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The bunker stores carry a range of steel products, RHS, SHS, angle, flat bar, pipe, round bar, checker plate and much more. Each store also has access to a large range of steel products on an order in basis like PFC and structural beams, this also includes non-standard size products the are available though are not stocked on-site. 

If you are looking for steel products in Hobart, Call @(03) 62 485 777 or Visit, The Bunker Store near you.

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Agriculture and Architecture: Saving Spaceship Earth

Sonja Dragović takes a closer look at the topics raised and conversations inspired by the exhibition Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side at the Lisbon Architecture Trienniale.

Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side exhibition is on display at the Garagem SulI until February 16. | Photo via Lisbon Architecture Triennale

The fifth edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, entitled The Poetics of Reason and curated by the team led by architect and theorist Éric Lapierre, was opened in October 2019. Aimed at approaching, examining and presenting architectural rationality today from different vantage point, the program offered five main exhibitions: Economy of Means, curated by Lapierre himself, Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side, curated by philosopher and historian Sébastien Marot, Natural Beauty by Laurent Esmilaire and Tristan Chadney, What is Ornament? by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene and Inner Space by Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli. Related events – workshops, lectures, discussions – have been organized throughout the last fall, culminating with the end-of-November Talk, Talk, Talk: a three-day conference that brought academics, architects, designers and activists together for a weekend of lively conversation at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 

Talk, Talk, Talk: Sébastien Marot, curator of the exhibition. | Photo via Lisbon Architecture Triennale

The first day of talks was devoted to the topics raised by the exhibition Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side, the only one from the Triennale’s program still on display (at the Garagem SulI, until February 16). The exhibition strives to be practical, to find answers to contemporary climate change challenges by reconnecting and reconciling agriculture and architecture and harnessing the knowledge resulting from this reunion. The questions emerging from such goal – about the realities of industrial development, the future of metropolis, the complexities of food production, the ethics of design – were some of those unpacked and discussed at the Talk, Talk, Talk conference by the exhibition curator Sébastien Marot, environmental designer and ecological educator David Holmgren, architects and writers Carolyn Steel and Colin Moorcraft, philosopher Joëlle Zask and their eager audience.

David Holmgren, one of the founders of the permaculture concept, joined the conference via Skype. | Photo by Sonja Dragović

David Holmgren joined the conference from Australia, just before the dawn; via Skype, we witnessed the sun rising on the other side of Earth as the evening conference in Lisbon was coming to a close. Best known as the co-founder of the permaculture concept, he described the way in which this idea that took shape in the mid-1970s at the University of Tasmania and at Mount Wellington, “at the sharp edge between the civilization and wilderness”, gained ground around the world and made it possible to imagine “climate chaos resistant design” on a global scale. Holmgren’s thinking and practice were inspired by indigenous practices in land use and agriculture, which understood and utilized ecosystems’ natural resilience and evolution. He emphasized the importance of dealing with the environmental crisis in large cities by upholding the practical thread of action and criticized the apathetic acceptance of the inevitability of status quo. For anyone interested in learning more about permaculture, his works Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability (2002) and RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient Future (2018) will be a great start.

From Holmgren’s book on permaculture.  | Excerpt via Holmgren Design

Carolyn Steel, British architect, author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008) and leading thinker on food and cities, pointed out the “urban paradox” of people living in urban areas, thinking of themselves as urban – detached from the countryside, but still depending on land and not grasping the true value of food. According to her, evolving technologies of feeding ourselves might make it appear that the food is simple – too simple to worry about in our digital age. However, the fact that the complexity is obscured doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Steel calls the world shaped by the current food systems Sitopia (from Greek sitos, food and topos, place). She advocates for changing the ways in which we perceive food supply and for becoming more self-reliant and community-oriented in food production and consumption: “To build a better society, we have to embrace this complexity.” Steel’s recently written for Architectuul on the topic of shaping our future through food.

Forthcoming book by Carolyn Steel. | Photo via Amazon.com

Steel’s argument that food production should be brought closer to home was affirmed by Colin Moorcraft, British architect and writer on environmental affairs, author of Designing for Survival (Architectural Design, 1972). He reminded the audience of the work of R. Buckminster Fuller, an architect and inventor who in 1969, just after the world has for the first time ever seen the photograph of Earth from space, had published an Operational Manual for Spaceship Earth. In it, Fuller wrote: “We are all astronauts and ours is a vehicle that requires maintenance, and that will cease to function if it’s not kept in good order.” He was one of the pioneers shaping the new global awareness, making it clear that we’re all in this together; the other key figures in this movement were, according to Moorcraft, scientists Ludwig von Bertalanffly, Howard Odum and Eugene Odum and the economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. 

Colin Moorcraft at Talk, Talk, Talk: Apollo 8′s greatest legacy - a single photograph of home. Sent to examine the Moon, humans instead discovered Earth. | Photo by Sonja Dragović

They contributed towards understanding and defining the interdependence between ecosystems, Earth’s resources and humans. In the beginning of 1970s, they have warned the humanity against the extensive use of fossil fuels and mineral resources – these warnings were outlined in Moorcraft’s Designing for Survival in 1972. As we all know, we didn’t listen, and our environment – inseparable, of course, from our communities – suffers the consequences. What we must do to mitigate these effects and improve our situation, Moorcraft advises, is bring the countryside into the city and design for agriculture to become an integral part of urban experience: “Architecture-and-agriculture is of central importance for improving the prospects of future generations of Spaceship passengers”, he concludes.

