The Down Under Lounge

Yay for the rain but I wish it would fall all over the bushfires

 

We had a huge storm the other day. I was sitting on my porch enjoying the change when suddenly the lightening and thunder crash shook the whole house, I couldn't run in fast enough.

 

good description of morrison appeared in the adelaide morning murdoch on Friday.

he's like an early mobile phone. where ever he goes the reception is bad.

 

25mm rain in the last 24 hours. Add that to the 20-ish over the last couple of weeks. Just hope there’s more in a few weeks

 

Been raining up here too. Hope it makes it to the inland water systems... and then isn't stolen by the bastard greedy cotton barons!

 

Fuck the cotton farmers

 

Over 30mm overnight. I hope the catchment upstream is getting similar.

 

On a lighter note..

 

It’s been impossible to buy a damper for Australia Day for a few years. Doesn’t anybody eat it anymore? The person at the bakery didn’t even know what a damper was.

 

Young people today pfft. Get of my lawn

 

Obviously was never a YMCA explorer in the late 70s/ear;y 80s or joined the scouting movement

Though I don't think I've ever seen it sold commercially. People tend to make their own (I know I have a couple in of recopies in my files)

 

I've never seen it sold, I thought you just made it? can make it on the stove very simply.

 

It's easy to make even I have recipes for it but I've only ever done it once or twice as I wasn't happy with the results. I don't think you can buy it anywhere either.

 

I remember making when I was in scouts back in the late 80s. Never seen it sold. Until this thread - kinder forgot about it.

 

In the 80s and 90s we used to get one from the supermarket. The last few years however we’ve had to make our own.

 

I was pretty sure there was a bakery chain that made them. Baker's Delight? Something like that.

 

When my children were young and I was short of money we would eat homemade soup and damper for dinner. I always made my own damper.

 

So, the Aussie's being evacuated from China will be going to the detention centre on Xmas Is. I would be much happier, if they are going to do that, that they evacuate the family from Biloela back to the mainland, as they should have done all along.

 

Then it gets worse.

scummo & co what Australians to pay $1000 towards their flight out of Wuhan (hard luck if they had a return flight paid for) then after 2 weeks on Christmas Island they'll be flown to Perth and have to make their own way home.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...-be-evacuated-from-wuhan-20200130-p53w71.html

 

That really is bloody terrible.

What's he trying to do, kickstart the economy by people using the Indian-Pacific?