from ???????

[robbiegal]

" and we went to the RSL for lunch , and a guy said to me , did you get the letter I sent to you about the coins , . I said yes but had no idea where it was from or who sent it to me until today ."

well how about that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it is just a old guy I talk to when I see him at the rsl every time we go for lunch , all I know of him is his name in vic , and he lives by himself close by the rsl , so he goes there every day for his lunch , he came to live up here from Tasmania because it was to cold for him down there and one day he saw me noodling some dollars , and he came over and asked me what I was doing , and I told him I was interested in collecting coins and he told me he was too. he told me he had just bought this royal English coin from Bradford coins , and I said I had never heard of it , and he said give me your address and I will send you the brochure out , so I gave him my name and address , that was about 3 months ago , and I forgot all about it until last week when  he asked me did i  receive it , that is when I realised who the letter was from with all the brochures in it . now you have the full story .
                    ( I DO NOT TELL LIES ROBBIE )

i think it is a marvelous story Kel
it's a real treasure for sure

coin collecting can bring all sorts of friendship and this story is one of those xxxx

[keldaw]

thanks Robbie , I got this today from him also , but not free like the other one . but I am just happy to have one so I don't mind .  





nice coin I think .
so sorry I cant take a better picture , .

[trout]

I hope that it is your camera that is off and not the coin Kel, Because that Penny has that nasty Salmon colour on my screen Mate :angel:

[keldaw]

I hope that it is your camera that is off and not the coin Kel, Because that Penny has that nasty Salmon colour on my screen Mate :angel:

same colour on my screen too jim , but the coin is like brown or red in the hand , I will try again today .

[keldaw]

are these any better





 I hope so

[Fulvio]

Check your lighting. White balance is off.

[keldaw]

I don't know where this should go , so I have put it here .

Subject:: Australia's Hottest Day on Record 1828

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Not 2016, BUT 1828 at a blistering 53.9 °C


Back before man-made climate change was frying Australia, when CO2 was around 300ppm, the continent savoured an ideal pre-industrial climate.... RIGHT?


This is the kind of climate we are spending $10bn per annum to get back too... Right again?


We are told today's climate has more records and more extremes than times gone by, but the few records we have from the early 1800's are eye-popping.  


Things were not just hotter, but so wildly hot it burst thermometers.  


The earliest temperature records we have show that Australia was a land of shocking heatwaves and droughts, except for when it was bitterly cold or raging in flood.


In other words, nothing has changed, except possibly things might not be quite so hot now!


Silliggy (Lance Pidgeon) has been researching records from early explorers and from newspapers.


 


What he's uncovered is fascinating!   It's as if history is being erased!


 


For all that we hear about recent record-breaking climate extremes, records that are equally extreme, and sometimes even more so, are ignored.


 


In January 1896 a savage blast "like a furnace" stretched across Australia from east to west and lasted for weeks.


 


The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern states.


 


Newspaper reports showed that in Bourke the heat approached 120°F (48.9°C) on three days.


 


Links to documentary evidence (1)(2)(3)


 


The maximum at or above 102 degrees F (38.9°C) for 24 days straight!


 


Use the several links below to read the news reports at the time for yourself ..


 


1.    By Tuesday Jan 14, people were reported falling dead in the streets.


2.    Unable to sleep, people in Brewarrina walked the streets at night for hours, thermometers recorded 109F at  midnight.


3.    Overnight, the temperature did not fall below 103°F.


4.    On Jan 18 in Wilcannia, five deaths were recorded in one day, the hospitals were overcrowded and reports said that "more deaths are hourly expected".


5.    By January 24, in Bourke, many businesses had shut down (almost everything bar the hotels).


6.    Panic stricken Australians were fleeing to the hills in climate refugee trains.  


 


As reported at the time, the government felt the situation was so serious that to save lives and ease the suffering of its citizens they added cheaper train services:


What I found most interesting about this was the skill, dedication and length of meteorological data taken in the 1800's. When our climate is "the most important moral challenge" why is it there is so little interest in our longest and oldest data?


Who knew that one of the most meticulous and detailed temperature records in the world from the 1800's comes from Adelaide, largely thanks to Sir Charles Todd.


 


The West Terrace site in Adelaide was one of the best in the world at the time, and provides accurate historic temperatures from  "Australia's first permanent weather bureau at Adelaide in 1856?.


 


Rainfall records even appear to go as far back as 1839.  Lance Pidgeon went delving into the National Archives and was surprised at what he found.


The media are in overdrive, making out that "the extreme heat is the new normal" in Australia.


The Great Australian Heatwave of January 2013 didn't push the mercury above 50C at any weather station in Australia, yet it's been 50C (122F) and hotter in many inland towns across Australia over the past century.