Buckminster Fuller: Making the world’s available resources serve one hundred percent of an exploding population can only be accomplished by a boldly accelerated design revolution.  | Quote and photo via pbs.org

The final talk of the evening was given by Joëlle Zask, French philosopher, author of La Démocratie aux champs (2016). She introduced the origins of democracy as “peasant affair”, starting in the fields rather than in cities. When the separation of food production from intellectual labor occurred, taking care of the body (the countryside) was separated from taking care of the soul (the city); the body was deemed less important. This separation persists, and Zask argues that repairing the link between architecture and agriculture is important because it would mean rediscovering and repairing this connection, entering the discussion with the soil, cultivating relationship with the nature, and developing oneself. Finally, it would lead to a more democratic society.

Talks after the talks: discussion with the audience at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. | Photo via Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Presentations by these four speakers, building upon topics outlined in the Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side exhibition, inspired an evening of lively discussion that spilled over into the next two days of the Talk, Talk, Talk conference. Now, this practical and hopeful stance towards the worrisome state of our environment should spill over into a bolder future action countering climate change. Our Spaceship needs repairs – and repairing the relationship between agriculture and architecture could be a great new start.

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You still have a chance to see the Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country’s Side exhibition! This Saturday (Jan 25) at 5pm a guided tour will be organized, led by the professor and geographer Álvaro Domingues. More details available here.

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Local structural drafting

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Here at LSD we take pride in our communication skills with our clients. We find the better understanding we have with our clients the better the final product. RFI’s can take time, but more information means less costly and timely mistakes.

We use Local guys who live in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Tasmania. All our guys work from home which keeps us very cost effective. If your on site and have a question we are one phone call away.

LSD Drafting is a unique steel detailing/drafting business. We started the business on 1st April 2008 and it is based in Melbourne. We work closely with local and inter state steel fabricators and drafting companies or businesses to supply detailed shop drawings for any size projects from start to finish. We have also gained experience in doing precast panel shop detailing as well.

Jobs can be sent to us via e-mail, post or courier and they can also be returned via similar means. For hourly rates on basic steel or precast panel detailing please contact us for more information.

We are committed to providing the highest quality service. With relevant qualification and extensive training with drafting softwares like Autocad and Prosteel. We are very approachable and have the ability to handle queries and ensure clients receive the service they expect.

Quality control is a primary consideration. Nothing leaves the office without being checked, a requirement that minimises lost time and cost overruns. We guarantee responsibility and accuracy of its drawings. I am always on the lookout for new ideas and ways to improve and evolve the business to be more efficient and to suit and meet the clients needs.

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Looking for aluminium sliding doors? Know these benefits before making a decision

Doors being the essential part of a housing structure, they are available in a plenty of variants and are installed based on the requirement.  Some of the common types of doors include timber or wooden doors, beattened and ledged doors, framed,panelled doors, flush doors, glass doors, steel doors, PVC doors, fibreglass doors, aluminium sliding and bifold doors. The sliding doors are increasing in popularity and  are highly recommended to install on a balcony, patio and create a division for a big room-effect. It is also the ideal type of door for the kitchen, bathroom and patio entrance to a room. If you are looking for aluminium sliding doors in Sydney, then keep on reading:

Advantages of Opting for Aluminum Sliding Doors

Replacing an old door is a good method of transforming your space into something vibrant and modern and a good alternative opting for a complete renovation. In fact, it is an important part item of your house that contributes to the interior decor. There has been a great boon in the sliding door industry as well. These are ergonomically designed with decent sliders to ensure it does not jamed or creaks while opening or closing.  Choosing an aluminium frame adds an extra layer of security and durability. Looking for sliding doors in Sydney, read these before installing one: 

They are extremely durable and are suitable for all types of weather conditions as they can handle the extremities like UV rays, heavy impacts of the rain and hail; hence making it an ideal choice for the patio.

They are easy to maintain and can be cleaned without any hassle after installation. It is ideal in places where the places are a little cramped.

In Sydney, sliding doors for the patio door is a good choice to make more space in the living room.

This type of door provides good thermal insulation, thusincreasing the efficiency for both; commercial and residential purposes. It helps in keeping the air warm.

This is one of the most stylish doors; since it consists of a high percentage of glass; a sliding window is also ideal for any house.

This is a good way of maximising the amount of light that enters your house. It is ideal for those who love natural light and want the view as well.

This is also a highly secure door with a very efficient locking system.

If you want to know the prices of aluminium sliding doors, then contact an expert; as investing them is a good choice.

The aluminium doors and windows have a good fire rating; hence they are optimal for the places in Australia that are prone to bushfires.

