BEAUTY IN AN EVIL DAY!

TODAY IS THE HOTTEST DAY IN THE UNIVERSE!!! 

TODAY... 

MY CACTUS DECIDED TO DO THIS!

HOPING IT'S AN OMEN THAT BEAUTY WILL WIN 

KEEP SAFE

Has the RED BIKINI been working out in Hill End?????

ARE THE RUMOURS TRUE???

 Is the secret to Helen Mirrin's wonderful upper body tone 

due to rolling up fire hoses 

at the Hill End Fire Shed??????

Is that the Connie dam in the background?

I know 

from  past experience 

that pulling hoses

and generally

just 

playing around with them,  

is a FABULOUS upper body work-out!!! 

WOMEN FIRE-FIGHTERS 

DO NOT HAVE BAT WINGS!!!

 Could this be a job for the 

KARAYOGIS???

WTF  IS A KARAYOGI????

KARAYOGI  (ˌkarēˈyōkē) A yoga practitioner who works to a tape. 

We have some high risk weather approaching. 

SATURDAY

IS WORTH KEEPING AN EYE ON...

OUR BRIGADE IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE PEOPLE WHO GET BEHIND IT. 

Combine a work-out with some community spirit. 

Come down to the Fire-Shed and lend a hand!!!

 

"Long-Point Fire"????? What about Hill End???

View from "Bald Hill"
 Hill End
New Year's Day 2013

TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT?

A fire started 2kms south of the Long Point Crossing on New Year's Eve. This is down on the Macquarie River. It's steep, inaccessible country. The Western Advocate reported the fire front as being 15 kilometres west of Hill End. This is all very well for crows but our tankers have, close to a 40 minute drive, just to get to the fire ground!

And that's just the start!

The RFS list the affected area as 475 hectares. Water bombers, heavy equipment and back-burning have, and are being used, in an on-going effort to bring the fire under control.  NSW Rural Fire Services, Canobolas Zone manager, David Hoadley said on WIN television, last night (3/1/2013), that they were hoping to have the fire "Under Control" sometime this afternoon.  

The fire has been contained to the Western side of the river. There were two spot fires which jumped the river on New New's Day. These were extinguished by Hill End and Out-of-Town crews. 

It has been a busy, hot, dangerous time for everyone who has helped.

THANKS!

The RFS declared the fire as "Under Control" At 4.15 today (Friday 4th of January)

CAN WE ALL GO BACK TO GUZZLING CHAMPAGNE AND WATCHING THE CRICKET NOW PLEASE?????

That's an interesting question. 

One that only you can answer. 

The local media have listed the fire, primarily as a Long-Point, Mullian Creek and Orange fire. 

The Western Advocate did report the fire on the 2 and 3rd of January from our side of the river.

http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/1214266/helicopters-fighting-hill-end-fire

http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/1212556/ban-too-late-as-hill-end-fire-rages/

THE WEATHER FORECAST HAS SOME GOOD AND NOT SO GOOD ASPECTS

Very High temperatures are predicted over the next week. However winds are predicted to be, predominately, North, nor'east.

http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/centraltablelands.shtml

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/msl_36hr_forecast_bw.shtml

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/nsw/central-tablelands/hill-end

The winds are with us!!! 

Phew!

But this could change..... 

The RFS list the fire as the Long-Point Fire... Updates can be found here...

http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_content.cfm?cat_id=683

The rating "ADVICE" means

A fire has started.

There is no immediate danger.

Stay up to date in case the situation

There is also  radio, internet and television....

AND LET'S NOT FORGET  THE GOOD OL' BUSH TELEGRAPH??

More fun than email???

It's not possible for all of us to whiz around in Orange Tankers dressed up to the nines in parakeet-yellow taking the heat!!! 

No, be we can have a fire plan...

Here's a link for anyone interested
http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/file_system/attachments/State08/Attachment_20091022_79833C89.pdf

OMG!!! A MESSAGE FROM OUR BRIGADE

Hi Karin,

Good to see info about the fire and some good advice.

The HE&DVBB has been called out 7 times (2 were false alarms) in the past month.

A few dedicated members have attended all of these. 

Not everyone can be on the frontline but there are many important jobs that can be done to support those who are.

For instance – manning radios and telephones at the Station, organising food and drinks,

 restocking eskies, refuelling, rewatering and cleaning vehicles when they return to station,

taking fuel drums and damaged tyres to Bathurst to be filled and fixed, cleaning station  toilets.

These are all the jobs that our members are doing after they have been fire fighting.

This is our backyard, so get on board, become a member and support your brigade.

Regards,

Gaye Shanahan

Secretary/Treasurer

Active Member

  

  

VOLUNTEER BUSHFIRE BRIGADE

Corner Moores Lane & High Street

Hill End NSW 2850

Phone 02 6337 8239

Email rfs@hillend.net

Brigade No. 16009

A 19 year old man, recovering from burns, in Orange Base Hospital,  will be assisting police with their enquires. 

