Here in the west of Oz the main premium wine district is Margaret River. There's about 90 wineries most of which are owned by doctors.

Hilarious!

Too bad we cannot 'grow wine' here.  Our family doctors — mostly from Nigeria these days— cycle out of this area as fast as they can. 

Country Town Hospital In Wine Region Not Struggling For Rural Placements

"As imagined, this trend has in turn created a concerning shortage of doctors in towns that don’t have the resources to treat half-pissed medicine students to a chilly afternoon drinking wine until they begin making out with each other in the back of a mini-van.

Towns like Blackwater, Mt Isa and Broome have responded to this challenge by trying their best to grow grapes, but inevitably settling for craft brewery tours – which has resulted in an influx of overweight of trainee doctors with sugar headaches in these historic mining areas."

From the Betoota Advocate of course.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

gutter...

 haresfur wrote:

The funny part is what sort of nefarious activity was going on that the spider interrupted, that it had to be donated anonymously. Hmm. HMMM I say. 

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Wow, that's big. As far as I know, we don't have funnel-webs, although someone suggested to me that they are probably out in the bush around here.

'Megaspider' is biggest of its kind we've ever seen, Australian reptile park says

 haresfur wrote:

Right.  Poor parents.

 westslope wrote:

From a former case of a baby disappearing while camping with a horrifically sad outcome.

A dingo ate my baby

Where does a dingo enter into all of this?

 haresfur wrote:

 westslope wrote:

A great outcome from some good police work. Is it too soon to joke that my money was on the dingo?

‘My name is Cleo’: how an 18-day search ended with an Australian detective holding a four-year-old girl

 haresfur wrote:
Trapped in an oppressive regime of free healthcare, low gun crime, brutally beautiful weather and suffocating open space, we have nowhere else to turn.

We are suffering. Our minimum wages, like our vaccination rates, are ominously high. Our standard of living sits dangerously amongst the highest in the world. Our schools lack even the most basic metal detectors.

Now if that is not a rationale for invasion and occupation, I don't know what is.

Australia rules out committing to methane reduction target

 haresfur wrote:

  OH, THE HORROR

Or donate to me directly 

America – please help liberate Australia. Donate now!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Bondi is the biggest tourist beach in Australia so world wide appeal

 BlueHeronDruid wrote:

Well I was just going to correct the bin chicken shirt away from Adelaide and to not-rugby to make it more appealing/accurate.

My laptop has died so I'm sort of limping along by logging into the office computer from home, so new stuff isn't happening very fast.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Hurry. My physical therapist is anxious to see more of your work. Monday it'll be the giant spider (is that yours or Manbirds?). He double dog dared me. Last Thursday was ETAION SHRDLU. He loves Drop Bear (Look Up and Live!) best so far. And Be The Llama is second best. He was seriously amused by the Bin Chickens.