My hat

I have this hat and have owned it for years and used it as my scout hat when I was a leader. The picture on the front is a warratah painted by my friends mum.

The other hat is a Chinese or Asian hat made from thin paper stuff and is light as a feather but some people don't like it .

 Hows that for workmanship.

(The felt hat hurts my neck if I wear it too long as it is heavy.) I nearly got into a fight cause of the Chinese hat. This bloke said they like Chinese stuff here in Cootamundra, bet you all his cloths came from China including his under pants and socks. They are every where!  Chinese and Caucasians and underpants :)
Look ya gotta have a laugh don't be so serious....

The badge is from a Bangladesh scout group that came to a jamboree at Cataract Scout Park.I swapped ten badges for this one. Its my pride and joy..Those little blokes had nothing we gave them heaps of Vegemite to take home with them along with other stuff. We probably fed there village for a month. I think they thought it was Christmas the look on there faces said it all. They were good times, telling this story brings it all back I nearly feel like crying with happiness. Fellas can cry, I do any way by myself sometimes. Its good for the soul and that's not the one on my shoe. Life's a joke and it is good to me.

Largest underground house in the world

 In Australia we have underground houses at  Coober Pedy, White Cliffs and Burra. But the largest of them all is in Canberra the national capital and I might add the largest underground house in the world. The photo above shows the building from the north with the old parliament house in front. It also has the largest flagpole in the southern hemisphere which is made from stainless steel.Note the earth berms to the right and left of the photo.

It is bigger than Bill gates house.If I am wrong please let me know in the comments section.

Cheers Stewart

 

This image is close to the front of the building which cost over a billion dollars

This image is further away and the reflection pool is behind the posts

NSW Housing

                                                                                                             

I have never been given the run around by a government department like this one. The service is non existent and the music played while you wait is from a tape has been mangled by the machine for years. If this is service then I had better chuck my hat in the river and leave it there. All I wanted to do was give them some money, they can chase me now.  I can bet you,  they must get some abusive calls and then they hang up so it is no good abusing them, Abusing them would  start the process over again.

Public servants when do they serve the public,  bet you. The boss gets a pay rise in the near future for productivity, Any productivity would get some boss a pay rise.

They have a low work load there as they don't answer the phones and this is why the boss gets a rise cause the department don't have any complaints.

We are sorry for keeping you waiting your call will be answered as quickly as we can,do you know that we are opened 24 a day the machine rattles on.
It took 8minutes to get this positive feed back line and they don't have the facilities to record the conversation I know now because I asked them to record it. I am on hold now  then I was put on hold for 7minutes and actually spoke to a person for 2minutes 73 seconds.

I was queried about this being positive feed back and I assured the lady that it was positive if they used the information in the correct way. I also gave them my blogg address and email address so they could give me positive feed back. I wait with bated breath. Just a thought its is probably a Indian call center sweat house  that I rang cause the lady didn't sound Australian.

 Your people are competent? Customer service people are treated like shit. The jobs are often low paying and the work isn’t easy. You need to empower these people to make decisions on the spot and respond effectively to customers.
If every “tough situation” results in escalation to managers, you’re going to eat the shit you have made for yourself and have more frustrated customers.Then you will have more abuse to contend with.
You will also have lost in my case, up to a possible  $100,000.00 in cash.

Just another point I haven't got onto the original people I wanted to talk to so I tried to give them positive feed back on another phone line.

I might also add at my expense and time. I will post the feed back as a special post to let all you people in computer land what the result is.You may wait with me with bated breath as well. Cheers Stewart

DoryMan: Sanpierotta Plans for DoryMan

DoryMan: Sanpierotta Plans for DoryMan

Sustainable sport fisherman

Sustainable sport fisherman

I was at the boat ramp today watching the terrorist boaters from Sydney launching and retrieving there boats while on holidays. I watched as one bloke showed off his catch to a bystander and then he hurled the dead sting ray back into the water. It was a funny colored fish so I suspect it might have been pretty rare,it is now rarer than before. They also caught some large fish and took a fillet from the fish leaving about a kilo of good meat on the bones they threw back,if this is you wake up to yourself  this is not sustainable and it is a waste.

The what if story

What if.
What if is the story of a lot of people and it controls there life in many ways. As I said before I was a diver what if I drowned?  which I nearly did.  I was a coal miner and was buried to my chest under the underground bins which held a couple hundred tons of coal,  what if it covered me?.  What if I crashed my truck and got hurt ?  What if I got killed when the bobcat I was driving slid 50 meters into a gully. What if the 40 ton excavator that slid down a hill with me on it which it did?  What if the company sacked us for going on strike?    What if you turned up at a union meeting at the end of the day fit and fresh ready to take on the organisers, which I did.  What if I got electrocuted in a pipe 60 feet under mud cutting steel?  What if some one turned off the compressor when I was diving for pearl shell?  which they did.  What if you just lived your life,  What if.

recycled boat part 26

Recycled boat part 26

Today we put the boat in the water and it performed well. This is the boat with my son.

It has a good turn of speed for a small motor. We went a couple of miles up this creek on a cup full of fuel and motored up to this lizard basking on a log.

Must put some fuel in next time .More of the story three posts below.