 Benefits of Shopping Online

There are several stores around Australia where one can shop for such doors, Uptons, is a place that supplies different types of contraction material. This place is a one-stop shop for those taking up DIY jobs as well as, are  professorial contractors. We stock SHIELD sliding aluminium doors which are economical, low maintenance, and can be customised as per your requiremets. These are both elegant and affordable. We have stores all over Australia like in New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland as well as in Victoria, stocking decking, flooring, timber, beams, cladding, and hardwood, many types of plywood besides several types of doors and windows.

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AI breakthrough in Tassie salmon farming

Established in 1986, Huon Aquaculture has grown to become a salmon producer that is recognised around the world for the quality of its produce and the ingenuity of its operations.

The company is seen as an ethical business and a respected Tasmanian brand — part of a sustainable industry and a company that is focused on the safety of its employees, as well as the welfare of the fish and the wildlife around its farms.

Huon Aquaculture is fortunate to farm in Tasmania’s healthy marine environment, allowing them to raise salmon and ocean trout in locations best suited to optimal growth. From the time their fish start their life in hatcheries, up until they are harvested, their environment plays a vital role in their health, growth and quality.

Huon is a fully vertically integrated company, meaning that the company does everything from selectively breeding brood stock for egg production, to processing salmon ready for the consumer.

Rough conditions in Storm Bay

Huon’s Storm Bay lease has the roughest farmable waters in the world. Located at the mouth of Tasmania’s Derwent River and opening south towards the wild Southern Ocean, Storm Bay can regularly experience swells of 4–6 metres significant wave height. While these conditions can be dangerous for people, Huon has found that the swells regularly rolling through the pens is good for the fish as it closely mimics their natural habitat. It also means that the pens can be left fallow for a shorter time before restocking.

However, the rough seas are also one of the reasons that Huon embarked on a journey to find a way to reduce or eliminate the need for people to be manually operating feed barges in such rough and dangerous conditions. Huon looked into mirroring what companies were doing around the world, where they were controlling their processes from a centralised location.

Consistency of yield depends on consistency of feeding

A major reason for automating fish feeding is the desire to maximise the consistency of the size and weight of the salmon at harvesting. Huon’s pens are, according to Peter Bender, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, the largest ocean fish pens in the world, with circumferences of around 240 metres and holding over 100,000 fish. With manual feeding, there can be days when fish are fed less and days when they are overfed — and uneaten fish pellets fall to the ocean floor, which is not only wasteful, but pollutes the ocean floor environment.

Moreover, without an even distribution of feed, the result can be an inconsistency in fish size, as the larger fish continue to dominate and consume the most, while others remain small.

No out-of-the-box solution

As a result, Bender went to an exhibition in Europe, only to realise that none of the software displayed was going to be fit for purpose for Huon because of the way they feed and their stocking densities. Many of the systems were designed for feed pens close to shore, and not up to 50 km out to sea, exposed to the Southern Ocean.

The company realised that an out-of-the-box program was not going to meet their needs, so they knew they had to work from the ground up. The company’s aims were to:

move to a centralised control platform that would reduce man-hours out on the water and on the barges, improving personnel safety;

achieve better control over feeding the salmon from the barges;

develop innovation in aquafarming;

have a positive environmental impact in reducing waste with controlled feeding.  

The challenge was therefore to develop new technology and implement it on a larger barge that could be moored at sea for longer periods without replenishment.

Enter Hogan, the automated feed barge

Commissioned and launched in December 2018 by Tasmanian shipbuilder Crisp Bros. & Haywards, Hogan is the first of two 600-tonne feed barges that will be used to manage the pens in Storm Bay. The sheer size of the barge is a result of it needing to not only withstand the sea conditions in Storm Bay, but also to remain autonomous for larger periods of time — both for feeding and waste recovery activities.

The significance of the barge is not so much due to its size, however, but due to its technology. Those staff that were once fish feeders are now control room operators and feed every fish in every pen from a control room in Hobart. They are able to do this as each pen has cameras that send real-time footage and data back via the barge to the control room. A pellet detection system that utilises artificial intelligence coupled with a remote controlled on-water feed delivery system makes feed delivery more effective than previous manual feeding.

The pellet detection system can detect as few as two uneaten feed pellets in the water column beneath the fish, and can automatically slow or shut off the flow of feed when the fish have stopped feeding — matching the feeding to the appetite of the fish while reducing wastage and potential impact to the sea floor.

In addition to the pellet detection system, Huon also developed a feed delivery system that spreads the feed evenly across the surface of the pen, by effectively ‘spraying’ it from a central point. This ensures that the fish have an equal chance of receiving feed — resulting in a consistent 5 kg fish size at harvesting.

Harsh conditions require tough hardware

For the control system on the barge, Huon engaged Cromarty Pty Ltd, a specialist automation system engineering and design firm. Cromarty provided all the electrical and control system design. The design work was done over an 18-month period.

“When we were asked to get involved in the building of the barges, it was identified that there wasn’t a proper specification of the valves to be used for the various processes on the vessel,” said Andrew Palfreyman of Cromarty. “Basically the valves chosen were not up to the task of working reliably in the harsh and corrosive conditions expected.”

Andrew encouraged Haywards to contact Katherine George, Managing Director of Total Instrument Controls, to assist in specifying the right type of valves to be used in the elements of the Southern Ocean.

