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piers2210 · 04-06-2009, 11:11 PM

That is SUCH a good sign!

Get that Pinot Noir bottled. How about an Avalon party later this year? Can we use your place if we bring wine and food?????????

Everyday is a lovely day for me.

Although....I'm re-reading your favourite southern hemisphere book tonight..."On the Beach" - Neville Shute. Graphic desciptions of how the world ends through radiation carried by the wind.....

The end of the world...at your place. Wonderful. We'll go out drinking Pinot Noir. If you haven't read it....its one of the greatest books ever written (1958, believe it or not!). In it Shute explains something that the "smart" George Green-loving sycophants don't realise....the southern hemisphere WILL be affected by Northern Hemisphere neuclear radiation (which George Green maintains won't touch the southern hemisphere because of the wind routes which will keep it north of the equator)...this is because of what he calls the "pressure equator", which moves the equator a little south with the seasons, bringing the winds with it...so the radiation DOES eventually get you.....but leaves you enough time to finish off your stock of Pinot.

Thanks, Nature! I'm coming south!!

04-06-2009, 11:11 PM	#66
piers2210 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 403	Re: Books that changed my life - Tell me more! That is SUCH a good sign! Get that Pinot Noir bottled. How about an Avalon party later this year? Can we use your place if we bring wine and food????????? Everyday is a lovely day for me. Although....I'm re-reading your favourite southern hemisphere book tonight..."On the Beach" - Neville Shute. Graphic desciptions of how the world ends through radiation carried by the wind..... The end of the world...at your place. Wonderful. We'll go out drinking Pinot Noir. If you haven't read it....its one of the greatest books ever written (1958, believe it or not!). In it Shute explains something that the "smart" George Green-loving sycophants don't realise....the southern hemisphere WILL be affected by Northern Hemisphere neuclear radiation (which George Green maintains won't touch the southern hemisphere because of the wind routes which will keep it north of the equator)...this is because of what he calls the "pressure equator", which moves the equator a little south with the seasons, bringing the winds with it...so the radiation DOES eventually get you.....but leaves you enough time to finish off your stock of Pinot. Thanks, Nature! I'm coming south!!