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Monday Jul 6, 2015 #
7 AM
Pool running 45:00 [3] 0.7 km (1:04:17 / km)
To the pool on a morning for the hardcore (although tame compared with next week if some forecast projections are to be believed - and going to Queensland will be only a partial escape). Felt a bit of tightness beforehand and early on (partly in the groin this time), and never entirely convincing but managed to get through OK. Then followed a rather unpleasant ride in sleety rain (which included my closest dooring near-miss for a while).
Stirred up my WA colleagues by telling them I'd just come across a newspaper story which reported a shooting in a cafe in Hay Street (around the corner from our Perth office) and that the shooter was still on the run - then told them that the story in question was from 1929. It was one of several 1929 stories which could have appeared in today's paper - in particular, the paragraph "Efforts to induce Germany to share the sacrifice necessary to meet Britain's demands were unsuccessful" could just have easily appeared today, with "Greece" and "Germany" substituted for "Germany" and "Britain" respectively. (As someone pointed out last week, the Germans should remember that trying to force countries to repay unrepayable debts can lead to economic collapse and the election of radical governments).
Other stories which could well have appeared in modern times included a taxi driver being robbed at gunpoint in Sydney's inner west, civil war in Afghanistan, the SA government being upset at the failure of the Feds to come through with a promised grant for disability services, and "Officials of the Australian Labour (sic) Party declare that the Federal Government, with its budget, has written its epitath". They were right - Labor would take power a couple of months later, but it was the ultimate hospital handpass, as they were hit almost immediately by the Great Depression. (Labor wouldn't have had the numbers to force an election except that they'd won Indi by default in 1928 after their opponents forgot to nominate; one wonders how history might have been different otherwise).
I doubt very much, however, that anyone has appeared today in Muswellbrook Local Court for the alleged possession of 25 possum skins.
Stirred up my WA colleagues by telling them I'd just come across a newspaper story which reported a shooting in a cafe in Hay Street (around the corner from our Perth office) and that the shooter was still on the run - then told them that the story in question was from 1929. It was one of several 1929 stories which could have appeared in today's paper - in particular, the paragraph "Efforts to induce Germany to share the sacrifice necessary to meet Britain's demands were unsuccessful" could just have easily appeared today, with "Greece" and "Germany" substituted for "Germany" and "Britain" respectively. (As someone pointed out last week, the Germans should remember that trying to force countries to repay unrepayable debts can lead to economic collapse and the election of radical governments).
Other stories which could well have appeared in modern times included a taxi driver being robbed at gunpoint in Sydney's inner west, civil war in Afghanistan, the SA government being upset at the failure of the Feds to come through with a promised grant for disability services, and "Officials of the Australian Labour (sic) Party declare that the Federal Government, with its budget, has written its epitath". They were right - Labor would take power a couple of months later, but it was the ultimate hospital handpass, as they were hit almost immediately by the Great Depression. (Labor wouldn't have had the numbers to force an election except that they'd won Indi by default in 1928 after their opponents forgot to nominate; one wonders how history might have been different otherwise).
I doubt very much, however, that anyone has appeared today in Muswellbrook Local Court for the alleged possession of 25 possum skins.