Total Instrument Controls are a supplier of instrumentation and control technology and are one of the leading Australian resellers of Bürkert’s valve systems and controls. Previously the company had supplied Huon Aquaculture with various Bürkert equipment for their hatcheries, including solenoid valves and actuators, as well as oxygen dosing systems.

“The various valves from Bürkert that we supplied for the project have a variety of tasks from moving fluids (air, water, fuel etc) around the barge, as well as controlling the feed spreader systems, deck wash systems and generator fuel shut-offs,” Katherine George said. “Any valves in contact with salt water use a particular grade of stainless steel called Duplex for the trim material, as it provides the best corrosion resistance.”

“Bürkert’s 3005 actuators with battery backup on top of butterfly valves and stainless steel ball valves were chosen. Battery backup was chosen to implement failsafe functionality in case of power loss or loss of communication to the barge,” he added. “Battery backup was a must as many of the valves have the potential to sink the barge in stormy weather if they are stuck open, allowing the seawater to continue to enter the vessel.”

AI the crowning achievement

The huge barge, the remote control and the innovative feed system are all achievements that Huon Aquaculture and its suppliers can be proud of. But the crowning achievement is possibly the artificial intelligence and machine learning that has been incorporated into the control system.

Rather than relying on human operators observing the video feed, as is done in European systems, Huon has a achieved a system that uses the latest in AI and machine learning to automatically respond to fish behaviour, and can ‘learn on the job’. Managing Director Peter Bender believes the system may well be the first of its kind in the world — a world-leading innovation built on Tasmanian ingenuity.

Reference

1. Deloitte 2017, ‘The growth of global aquaculture – Fishy business’, Agribusiness Bulletin, <<https://ift.tt/2D5PEfD>&gt;

source http://sustainabilitymatters.net.au/content/wastewater/article/ai-breakthrough-in-tassie-salmon-farming-1176096463

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Did you know that timber cladding is an effective way of protecting a house or building from the environmental factors? Individual planks or pieces on the exterior are installed in this process to support the structural integrity of the house or building. Furthermore, timber cladding can also add an aesthetic element to your home. If you also want timber for cladding purpose or to make a deck or any other things then get it from The Bunker as they are the biggest suppliers of Tasmanian timber However, if you are thinking about the benefits of timber cladding and read the following article to the end.

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The 5 common mistakes made when building wine cellars

There are many different styles, sizes, materials and locations that you can build a custom Wine Cellar for you home, here are some things to consider before investing in a crate of Penfolds Grange. At Red Wine Cellars we will always consult with our clients prior to embarking on the construction of a Custom Wine Cellar to ensure that it is built to your needs. The first place to start thinking about a new bespoke wine cellar is with your dream cellar and work to a beautiful outcome from there.  1. Design the Cellar that is right for your needs.   A Wine Cellar and Wine Racking needs to be designed for the individual and the home where it is to be located. It is important to consider both the geographic location of the property and the location of the cellar within the house. These factors will determine the cellar environment, the size of the cellar and the bottle storage potential of the cellar. The style of the cellar needs to be considered to compliment the house design, whether it be a classic timber cellar with Red Cedar Wine Racking, a modern feel with Polished Aluminium Wine Pegs or a contemporary design with Tasmanian Oak and Australain Steel Wine Racking.  The conditioning requirement of a cellar located in Sydney or Melbourne will vary from a cellar built in Tasmania or Darwin, as will the location of the cellar within the home. As a wine cellar can be constructed almost anywhere in the home the size of the space may determine the quantity of wine that you require storage. An under stair cellar will have visual and functional appeal but may restrict the quantity of wine that can be stored, just as a devoted cellar space may require a large investment to both insulate and temperature condition the space and fill with lovely wine.   2. Insulation and Conditioning.  Insulating a cellar is paramount to a stable temperature environment, this is one of the fundamental components for preserving quality wine. An underground cellar in Portsea, Sorrento or Toorak can maintain a temperature suitable if insulated and not affected by the house conditioning system. However an in house cellar with or without insulation will remain at the temperature of the house. The recommended temperature for the ongoing maturation of quality with is between 14deg- 17deg C, consequently a cellar built within a property will require Cellar Conditioning to achieve this temperature. It is worth noting that the effects of temperature on wine are on a sliding scale, higher temperatures for longer periods have greater effect. A Red Wine that is not designated for long periods of maturation, check what the winemakes says on the label for cellaring duration, may be stored without temperature control if you have a small cellar where the wine is regularly consumed and replaced.   3. Type of Racking Wine Cellars can be both beautiful and functional. Red Wine Cellars supplies and installs Timber and Metal racking to suit your needs and the aesthetics of Custom Cellar. Western Red Cedar is traditionally used as a Cellar Timber as it has a beautiful soft red-brown timber hue, aromatic scent, it is durable and contains naturally occurring anti-fungal and anti-mould properties.  Polished Aluminium Wine Pegs offer a stunning modern method for storing wine. The pegs can be configured to accommodate any size bottle and can be configured for the bottles to be stored either parallel or perpendicular to the wall, always horizontal to the floor. The pegs also come in a range of colours to suit any decor.  Tasmanian Oak and Australian steel provides a modern, practical and bold Wine Storage System. They can be custom designed and suit a range of spaces.  4. How many Bottles do you need to store and what else will be in the space? Wine Cellars can store any volume of wine that your require. Depending on the racking system chosen you will be able to store between 70-90 bottles per square meter. Considering the volume of bottles that you wish to invest in can determine the size of your cellar.  Many Cellars are also provide great spaces for wine tasting or a space to entertain with friends, ensure that you bring a warm jacket if it is climate controlled to 14 degrees C. 5. Will your Wine and Wine Cellar be an investment? This is an easy mistake to make when designing a wine Cellar, if you invest in your cellar it will make a return on the investment many times over. Not only does a quality wine cellar increase the value of a property but also your own personal pleasure from having a cellar for your wines. Quality wines will also increase in value if stored properly in a stable temperature controlled environment.  The biggest mistake that people make when designing their wine cellar is not considering the many aspects that make a wine cellar both beautiful and functional.    Read the full article