See how many are in the late 1800's and early to mid 1900's.

You can't blame those high records on man-made global warming!

[stevo1962]

World governments need to think up new ways to tax us and climate change is the perfect excuse for the gullible
who will show little resistance when fed bulls*** information

[ausjack]

More neo nazi right wing BS to justify not only poisoning the air but the land as well, we must build burn more coal and gas and destroy everything on land and water so we make the rich richer. They all tell lies to suit them selves and it depends on what side of the fence you sit on as to what you believe :dodgy:
Malcolm Roberts and the like will go back to his nice cushy mining after he's finished lobbying for them and he's saved Australia for the asia scum scourge..oop's sorry that's muslim now isn't it :blush2:
The right wing was against "climate change" and denied it but now they say it's real so can you really trust the right and say it's all the world governments and the left :scratch_one-s_head:
The right can't make up their mind what they think, one minute it's fake then it's real and then it's fake and now it's real again so go figure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjqtFlOrGg

[autocoupler]

I don't presume to know the answer to any of this, but I do remember a rather large volcanic eruption event about 10 years ago maybe, hell I don't know, time fly's when we're having fun but I think it was in Chile. Anyhow,    scientists at the time stated it spewed more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than man has managed to achieve since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Heh, maybe that was more to do with the scumbag media looking for extra sensation. Since then we've had an eruption on a similar scale in Iceland and many other smaller events throughout the world. If you add to this the naturally decaying process of the worlds forests, emissions from the oceans as carbon contaminants are released from shifting silt banks, also the sneaky deposits and outgassing :stinker: of those naughty cows and other ruminants, I guess people could be excused for thinking the BS is coming from more than one source :scratch_one-s_head:

The really annoying thing was when the scientific world had the ideal opportunity to fend off at least some of the doubters, they failed. Featuring on the ABC program Q and A towards the end of last year was Englishman Dr Brian Cox, familiar to many for his scientific documentaries and such. During the on air debate with obvious denier Malcolm Roberts, who just happened to be Tony Jones' ambush bunny :diablo: for the night, the only proof of global warning Cox had to offer for all those interested, apart from the odd deriding quip aimed at Roberts, was to wave a piece of graph paper into the camera exclaiming something about how it aligned with the opinions of most climate scientists.

I think he should have done a much better job of spelling out to the petrol guzzling and consumer driven public, that's you and me, how and why man is tipping the ecological scale. Unfortunately, in line with many programs designed to shape public opinion on minority or major matters, ridicule and belittlement was the chosen tactic. And whilst the rabid media as well as the converted all tucked up in bed that night feeling warm and fuzzy at Malcolm Roberts being put in his place, those who were hoping for just a minor   revelation from this eminent person, all went :huh:

[ausjack]

Come on auto, you know you just don't wanna tell us :blink: :laugh2:

I wonder how many people would have owned a thermometer back in 1828 :scratch_one-s_head: Gee most were lucky to have a few clothes let alone flash scientific instrument like that, after all we are talking only 40 years after the first feet landed.

About the oceans, they can't make up their mind about that either like so many other things and one min say it's releasing carbon and next say they can lock carbon in it and same as forests so who knows but with so many contributing factors it's hard to work out what is and what isn't but putting pollutants of any sort out can't be good for the atmosphere or us.

Yes those damn cows fartin and crappin everywhere the dirty bastards :dodgy: :mocking: , and not to mention trouts favourite..the hideous "ground lice" :laugh2:

[autocoupler]

:nea: don't sell our ancestors short AJ, I've been on ancestry.com and found they all had elbows and little pinkies too, so they knew when that stolen piece of pork was juuuuuust right :biggrin:

Was watching Tony Robinson's travels in Oz show the other day, it was pointed out that the Tank Stream was deliberately brick arched over to stop the new arrivals from polluting it. They were good little vegemites, but then  they built a city on top :shock:

[ausjack]

:laugh2:

My lot didn't get here that early so we ain't crims like a lot of you other bastards from convict stock :mocking:
I have a fork to test if meat is cooked so stick a fork in ya pork mate :shock: :angel: :laugh2:
I like Baldrick

[autocoupler]

:laugh2: well I was going to say they used their elbows to test the bath water, but they only bathed on their birthdays didn't they, even the babies only got third digs. Poor little buggers weren't seen in all that swill, so out they went :shock:

Proud to say though that our first arrival came out on the second fleet in 1792 at the pleasure of her Majesty. No sense of humor those Poms :wavemulticolor:

So it was your mob who brought out the rabbits and foxes? :winkextra:

[ausjack]

No my lot come from Greece