Would that be residual from the summer still?
navy base
As well as the aircraft in Nowra, one of the Firefighting and damage control schools is at Creswell.
That would be where it has come from in JB.
Allegedly.
My back hair was beginning to thin out… so I grew my armpit hair longer and combed it over.
this was 2 years ago or so if not more with the testing. Pretty much wherever there’s large fuel stockpiles or defense bases, there’s possibilities for contamination.
The coast road between Batemans and Moruya is pretty.
@Paulska Now I’m home and not on my phone at work.
Colleen McCollough’s First Man in Rome series is great.
Conn Iggulden’s Emperor series and Conqueror series were good. I enjoyed conqueror more as I knew little of Ghengis Khan.
If you enjoyed Sharpe and have read the Saxon Chronicles a go, give em a go.
And to diverge off of historical fiction into fantasty …
The Black Company by Glen Cook is epic. Simply epic. It can take some getting your head around but it’s brilliant.
Cook’s Garrett P.I. series is simply fun. It’s a private detective series in the tradition of hard boiled detective, noir type deals. But set in a fantasy world!
Actually, anything by Cook. His fantasy stuff is finished, unlike a certain fat bastard. And isn’t convoluted and wearisome like Wheel of Time. Nor is it crap like Dark Tower and Thomas covenant.
Hornblower was great, found them quite similar to Sharpe in that they were easy enjoyable reads. It’s worth reading all the different Cornwell series too, all of them are great and then some of the one off books were great too, perfect if you don’t want to commit to a series.
I’m reading the Aubrey-Maturin series from Patrick O’Brien now, they are brilliant, i’m 16 books deep of 20 + 1 incomplete book. You may know them from the film ‘Master and Commander’. Similar to Hornblower, but it goes really in depth into human relationships and life at sea. It can be quite difficult to read at first due to the language and jargon, but once you get through the initial struggle you’ll get hooked.
Can highly recommend the Conn Iggulden series about the War of the Roses and his Roman ‘Emperor’ series about Julius Caesar.
Has anyone else got a kindle? I bought one last year as a way to encourage myself to read more. It’s been brilliant and I definitely read at least 5 times more than I used to. I can just stick it in my jacket pocket and take it everywhere with me plus I love being able to read it in the dark.
I have a Kobo.
After initially dismissing the concept of ebooks and readers I now love them. Finished a book at 8pm on a Sunday night and want to start on the next book in the series? No more planning ahead or waiting to Monday. You can have it in a jiffy.
I read all 10 books in the aforementioned Black Company series in a 5 week period in 2015 whilst doing a 12000km tour around half of Australia. On a motorcycle. Do that with paperbacks!
I really tried to like E books but I just need pages of paper.
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I very rarely watch tv these days but a hooked to my Kindle.
I hear talk on the radio about a book that I think I would like to read and I can have it instantly.
Resin
Five Barrel
Stoic
Jervis Bay Brewing
Flaming Galah (Cans and Growlers only for the moment)
Dangerous Ales
Culpitt
That should keep you busy until Ulladulla.
Past that you have Camel Rock, Longstocking and Humpback. Humpback is in the Tathra Hotel which has rooms you can stay in. All fancied up.
And of course if you head inland on your way back you have the usual suspects in Canberra plus Eden Brewery at Bowral.
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Oysters at Narooma.
A fish based lunch at the Marlin Hotel, Ulladulla
Feel completely lost today. Finished uni exams for the year last week. Having a weekend without anything to do study wise, my brain is convinced something is completely wrong.
I was curious about the first mention of coronavirus in this thread. Nice call there @Jabbatron March 2nd.
I remember it being a hot topic at work… A simple time when you could get into a lift without taking a head count.
I’ve read all the Iggulden series. Wasn’t the biggest fan of the War of the Roses but definitely still enjoyed it. Love the Genghis Khan series, remember I read that years ago and it’s one of my go-to series when I’m bored for a re-read.
The Vespasian Series is really interesting as well, by Robert Fabbri. While the actual goings on by Vespasian are either conjecture or made up, the politics and everything else going around them while Rome slowly fell to pieces because of their political backstabbing is really interesting!
Very randomly, I’ve found it really hard to get into books from the middle-ages. Purely because of the really small number of names that were generally used by Western Europeans. I find it quite hard to remember who’s who. Especially apparent with the War of the Roses series, where I was trying to figure out which Lord was fighting on which side. Became even harder when they started swapping sides etc. Obviously it’s generally what happened in those days, but still a hard read!
Fascinating world.
The motorcycle forum I post on is a large and unwieldy beast that is predominantly American. It has multiple offtopic sections and a hugely active political section.
Someone started a thread asking why it was so skewed to the left. Yet it isn’t. Tis amazing how little perspective is left in this world.
Yeah, Family Guy posted this on facebook and Trump supporters were saying that they didn’t realise that the show was leftist and always assumed they were conservative. I mean, firstly, the image includes both colours so doesn’t indicate a preference either way (are they just associating voting with being leftist?) And secondly, if you’ve actually watched episodes of family guy, it’s pretty easy to learn that they’re definitely not aligned with the republicans.
The did cleverly put the Family Guy logo in the blue and Fox logo in the red…if that means anything.
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