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November 6 Green Energy News

Headline News:

“Australia’s Main Grid Reaches 50% Renewables For First Time” • On National Electricity Market, the combined output of rooftop solar, large-scale wind, and large-scale solar reached 50.2% of the near 25 GW being produced during one trading period. The NEM supplies Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. [RenewEconomy]

Meralli Solar’s Baroota solar farm

“Trouble Ahead for Natural Gas?” • FERC’s figures for proposed new capacity indicates a decrease of about 20% per year during August 2017 to August 2019. Extrapolating the data suggests that proposed new additions could drop to the point that they no longer exceed retirements by 2025. And market pressure could make this happen. [Green Energy Times]

“Last Month Was The Warmest October On Record Globally. Here’s What It Means For Climate Change” • The Copernicus Climate Change Service, which analyzes temperature data from around the planet, said October 2019 was 0.69°C (1.24°F) warmer globally than the average of all the Octobers in the 30-year span from 1981-2010. [CNN]

“11,000 Scientists Warn Of ‘Untold Suffering’ Caused By Climate Change” • More than 11,000 researchers from around the world issued a grim warning of the “untold suffering” that will be caused by climate change if humanity doesn’t change its ways. The group said that as scientists, they have the “moral obligation to tell it like it is.” [CNN]

“GE To supply 715-MW Chinese Mega-Farm” • GE Renewable Energy and China Huaneng Group are to build a 715-MW wind farm at Puyang in Henan province, China. The deal, which is GE’s largest-ever wind order in Asia, is for 286 of the company’s 2.5-132 turbines with 130-meter soft steel towers. The developer is China Huaneng. [reNEWS]

For more news, please visit geoharvey – Daily News about Energy and Climate Change.

  November 6 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times

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Days 43 to 46 (Thursday to Sunday)

Writing this at Tomato Island on Saturday (a tiny island in the Roper River that apparently used to be much bigger and conjoined with the shore, but shrinks with the floods every Wet season).  I’m glad it’s the weekend so we can relax after such a strenuous working week. Odd, but it really just feels just like all the other days so maybe there is something to be said for retirement after all. Maybe weekdays and weekends all have the same number of hours after all.

I ticked off another item on my Bucket List – reading for relaxation during the daytime (thanks Kerry, finished my birthday pressie book and enjoyed it a lot), something I don’t ever recall doing except perhaps occasionally during a long flight when it is hard to know whether it is daytime or not because you don’t know whether time is counted from your point of departure or point of arrival. Now I have to think of something else to add to my Bucket List, having ticked this one off!!!

Thursday was pretty relaxing too.  We mainly hung out around the van until we rang the PO and found that our replacement fan had arrived in the post.  We drove in to Mataranka and collected it and installed it.  Sounds simple, but it took a lot longer than expected.  Once we installed it and turned it on, we found it didn’t work!  After waiting almost a week for it to arrive, it was a dud! But wait!  The DC connection on the new fan was different from the old one so I had to pull the one from the previous fan apart and use it to connect the new one.  That was when I found that there was a wayward wire in the old adapter and when I fixed that, BOTH fans worked fine.  At least we now have two fans – who knows, if we got onto Facebook, we might gather some more fans!

Suitably equipped for the extremes of temperature we were expecting as we headed east, we set off on Friday in moderately cool weather (and cooler today) for exotic Borroloola.  We had been inveigled to assist with cooking the johnny cakes and puftaloons for the horde’s breakfast so we were a little later than usual leaving, but just cruised along slowly and enjoyed the drive, but then stopped somewhat unexpectedly less than halfway to our destination at Tomato Island.  It is so lovely here that we decided to stay an extra day.  The drive here was very interesting with more varied topography and vegetation that I recall for a while.  It varied from fairly thick bush to open grassland, to grassland with a few trees scattered about, to sparse forest with little understory (albeit some burnt) and we saw low ranges with hard granite escarpments and isolated areas of bare rock.  We stopped for a cuppa at a layby around one of these rocky outcrops and found it quite delightfully habitated by at least a dozen species of birds.  We spent more than an hour just checking out the birds before another caravan came in and we decided to move on.  We reached the turn-off to Borroloola, but went on the few kilometres to Roper Bar, a settlement(?) cum servo cum shop where we bought 50 litres of distillate for $110.  We then went a further couple of kilometres to the Roper Crossing where we crossed and recrossed the Roper with only perhaps 30cm of water across the road.

