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An oldie, but worth a second look...

Fri, Feb 14, 10:33 PM (16 hours ago) to In a train from London to Manchester, an American was berating the Englishman sitting across from him. "The trouble with you English is that you are so bloody stuffy ... You set yourselves above the average person. Do you really think your stiff upper lip attitude really works… Look at me: I'm me! I have a little Italian in me, a bit of Greek blood, a little Irish and some Spanish blood. What do you say to that?" The Englishman lowered his newspaper and replied, "How very sporting of your mother."

Err, welch is when you don’t pay on a lost bet. Welsh is the proper name for taffys I think.

Excellent! Many thanks for that info. I do remember that there was some dispute re the 'Pendennis Castle', but didn't attach the two incidents. Will certainly dig deeper as your info has whet my appetite! Bob.

When I lived in Yorkshire some 56 years ago, I seem to remember there was a big strike in one of the big shipyards, Harland and Wolff, or, Cammell Laird that occurred because 2 men, a welder and his offsider argued as to whose job it was to lift the chalked string to mark a steel plate in order to cut it. I remember that a lot of jobs were lost due to that insignificant act. Can anyone shed light on the incident, please.

Would that be its BUM? Brain under mutilation

@The Flying Tench, A bit more to that photo. I was fishing with a couple of youngsters this morning and one of them knows the bloke in the photo. Seems he was just walking along the bank and saw the fish further along the bank, dead. He reasoned that it was from hot weather????...And reasoned that it was 50 kg.????? So, it made the local news Most likely caught and kept out of the water too long, while taking photos. As to size, I reckon 35 kg would be a lot closer. BTW, Kinchant Dam has an impressive record for barra. https://kinchantwaters.com.au/

Barramundi fishing in Queensland? Big, big barra to 140 cm (55”) At my local dam.

When you see about 20,000 of the stinking, evil creatures take about 15 minutes to fly past, it gets that you need a barrage of 12 gauge shotguns. Absolute decimation of backyard mango trees. Yesterday, Mum and I cleaned up my nextie's garden (he has 2 new hips), we threw a wheelbarrow full of kensington pride mangoes into the rubbish pit. That was one night's foray by the blighters in one garden tree...

Living in a deep freeze isn't good for the arteries, Phone...Much prefer 35 C to -5.5C

And did you drop a line for a barramundi? The Tourist Board, tagged a number of barra with prize tags and released them throughout the area. The total prize money was $1m

My garden backs onto National Park and every 3rd year a ranger comes to see what's been happening. It seems the hierachy in the QLD National Parks And Wildlife take a dislike to the people who plant mango and custard apple trees are doing wrong and try to tick us off. However, they cannot believe that the very creatures they 'protect', the possums and flying foxes, are dropping the seeds in the parks. The council of a small town in NSW, Bingara, planted the main street with orange trees and every year the primary school children are given a morning to harvest the oranges and sell them. The proceeds go to the school.

December and mangoes, yum! The supermarkets are selling them at $2 each and the locals in my area are chucking the ones they grow in the rubbish due to flying foxes and possums ... One from my tree weighed 1.3 kg

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One has to raise the question of names; bait caster as opposed to ‘multiplier’, a word I find absurd. They revolve around a centrepin, as do all reels, they don’t multiply anymore than a bait caster, or spinning reel. In Australia, they are called overheads being, naturally, over the rod. So, quitcha bellyaching and get using ‘em!

Have 7 Abus and all very good casting reels. All mine are righthanders and easy to cast. An Australian fishing journo used the term,"the educated thumb" to best describe the manner of eliminating the bird nests; that is, to feather the rapidly revolving reel drum with the thumb and to press the drum at point of contact with the water. I still get the odd birdnest due to opposing winds and/or too light a bait. Most of them have accounted for decent fish, 60 lb barramundi, 20 lb long tail tuna etc. Most of them are 5600 C4, so I have spare parts.(100km round trip to town for a pawl?)

Where I live, Mackay, Queensland, we have an average 70/75 in per year. The first 5 months we received 56 in, since then not a enough to wet a postage stamp. If you have any spare?

No problem in Sunny Queensland...

4 sea turtles and numerous freshwater turtles. 2 sea snakes, a few birds and a couple of fishing rods.

Does that mean you're a nit wit??

2.20462 lbs.

Had a search in my "barra files",

The 4 barra we caught at night were all about 20-23 kg, while the 119 cm fish was 27 kg. Oddly, we caught a really fat barra that regurgitated 5 bony bream on the deck and weighed 24.5 kg. Might have tipped the scales at 28 kg if it had not coughed up...

Not me, but my son. He came over from Western Australia for a week, visiting Dear Old Mum and Dear Old Dad. So, I took him to Lake Proserpine, an hour's drive north of where I live. We fished at night in the main basin and got 2 double hook ups which resulted in 4 barramundi from 114 cm to 117 cm. All in the space of 10 minutes. Next day, we got 7 barra between us, one being my pb @ 119 cm.

Had quite an interesting time looking up the American dragonflies... http://wiatri.net/inventory/odonata/speciesaccounts/SpeciesDetail.cfm?TaxaID=8 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20348904