Them were the days
Mood:  blue
Topic: Mad in Queensland


Sydney was where the jobs were, but the rents too high,& fear ruled the streets for a country girl like myself, so I stayed clear. Lived in my country town, where the 'out house,' was our toilet, & council worker changed the pan weekly. Water worries was when the dam ran dry, see my pictures for that special place. My cooking was done on the second-hand combustion stove, that children and myself collected wood for, in nearby paddocks. Vegies came from the garden, that we worked at ourselves, or from the mobile green grocer who called weekly at our door. He did that until the 'wet year,' cut the traffic for eight or more weeks.
Bridge over Nagoa, just outside Emerald was over, or the Sandhurst Creek, at Comet. The other direction, cut off from Rockhampton by the Dawson River Bridge flooded for similar length of time.'Them were the days!Complaints of drought, and lack of town water
or irrigation water. What did we do before the great
Fairbairn Dam??

Better still, why do the Pollies keep knocking on the head any proposed development. All they want to do is make big holes in the ground. Blame the ordinary worker for running up bank card debts. What do the hugmongous drag lines cost? They are expensive imports they lump with the incoming expenditure as us spending..Bah! They knocked any and all proposed dams structures, gone, excuses, excuses...just want to make black holes everywhere!!

Bah!