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Monday, 14 October 2013

A walk around Waverton and Wollstonecraft A

The corner of Carr St and King St

Five Ways

Down the hill to Waverton Shops and Station

Further along Bay Rd

Now go to the B set of Photos

a walk around Waverton and Wollstonecraft B

Centre for Sustainability, Community Garden and Indigenous Cultural sites

Back along Bay Rd

Views towards Balmain and Birchgrove on the left, Birkenhead Point and Iron Cove in the distance

I grew up in the distance beyond the Drummoyne Bridge and lived there for 26 years, lived in Balmain for 17 years and have lived in Wolly for 18 years

Bins with a view!

McKye St

Bottle Brush in King St

The high road and low road at Brennan Park

Friday, 3 May 2013

Charles O'Reilly aka Henry Windsor Lowder

I have been trawling through some WWI war photos and found the two smaller ones which resemble my great uncle, Charles O'Reilly born in Co Louth Ireland. I am trying to confirm the identities of the Zeitoun, Egypt and Somme, France photos.

Family photo

Possibly during Boer War or Egypt....Zeitoun? 1915

Entitled: Haircut/Delousing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eethompson/497582600/in/set-72157601544342027/lightbox/

Zeitoun, Egypt

1915 36-37 yo

Charlie participated in battles on the Somme during 1916-17, where the photo of the soldier in the winter outfit was taken.

1916-17

37-38yo

GREAT WAR PHOTOS WW1 Photos Centenary Website: 2014-2018 By Paul Reed

http://greatwarphotos.com/2012/12/08/winter-war-tommy-dressed-for-winter-1916/#comment-1367

in France?

Thursday, 2 May 2013

Vale Bev Gummer relative and e-friend

RIP

Beverly Gummer

Butte Montana

I had some very sad news yesterday afternoon from Joy Gummer, the daughter of a distant cousin. Her mother, Beverly Gummer of Butte, Montana, USA passed away on 29 April. I 'met' Beverly on line via UK relatives. Bev and I exchanged family histories, photos and many jokes over the last five years. I will miss her.

Sievert Gummer on the far right

Bev's husband Sievert and my father were of the same generation and related to Gyles Gummer born c. 1642. Amazingly, the resemblance between Sievert and my father, Jack was very strong.

My father and mother

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Coffee Bean Power gets up on 'Get UP'

Make your GST go Federal not Feral

As of this afternoon, Coffee Bean Power is an official 'Get Up' campaign action. I would really like this to go viral so that from the next GST quarterly BAS payments increase exponentially. Then our federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, will notice an increase in GST payments to government. My *GOLD* star today goes to Charlie Lovett whose receipt is legal, clear and binding.

KAAA-CHING!

The GST, which I paid this arvo, AU$0.73 is going to Treasury and I feeeeeel good! NB I have covered the name of the cashier to maintain her/his privacy.

If you have had a pleasant experience like mine, email me your receipt and I will upload it! Taxpaying companies and businesses deserve some free advertising.

From a relative:
'Forget coffee. Sandwich bars in the city are the way to make a fortune.' 30 April

My Response:

Agreed but the sandwich bars also sell coffee and lots of other stuff. There is a greater mark up on coffee than any sandwich. However, most people in the city buy a coffee+ something else. So the

GST is being collected by the shop owner who avoids paying tax on on the whole deal. Burwood is rife with small shopfront and street stall owners selling all sorts of imported junk: socks, tea towels and they don't know what a receipt is when I have asked them for one. Consequently, I haven't bought the product. Similarly, at a Leichhardt shopping plaza, an owner in a linen shop, when asked, wrote the amount on a tally sheet paper and then gave me a written receipt with no ABN. So these people are deliberately tallying the amounts for which they are accountable and are not paying tax on the 'rest', which is a much longer list.
The deficit of $12billion is nothing. GST on coffee and a sandwich could easily cover the whole lot and leave just as much and more if the government empowered the ATO to have more direct collection. I'm hopping mad that the GST which I pay is not going where it should. Next thing will be Gonski to get a drubbing.
No one offers a customer a coffee for $3.15 if you pay cash. The 35c is going into the pockets of these economic lowlifes. When I asked for a receipt in a Pitt St city cafe near Park St., the guy fiddled on the bench for a number of seconds and then gave me a receipt which was stamped an hour earlier than my purchase! He then followed me out of the shop and into the lift lobby!!!! Haven't been back there since! That is just one scam. I have examples of dud receipts for others as well: no ABN, handwritten and no ABN.
People like us have to ask for a receipt if we want our paid tax to work for the country. Remember, if you are also leaving a tip, you are really pushing tax free money into their pockets.