The Daily Gaggle

The founder of the R U OK Day Sept 15, has died after losing his battle with cancer. Gavin Larkin, 42, succumbed to lymphoma. he died on Wednesday Sept 21, surrounded by his family at his Coogee, Sydney Eastern suburbs home. The Australian  father of three founded R U OK Day in 2009 after his father Barry committed suicide. R U OK? Day director and co-founder said she was committed to ensuring the success of the campaign continues. Mr Larkin is survived by his wife Maryanne and children Gus, Jodie and Van. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.                                                    .......... Loneliness. People between the ages of 25 and 35 are the most prone to lonel...

 re-designated Task Force 57, the British Pacific Fleet was again involved in operations in late March 1945, when it launched attacks on the Sakishimo-Gunto airfields, a task it repeated in early May. On 4 May 1945 King George V led battleships and cruisers in a forty-five minute bombardment of Japanese air facilities in the Ryukyu Islands . As the Allies approached the Japanese homeland, King George V was dispatched in mid-July to join the US battleships in a bombardment of industrial installations at Hitachi . King George V fired 267 rounds from her 14-inch guns during this operation. The task force then moved on to Hamamatsu in southern Honshu , where it carried out a further bombardment of aviation factories. [22] During the Okinawa campaign , the battleship supported four fast carriers of the British Pacific Fleet. Her last offensive action was a night bombardment of Hamamatsu on 29 and 30 July 1945. [23] HMS King George V in Tokyo harbour in 1945. USS Missouri is v...

The Over sized  Whorehouse, or the Brothel too big even for Sydney Siders ( Alright I know they  do it bigger in Melbunn) Plans to build Australia's biggest Bag Shanty have been abandoned(Thommo,Eat your heart out). The monster Shag shack being derided as the "Westfield of brothels". The 'Stilletto' brothel owners in Camperdown wanted to extend their premises to forty Sex Rooms. We're not Prudes say the City council planners, and we're not opposed to brothels, but we have a policy of *spreading them out, councillor Shane Mallard said. * Isn't that the usual way. Say's I.

Good morning everyone on this  beautiful early spring morning on the central coast of New South Wales in Australia. From my window I see a gathering of various species of birds awaiting their early feed, none in our neighbours gardens; just ours , where  an ample supply of water and food  keeps them coming back. The grass is becoming taller too, must get Er to  get it mowed. Thank you to those friends and relatives who replied to the R U OK post last Thursday. It was a trifle disappointing despite a 95% result in Australia, but the result in overseas enquiries was negative in Can/USA. plus one rude reply. However I received three from friends and relatives in the U/K whom I did not enquire after. and those  I did enquire after  failed to respond except for one person. In those particular cases I can only hope all is well with them. I shall leave you with this interesting snippet I read last Thursday on...

ARE YOU OK DAY.September 15. Now here is an opportunity to revive an old acquaintance, or a faltering romance. or if you feel a trifle guilty having not communicated with some person who means more to you than  just a yule tide friend, or a relative you send a birthday card when ever you remember. Some people may have an aged spinster aunt or great uncle with no issue who may live in a three storey house in the city or has  a  lavish bungalow on five acres  with a pool  and with no kind friendly person to pass this burden on to. Opportunities abound to make friends and keep them, relatives can be great friends, I have many, only one is out of contention; he who we love dearly but battle to come to terms with his oddities(Kindly put). After long unexplained absences it can become embarrassing  to some people trying to reconnect. A long drawn out list of marital and medical excuses will not wash with most people. Be bold and tell them th...

Rarely out of contention for a good stir up, the eateries where  people choose to dine either by choice or with organized social gatherings. I must have posted several times indicating my reasons why I never ever haunt Asian restaurants having lived in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong and travelled extensively to Asian countries and have seen the food  on its uncontrolled journey from source to the plate,  the insanitary conditions where the food is prepared is light years away from the plush gaudy restaurant, where one eats this crap served up by a toothy smiling waiter whose day job is  peddling smoko. Have you ever or do you still frequent these dubious nosheries where the possibility of the  same food having done more than two journeys from the kitchen to table. meaning what is returned is more than likely to be recycled than not.  Indian and Chinese restaurants are notorious for this and it is difficult to detect, but be rest ...

