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Richie said:
How far from Perth Terry?
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About 400km Craig.
In our heavily forested region in the deep south west of WA where giant trees grow. Karri, Mali, Tingle, .. A beautiful area with many caves, rugged coastlines, giant forests ... My youngest was born in Albany near the valley of the giants (trees) with canopy top walk ways. In winter it never seems to stop raining, is cold and miserable. Big storms and waves come from the Antartic crashing over the small granite islands just offshore... A sight to see.
 
looker-on said:
Really? Just one day?😲
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Just one day Thomas. I was young, very fit and already quite enured to Bee stings by then. The swelling went down by the next day and I felt fine. Back to work was fine by me. We had targets.

I was sad to leave that job but I'd been offered a place at Curtin Uni to study engineering. Civil and Surveying.
I remember my old Bee Keeper boss showing me a Queen Bee he'd paid about $200 for. Fascinating. Another possible life.
 
looker-on said:
Unbelievable. They could kill a horse I should think. Didn't you have any protective gear back then? I saw them being worn as early as the 20s and 30s?
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I had all the protective gear Thomas like the hat and net covering my face.
Like my boss I didn't wear gloves so as to work more efficiently.
The stings I got were mainly on my hands and flicking out the barb and pumping poison sack made the stings quite minor. I was also quite enured to the poison unlike some like my brother who is allergic to Bee stings.
Smoking the bees with burning pine needles also made them quite passive.
 
Australian scientists believe they are on the verge of uncovering the cure for paralysis, with ground breaking world-first clinical trials at Brisbane's Griffith University. If successful this will bring hope to millions of people globally living with spinal cord injuries.

The trials to be conducted in the New Year will follow on from pioneering work in this field by the late Professor Emeritus Alan Mackay-Sim, which involves using nerves in the nose that have therapeutic properties to repair and regenerate other nerves.

This is the just as significant as attaining medicines Holy Grail, a cure for cancer.
 
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Hi Craig, Jessica, .., Thomas..., and all

I just did a two sentence start to another "Tall Tale" if you're interested. Brief and open to even wacky ideas like Aliens or whatever, but a sense of continuity is encouraged. Feel free to join in too Thomas or anyone else. 🙂

Here's hopefully a light fresh start:

Having given her appointment details to the friendly office secretary Glenys took a seat to wait. Another client also sat waiting causing Glenys to look at her watch..
 
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On an optimist note, I'm happy Cricket sanctions have been lifted on Aussie batsman David Warner. He did his time for his 'Sand paper gate' debacle.
As did Smith whose form is now flaky. 🙁
 
Grier said:
Hi Craig, Jessica, .., Thomas..., and all

I just did a two sentence start to another "Tall Tale" if you're interested. Brief and open to even wacky ideas like Aliens or whatever, but a sense of continuity is encouraged. Feel free to join in too Thomas or anyone else. 🙂

Here's hopefully a light fresh start:

Having given her appointment details to the friendly office secretary Glenys took a seat to wait. Another client also sat waiting causing Glenys to look at her watch..
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I appreciate your invitation and Craig's assertion that I were good with words in particular but I'm afraid I can't help as fantasy tends to let me down when needed.🙃
 
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Your footy Matildas will be playing at 4 am Sydney time (6pm our time) against GER. Looking forward to it. Our girls beat England in Wembley on Friday night 4:3. Fantastic match.
 
Richie said:
Thomas your girls will beat our Tillies without Kerr.
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They didn't, mate. It looked like it was a different team than that playing against England. There were a couple of young hopefuls. The Tilies played very well and were smarter than our team. Caitlin Foord almost filled Kerr's boots while there was no substitute for our top scorer Alex Popp who was leaving our national team. Congrats to your team.👏
 
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CSIRO has launched its state-of-the-art Printed Photovoltaic Facility to produce solar cells.

Is this an Australian first or a World first?
 
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Jessica 🤗 said:
looker-on looker-on
How are your teeth now? I remember you having trouble with them not so long ago.
I'm currently waiting for an NHS appointment to have a wisdom tooth out 😁
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Here she is again, our very observant member with an excellent memory. ☺️ Thanks for asking. I reckon it must have been a year ago now. I haven't had any trouble since then. The dentist was saying he was having "a good feeling" that the root canal treatment will be successful and right he was. I reminded him of that prognosis when I last saw him in the middle of September. Back then I had to take an antibiotic which may have helped, too. Keeping my fingers crossed for you. 🤞
 
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Here she is again, our very observant member with an excellent memory. ☺️ Thanks for asking. I reckon it must have been a year ago now. I haven't had any trouble since then. The dentist was saying he was having "a good feeling" that the root canal treatment will be successful and right he was. I reminded him of that prognosis when I last saw him in the middle of September. Back then I had to take an antibiotic which may have helped, too. Keeping my fingers crossed for you. 🤞
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Thanks Thomas 😍
Yeah my memory is excellent! :D
I recently had a deep clean on my teeth, all good except for the broken wisdom tooth, apparently I'm gonna be a day patient in the hospital while it's taken out under sedation, looking on the bright side though I won't have to pay 😁
 
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