Buckshot Bear

Nancy Bird Walton with her Leopard Moth aircraft . Dressed for the hotclimate of inland Australia, Nancy's shorts were considered unladylike in the thirties. Nancy cy Bird Walton 1915 - 2009 was a pioneering Australian aviatrix who began flying when she was only 17, taking her first lesson from Sir Charles Kingsford Smith at his flying school at Mascot.Two years later in 1933 at the age of 19 Nancy became the youngest female commercial pilot in the British Empire. Nancy was hired as the pilot for the Far West Children's Health Scheme in 1935 , flying a nursing sister to remote properties, and pioneered aerial ambulance and baby clinic services. Nancy became known as " The Angel Of The Outback " transporting sick and injured children between their homes and hospital using her own Gipsy Moth aircraft. During World War II Nancy served as Commandent of the Women's Air Training Corps and in 1950 became founding president of the Australian Pilot's Association and also patron. Nancy Bird continued her work as the pilot for the Far West Children's Health Scheme flying nurses and medical supplies to remote areas of NSW for several years and in later years was active in promoting aviation heritage and encouraged women of all ages to fly. Nancy Bird received the AO and OBE for her services.

Hope all is well, he's missed.

I wouldn't be hangin' out with the types that hang out in this saloon!!!

We used to put steel BB's through car junker doors at the tip with these.

Small rifle primers with a drop of super glue fit perfectly on a .177 air rifle lead slug and make a very good bang and flash hit against a concrete wall at night!

Rubber band and fencing staples were our go to 'mischief makers' and easily and quickly hidden.

There's chuckwagons at large yearly events down here and we are lucky in our club having Brother Red who is a world renowned meat smoker (he competes yearly in the USA) he does the most divine pulled brisket or pulled pork for us at club shoots!

I was waiting for a bad face accident on a tree or a branch!

Australia’s O’Toole wins Timbersports world championship Wood chopping events (axemen) are hugely popular down here at country fairs & shows -

I was pretty impressed with her grit and determination!

Australia's CRAZIEST Tinny Race - Riverland Dinghy Derby 2025!

That's pretty common in homes down here (not so much public loos).

I'm a sucker for lamb chops (loin & forequarter), cutlets and butterflied leg cut.

Dr Smith, surgeon outside his slab and bark rooms on the goldfields of Victoria 1870-1880.Medical men were always required in these remote areas as accidents and outbreaks of disease were a common occurrence

Hard to believe its been 48 years!

Porkys.....that was a LONG time ago! The good old drive in movie days!

We have a bore water pump (undrinkable but ok for watering) and have a septic tank and trench which we are also careful about and have this ceramic tile above the toilet paper roll in the guest bathroom -

One thing we're short of down here is water, so everything has water saving devices fitted into them. First thing people do when they install a new shower head is to get rid of that #%^$& water saving device!