URGENT BLOOD DONOR APPEAL.. AUSTRALIANS ARE BEING ASKED TO GIVE BLOOD URGENTLY There is only one more days supply left. The Australian Red Cross Blood Service yesterday said blood supplies had plummeted to dangerously low levels, nationally the supply stands at nearly two days. The sad thing is only 3% of Australians had given blood in the past year. So come on you guys , Those pretty Dracula's are waiting , all they need each time you go is about half an armful. This message also goes out to the people of all Nations. If you can find time to sit around the home for no useful purpose or at a loose end, get up and get down to your local blood bank. " Don't know where it is " look in the telephone directory. You will probably be saving some persons life, doesn' t that make you feel good. Wherever there is a blood bank in this world, there you will find people eager for your blood donation.

ARE YOU AN OVERWEIGHT FAT SLOB? Well, you have only yourself to blame GLUTTONY and gorging yourself on the wrong foods you eat, mainly caused by ignorance, laziness and boredom, is the obese persons path to an early demise. A DIET of processed meat, full fat dairy products and fried foods is fuelling the worlds growing rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. Although Australia is high up the charts internationally, It is in America and Canada where the problem is at its greatest peak, and 25% more, the highest proportion of the porky population are women over 20 years of age- 70% of those are fatties. so men if you are looking for a Nth AM partner; particularly Caucasian, its 4 to i on she is a fatso. Most people totally ignore the recommended eating habits, men generally have the poorest diets, with fewer than 5% eating the recommended Minimum of five vegetables per day, but counter this by having more exercise and some a physical work program. Women on the other hand ...

The Beginning of WW2   Watts Naval Training School, (A branch of Barnardo's) North Elmham, Norfolk, England. 3-9-1939. What an exciting day, For starters we didn't go to church that Sunday, lots of bravado from loud mouths who were boasting how they were going to stick one up the Germans, The school band played Elgar's pomp and circumstance and 'Colonel Bogey' and the boys sang 'Bollocks'.  Holy Harling our vicar had a day off from delivering his boring sermons, instead we were mustered into the main hall (The Quarterdeck) for the expected news that arrived that morning informing us we were at war with Germany. This was followed by an announcement from our detestable commandant( Capt Superintendent Lieut/Com RN * retarded, Horrid Flogger  Campbell. *"Oh did I spell that wrong"? too bad, you should hear what his grandson had to say about him recently., Make your hair curl. However, that Sunday day of rest was forgotten due ...

IT Has been revealed that,a quarter of the prison population in New South Wales - Australia's third smallest but most populated state, were born overseas. First generation migrants from New Zealand,Turkey, Lebanon, Vietnam and Romania are highest rated most likely members of the community to engage in criminal activity.closely followed by a miscellaneous  mob of over stayers without access to funds who resort to drug peddling and burglary. People born in Australia plus those Migrating legally from Great Britain are almost twice as likely to be victims of physical or threatened violence and more likely to have their homes burgled compared with others born overseas. The  established Caucasian type Australian and British Commonwealth  migrant family units are in the main  more likely to be trustworthy  and law abiding, and possess a higher standard of respect and pride in their country. From my own observations Multiculturalism is not workin...

That's right folks. A Barmy federal jury in Washington, has found former Illinois governor guilty of 17 counts of corruption - including trying to sell the US Senate seat vacated by President Obama. The verdicts came more than two years after Rod Blagojevich, 54 was arrested by the feds. Experts say the guy could languish in jail for as much as 300 years. "Crikey" you only get  one week in the slammer and a ten buck fine for selling The Sydney Harbour Bridge to American tourists. The former governor of Illinois George Ryan, is currently serving 6 years jail for corruption. BTW. All of the bargain priced Sydney harbour tunnel shares have been sold ,"Go away". All women are chatterers. It will come as no surprise to their often less talkative male counterparts, but a typical woman spends about five hours a day chatting and gossiping. Whether at home or at work they will discuss other peoples problems, other peoples children, who is dating who and other sauc...

Budgewoi weather - local weather forecast Vest Has Gone Fishing, Worm drowning, Have a Great Weekend. Will be Back LATER Later later later, given good cause only. How about each and everyone reading this, simply send me your very own weather forecast In your district and what you intend to do about it...Too much trouble or bothersome how sad. This message is going out to 71 addresses. I'll let you know how many respond... Vest I have a twenty Dollar bet on already. accepted That, it will be less than ten per cent. we shall see.

