Around the dinner table Ned describes the Stringybark Creek fight and his past life of persecution by police for things he did and things he did not do and the incarceration of his mother.
He denies murdering the police stating it was a fair stand up fight with his enemies who were out to kill him first.
All the time Joe Byrne is writing this down as a letter to be given to Superintendent Sadlier with a warning that he will continue his war against the police until his mother and her baby are released from prison.
Read more: Ned Kelly - Survival ( Part 2 )
I was just having my morning chat with Redhead and we were discussing myths, make-believe and the many wonders of the internet. How we chat online and feel we know people, despite having never met them. We both agreed that, in this locked-down world, our online friends are becoming more and more important.
Read more: Online vs Reality? Maybe the difference lies in our minds?
I read an interesting post recently and wanted to share it. The magical number 40. I could not help but think of Douglas Adams, author of “ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy “ and his famous answer to the question of what is the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything? “
And of course, Peking Duck and Cricket. You will have to read more to get the connection.
42, A number, selected at random and often debated through social media. Why 42? Was it something that Douglas Adams plucked from the air over a glass of red? Was it a number he came up with after midnight ponderings and hand wringing, mental anguish and soul searching? Or is it about Cricket and Peking Duck?
Graeme who owns the Saw Mill at Corryong - email I received
Never in my lifetime have I ever seen a bushfire become so political, with so much interference from city-based experts!
Australia is known for its bushfires, cyclones, droughts and flooding rains so what has changed this time?
I believe we now have a new breed of people in this country that NEED TO BLAME somebody for every natural event that occurs and they have infiltrated our communities with their ideology!
The majority in this country are the “Quiet Australians” who have seen it all happen before and know we will see it all happen again.
My great friend on twitter @ToomeyWright asked a question today” who would you like to listen to reading a phone book?
So many wonderful voices came up – those of Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Anthony Bourdain, Martin Sheen, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, Michael Caine, David Reyne, Frank Thring, Winston Churchill, Mirka Mora, Billy Connolly, Penelope Keith, Clive James yet there was only one voice I could come up with: my late Dad.
Read more: Who would you like to hear read a telephone book?
From American friend
" After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”
So, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced of “massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.”
Just when you thought crazy couldn’t get any crazier, they manage to outdo themselves.
Sperm Positive is an awareness campaign in New Zealand that could connect people with someone HIV positive if people wanted to have a baby using a donor's sperm.
The present is the past within the blink of an eye. It is from the present that we can preserve the past and protect the future. The present is the most important time of all.
We are now facing a time whereby our Present will determine not only our Future, but our Past as well. The Left are trying to paint our memories out. Re write history. Repaint our past.
Read more: Change our past, in the present, in order to manipulate the future.
Our American friends will be celebrating their Thanksgiving Day shortly and they have a lot to be thankful for, a truly wonderful President, a Country gathering strength and making American Great again.
I have just read with horror the number of babies and little children being brought up as total Vegan fed victims. I wonder if the parents of these unfortunate children were similarly brought up that way.
Oh No. Probably not.
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