burn itself out. Loss of life is rare ~ people in danger areas are usually well prepared~ but we are up to 4 or 5 dead already because these fires are moving so fast.

I have 2 lots of family in different fire paths; both on property. One only has his breeding stock still on the place because of the drought but their dams have been dry for a while now. The other is on acreage with a variety of things including chickens, peacocks, camels & llamas & only 1 road in or out ~ & they were in all sorts of trouble last night Still waiting to hear how it went this morning. I expect they're fine. They had air coverage & the wind change was to their advantage ~ but that just means somebody else was dealing with the fire.

We are high fire risk here. Every year something is burning. Thankfully so far it hasn't been here.
The Park has fire watch wardens on 24/7 and the fire response system seems to work reasonably well.

 

[Shadrach]

Don't know if you ever got it in the Americas but back in the 70's the Brits put out a show called Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. It was based around a complete incompetent who got himself in all sort of fixes. Well, we had our own real life version today.

This was last night.
The Aboriginal name for our bay means shallow, shallow water...
You don't moor boats in here
because...​

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This is what happens.​

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Yep, she's stuck fast
Yep, she went under.
Yep, she's still there.
Some mothers do 'ave 'em. ​

I remember that TV series. I think Frank Spencer was the lead character.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[Ribh]

Good evening folks

Hey Bob! How's it going.

 

[rjohns39]

I'm doing well, how about you?

 

[Ribh]

We are high fire risk here. Every year something is burning. Thankfully so far it hasn't been here.
The Park has fire watch wardens on 24/7 and the fire response system seems to work reasonably well.

They get nervous around here. They put the air sea rescue helicopters in the air looking for spot fires.

You seem to be getting rain @ present. You might send it our way.

 

[Ribh]

I remember that TV series. I think Frank Spencer was the lead character.

Yep, that's right. Michael Crawford did a great job of him.

 

[Ribh]

I'm doing well, how about you?

Warmish but we have the sea breeze.