Eyesa Horg Posted March 1 Posted March 1 (edited) I'm a stalker! But could easily be a murderer or lastly a weirdo! Edited March 1 by Eyesa Horg 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 1 Posted March 1 9 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said: I'm a stalker! But could easily be a murderer or lastly a weirdo! ........... we'll work bassakwards on that'n 4 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 1 Posted March 1 47 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: ........... and taught to swear ....... 4 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 2 Author Posted March 2 ‘MAIL COACH CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS - 1850’s 2 1 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted March 2 Posted March 2 5 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: One of Australia's famous pink lakes - That's pretty cool 1 Quote
Alpo Posted March 3 Posted March 3 1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said: ‘MAIL COACH CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS - 1850’s Nice picture, but I have a little trouble accepting that 1850s date. The exposure time back then could run into minutes. Yet none of those horses are blurred. None of them flicked an ear, none of them shook their heads, none of them leaned down for a drink. People, who understand the language the photographer is using, can sit still for a minute or two until the photographer recaps the lens -- "nobody move - one, two, three,..., okay". I don't think horses will do that. Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 15 minutes ago, Alpo said: Nice picture, but I have a little trouble accepting that 1850s date. The exposure time back then could run into minutes. Yet none of those horses are blurred. None of them flicked an ear, none of them shook their heads, none of them leaned down for a drink. People, who understand the language the photographer is using, can sit still for a minute or two until the photographer recaps the lens -- "nobody move - one, two, three,..., okay". I don't think horses will do that. Aussie horses are extremely highly trained 3 5 Quote
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted March 3 Posted March 3 4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: ‘MAIL COACH CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS - 1850’s Y'all got some pretty flat and wet mountains down there! 4 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 1 hour ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said: Y'all got some pretty flat and wet mountains down there! Here's some piccies. https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sca_esv=cb0b2358a0071c17&sxsrf=ANbL-n60cE8-poEH1Jh7gTl9-0xEdCYXfg:1772512300178&udm=2&fbs=ADc_l-aN0CWEZBOHjofHoaMMDiKpaEWjvZ2Py1XXV8d8KvlI3ppPEReeCOS7s1VbbZz2TLtLg-3tySDopuaXFPmErWGpa_XtqD1LOe7lhoQ_8Gj6yl88LJs31pbWNbrabb50KkRT7NKgN3L5Mgw3jo6Zw4tKO-Ultf5FfdyBKfd_KP3KWNOEgU149OYhXEKGR7pkNdYJT6jEYCMC0GZmXa46uxRLVUzzcQ&q=blue+mountains&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHkYzw8oKTAxXx3jQHHSGbKEMQtKgLegQIEBAB&biw=1912&bih=914&dpr=1 2 1 Quote
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted March 3 Posted March 3 19 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: YAY !! ............... pineapple 2 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted March 3 Posted March 3 21 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: ‘MAIL COACH CROSSING THE BLUE MOUNTAINS - 1850’s 19 hours ago, Alpo said: Nice picture, but I have a little trouble accepting that 1850s date. The exposure time back then could run into minutes. Yet none of those horses are blurred. None of them flicked an ear, none of them shook their heads, none of them leaned down for a drink. People, who understand the language the photographer is using, can sit still for a minute or two until the photographer recaps the lens -- "nobody move - one, two, three,..., okay". I don't think horses will do that. This reference says taken mid 1880's. https://ourstory.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/34252?keywords= 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 3 Author Posted March 3 ‘BILL THE BASTARD’ Australia's greatest war-horse was the unlikeliest of heroes. ABC. Bill was not an easy stallion to ride, and earnt himself the unflattering nickname 'Bill the Bastard' At the Battle of Romani, Bill made an astonishing rescue and saved four soldiers A sculptor has now made a bronze statue to commemorate Bill and his rider Michael Shanahan's noble actions The big, partly broken-in stallion played up so badly while being loaded onto the troop ship he was nearly left behind in Australia. On arrival in Egypt, he was declared unrideable and given an unflattering nickname. "He was called Bill the Bastard because no man could mount him and ride him. He threw them off, he didn't just smash them into the ground, he put them into orbit," historian Roland Perry said. So the 17.1-hand chestnut was put to