Recent content by tgh

Get a grip folks..vaccines kill people everyday Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against covid-19, following the deaths of 23 patients shortly after receiving the vaccine. “It may...

Alway reluctant add precipitation to a procession.. but IMnsHO this needs to be highlighted. Commenting on the funds lack of "good numbers" Hamish reminds us that the tunnel is lit but that the light may dim or even go out…...

ASIC do: Sophisticated investor. Oh.. thanks.. all this new fangled bureaucracy has created a whole new level of "advice employment" that "someone" is paying for. My brush with the sophisticated/wholesale concept was probably 30 years ago…

sigh.. the prospect a nice Cheeseawarra red somehow spoils the expectation

Anyone a ”sophisticated investor” signed off by your accountant Not sure who decides if you are sophisticated or a bogan , but we were offered wholesale market access by our broker many years ago. I decided that I was more at the bogan end of the spectrum , needing my fingers to count past...

… and living in mortal fear of the dreaded hat for drifting ot...…more birds

By way of explanation.. the baboon was socially well adjusted and spent his (or her) time trying to rip the two way aerial out of the bonnet.. while everyone gathered around taking pics. We went to Lake Nukuru to see a pink ? blue? white ? black? Rhino .. gee I dunno.. it was along time ago...

Stopping for a loo break on our way back to Deloraine we had some entertainment

There will eventually be a Covid talisman in terms of the infection rate and the vaccination numbers. I guess there will be a dynamic chart sometime on the web telling us all the good or bad news. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

This thread is so nice - no C word and nobody snarking at each other Indeed VPS.. the list seems to have lost it's way a bit and threads like this remind us that the world and it's creatures is a beautiful place

Lake Nukuru, Kenya

I fully expect to live on my relatively disease free island with very very tight entry quarantine for many years, perhaps permanently. Folks will be able to come and go in time, in fact they do now, but the world has changed.

you are only covered once you hit land This appears moot ; we rescue folks from au territorial waters regularly, you are covered on Lord Howe , Norfolk, King Island, Kangaroo..etc etc What is the difference with an AU registered and crewed cruise ship just offshore in AU waters ? The feds...

If the Indonesian Air Safety org leaks like a sieve as per local custom , media will be shortly telling us all what happened...

We have good friends on board who have so far enjoyed the cruise. How are they enjoying the food ?