In a political sense I really believe they are. I believe America will go all out to dominate the world and by acquiring new annexed territories from which to drain wealth and resources, will thwart the ever encroaching necessity to print more money to save their country from impending third world status. The Gung Ho Yank Govt was quite happy to sit on the fence and en mass wealth by supplying arms to Europe during WW2 until the Japanese forced them off their asses. I am not deriding the American GI Joe's. but the Rockefeller's and their kind for lending the fascist powers the wealth to build arms and for their opponents to do likewise. Will America go all out for world domination? I believe they will, and they will make the same mistakes as others have done in the past. French Indo China(Vietnam) vacated by the French in 1954, A Yankee disaster ending in the seventies. Iraq another expensive ongoing blunder, and of course the Afghan fiasco which  neither the British yonks ...

General letter to all close friends and relatives. It seems very quiet on the domestic front, no unusual occurrences in fact little communication at all, a few thank you messages for things various, nothing too striking to raise the hackles or freeze the brain. no one's dog has been lost or their cat has died; also arrivals and departures nil too. We are having weather easily said to be not to our liking always , but we can't complain when it sometimes is.This is a different weather report from the normal easy to understand version which has been misunderstood by persons not knowing Strayer is in the southern hemisphere. that segment of their education was probably missed when wagging school on a wet or cold day if an Aussie read hot and sticky. Other News Our lorikeet (parrot) who is ten years plus and named lucky; last week laid an egg, no comments. Our neighbours dog came off second best in an argument with a Chelsea tractor (SUV) on Sunday; also no comm...

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Hands up those who want to hear more of this boring bilge pushed into their face each time the telly is turned on or you pick up your daily rag. Great stuff for those who perpetuate this ongoing saga, the Journo's, paparazzi and bloodsucking bewigged ambulance chasers. who  will expect a huge windfall of shekels from this hyped up debacle. Say no more shall I, lest I become complicate in its continuance.. Windy Wellington, The Capital City of New Zealand; for the uninformed, is putting the wind up the Unemployed and Unemployable (read,' Dole Bludgers'. who spend their dole money on smokes and booze. The conservative Prime Minister John key also added; single - or non partnered mothers to the list with teenagers who will have rent and power bills paid direct, any remaining money loaded to a card for the purchase of food. Not sure if this is carried out in Australia. I have no idea , I have not been on the  dole anywhere ever.. Should anyone reading the...

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: 1 . Liberals, and 2 Labor. Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminium can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed. Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Liberal movement... Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the Liberals by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and ha...

Did I hear someone Say 'Nah' It's VP day.' Well if so you are echoing the words of little Johnnie Winston frigging Howard , Non combatant Chicken Hawk and one of our recently deposed conservative cheer leading bald headed Prime Ministers and Yankee Suckholer. The straight forward fact is , Americans Australians and the British fought the Japanese forces for the benefit of Australia, both in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, not just the Pacific Ocean. The Typhoon in Sagami bay late August 1945 did not qualify, but was in itself a disaster, it was non combat assessed.  Myself like many other Navy Boys returned to Australia after the Conflict some 66 years ago, but I doubt If more than twenty five are still around and all surviving without a gold card, being as they are not REAL Australians according to that stupid boneheaded group of low IQ members named the Clark parliamentary Committee.  Here is an anomaly: Several German forces members who fought the alli...

So I'm back already; yep , nothing is more uncertain than uncertainty, particularly where sport is concerned , and this particular event staged in Birmingham England. If you are a Yank perusing this palaver. You will be confused firstly to find that Alabama is not the only place to have a Birmingham, So please go back to sleep as inflated cricket scores combined with your present fiscal issues could prove to be terminal, try dreaming of the purchase of your first Rickshaw and growing rice in your backyard pool. Congrats to Alistair Cook for his great achievement.294, out. India the mighty ex jewel in the crown -now slightly tarnished by 70 years of greed and skulduggery where exalted Cricketers earnings can be as much as 20 Million bucks per year and the hoi polloi barely survive by eating garbage. India rated to the Cricket hierarchy has lost its dodgy title to the more masterful cricket troops of mother England. The imminent loss of their third game by a thrashing to none has e...

Seems like everyone else is gone away with their bucket and spade . So, while we are having  a downturn in the comments inward, minimum posting will be the order of things , you know what  I mean ( The brick wall syndrome) as in talking to. At the moment, all is well in the land of Vest Daily Gaggle.very few problems and none expected, serenity is the order of things domestic. Am spending time out doors digging planting and getting the sun and fresh air, the days are warming up and spring is ten days hence. Should anyone have any questions relating to any of their ongoing problems (non  tech)Or any run of the mill problems that google or wiki are unable to solve, They will be forwarded to a couple of blogging Know-all's  I know . Back Later???......Vest. BTW, all incoming mail will be answered promptly.