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This is "No Frills" zone ...

I don't know about you, but I get annoyed with those "All Singing ... All Dancing ..." web pages that take forever to load.  I hate sitting at my machine waiting to get some information while my browser is telling me that there are still "128 images to load" or some such.

This page is written in old-time HTML.  It is intended to load fast, let you read or get the information available, and set you free to go your way in peace.  There are no fancy buttons, drop-down menus, search boxes or applets.

That is a personality statement.

I make no apologies.

"When you're told you can't do it you know you're on the right track."
Harry Warner (1881-1968)

Since you are here ...

... come in and have a look around.  The whole site is still under construction and will be for a while.  At the moment it's just a list of my publications, some snaps of some people dear to me, and a few things I wrote in past years.  Oh, and a few notes on "what's bin did an' what's [not] bin hid ..." in my (all-too-numerous) years gone by.  Just click on a label in the site map and you're on your way!

Site Map ... It's not all that complex Home Page ... You are here! What's bin did ... Some notes about me Meet the rellies ... My Rogues Gallery Things that interest me at the moment

Drop me a line...

Ask Any Aussie ...

And I mean ANY Aussie!

You'll soon be told that there are Kiwis all over the place.  Even if you get right out in the middle of the Great Australian Nowhere there's about one New Zealander for every three people you meet.  It seems that New Zealand's greatest export over the past several decades has been their skilled workforce.  I keep telling people that the Prime Minister's secret signal all the Kiwis are going home at the same time.  Three things will happen then:

  1. New Zealand will subside 200mm into the ocean under the weight;
  2. Australia's economy will collapse (there's already a shortage of skilled labour);
  3. New Zealand will use the money the Expats earned to buy Australia (they're going to call it 'West Island' ).
New Zealand has been after a flat, brown iron mine for quite a while and this appears to be the easiest way to get one.  Don't think I'm joking!  Kiwis already own most of the Aussie breweries!

Actually, the Tasman Sea is the border for one of the great national rivalries in the world.  It can get pretty hard and, to the uninitiated, it can seem pretty rough, but Aussies and Kiwis wouldn't have it any other way.   It's fight tooth and nail out on the stadium, smiling insults and uncouth jokes in the bar afterwards, and shoulder to shoulder in any war that happens to come along.

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Nah!  Wouldn't have it any other way!


 

 

© Rick Duley, Perth, Western Australia, 2009