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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-23-2021, 12:14 AM
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I was there from 1988 to 1990 until I was successful in winning a place in DEC's first ever retrenchment program. The package was very generous and I did a lot of skiing that year. I forget the name of the division, but we were the guys who developed software for customers.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-22-2021, 03:20 AM
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Yabbies on the barbie sounds even worse than prawns on the barbie. It was probably quite a normal thing to say until Hoges used in an advertising campaign. Then it became a bit embarrassing. A yabby is very similar to a crawdad. Damper is a soda bread made from mostly wheat flour and water. It's usually cooked in a camp oven in the ashes of a campfire. A few ashes are often sprinkled on the top of the dough.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 04:59 AM
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It's the way my family did it. Butter and brown sugar. My Uncle and Aunt's live-in housekeeper was from Holland. She had some very nice versions of porridge and the butter and brown sugar with cream might have been one of hers. My uncle provided her with a Rolls Royce to use as her own. She was a very happy housekeeper.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 04:46 AM
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That's one of the best songs ever, but how can you a pick a best one? There are too many beautiful songs. If I go back into my yoof, I think that Yesterday would pop its head up above the parapet. I was in love with many beautiful female singers in my teens, and I still fall in love with the good ones. Astrud Gilberto - she didn't just sing The Girl From Ipanema. Francoise Hardy - Le Temps de L'amour. Sylvie Vartan - La Plus Belle Pour Aller Danser. Emmylou - Gold. Anita Carter - Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow. Reeb Willms with the Caleb Klauder Band - C'est Le Moment or I'd Jump The Mississippi, Elizabeth Cook - Pale Blue Eyes or Heroin Addict Sister. Rhiannon Giddens - almost anything, but Waterboy is one of her best. Erika Lewis and Greg Sherman from Tuba Skinny doing Wee Midnight Hours. This one
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And so it goes. Far too many favourites to pick a favourite.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 03:20 AM
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I've never had S'Mores. I've read about them in American novels (I read a lot of books) and I assumed that they were something like toasted marshmallows with something more. Our up-stairs neighbour at 27,501 Parkview Blvd, Warren, MI in 1973 did toasted marshmallows on a hibachi on their deck. Funny how you can remember numbers.
I think that my favourite campfire food is prawns. Or damper. Yabbies are good. Sort of like crawfish. Actually, my favourite campfire food is food. And lots of it.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 02:51 AM
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I can sort of understand that because bananas cause projectile vomiting for me. I used to gag at the sight of a banana. I think that it's my mother's fault. She loved bananas, but she couldn't get any in the UK during WW2. There were still none available in 1947. Then she married my father, they'd met at Birmingham University in 1942, and went out to Pakistan to join him. He was stationed in Rawalpindi. She discovered that bananas were freely available and she ate huge quantities of them to make up for deprivation from 1939 to 1947. She was pregnant with me, and she fed me a diet of bananas while I was in her womb. Bunches of them, hour after hour and day after day for nine months. No wonder it put me off.
I love peanut butter. I prefer the smooth. One of the American liaison officers that was working with my father in 1954 introduced us to peanut butter. I don't know why it was known as ground nut butter in the UK. I've liked it since then. We had the Great Australian Peanut Butter Drought 30 or 40 years ago when, I think, mice got into the peanut supply for the manufacturers. Instant ban on manufactured peanut butter. I bought peanuts that hadn't been anywhere near mice and made my own peanut butter. It's easy and delicious.
Mark, I think that your food gag moments are just as strange as mine. :D
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 02:19 AM
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So much wisdom and common sense. One of my wife's jobs around 15 or 20 years ago was as an office manager for a firm of architects. Architects are artistic folks and, apparently, that allows them to be mucky little pups. My wife would sent out an email on Friday morning before a long weekend to warn that the fridge was going to be cleared and cleaned: rescue anything valuable. She almost needed full hazmat gear to clean out the fridge, but she did it. Come Tuesday morning,there were howls of outrage: "the mould on my home-made terrine was only 10cm high. It was only deadly to people who worked in the office. How dare you? You're not an architect. You're only admin staff ...". My wife's response was "who does your pay check?"
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 01:55 AM
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AKA "Cattle Class" or "The Bronx".
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 01:53 AM
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That's the airline, not the plane. Pre-covid, my wife used to fly from Newcastle, NSW to Melbourne and back every 3 months. Jet Star did A320 and Virgin did 737. Both budget airlines, but Jet Star is a bit more budget than Virgin. She much preferred the A320. Smoother, quieter, better leg room.