The Roper River was a big surprise – it is such a big river – fast flowing, apparently quite deep and at least 150 metres across just here.  Quite a few fisherpeople camped here for the season, but there are apparently some monster crocs around so we have been circumspect.  We arrived here around 3.30pm and decided to christen our BBQ cum fire-pit and had our first fire since leaving Cockle Creek in Tassie.  It is a cute little semi-cylindrical steel fire receptacle that we have carried (with an ample supply of wood, mostly collected in Tasmania) for almost 10,000 km and we really enjoyed it.  It was not really required for warmth, but there is something about the smell of wood-smoke and simply sitting and watching the fire consume the wood that is mesmerising.  Of course, it is necessary to poke and prod all campfires from time to time, but that is also an essential part of enjoying a bush fire.  We enjoyed it so much that we cooked our seasoned fish dinner over the coals tonight (delish!!) and plan to enjoy another fire tomorrow – at least – and hopefully many more nights.

The day was really one of the most enjoyable days we have had this trip - at least for me.  It was a very relaxing day, starting with a visit to my favourite hairdresser for a short back and sides.  Then we tackled a stint of reading for enjoyment (contemporaneously with a bit of birdwatching) and in no time at all, it was lunchtime.  We watched a masked finch eating pieces of charcoal from a dead fire, presumably because no Gavascon was available.  Another tick for the trip list and with more to come later in the day.  I drafted a bit of this blog and we then went for a stroll around the car park that ended up taking more than two hours.  We discovered some new plants to examine and photograph and then got amongst the birds.  We had an absorbing hour or so photographing mainly double-barred and crimson finches and northern fantails with the odd restless flycatcher and other more common species – as well as a few small fish off the boat-ramp.

As mentioned above, we sat around the campfire for a Happy Hour or Two and then cooked our fish over the coals. We also fired up our generator that hasn’t been out of its cupboard for at least 5 years and used that to run the car fridge and charge most of our devices that needed AC power – phones, iPads, my PC, camera batteries, power banks and so on.  It is technically possible to charge all of these in the car, but given that we hadn’t moved the car for 2 days, the generator was a great way to go.   All in all, I found it a delightfully enjoyable and relaxing day.

It is now Sunday.  This place is so nice that we decided to stay another day.  No cathedrals nearby so we didn't go to church. Instead we unhitched the caravan and went to Port Roper, on the Gulf of Carpentaria about 100km east.

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Stopped to see some birds and to photograph flowers at several places on the way back to the van and our tally now stands at 195 with 32 new ticks for us.  We also saw a couple more snakes and two dingoes today so we really felt we were in the sticks today.

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I have to admit to being a car and motoring tragic for all my (thankfully) quite long life.

In fact, my late mother always said that after I had mastered “mum” and “dad” my next words were “red car.”

One of the benefits of this motoring passion is that I’ve been fortunate to own and enjoy some interesting cars.

Those that especially come to mind when I look back on my more than five decades behind the wheel are my first car – an original Mini – an XM Falcon Futura hardtop, an HK GTS V8 Monaro, an Alfasud Ti, Ford Capri 3000 GT, BMW 633 CSI, Porsche 928S and my current toy – a Nissan 350Z roadster.

Gazumping all of those – certainly in terms of exotic rarity – was my 1959 MG A Twin Cam roadster.

At the time of its acquisition, I was a very young journalist on the Launceston Examiner and as well as doing police rounds and courts and some sport, I was extremely fortunate that the Editor, the late F G N “Goodie” Ewence – added motoring to my responsibilities.

Until the arrival at the Examiner of young Crawford, as well as running the paper “Goodie”, in the absence of anyone else who knew anything about cars and motoring, had been doing the motoring section himself.

Mr Ewence was a serious motoring enthusiast and in fact drove to work each day in a somewhat tatty Triumph TR 2.

He was also one of the driving forces behind the wonderful Tasman Series races held at the equally wonderful but long-since defunct Longford road circuit.

I had seen a white MG A roadster driving around town on a few occasions and wondered why it had steel disc wheels with knock-offs.

I soon discovered that it was Tasmania’s only Twin Cam and that it was in fact for sale.

One drive and I knew I had to have it, so the little Mini 850 with the twin carbs and noisy exhaust was traded and the MG was mine.

To find out more about the Twin Cam and its history in Australia, I discovered some years ago the Australian MG A Twin Cam Register that is run by Melbourne enthusiast Bob Somerville.

He says that 75 Twin Cams were sold new in Australia and another five were imported in the period before 1965.

Another 23 were imported in the 1990s and eight were exported.

Bob says that of Australia’s original 80 cars, 18 are lost – sadly, including mine.

He says that while I supplied him with the photo that’s with this story, I no longer had engine and chassis numbers so tracing it all these years later was virtually impossible.

Bob did, however, float the theory that the car might have been bought by a father for a son who subsequently wrecked it.

