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Neil Alexander
@neilalexander.bsky.social
Bicycle rider, WQuer, once an editor...
New South Wales
"Aahh, don't you worry about that... I always talk in a way they can’t understand so, you know, you can't straddle a barbed wire fence and... and... keep an ear to the ground at the same time... but, aahh, there are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it... We'll be feeding the chooks later on"
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm keen to know what your comment would have been... 🤔

When it's safe, of course 😉🤣
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thermostat doesn't sound too smart 😉🤣
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Gough always spoke so well, and he was a great exploiter of alliteration

He was also unfailingly respectful and polite. You'll note he called the bible-bashing bastard "*Mr* Bjelke-Petersen" 😂

#ValeGough #Auspol
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I put a jumper on here...
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Stands to reason!
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
He at least had a great voice for radio.

As well as a great face for radio 📻
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Great story, excellently written! 😃

Good to see Norman Gunston remembered, too, on this significant day in Australian 🇦🇺 political history, the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal.

#LestWeForget #ValeGough
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Indeed! We will remember.

Lest we forget The Dismissal !!

50 years... 😔
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
You got it in 7! Stop whinging!!
😂
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Birdle² is a good result today, Robyn 😃

W² symmetry: a bonus 😆
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Pardle is a good get for this one!
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Yeah, but it's a pretty thick book, so you could start lots of fires before it runs out.

And, anyway, where are you gunna be able to spend money on a deserted island? 😉🤣
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
No, but plenty of moo-ing from the paddock down the road 😀
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Coffee *before* puzzles!
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Get the sandbags ready!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Tense!!
🤣
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
That was coming 'perilously' close to an Elvissy disaster... 😆
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'd have sworn blind that W answer had been used. Thank dog for FFW!
😃

Great BigBirdling again, Robyn 😆
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM