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    Painting is a sedentary pastime so at around 7:00AM before
    I start work I take an hour's walk along the creek in an effort to not get any less fit.


    GalaxyS6 - this thing set me back a thousand bucks, it takes reasonable pics but for anything else it's a bummer. I could have had two XZ2's for that kind of dosh.

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    Is that a tablet, Mark?
    The picture tells the story, great when you have a bad memory.DW.

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      No David it's a dumb phone

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        Incredible bark, is that some sort of dogwood?
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          It looks like a pleasant place for your walk, Mark.

          Originally posted by Beagletorque View Post
          Incredible bark, is that some sort of dogwood?
          This is dogwood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_(genus)
          But what you are probably referring to are 'gum trees', eucalyptus (& related) species, with the bark shedding. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus
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            Bark and dog, sorry my sense of humour!
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              Should've kept the iPhone!
              I really like the photo on the right Mark. Nice light in the background - like a Frederick McCubbin.

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                Originally posted by Beagletorque View Post
                Bark and dog, sorry my sense of humour!
                You've been watching too much Monty Python!
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                  Originally posted by Floribunda View Post
                  Should've kept the iPhone!
                  I really like the photo on the right Mark. Nice light in the background - like a Frederick McCubbin.
                  He's been dreading that comment from you.
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                    Originally posted by Ross the fiddler View Post
                    It looks like a pleasant place for your walk, Mark. This is dogwood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_(genus)
                    But what you are probably referring to are 'gum trees', eucalyptus (& related) species, with the bark shedding. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus
                    I thought they were Red Gums Ross, what's the difference?

                    Originally posted by Floribunda View Post
                    Should've kept the iPhone!
                    I really like the photo on the right Mark. Nice light in the background - like a Frederick McCubbin.
                    Originally posted by Ross the fiddler View Post
                    He's been dreading that comment from you.
                    Okay, okay, you don't need torub it in!
                    Originally posted by Beagletorque View Post
                    Incredible bark, is that some sort of dogwood
                    Originally posted by Beagletorque View Post
                    Bark and dog, sorry my sense of humour!
                    Originally posted by Ross the fiddler View Post
                    You've been watching too much Monty Python!
                    Speaking of whom I watched an hilarious Monty Python replay a couple of nights ago, cant recall the title, Clease did a side splitting skit on double vision in which he kept putting one hand over his eye to block out the second image. You may know the episode.

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                      [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7-sPXLtq0A"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7-sPXLtq0A[/ame]
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                        You are joking, Andrew - this is OZ ... where our internet speed is on a par with Katmandu's, maybe slower, it takes up to10 minutes to load a page, dial up was faster. So much for the national disaster presided over by our conservative govt who said they were going to give us high speed broadband at a cost of $28B which has blown out to $57B ... trying to play Youtube is hopeless, but thanks for thinking of it. I still don't know the title of that skit.

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                          "Kilimanjaro Expedition"
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                            Thanks Andrew, is that the sketch wherein they reached a crater at a mountain top and got done by an alien monster? And there was a 'keeper of the gate' to a bridge over a ravine who required an answer to a riddle before he let each one pass? I don't have a clear memory for humorous movies.

                            Edit + - btw, That Youtube thing you sent hasn't even opened and it never will. That's the state of Aussie internet. God help us if we're ever invaded ... our high command will be waiting for intelligence to come through as the invaders are busting the door down! It would make a good Monty Python sketch LOL

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                              I don't think it was part of that short sketch?

                              Arthur Wilson (Eric Idle), a young mountaineer, visits the office of Sir George Head, OBE (John Cleese), who is leading an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. Head's problem, though, is that he has a bad case of diplopia, and indeed, he believes there are two Wilsons when he enters the office. He must cover his right eye to confirm Wilson's claim that there's only one of him. Head begins filling in Wilson's application, although he repeatedly asks both Wilson and the empty chair next to him the same question.[2]
                              Head then fills him in on the expedition: he and his team plan to climb both peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro. Wilson claims there's only one, and Head must consult a topographical map of Africa with one eye to confirm the claim. Head then explains the expedition is to find any remnants of last year's expedition, led by his brother. The team was trying to build a bridge between the two peaks, which was naturally Head's idea. Wilson then gives his qualifications. When he describes himself as a mountaineer, Head must look the word up in a dictionary. Due to his affliction, he reads the definition aloud as "two men skilled in climbing mountains."
                              Wilson then learns Head also thinks there are two of himself as well. Head explains the team's route to Kilimanjaro, which mostly consists of a way from Surrey to Rottingdean, with a giant leap from Rottingdean to Nairobi (Head's map of Britain cuts off there, and is overlying his map of Africa), down to Tanzania, and then asking from there. All the while Head describes everything in plural, i.e. "Rottingdeans", "main roads near Pirbrights" (in the movie And Now for Something Completely Different the other route is mentioned, starting in Manchesters and going down through Oxfords, Londons and Purleys to Dovers, and from there to Nairobis and so on). Wilson inquires about the rest of the team; there are five other members (Head of course thinking each are two brothers (or four brothers in one case, a 'pair of identical twins')). None are mountaineers and none but one speaks Swahili. When Wilson asks Head if anyone else speaks Swahili, Head replies: 'I think most of them do down there.'
                              However, their guide, Jimmy Blenkinsop (Graham Chapman, who in real life was an avid mountaineer), has worked out a route. He comes to the office, reassures Wilson about Head's double vision, and then shows the route rather physically, acting it out in the office and knocking over numerous items and a bookshelf before breaking through the door, still describing the plan. Wilson is now fed up, and leaves the expedition for his lack of confidence. The suddenly visible "other" Arthur Wilson tells "both" clearly visible George Heads that he's "still game" for the trip.
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