In all, the register says 1788 Twin Cam roadsters were produced between 1958 and 1960, as well as a much smaller number of coupes.

The car’s engine was based on the Morris B-series motor and was modified to run an aluminium cross-flow head and the twin-cam set-up.

The engine was fitted with 1 3/4-inch SU carbies and a fuel-consumption figure of 10.2L/100km was claimed.

The 1588cc engine was good for 80.5kW at 6700rpm and 142Nm that was on tap at 4500rpm – modest figures by today’s performance-car standards – but pretty spirited back then.

The engine was mated with a four-speed gearbox that came without synchromesh on first.

Other features that set the Twin Cam apart from the “mere-mortal” MG As were the aforementioned Dunlop steel wheels (like the ones Jaguar ran on D-Types) with knock-off central locking and 11-inch un-boosted disc brakes.

The only other way you could pick a Twin Cam was it if had three “Twin Cam” badges – one atop each front guard near the air vents plus another on the boot lid.

Road tests at the time gave the car a top-speed of 185km/h and sprint time to 100km/h of 9.1 seconds.

Twin Cams have done a lot of racing over the years and in fact a coupe, driven by British drivers Ted Lund and Colin Escott was 12th overall and first in the 2.0-litre class at the 1960 Le Mans 24-hour classic.

In terms of my time with the Twin Cam, after a couple of years of enjoyable (and much too rapid) motoring, the engine ran a big-end bearing and developed the associated unhealthy-sounding rattle from the bottom end.

Before this happened, I had become conditioned by the engine’s propensity to oil up plugs.

To manage this problem, I kept a small sugar-bag containing a plug socket and about 20 spark plugs in the boot.

After the bearing went, a mate of mine at the time, who was much better with a spanner than I, generously offered to help me do a full engine recondition.

Another mate had an empty garage behind his shop and that’s where all the work was undertaken.

The engine was removed and pulled down, the block was sent to the then Repco Bearing Company plant to have the bore honed, the crankshaft ground and new big-end and main bearings were ordered.

Once the block came back with Repco’s bore measurements, pistons were sourced from the UK, flown out and the engine rebuilt.

The alloy rocker covers and the SU “bells” were all polished and the engine looked a million dollars.

For something like 1500km I carefully ran the engine in before changing the oil and giving the car a serious high-speed run down the beautiful road on the western side of the Tamar River.

It was in fact the day this photograph was taken and I was travelling with a newspaper photographer colleague to cover a story.

On the way back there was a nasty noise from the engine, a lot of smoke and a serious loss of power.

After limping back to Launceston, I gave my mechanic mate the bad news and remarkably, he again helped me rebuild the engine.

What we found was that Repco had given us an incorrect reading of the bore size and we had fitted under-sized pistons.

Not only that, they had not cleaned out the oil ducts in the crank shaft and our beautiful new bearings were badly scored.

Needless to say they blamed us for not checking everything.

They were probably right but my mate and I were not happy. In my case, heartbroken would not be over-stating it.

Another month or so with he and my then girlfriend (now wife) working into the early hours of the morning and the engine was again like new.

A week or so after we had the car back on the road, Tasmania’s first Falcon XM hardtop – a top-spec pale metallic-blue Futura – arrived in the local Ford dealer’s showroom.

Back then – and still today for that matter – it was a seriously sexy car and I decided that it had to be mine.

I just couldn’t face the prospect of another engine rebuild – and I was heartily sick of forever changing plugs.

The upshot was that I traded the Twin Cam on the Futura and received the princely sum of 1000 quid for the car.

Needless to say I shuddered when, in February 2017, Shannons sold a Twin Cam Roadster just like mine for $85,000 (except it had red leather where mine had black).

So that’s the story of my Twin Cam. It was to a degree a love/hate relationship, but I still remember the good times and the great drives.

But there’s a remarkable sequel to the story and it’s one of the spookiest experiences of my life.

About 10 years ago during my time as motoring editor of the Canberra Times I was in Hobart on a Mini media launch.

We travelled about 20 minutes by bus from our city hotel to a winery restaurant for dinner.

Unbeknown to us, the PR people had arranged for around 20 members of the Hobart Mini club to chauffeur us, one to a car, back to the hotel after dinner.

We were told to choose a car and head off with its driver.

It was a delightful touch.

Jumping into a Cooper S fitted with a huge Weber carby, I introduced myself to the driver – a great bloke a few years younger than me.

He asked me who I wrote for and I explained it was the Canberra Times, although I did it out of Melbourne.

I explained that actually, I had started writing about cars some 40 years earlier when I was a kid on the Examiner.

He immediately and with some excitement said: “ You used to have an exotic sports car – a white MG A Twin Cam with black leather.”

I was flabbergasted.

Of the 20 Minis I had to choose from, I chose this one with this bloke at the wheel.

He explained that he used to see the car parked outside the newspaper office and how he often used to hear it go past his school, and how much he loved its exhaust note.

To finish off the story, my new Mini-driving mate told me he had actually driven in the car.

This came about because one of the Ford dealer’s salesmen lived in the same street and he had brought the car home one day and took the then schoolboy for a ride.

