Drought and Crackerjack
My adventure today was to trot off to Shepparton via train(not broomstick) to collect a set of lawn bowls.
I could hear the Mission Impossible music burbling away as I tried to track down a VLine person...eventually found 3 bailed up against a wire fence by an 80-something year old grandmother trying to find her train from Wonthaggi that was somehow misplaced.....
Anyways I and many others hunted down our train and followed our prey as it crept up the platform(obviously trying to escape without us noticing).
The catering staff attempted to scare us off with processed food goods but we prevailed and gained seats.
We chugged along quite merrily until 30 mins outside of Melb then things got ugly.
Everything was dead - grass,trees,empty dams,...the further we went,the worse it got.Scrawny cows trying to climb into the irrigation channels,mini dust storms created from the top soil blowing away,dam after dam with nary a skerrik of moisture in it.
Oh I DID see wheat crops ...the tallest wheat crop ready to be harvested wouldn't have reached my knees.
In some places it was like a lunar landscape....I searched for Neil Armstrong in vain...
People at Shepparton seemed hale and hearty,no long faces worrying about global warming caused by our politicians blather...no angst about the very real drought.
Chatted to a service officer at Shepp station and she stated,very succinctly " Droughts come and go ,like Govts.Wait long enough there'll be a change soon enough".
So I sallied forth and paid for the lawn bowls,glad even my tiny purchase will be spent in the economy at Shepp...maybe tiding someone over a wee bit longer til either the Govt or weather changes!
Oh and one other thing ....if you haven't seen National Lampoon's Blackball the Brit lawn bowls movie, go and have a giggle watching it .
I could hear the Mission Impossible music burbling away as I tried to track down a VLine person...eventually found 3 bailed up against a wire fence by an 80-something year old grandmother trying to find her train from Wonthaggi that was somehow misplaced.....
Anyways I and many others hunted down our train and followed our prey as it crept up the platform(obviously trying to escape without us noticing).
The catering staff attempted to scare us off with processed food goods but we prevailed and gained seats.
We chugged along quite merrily until 30 mins outside of Melb then things got ugly.
Everything was dead - grass,trees,empty dams,...the further we went,the worse it got.Scrawny cows trying to climb into the irrigation channels,mini dust storms created from the top soil blowing away,dam after dam with nary a skerrik of moisture in it.
Oh I DID see wheat crops ...the tallest wheat crop ready to be harvested wouldn't have reached my knees.
In some places it was like a lunar landscape....I searched for Neil Armstrong in vain...
People at Shepparton seemed hale and hearty,no long faces worrying about global warming caused by our politicians blather...no angst about the very real drought.
Chatted to a service officer at Shepp station and she stated,very succinctly " Droughts come and go ,like Govts.Wait long enough there'll be a change soon enough".
So I sallied forth and paid for the lawn bowls,glad even my tiny purchase will be spent in the economy at Shepp...maybe tiding someone over a wee bit longer til either the Govt or weather changes!
Oh and one other thing ....if you haven't seen National Lampoon's Blackball the Brit lawn bowls movie, go and have a giggle watching it .
posted by Bugs at 7:00 pm
1 Comments:
Crackerjack is one of my fav movies..love the kitty..hehe
Craggles..remember to read Josh Leos Vlog..v entertaining
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