For today's joke
Dear All,
Being saturated with all that war news from Iraq is almost
like re-reading
George Orwell's "1984", except that this
one is for real. It's time to turn off the radio and the
television and to turn the mind to other things!
I have spent a few hours sitting on my little tractor to
turn grass into lawn and we also drove the 20-odd kilometres
to Shallow Crossing which is at the top of the Clyde River
to dangle our feet in the crystal-clear mountain water. It
was a perfect day and very far away from war!
We visited friends at
Cobargo
who run a
dairy farm of some 120 cows on 400 acres. We stayed for
the weekend and while Padma helped inside the house, I gave
Paul a hand with the rounding-up and the milking of the cows.
Rounding up 120 cows twice a day, once at the crack of dawn
and then again late in the afternoon, and then sterilising
480 teats with iodine and putting suction cups on them is not
my preferred life style but I learned a lot in those two days
and can now honestly say that I no longer believe that milk
comes out of a bottle!
Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN, a cautionary tale of Western involvement in Vietnam which was published in 1955 and proved to be prophetic, is one of my favourite books, and was made into a film in 1957. It's coming to the Batemans Bay cinema and we shall book tickets for one of the cheap showings on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
With best wishes from the Riverbend Quartet!
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