As they say, it’s a small world.

Looking back, there’s no doubt the Twin Cam – even in the often cold Tasmanian weather – instilled in me a love of top-down motoring.

This was confirmed three years ago when I bought a Mazda MX-5 roadster I found for sale outside a nearby house.

My wife and I loved going for top-down drives in the little Mazda but it was just a tad small for me.

We now have a Nissan 350z roadster and wind-in-the hair motoring (not that I have much these days) is still very much a part of our lives.

And it all started with the Twin Cam.

Spooky tale of Tassie sportster I have to admit to being a car and motoring tragic for all my (thankfully) quite long life.

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AFL state-of-origin Allies line-up pretty handy in heat of battle

Think of the Allies in a football context and you immediately think of a hotchpotch of players from a number of states and territories wearing funny-looking guernseys.

As interest in AFL state of origin began to wane in the early 1990s, the composite team, drawing upon players from everywhere bar the “big three” football states, was an attempt to keep things competitive.

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Impey has the power to leap, Geelong play total football to beat Crows, Suns put Eagles in the shade, GWS are awesome and go top and Dusty racks up the Brownlow votes yet again.

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Joe Daniher is adamant he is only thinking about footy, letting his manager and club handle the contract negotiations.

Daniher learnt from the best

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Neale Daniher assures reporters his nephew Joe comes from a family of superstars, who are proud he carries on the Daniher name at Essendon.

Collingwood soldier on

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The Magpies recorded their third consecutive victory with a gritty win over Fremantle.

Giants go top

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The Giants have climbed to the top of the AFL ladder, defeating Essendon at Spotless Stadium.

Goddard makes a mess

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Something certainly upset Brendon Goddard at half-time, but his dressing room effort didn’t impress the captain.

Fantastic Cats pull Crows back down to earth

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On the back of hard nosed defence the Geelong Cats caused an upset over the ladder leading Adelaide Crows.

AFL plays of round 11

Impey has the power to leap, Geelong play total football to beat Crows, Suns put Eagles in the shade, GWS are awesome and go top and Dusty racks up the Brownlow votes yet again.

From that perspective, to a degree, it worked. The Allies only ever played four times, but with players the calibre of Nathan Buckley, Jason Akermanis, Matthew Richardson and Shane Crawford, they managed to twice beat Western Australia, although losing comfortably to Victoria twice, a game at the Gabba against the “Big V” in 1998 their last outing.

Nearly 20 years on, with some momentum building around the idea of a revival of the state of origin concept, how would they fair now? Pretty decently, one suspects, if our hypothetical Allies team ever actually ran out to play.

With a steady stream of Indigenous talent from the Top End entering the system, Gold Coast and GWS joining the competition and the academies supplying talent from beyond the traditional football heartland, there’s a much deeper player pool from which to choose. Which in this hypothetical exercise, means some pretty good players miss out.

We didn’t consider players currently on the injured list, which, fortunately for this combination’s opponents, meant no Cyril Rioli, Grant Birchall or Mitch Robinson, with Nick Riewoldt subject to a last-minute fitness test.

But this side could have Riewoldt withdraw and still look OK for key forward marking targets, of which there were many potential picks.

We’ve gone with Adelaide skipper Taylor Walker (also captaining this team) at centre half-forward, with N Riewoldt next to him on a flank and his cousin Jack in the goal square. In the forward-pocket lurks Port Adelaide’s Charlie Dixon, who has been a lot less enigmatic and a lot more consistent this season, and can also perform back-up ruck duties.

Irishman Zach Tuohy earns citizenship for this game. Photo: Michael Dodge

Desperately unlucky to miss the cut are North Melbourne’s Ben Brown and Geelong’s Tom Hawkins, eligible under our selection guidelines as he hails from Finley in NSW despite having started in junior football with Sandringham under 18s.

Clearly they breed them big and strong in Queensland, NSW and Tasmania. Perhaps that’s at the expense of South Australia (see our team from Monday) which had no alternative to still-raw young Hawk Tim O’Brien in the goal square.

Tiger Daniel Rioli is an easy selection.  Photo: Getty Images

The ruck was another close call, with Richmond recruit Toby Nankervis just getting the nod ahead of Gold Coast pick-up Jarrod Witts, who’s form since leaving Collingwood has also been solid.

Luke Breust might be a tad fortunate, but gets a guernsey as a specialist small forward with Daniel Rioli, on a forward flank, deserving his.

Down back, meanwhile, Dane Rampe might have only been back in action for the Swans for a few games, but is nonetheless a walk-up start.

Jeremy Howe will have to play tall at centre half-back, but with a leap like his, who’d doubt his capacity to do so. And there’s a heap of run and rebound in the pockets and flanks courtesy of Jarrod Harbrow, Zac Williams and Irishman Zach Tuohy, who gets complimentary citizenship for this game.

And while the midfield is pretty young, it’s certainly not lacking dash with the likes of Isaac Heeney, Jack Steele and, ready to have a big impact off the bench, Steven Motlop, Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti and Aaron Hall.

This combination might be the least-seasoned of our state-of-origin line-ups, but it might very well be the most exciting, one well worth forking out for at the turnstile.

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