In-famous in France
It seems that this blog is having a little moment in the spotlight, with news of our floods hitting international news sites. Well, one that I know of, but my statcounter has gone into orbit with someone obviously sending off an email or tweet or SOMETHING around the globe…
Most are being pointed to this post, but lots of new peeps are having a trawl while they are here – welcome if you are among my newbies!
I have to say, one link is giving me a bit of a giggle…
It’s a French news site France24 – here is the story on the floods and mention of Bush Babe. If you can read French click that link. If you don’t, click this one. Now I am not sure if the translate function of Google is a bit awry, but apparently I am an haemaphrodite and I single handedly tried to stop the flooding on my farm. What a woman/man! Oh dear.
That noted, I do appreciate that people the world over are taking an interest and showing concern for the drama going on here. I love hearing from those visiting. *waves to new French and English and Spanish and Swiss visitors*. I definitely don’t feel alone, and I hope those able to read this who are worse affected than us (and there are MANY) get the same sense of community that I have felt over the past couple of weeks.
It rained again last night. Over two inches in the old money (54mm in metric) – sending minor flooding down creeks and gullies again.
Creek fences that were fixed yesterday are gone again. This road painstakingly filled in, is again washed out. I am hoping to have some friends come to visit tonight – four adults and three children in one vehicle. Dash and Violet are beyond excited and hoping to somehow fit all five kids into one bedroom for a sleepover. (Still working out how to circumvent THAT particular plan). I just hope that they don’t all get stranded for a week. I’d love the company, but am not sure if they’d love the menu after day 6!! Heh.
Forecasts are for more rain – 20-40mm today and 10-20mm tomorrow. Not BIG rain but certainly enough to make it a bit messy. Never wonder why most bushies drive 4WD vehicles – a car would have been stranded out here for at least three weeks. (We HAVE managed to get into town a couple of times.) I spoke to a good friend last night who lives north-west of Dingo. They were helicoptered into the property they work on before Christmas and have pretty much been there ever since. My friend did get to town one day and took home $700 of groceries. Just as well she did, as there is STILL no food or fuel at any centre they can reach. Bakeries are rationing bread for those living on properties (otherwise the townies buy it all out). No trucks can get in or out to deliver anything. Even if they can get to town, there is little point.
My cousin Bee’s hubby got choppered out from here, and flew home to their place near Alpha before New Year. He sat in a house with water running just inches below the floorboards. He managed to get stock out of low-lying paddocks to safer ground, and as soon as the basics at his home were taken care of and he could reach the highway, he was in town helping businesses clean the mud and debris from their stores. Community spirit is an amazing thing (and essential) at times like these.
We are totally lucky here – we are closer to the coast with less points we can be cut off from the coastal centres. Every time I feel like having a whinge, I pop on the television and look at footage of bush towns that now resemble Venice (in the canals-for-streets sense, not the romantic-place-to-visit-sense!) Mould is my worst problem here. I think I need Oil of Cloves. Anyone?
Perhaps we should just be like these dairy cows (on a local farm, where this adorable lady once worked) and just take it in our stride a little more.
Chew our cud.
Watch the ebb and flow.
Get the recipe for mildew and mould repellent.
🙂
BB
13 Comments
jeanie
Tres Famous – maybe you need Suz to translate for you – might be better than the bot?
Just relax and remember – ’tis better to be blessed doubly than not at all in this instance (but still, I think WA might appreciate the blessing you are sending here, Hugo)
debby
Well, by golly, I knew you wuz a hero. Now, give your pants a hike and say, “Aw, shucks, twarn’t nuthin’,” and then spit.
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debby
What’s better than the bot mean?
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Bush Babe
I think it means ‘robot’ as in google auto translate!
Colin (HB)
Sacre Bleu! Mon francais (??)
Are they photos of your cattle? They don’t look like Brahmans to me.
Good grief – I will have to have my eyes re-tested – I can’t read the words in my Francais/Anglais Gasc’s Dictionary.
Did you hear ( no photo) on the news that a cow/steer/heifer (??) was found swimming out to sea after being washed down a river up your way – 12 klms on the way to Great Keppel Island!!!
The rescue, if possible, will be of interest.
Bon Chance Madame
Votre ami Colin (HB)
Margaret
We are following suit! Flood fencing…moving cattle to higher ground… and now this afternoon 46mm in about 15 mins. There’s nowhere for the water to go. It just forms a puddle the instant it falls and within minutes we are wading ankle deep in water again. My garden could grow bog plants at the moment. You are certainly making a name for yourself with your excellent flood reports and associated photographs.
Bush Babe
I KNOW – it’s such a contrast, isn’t it Margaret? A couple of years ago the ground was SO parched nothing ran anywhere!
Hope you dry out quickly there.
🙂
BB
Catch the Kids
Sorry all the hard work is getting undone. But my goodness. FRANCE! Very impressive.
Jane
The “Au Pair” is French! I met her the other day so maybe she can give you a better explanation. Did they make it?
Oh and the cow mentioned above that ended up on Nth Keppel Island died from stress they think. Remarkable effort though. Would love to know the brand to see where it came from.
Pencil Writer
Once the intrepid international photo journalist . . . and now again! Love the coverage. Yes, Bush Babe! You never know WHO is watching and reading! Love it for you! What a hoot to gather French and others foreign born to your lovely blog! No surprise.
Still praying for you all to dry up a bit. (Still willing to take any extra moisture this direction. I wonder if our huge lake–between Texas and Louisiana–will ever fill in again! I think the fishermen have to four-wheel out to go fishing these days rather than in go boats.
Linda
Good for you, BushBabe! It’s really nice that blogs tell the story and that others around the world can really see the story.
Hope the rains stop soon!
Linda
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Brigitte
Yes, yes I was in front of the telly when your blog showed up on France 24 the other evening. Imagine my jaw dropping, arms waving around frantically and screaming – or was it the other way around, I can’t remember – “that’s the blog I told you about” to my husband.
So it’s not only me who is an Australia fan!!
As to the Google translator, I think you can scrap it. It doesn’t say you are haemaphrodite. It just states that you tell the story about how a catastropy was avoided on your farm. Not that you did all by yourself. LOL
Take care
Kate
Wow ~ new digs here! Cool. I bought a domain name over a year ago and never did anything with it. Silly me.
Hey, you’re famous now! I always knew it.
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