Xmas fun gift

You mean to tell me that they have ones where an earth tremor recharges em automatically ? Incredible.
Mind you, knowing Malcolm, anythings possible...in Noo Zeland :))

He, he, ... yeah good one Footloose, have you seen the shaky ones ? I could be a smart... and start one of those trans Tasman things and say that the up and down action to recharge the shaky torchs would come naturally to an Ozzie... but I won't :-))

I get that every day from Malcolm.
The Kiwis own anything worthwhile
Or they invented it
Except for the sheep jokes, they only apply to the Ozzies

I think he's trying to socialize me for a trip across. Dunno about going...great views, but those mountains get in the way :))

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh yes the redoubtful Kiwis, where would we be without them. I for one would have been dead if a Maori (of magnificent proportions) had not thrown me over his shoulder & carried me about 2 km to a waiting chopper...

Not happy about them flooding the market in Australia with cheap powdered milk though... Still I spose we have to keep a stiff upper lip. I wonder do they still televise the sheep dog trials in NZ? rivetting TV.

What the heck were you doing with a Kiwi around ? They were all artillery ....unless you were playing silly buggers in a plantation ...

Mr Fawlty has had the pleasure of meeting some of our fine soldiers, don't remember any names do you ?

Mr Footloose, there were some 'secondments' and foot sloggers as well as 161 Battery. I worked with a few some years afterwards in a civil business, oh the tales they could tell - I have never laughed so much, pity it had it's serious side.

Ok ... Names... the guy who carried me was named Roy Dease ( Deese and all other permutations), strange name for a Maori Warrior, he was a seconded Sapper. The incident occured when some grunt cretin found another mine near the one Roy & I were trying to dissarm....He was injured as well with some schrapnel wounds to his left arm, I had some wounds to the legs & buttocks which rendered my ability to scarper ineffectual, not sufficient to get me sent home though.
I have tried to track Roy down but without success, as I recall he came from around Tauranga...The story goes that after he was discharged in 1972 he returned to NZ and did what a lot of them did, returned to their tribe and saught anonimity...
The Kiwi Grunts were feared for their reputation of ensuring the enemy was dead by dismembering them. This practise ensured that they (the Viet Cong) could not go to "Heaven", A practise that Saddam & his ilk would not endorse as Muslims have to be intact before they can service the 99 virgins....

Hi MrFawlty, Could you email me ;

nzrees@yahoo.com

If you can give me a date and place I will ask at the local RSA if anyone can put me in touch with him or someone who keeps track of the 'buddies' from that era. I have searched the national telephone directory with all the permutations that I can think of with no luck. I feel reasonably confident that either my network or the RSA network should be able to find where he is. Have you checked the Brisbane phone directory ? A lot of Kiwis like the warmer climate around there :-))

I reckon with the amount of earth tremors in Noo Zulind it would have been a shoe in for a Kiwi to have invented the shakable torch.....NEVER goes flat.

They are known as "Kinetic Torches"
I like both the wind up and the 'kinetic' torch as an emergency or for the kids to use. If you have not seen them here is a link

Site Link

OMG it will have to go in my "earthquake and bird flu pack"........LOL

Bazil , that time is pretty much a blur now, and my recollections, unlike most, have been successfully buried. (Took 30 years). No current flashbacks etc. Don't ask, I was never in country as far as I care to remember. Even the smell of kero doesn't worry me. Enough said.
But I can remember a NZ art guy who was living in the same boarding house around 1968. He took an axe to my door during one bad scene he had. We bundled him off for a mental exam and he passed with flying colours. Docs comments "he's probably more sane than you, at least he's now got a piece of paper to prove it ."

Definitely getting one for the "Cyclone pack". I've seen those kinetic ones and the can throw quite a beam when charged, and good thing is there is only one moving non-contact part (essentially failure proof). The wind up ones in Kmart look a bit on the suss side quality wise.

Moving to TSV in about 2 weeks.........right in the middle of the wet season, cyclone season, and school holidays, through the middle of NSW/QLD in 30-40 degree heat and 70%+ humidity towing about 1800 kg of trailer.....

Mad, eh???

"Mad, eh???"
Don't worry, you'll probably fit in well with some of the locals :))

Errrrm, met a couple of them already on a "reconnaissance mission". Ya could very well be right.................

No idea where it came from, was a prezzie so I'm not game to ask :))