Zenrat's Flying Circus

[PR19_Kit]

  May have nipped into Metro Hobbies and picked up some paint on the way past...

May? 

Yeah, right.......

[zenrat]

Wings plastic scale model aircraft exhibition and competition today at the Australian National Aviation Museum.
Negligible Whiffs as far as I could tell.  We didn't stay too long as it was cold and damp in the hanger and The Boy was nagging me (you've already looked at that one TWICE Uncle Fred...).
This caught my eye as i've fancied one since seeing The Wind Rises.

And I snapped this Beaver for Weaver.


On my modelling front it's too damp, cold & noisy (tin roof) in my shed to do anything today but I did snap this.

[Rick Lowe]

Coming along nicely there, Fred - keep it up.

I remember hearing the "Let's gooo, I'm Booored" moaning - and I've used it more than a few times myself in the younger days...

[NARSES2]

"cold, damp" ? I thought you were in Australia and I thought it was spring ?

[Rick Lowe]

"cold, damp" ? I thought you were in Australia and I thought it was spring ?

That *is* Spring in Oz... and NZ too, it has to be admitted.
All to do with living smack dab beside the Southern Ocean.

[zenrat]

This is Melbourne.  This time of year it is Spring, Winter and Summer (and sometimes Autumn) all in one day.

Yesterday I was watching the MotoGP racing from Phillip Island live on the TV.  Our skies were grey and threatening while theirs, 32km away as the wombat flies (thank you goggle earth) were blue and almost clear.

[Old Wombat]

And it's been a very, very, very long, cold, wet Winter, too - pretty sure South Aus has, or is going to reach a new record high rainfall this year (last I heard we were only 15mm short of the previous record).

Spring has sprung but, if it wasn't for my fruit trees flowering & the magpies swooping you'd barely notice the change from Winter.

[NARSES2]

Well you live and learn. My only experience of Australia was Sydney in January so mid summer. I think all the Aussies I've known personally have either been from NSW, Queensland or WA, and they always took great delight in telling us Poms how much better their weather was !

[Old Wombat]

Well you live and learn. My only experience of Australia was Sydney in January so mid summer. I think all the Aussies I've known personally have either been from NSW, Queensland or WA, and they always took great delight in telling us Poms how much better their weather was !

Ah, but this is exceptional weather, not the norm by any means (hence the whinging ... which may explain a bit about some Poms ).

[NARSES2]

Well you live and learn. My only experience of Australia was Sydney in January so mid summer. I think all the Aussies I've known personally have either been from NSW, Queensland or WA, and they always took great delight in telling us Poms how much better their weather was !

Ah, but this is exceptional weather, not the norm by any means (hence the whinging ... which may explain a bit about some Poms ).

Ah, right 

[zenrat]

Well you live and learn. My only experience of Australia was Sydney in January so mid summer. I think all the Aussies I've known personally have either been from NSW, Queensland or WA, and they always took great delight in telling us Poms how much better their weather was !

Because it is better.  Even a wet year like this is better.  Even an unusually wet and cold year in Tasmania would be warmer and drier than the UK average.

Given the wet winter and spring the vegetation has grown more than usual meaning that by February when it has turned brown and dried out we will have a bigger than usual fuel load and therefore be at risk of having a worse bushfire season.
Something the arsonholes who get their sick kicks from lighting conflagrations will no doubt take advantage of.

But enough of that.  I've been away for a few days down at Wilson's Promentary.  I even climbed (OK, walked up) what passes for a mountain (Mount Oberon - 558m).  Once again I was reminded by the aches and pains that I am not as young as I sometimes think I am.
The weather behaved itself for once, the scenery was gorgeous and come late afternoon and evening the wombats were plentiful.

[PR19_Kit]

With good reason.

London's 51 deg. away from the Equator and the southernmost tip of Tasmania is only 43 deg. away.

[Rheged]

  Once again I was reminded by the aches and pains that I am not as young as I sometimes think I am.
The weather behaved itself for once, the scenery was gorgeous and come late afternoon and evening the wombats were plentiful.

Sympathy from me for the aches and pains......I've been doing some heavy garden work for Madame R, and realise that I'm not as young and fit as I was 40 years ago......OUCH!

The passage highlighted in red  was the most unlikely thing I've read on this site for some time!!

Glad you enjoyed your excursion.

[Old Wombat]

I was nowhere near the place! Honest, Guv!

[NARSES2]