[BITList] More on Gympie

[John Davison]

TOM , FOR YEARS  I  HAVE HAD MUCH DESIRE TO LIVE IN OZ , ALTHOUGH ONES  BI FRIENDS CROSS THE BAR , THE MAJORITY OF BI PALS LEFT WITH US LIVE IN OZ , AND WITHOUT ANY DISRESPECT TO MY ADOPTED COUNTRY NZ, I PREFER OZ , BUT AND BUT AGAIN ,,MY GRANDCHILDREN ARE HERE IN NZ AND OUR DAUGHTER PREFERS NZ TO OZ , OUR SON  LIVES IN SYDNEY, AND IT SEEMS TOO LATE TO PACK UP AND CROSS THE DITCH.

 , HAVING SAID ALL THIS , WHERE YOU LIVE SOUNDS VERY INVIGORATING , I HAD A BI PAL IN EARLY 60S  A AND MATE , SURNAME MACDONALD , WHO AS FAR AS I KNOW BECAME A JACKAROO ON SOME RANCH IN OZ , GUESS THE SAME GUY PROBABLY MARRIED INTO THE BOSSES BUSINESS .

GOOD ON YA MATE .

JOHN DAVISON
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Gardiner 
  To: bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 7:29 PM
  Subject: [BITList] More on Gympie


  Salaams Fred , John D and others readers
    

  I find the sneering about ten pound Poms hard to understand .
  I have had my fares paid by companies so I could work in certain places .
  In principle what is the difference .
  However the winging Pom is another  matter .
  These cannot accept they have left one culture and live in another.
  Nothing suits and  they won't let life be pleasant  or try to adapt .
  Their equivalent were the same in Canada .

  Nicely surprised to see your research into Gympie. 
  We are east of A1  . The byepass will be built about a Klm west  of our  house near the rail line.
  Not that it is a problem because  we will both be dead before it starts.
  The southern sections are  to be built first .
  If you used google earth to see Gympie you can zoom closer and find us .
  Locate Tamaree road  ,  post code 4570 , and follow it to a T intersection .
  Our 5 acre block it at the T    North Deep Creek road 
  If you reach Old Maryborough road you went the wrong way .

  Gympie Gympie leaves act like nettles .
  When I used " up there " I was using the convention of up meaning north of Brisbane
  not as in reaching a higher elevation.

  Our climate is controlled by different factors than northern Europe
  Sea water temperatures is one major factor , our weather readers are always quoting
  some Index and getting happy if it stays above a certain level.
  Having told you that I shall have to open my ears next time and remember the name .
  Back of my mind says general southern oscillation index
  Sounds like a random collection of buzz words <grin>


  It is hard to generalise about Drought . We had a bad  water shortage in late 1980''s.
  I managed to keep the plants alive  with about a third of a litre a day  each but had little produce .
  As soon as the air dampened  out popped the shoots. .
  I applied  hydroponic techniques which allows close control of water and nutrition .
  The major  drought does not affect us locally , Rain shortage affects the cities water supply .
  Those city people have no idea of conserving water . We handle 6 people with water collected from our roof .
  We ran the greenhouses with rain run off collected on ponds 
  Strangely called dams  here in Oz.
  Must confess I did "borrow" water from the creek during that bad spell I mentioned 

  Pineapples have much ground cover which helps retain moisture .
  The broad acre farming relies on contour irrigation to spread the water .

  The only money in broad acre farming here is with specialised crops . 
  Pineapples are one if one has the allocation from the cannery . Only when the government haven't allowed imports as a political favour along with a cash disbursement  to whichever country .
  Sugar cane was viable until a certain UK company bought the local mill and stripped all assets . If the farmer had no shares then he had nothing but  land  suited to only one crop. Transport cost to the next mill are not economic .
  Ginger is another good crop but again relies on buying a contract . Small acreage farmers  gain by selling outside the contract when the big ones can't supply .
  Market garden produce are viable with more small growers selling at  local outlets .
  I buy my veg at a local petrol station. or travel 45 minutes to  market stalls
   Produce quality in the chain stores is un believable . Some good some not . 
  One has contracts which stipulate top quality but are written to force the grower to ship unripe and late picked stuff.

  Reckon I should end this and get it away .

  TTFN
  Tom




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