You see signs like this all around the place. With all the rain we had this summer it was not a message that bothered anybody much.
Tomorrow we finish this trip at Browns Creek which is not at all brown at the moment.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
Ah, yes ... but come NEXT summer ... all hell will break loose ...
ReplyDeleteThere was a beat-up in the SMH this week about how MS-Word was past its use-by-date. This sign is Word personified!
The trouble with word is that everyone thinks they are a graphic designer. I get heaps of documents from people that I tidy up (I send the real design work to graphic designers) but what it interesting is that after a document is tidied up people know it looks better but haven't got a clue as to what was changed to make it so. It is as if they are totally blind to paragraph spacing, font sizes etc -- sort of visually tone deaf.
DeletePeople don't read white space.
DeleteYes there will be lots of undergrowth come the next dry season, which is just around the corner. You have done a great job with your towns.
ReplyDeleteYes there will be a dry season if not this year, then the next or the one after. I would say that typically here in the mountains we get a big fire every 7 years or so.
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