Thanks Steph. for the bttt lesson
siegswife we do have buttheads that like lighting fires deliberately, and Australia at the moment is a tinderbox waiting to go up, any small spark can start a major blaze, but like Kelpie said most are started cos of nature or accidently.
We have fires all over but by far the ACT fires seem to be worst, Mt Hotham a popular ski resort in Victoria, isn't looking too crash hot at the moment either, near where I live we have had 2 fires in bushland area in the last couple of weeks 1 delibaretly lit. No one was hurt and no houses lost...but it's still early in our summer here, if we don't get rain this year guys, we're gonna be in serious trouble me thinks.
My Country - Dorothea MacKellar
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins;
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies -
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror-
This wide brown land for me.
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The saphirre misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart around us
We watch the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze
An opal hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Aussie
Aussie
Aussie
Edited by - Gizmo on 20 January 2003 0:44:4
