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147mm of rain in one hour, impossible to drain at that rate. Landslides too. I`m glad we live on a plateau.

It`s a Beechcraft in a Plane tree...

OH-DAK!!

Liver has to be cooked correctly or it ends up like a piece of dried leather. Mum used to soak it in milk, and never over-cooked it. Done properly it is fine, it's the only offal I will eat.

The ATSB preliminary report is out today. Available as a pdf here. http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2008/AAIR/aair200804689.aspx Very interesting reading, plenty of photos and diagrams of the event. Abstract "On 25 July 2008, at 0922 local time, a Boeing Company 747-438 aircraft (registered VH-OJK) with 365 persons on board, departed Hong Kong International airport on a scheduled passenger transport flight to Melbourne, Australia. Approximately 55 minutes into the flight, while the aircraft was cruising at 29,000 ft (FL290), a loud bang was heard by

Yes indeed. The list must be endless, unless your vision of history stops at the borders of the USA.

Harold Wilson came from nothing. How about Lech Walensa? Laughable hyperbole.

Better but not fixed.

Were you there JA? Harold Wilson was the lowest common denominator (politically), but he had the guts to tell the USA to get stuffed. Unlike Bliar.

Thanks JA She's back in harness, but a very strange shape. I'm happy to have her and hold her. She's mourning for her youthfull beauty.

They must have a lot of trouble getting the skidmarks out.

Dad is long-gone, but were he alive he'd be 101 (born 1907). Mum is still here at 91, physically OK but totally lost her marbles. Much like Thatcher. OTOH, father-out-law is also 91, physically ruined but mentally bright.

My JayRow pilot in the Pilbara was an ex-QANTAS 747 Captain. His briefing was "If you see me jumping out of the left door, then jump out from the right". He pulled some fantastic stunts flying us through the Pilbara canyons. I wish I'd had a video rather than a still camera. There's nothing like being banked at 90 degrees and 2G in front of a 300 metre cliff. Woo Hoo !

The Grauniad. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/aug/26/ryanair.theairlineindustry "Passengers on a Ryanair flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in France have claimed oxygen masks failed to work when the cabin lost air pressure and the airplane plunged thousands of feet. ..... The Arctic explorer Pen Hadow, his wife, Mary, and their son and daughter were among the 168 passengers who feared for their lives as the aircraft plummeted and oxygen masks dropped down. Hadow said a number of oxygen masks inside the cabin failed to work properly. .....

Very fresh here tonight. I'm in jeans and t shirt under my shirt for the first time since spring.

Me Jane. Girls suck Always smarter and better than boys nyha nyha

Originally Posted By: Oyuki kigan Here you go Soubs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapeman Thanks Oyuki. If that's normal then I'm glad I'm abnormal.

Sorry mate, I've had a cracking eye disease for the past month. Right now my eyes are oozing puss. I'll be back on site when fit.

You've missed the ball, MrW. Fruit are here in season and on time. I have to step past it to get out from the front door.

Good for China This pervert needs to have his nuts cut off with a rusty rasor. Excellent, HK. Pass him on to where every time he scratches his nuts he'll be scrutinesed.

Shite is the word. The imported fruit (Chinese food) is full of toxins. Lets see it for the Scot's fruit. Growing apples, are you?

What are your first memories? Mine are at about 4 years old. Playing on the railway track at Claremont. Collecting cartridge shells from Swanbourne firing range. Wandering to Cottesloe beach. Toying with the sap from the Norfolk Island Pines. No2 son took his first unsupervised walk from here aged 9. I love to see young children roaming safely here. It's a freedom which is now denied in the west.

Thanks BP. I'm amased to see John Coates still there. Orstraya's version of Max Mosely.