Never the less the community soldiers on knowing that we have provided visitors with as much hospitality as possible.
The 6Ps editor is tearing his hair out over the recent video of the Malibu contest. An hours worth of quality viewing and music. The editing software is calling ..too much! It has taken 24 hours so far to condense the file, and still has another 30 hours to go.........Then it's DVD burning time. This has the managing director of 6Ps pricing an apple desk top with a memory larger than an elephants to produce movies faster. Not to mention looking under rocks for money to buy it with.
Anyway, not your problem and nor should it be, after all you would hope you could get something entertaining out of the blog other than our problems.
Rasta can sure cut back and we just love'em here at 6Ps. I think we have expressed our views on Rastas shortcomings when it comes to speech and spacey comments, so no need to go any further on that.
However, we are pleased with one of his latest "causes" which is to do with local involvement in community, from growing food to sharing entertainment.
Until we moved our offices from Cronulla, a busy seaside suburb in Sydney to Crescent Head a north coast heaven, we didn't understand the plight of country people. Basically the people most city dwellers see as winging farmers who either have droughts or floods and manage things like sheep farms or grow silly stuff like corn or sugar cane or something that is easier to get at the supermarket.
The one thing we are learning is that unless country communities look after themselves governments will not. The numbers for voting don't stack up and besides the Government in Australia has already decided it isn't into manufacturing or primary producing. That is left up to CHina and some other countries.
So.........it's about community involvement
Oddly enough this reminds me of my grandparents. They told me stories of neighbours growing fruit and veggies, and only being able to eat meat every other week because the power bill was so expensive. They always believed in sharing and any left over apples went to the kids up the road who had no shoes to wear and were poor.
They told me stories of total reliance on their community, sometimes the church was there for moral direction, a retired engineer would show a young bloke how to pull an engine of a car apart and put it back together again.
Most veggies and produce including eggs were bought in bulk and you had your own container to carry it in. Packaging was not supplied. My grandmother told me she had an egg carton that lasted her for ten years........imagine that..........imagine no packaging on your McDonald's?
Better still imagine no mac Donald's......grannies didn't have McDonald's and her kids weren't spoilt either. OR FAT.
Everyone used to get on, mostly, without any current entertainment. They used to talk to each other a lot. But hey......I'm swaying from the Rastas and country story...or am I?
Aloha
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