Thursday 6th November
Beautiful Tasmania
has provided us with a good close look at an echidna, which thought it was
hiding …under a large twig.
And some glorious
scarlet waratah.
Tasmanians are
great travellers. Our friends and
relations have been scattered all over the world this year. Alaska, Japan, India, Sardinia, Hawaii, Laos,
USA, Scandinavia, Vietnam…EVERYWHERE!.
I have been
collecting airport stories.
I most countries
they confiscate water bottles if they have been opened. This always makes me sad because as soon as
my current bottle has been snatched from my grasp, I feel an enormous thirst
and craving for delicious cool (or tepid…) water. However, apparently in India they don’t take
anything away. What they do is say, yes you can take it on board, but we want to
watch you have a swig of whatever liquid is in that container. Sensible!
They are still
confiscating random items which they consider might be used as weapons.
Tiny nail scissors
Equally tiny
tweezers (fearful objects, both.)
A tube of
toothpaste (well it MIGHT contain bomb-making ingredients! What they should do is say, yes you can take it on board but we want to
watch you brushing your teeth right now.)
Pete had an
ancient roll of Elastoplast taken from him at Darwin airport. It had been travelling the world with him
since the late 60s and I can’t imagine it could have been used for any purpose
at all, let alone a lethal one.
Is this keeping us
safer? Well…it is providing a whole lot of
jobs for security officials…
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| Cascade Brewery in the chilly late afternoon light |
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