Did anyone mention fireworks???

A man has now been charged.

http://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/1217550/man-charged-with-long-point-fire/

Have a Happy and Safe  New Year!  

Many thanks to Matt Probert Photography for the photo "Bush Telegraph, Congo, 1933".
Thanks to the RFS photographer for the shot on the bush-fire survival plan brochure.

NOW IT'S A NEW BLOODY SUPER HIGHWAY!!!

YESTERDAY... A NEW SOLAR SYSTEM 

see post "Saturday, October, 20, 2012"

TODAY....

A NEW BLOODY SUPER HIGHWAY...!!!!

My husband, Michael Ramsden (artist and voluptuary) and I returned from our daily walk to find a NEW ROAD had been laid in our absence.

We'd only been gone 90 minutes!!!!

Aren't road workers" meant to be slack-abouts???
Doesn't "road-making" entail sitting around millions of dollars of heavy machinery drinking tea and eating sandwiches??

Isn't the term "road worker" (snigger, snigger) a synonym for "shovel-prop" and "bludger"??

God Damn it, 

Isn't "Road-Worker" 

one of the World's 

GREAT OXYMORONS??

Not so!

THESE GUYS ROCKED!!!

Clearly things are happening

HERE

in Tambaroora!!

Let's review the facts

A New Solar System is created in Tambaroora.

Following close on its heels
we have
The creation of a  New Superhighway.

Are the two events linked???

Is this an opportunity for a conspiracy theory? 

Does it have the seeds of a vicious rumour?

You bet it does!

...watch this space...

Many thanks to thebryceisright.net for the photo of the construction crew. 
The second photo "Burmese and Chinese labourers using hand tools to reopen the Burma Road in southwest China, 1944" is reproduced via the US Library of Congress
All text KMR

"I WORE SUEDE SHOES!!!!"

Shocking confessions rock small 
community

A long-time Hill End and resident admits... 

"I walked to the edge of decency and...

JUMPED!

In a scandalous series of revelations a Hill End "aficionado" confessed, not just to purchasing suede shoes but to wearing them. The aforementioned shoes wore bought, and worn, in the olden days when when a sophisticated series of codes were used to advertise and excite darker human hungers.

"I am NOT gay!" 

Yeah. Right!

So what's with the long time "companion"

Is this just the tip of the iceberg???
We know who you are!!!

What next??

RED TIES...??

GREEN CARNATIONS...?

Watch this space...

Hang on...
OMG!!
My husband, Michael Ramsden, wears suede-shoes!!!

This publication would like to thank Virginia Jones for permission to use her photograph.  The image can be found at http://paristhroughmylens.blogspot.com

Many thanks Virginia

  

Hill End may have its new MASTER PLAN

But TAMBAROORA has a 

new 

SOLAR SYSTEM!!!!

OMG! We're all going to die!!!!!

What new forms of alien life will be seen hanging around Tambaroora's hot-spot "The Chimney"???

Read on!!!

In a world first, Tambaroora hosted the creation of a new Solar System this week. 

It was poetic
It was beautiful
It was overdue
it was damned bloody useful!!!

AND

it ALL happened behind

THIS DOOR!!

It looks banal, it looks innocuous but

let's face it...

IT'S CROOKED

What lies behind?

Is it...

the Andromeda Galaxy?

NO....

...IT'S THE 

HYDROMETER GALAXY..

Thanks to our new solar-system
WE NOW HAVE POWER!!!

Light
Computers
Running water...!!

Thanks Robert and Jake from Central West Solar!!
www.centralwestsolar.com.au/

HAS THIS PLUMBER CRACKED????

Big Al the Plumber

IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY???

IS THE PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE STILSON??????

YOU BET YOUR SWEET-BIPPY IT IS!

You heard it here FIRST! 

BIG AL... 

...Inspired by the installation of the Irrigation System for the vegetable garden... 

...GIVES UP POLY FOR "POETRY"!

...READ ON...

A WENCH IN THE TRENCH 

BY ALLAN JAMES DENNINGTON  

The Master's Apprentice, she toils,  
in the soil,
to lay in the poly. 


MIke thinks it's a folly,
but, by golly, 
one needs this tube
to moisten the loam, 
in which is grown, 
life-giving veggies
to ingest for the best.


To Pea or not to Pea?
That is the question!
Whether it is nobler to grow or, perchance, 
is just another question! 


The Master's Apprentice,
sounds more like a 70's rock band,
or a black, leather-clad lady!


Remember this sonnet
and wear a sun-bonnet, 
to keep at bay, 
old Sol's deadly rays, 
while you toil 
in the soil. 


And god-bless little Reggie.
And hope she's not too crook, 
from digging up, 
the smelly old chook!

Allan James Dennington ~ A,R,G,B                 2011 

©Big Al and KMR