work as a packhorse at Gallipoli. "When Simpson died, Simpson and his donkey, it was Bill that brought him down from the heights," Mr Perry said. "He used to take ammo, food and water up and bring the dead and wounded back down, gently, he never bucked anyone off. It's amazing when you think about it," said Terry Shanahan, the grandson of the only man who ever rode Bill. While Bill was recovering from bullet wounds to the rump, Terry's horse-whispering grandfather Major Michael Shanahan won Bill over with kindness and licorice allsorts. "He helped the vet nurse him, he took him into the water at Gallipoli and when they all got back to Egypt he fought very hard to get Bill as a match," Mr Shanahan said. Australian poet Banjo Paterson headed the Remount Service there and was reluctant to hand Bill over to Major Shanahan. He had been making "a few pounds" betting how long soldiers could stay on bucking Bill. "Eventually granddad took him out into the desert and came back half an hour later and he was as placid as anything, he was the only bloke who could ever get on Bill," said Mr Shanahan. It was at the Battle of Romani in 1916 where Bill and the Major made an astonishing and little-known rescue galloping towards advancing Turkish soldiers to save four comrades. "Four Tasmanian troopers had their horses shot from under them so they're left stranded in no-man's-land," Roland Perry recounts. "Major Shanahan got them up onto Bill, he had this reputation of being a pretty ornery horse, how would he cope with five human beings on him?" "Under Shanahan's calm direction he took the five of them off." Incredibly, Bill and the Major returned immediately to battle. "Shanahan keeps on battling Turks, then he collapses because he's been shot in the leg and Bill walks him slowly back to the horse depot." Major Shanahan's leg was amputated. He was sent to England, never to see Bill again. He was awarded a Distinguished Service Order, while Bill's reward was to be decommissioned, never to carry a soldier into battle again. 'Retreat from Romani' memorialised Roland Perry's book 'Bill the Bastard' inspired sculptor Carl Valerius to recreate the daring ride of Bill and the Major in bronze. Fittingly, Mr Valerius lives in Murrumburrah, north west of Canberra, where in 1897 the first Light Horse Troop was raised to fight in the Boer War. It's taken him nine years to capture Retreat from Romani, the moment when Bill and the Major carried four troopers to safety "What an incredible ask of an animal, but he seemed to know the circumstances in which he found himself, and the trust he had in the Major was incredible, the same as the trust the Major had in the horse, it's not a one-way thing it's a two-way thing." "No-one could imagine the sort of fear these men would be going through when Bill came along and picked them out of the middle of a battlefield and rode them a couple of miles to safety, it just amazes me," he said. Very few war horses returned to Australia. Most were shot to save them from a life of misery after the war. Bill escaped that fate. He returned once again to Gallipoli as a packhorse to assist soldiers collecting battlefield artefacts. It's believed he lived out his life with Turkish farmers, who were warned never to put anyone on his back. 1 2 Quote
DeaconKC Posted March 4 Posted March 4 On 3/2/2026 at 6:47 PM, Buckshot Bear said: Yup, sometimes simple is better. Go US Burgers! 1 Quote
Blackwater 53393 Posted March 6 Posted March 6 2 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said: I generally buy it a quart at a time and I try to keep a spare bottle in the pantry! It’s one of the ingredients in my marinade for jerky and I often mix it into my ground beef for burgers! I also use it when browning ANY piece of meat! 2 2 Quote
Alpo Posted March 6 Posted March 6 3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: I generally buy it a quart at a time and I try to keep a spare bottle in the pantry Do you eat anchovies on your pizza? 1 2 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 33 minutes ago, Alpo said: Do you eat anchovies on your pizza? It's not worth eating without!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 2 1 1 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 6 Author Posted March 6 ‘BULLOCKIE’S BREAK’ - 1963 Alex McPherson, an Australian 'bullockie' , or bullock team driver, takes a cigarette break somewhere in the Australian bush. Bullock teams are used for hauling logs and are considered cheaper and more versatile than tractors in difficult and mountainous terrain. I remember as a boy watching the bullockies drag logs out of the steepest gullys. 1 2 Quote
Blackwater 53393 Posted March 6 Posted March 6 40 minutes ago, Alpo said: Do you eat anchovies on your pizza? Nope!! And I don’t put Worcestershire on my pizza either! 3 Quote
Buckshot Bear Posted March 8 Author Posted March 8 Any business that doesn't allow penguins in won't get my money. Boycotting! 1 1 2 Quote
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