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  1. duggie2000

    duggie2000 Well-Known Member

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    I have a way with animals
    They were orphaned as cubs but not hand reared but never learnt how to hunt so they were fed by the park rangers
    We. were warned if they turned their backs on us then leave them be as they were not pets
    This one was quite happy for me to stroke it and make a fuss of it, the other one turned its back so I played safe
    It is an amazing feeling to be that close to what is essentially a wild animal and a beautiful one
     
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    Wow yes....very special
     
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    The statues are fighting back
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

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    Trouble is some of them fought too much...
    The British record in India was terrible really... and GB were the 'better' colonialists....

    I may have told you that the Earl of XXXX was one of the biggest slave traders going..... and of course XXXXX house is still inhabited by the family....
    A freind of mine who is strong working class yorkshire was taking a short cut across the estate a few years back... and was stopped by a gent on a horse for trespassing... turns out the gent was in fact was his earlship. My friend said how come he owns this big estate... He said the king gave it to him because he fought for him.... My friend says OK I'll fight you for it........ mmmm...........
     
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    In the good old days you could simply shoot trespassers, life was so much simpler then.
     
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  8. Bolton's Boots

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    Sunset in 1770 - the Queensland township, not the year. :)

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  9. yorkshirehornet

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    Do you miss it?
     
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    Increasingly so. Thoughts of returning are never far away - but the hurdle now is our three boys. All have flown the nest and are busy 'carving their own niches', but leaving them here to do that is probably a step too far for us.
     
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    Where exactly did you live? I have been to Ipswich and the surrounding area and travelled from Ipswich down the coast to Sydney. A very good friend lives in Cooran...sadly it is so far away.....
     
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    Right on the Tropic of Capricorn in Central Queensland - the city of Rockhampton - about 300 miles north of Cooran. We have extended family on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Qld - if we were to go back, that's where we'd be heading. An absolutely beautiful part of the world with a near-perfect climate.
     
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    Wow Queensland is big eh!
     
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    Just a bit...
    For four years I managed a Government Dept in a small town about 200 miles inland - once a month I had to attend management meetings in Townsville & had the choice of a three hour drive to the coast to catch a flight, followed by a three hour flight - or, I could drive up through the middle of Qld - a seven and a half hour drive. I always used to drive - a better way to see the country. Having a Branch office in Longreach, I also had to spend a couple of days there every month - a six hour hour drive each way.
     
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    I like it!!

    When I lived in Bhutan I had to travel all over the country and it took three days, outside of monsoon season, to drive from West to East......In monsoon there were non passable mountain roads and we had to drive one day south to the Indian border, one day east across northern Indian and then 1/2 days back up into Eastern Bhutan... Great road trips...............
     
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    Sounds like fun. The road trip to Townsville was always an interesting one - the road itself was called the Developmental Road. It was 'developed' in the early years of World War II for troop transportation. Aussie troops involved in the Pacific War always departed from Townsville - troops from around Australia were initially sent there in truck convoys along the coastal highway. Japanese fighter planes soon cottoned on to that and started attacking the convoys - so the Developmental Road was built 200 miles inland (by troops themselves) - too far for the fuel capacity of the fighter planes. Once the war was over, the road wasn't used much & fell into a terrible state - it certainly made sure that you stayed alert when driving along it. At the southern end of it, there's a small roadhouse with a really interesting museum devoted to those times. I always stopped off for a coffee and a browse on the journey there and the journey back.
     
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    OK not todays image, but just what home was like in the early 1980s.

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    And these were taken in 1990.
     
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    It has certainly come a long way since I started supporting in the 60s - but still has character. I wonder if the proposed new stadium will be able to lay claim to that?
     
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