Nosy neighbours!!,

Agree to a point Robin , It dosen't make much difference once the phone call is made, they have to inspect and even if its only a minor issue they will make insane documentation to make the visit worth while , Depending who it is of course!


Cheers Axle.

LOL!.... Need a fleet of ambulances if i was to say that where we are at the moment.

Cheers Axle.

Live ouy Glenugie way or some where in the northern rivers of NSW

Saw a great ad on TV. Couple of blokes turned the "boom box" up and their hats sidways when a car approached their "beside the water" camp. When the car got close and heard the rukus and saw the "wierdos" they continued past the camp. Then the stereo went down the hat was put on straight and the two blokes rocked back in their chairs saying just two words "Great spot" and "Yeah". These two just wanted quiet and solitude and gave the "impressions" that there was noise to had near them.

Maybe the neighbour is worried about "future" noise as well. Imagine for years living next to a place like "Cruiser Mountain" (is that the right name. Initially very quiet. Not so later. Their quiet retirement shattered.

But Axle. I agree with your sentiment. Once was a house was a mans castle. No so these days mate. Red tape (appropriate colour) everywhere.

Phil

It's very odd when good people trying to save the world is a bad thing, don't you think? I take it that baddy baddies trying to destroy the world is also a bad thing so what is a good thing? People who don't give a toss and do nothing I suppose. People, we must be vigilant that we aren't extra good and please leave the world alone. I do know another very bad thing, kids with trail bikes finding an obstacle course next door to me. That's grounds for justifiable homicide.

Geez..... you really tried to turn that into something else Mike...LOL
Its just a saying ........like" do -gooders".....it doesnt mean doing something good is wrong, does it?
You gotta choose your words very carefully on here Nutta.....there are people lurking around ready to jump!

Yes that's a good idea Bruce.
Lie.

Great role model for our children.

Hi John and Regina,
Just read your othert post which the moderators have locked.

My only suggestion is 'Go get a life'!!!

Thanks Bruce C
Very mature post. You should be proud.

re great role model It is a great idea Bruce.- if hazard reduction burns had been carried out near Coonabarabran maybe, just maybe 50 homes may not have been lost.

Hi Bruce,

Totally agree, there's more then one way to skin a cat. Reduction burns should be mandatory.

Cheers Wilko

Hi Neville,

While I do not think that hot weather was all that exceptional (I can remember many such incidents in my 67 years).

Watkin Tench was an officer with the first fleet and in his diary reprinted in the SMH recently, wrote of a day not long after the arrival of the first fleet very similar to the hottest day last week. The temps recorded then compared to last weekvaried by only fractions of a degree. That was 225 years ago.

Re Coonabarrabran;
I do not believe that much could have been done to lessen the impact of that particular fire. The weather was extremely hot, on top off a serious dry spell which caught us all by surprise, especially after 3 or 4 very wet years.

I watched a storm go over here on the coast and the number of lightening strikes was something else to see.

I saw one strike go down and back up 4 times in that one strike.
With hundreds of strikes or maybe even thousands per storm the potential for catastrophy is great. There were thousands upon thousands of hectares of dry grass feed around Coona just waiting for the right circumstances to light up. And light up they did.

I doubt all the fire control in the world would have stopped it.
I was out in the bush on my place the day before and the vapours in the air were such that they smelt like they could have been ignited. It was that hot and dry. It puts you on edge when you live with it.

My heart goes out to all those who have lost a great deal in those fires. You would need to be in their shoes to know what it is like.

But as one chap out there said " Fire is our greatest freind and our worst enemy also". So true.

Don't get me started on the lack of action on fire control by the NPWS. It has been done to death. I am surrounded by the buggars.

Cheers, bruce.

"We never own land, we just look after or destroy it until we kick the bucket"
Aint that the truth RA,
I remember watching the first Crocodile Dundee movie. Mick was explaining his take on "land ownership". He pointed to some boulders and said something like about the rocks being there for a few million years and they would be there for a few million after they both were gone.
Only thing he didn't take into account was the mining mobs digging 'em up and shipping 'em out....lol

Cheers
Pop

No mate, not having a go at you...hehehe

Pop,
the best to see with mining is when they drop 10 litres of oil on the ground. It is barricaded, the emergency response clean up team arrives and goes into action. Then when it is cleaned up the paperwork starts. Reams of it with how did it happen, who is to blame, was the SWI followed and so on until there is hanging.

Funny 1000 litres a week gets dropped underground and no one bats an eye. We are a strange mob. Ha. Ha.

Heres looking at you,
RA.