In the last few years we've done the Australia to UK and back round trip on Singapore Airlines in an A380 from Australia to Singapore then 777 for the rest of the trip, on BA in a 747, and on QANTAS in an A380. The 777 was very uncomfortable. Noisy. Vibrations. Almost as bad as a Bristol Freighter. The 747 was good, but the A380 was brilliant. On the other hand, my son, who flew on 777s pre-covid as cabin crew with Alitalia, loves the 777. He did the Rome - Sydney and return round trip in a Qatar Air A350 to visit us in December 2019 and I think that we almost converted him :lol: Mind you, we sprung for a business class ticket as a Christmas present. That might have influenced him.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 01:24 AM
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I worked from home full time from 1997 until I retired in 2015. My wife has been working from home from 2016 and she's still doing it. I also worked from home part time from 1989 to 1990. DEC gave me a VT100 and a modem. I'd go and visit a client about one a month. It was the best working time I've ever had. I didn't have to clock in. I could work my own hours as long as I got the job done. My commute time went down from 1 hour to 5 seconds. Make the most of it and look for the positives.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 01:13 AM
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Do you have the big Coles and Woolies in Wangaratta? We have the small ones and their stock is limited. Aisles of junk food and the fresh fruit and veggie are not all that good. There are no greengrocers here, but we have a few independent fruit and veggie sellers that work from stalls on the side of the road. We also have an avocado farm, a peach orchard, an oyster farm, a free range egg farm, all with door sales in season. They're good. We do have independent butchers and fishmongers. The deprivations become inconveniences and merge into the background when you live in paradise. :D
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 12:51 AM
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You forgot IGA! Most people do. We had a really good one when we lived just off Toorak Rd near Warrigal Rd in Camberwell, VIC. We also had the Hartwell Leo's just down Toorak Rd. Leo's has really good food. You want a choice from 11 different brands of Spanish sardines? 20 or 30 different varieties of coffee beans that you can take whole or grind yourself? A cheese area with two full-time experts to serve you? A meat area that has birds from geese to quails?
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-21-2021, 12:31 AM
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I'm guessing that you've tried them and decided "NO" from experience.
Tripe is brilliant if cooked properly. Cantonese dim sum restaurants do it right. English style - no thanks.
Oxtail is brilliant. If you can handle osso bucco or lamb shanks, then oxtail isn't a problem.
Porridge is wonderful, even if you do the low fat version without the lashings of butter. Use rolled oats, not quick oats or 5 minute oats.
Insects? No thanks.
Tongue is fine. If you have it straight from the tin, the roughness on the surface of the tongue can feel a bit strange in your mouth. It still tastes good.
Spiders, etc. No thanks.
Kangaroo is good. A bit gamey, perhaps.
Brains taste good, but I stopped eating them in the Great Cholesterol Scare of the 1980s.
Snails? Yum.
Frog's Legs? Yum.
Bananas? Projectile vomit material for me.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-19-2021, 02:59 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-19-2021, 02:52 AM
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Ooo. Newcastle Brown is good.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-19-2021, 02:45 AM
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"Artificially flavored potato chips". Sorry, but no thanks.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-19-2021, 02:43 AM
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OK, but leave out the salt. I like to taste the corn.
For really fresh corn, you must grow them in the kitchen garden. When they're ripe, put on a big pot of water and bring it to a boil. Open the kitchen window. The corn picker in the kitchen garden needs a good arm. Pick them, toss them through the window, pull off the covering leaves and put them into the boiling water immediately. Yum.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-19-2021, 02:32 AM
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I had a lot of fun in my girlfriend's father's 403 estate. 3 on the tree. Huge space in the back. You could fold the centre row of seats down to make a play area. We got married soon afterwards.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-19-2021, 01:15 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-11-2018, 02:49 AM
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MGBs were the definition of slow. Very good handling and a very sexy exhaust sound. Sort of like a 4-wheel version of a Harley - the bike you buy if you like a lot of noise but are too chicken to go fast. I really wanted an MGB until I discovered the Lotus Elan. The MGB GT V8 was more interesting. There were some really fast minis around. I used to lust after a Janspeed 1293 Janspeed
I still hear the occasional MGB and the sound is still good.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-11-2018, 02:05 AM
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You've got to be careful when you retire. You might find that you're so busy that you don't have time to get a lot of things done. You could get so busy that you get behind on this thread. Like me. :lol:
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-11-2018, 01:58 AM
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The story I heard was that the melody came to him as he was drowsily waking up. His girlfriend was cooking breakfast so the original lyrics were something like "Scrambled eggs, I just love those scrambled eggs ..." I don't know whether or not bacon was involved. His then girlfriend had red hair. Nuff said.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-09-2018, 03:06 AM
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He was seconded to the Malayan (as it was then) army in a senior planning/executive role for the last few years of "The Emergency" - 1958 to 1961. They defeated the CTs. Gongs all round.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-08-2018, 01:40 AM
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I am reminded of a passage in something I read many years ago. I think that it might be a legal joke. Could it be something from "Rumpole"?
Some time during the 1960s or 1970s, an English lawyer, he might even have been a QC, was invited to attend a trial in an African country that had recently gained its independence from Britain. He might have been an observer or, perhaps, a participant. It was a long time ago and I can't remember all the details.His host, an African lawyer, explained that they held the English system of justice in great reverence and wanted to make sure that they were keeping up the standards after independence. Sounds good. The English lawyer and his host retired to the bar for a beer and a chat. The African lawyer asked for the English lawyer's opinion.
"What did you think, old man? Are we keeping up the standards?"
"Oh yes. Absolutely. I just wondered about that topless girl with a big grin who ran around the court every now and then."
"She's the amused titter."
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-28-2018, 01:34 AM
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I remember this song. Ha!:lol: I attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace in 1961, I think. My father was getting a gong and my mother and I were guests. We were all seated in the room and the military band was in the minstrels' gallery playing soothing music. Then the Beefeaters (Yeomen Warders - Wikipedia) marched in to take up their ceremonial guard posts. And the band played High Ho, High Ho, it's off to work we go. An amused titter ran around the room.
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