On rereading I came up with "milk duds untasty,"
which isn't true.

Indeed... Those eyes are getting bad.... Reminds me of the time a

Yeah, getting. That's right, getting.

Ok... there.... Worsening, even.... sigh...

Can't read music well these days - if it's
something I knew from high school or before,
it's pretty good, but much after that, wasteland.

younger sister misread "They're Double-Toasted" as "They're Dollabar"... it, of course, became a family saying....

I read Nullarbor.

It being something you'd recognize... :) Instead of the purely made up
word my sister came out with... :)

When one has a limited vocabulary because of
youth or otherwise, making stuff up makes
more sense (still not the greatest of things).

If properly handled, and fresh enough, and not in a cardboard carton it tastes rather nice... ;) Of course, back in the school days, the
school milk was probably fresh enough, but often not well handled, and
was in those little waxed cardboard milk cartons.... :)

Yeah, those. I sort of dreaded them, but on
the other hand facing lunch without liquid
was also a cause for apprehension.

Yup... which is why I'd go for chocolate milk any time I could...

I'd have preferred beer.

Hah - I understand, having received exactly
one telephone text message in my life, and
that by accident.

I didn't have to call Juanita, my sister made the contact, and we have rescheduled it now... :) Planned for the 11th.... :)

A report is now mandatory!

Forthcoming after the lunch date... presuming that it doesn't get
postponed again... :)

The weather is pretty dubious these days.

... Did you hear about the baker who was short of dough?

Yeah, there was a movie not long ago about him.
Don't ask how I know about it, but I didn't see
the movie.

You have a wider network than most for information... ;)

The movie was called, as I recall, Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Hmmm... I've either heard of the movie, then, or at least seen the cover
of the book somewhere (maybe at Lydia's).... didn't know it had anything
to do with dough, though...

From the IMDb plot synopsis:

Inside the bank, Newt meets Jacob Kowalski
(Dan Fogler), a factory worker who is there
to apply for a loan so he can open a bakery.

Damper - basic version
categories: Nullarbor, bread
yield: 1
The Nullarbor & beyond, edbrennan.com

Is that a location or an establishment....?

The Nullarbor itself is an enormous treeless
plain along the bottom of Australia, extending
more or less from Western (Kalgoorlie) to South
Australia (Woomera or even Adelaide), with one
road and one railroad running through it. Its
name comes from the Latin meaning "no trees,"
whoever settled the country liking to show off
his/her classical knowledge (aboriginal is also
not an aboriginal term).

The Website belongs to a guy who wanted to
bicycle trek the length of it and celebrate
others who have done so (including, apparently,
a 10-year old who did 30 back-to-back centuries
to cycle between Perth and Sydney).

Billy Tea
categories: historic, beverage, Nullarbor
yield: 1 potful

1 five pint tin
billy tea
gum leaves

Fill tin 2/3 full with creek water, boil on
open fire. Place a large handful of Billy
tea; simmer on the boil for 3 min. Place
gum leaves on fire and again simmer 1 min
to lower the leaves. Or. After placing tea
leaves in billy can, swing the tea around
your head three times to lower the tea
leaves to the bottom. Be careful, we lost
many a pioneer to tea burns."

Joy Parslow, Woomera, SA
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