1975 postcard Edgar -> Aunty Marg

Dad WW2

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=205701720

Title

THOMSON EDGAR JAMES : Service Number - 414101 : Date of birth - 07 Mar 1922 : Place of birth - TOOWOOMBA QLD : Place of enlistment - BRISBANE : Next of Kin - THOMSON FLORA [Black and White negative - identity photograph] [Black and White negative - identity photograph]

Contents range

1939 - 1948

Series number

A9301

Control symbol

414101

Access status

Open

Item ID

205701720

https://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/wa107.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com

CRASH OF AN AVRON ANSON

AT CARDABIA STATION, POINT MAUD, WA

ON 30 SEPTEMBER 1942

 

Avro Anson AX299 of 4 Service Flying Training School 4SFTS at RAAF Geraldton, crash landed at approximately 1430 hours W.A.S.T. on 30 September 1942 in a marsh at Cardabia Station, Point Maud in Western Australia at a location approximately 140 miles north of Carnarvon.

One crew member was killed and two survived the crash landing:-

Sergeant Douglas Dunn (411301) - Pilot - Cuts and abrasions

Pilot Officer Clive Frederick Bingham (413515) - Killed

Sergeant Edgar James Thomson (414101) - Slight haemorrhage

The mainplane of the Anson was smashed, the undercarriage was damaged and the engines were smahed.

 

REFERENCES

RAAF Casualty Database

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Daniel Leahy for his assistance with this web page.

 

Can anyone help me with more information on this crash?

 

"Australia @ War" WWII Research Products

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https://doczz.net/doc/5129613/air-mail---14-oct---nov---aviation-heritage-museum

Chat GPT:

"There is independent evidence that the girls at Cardabia Station really were a known attraction to RAAF crews flying along that coast. A wartime RAAF pilot, John “Blue” Bailey, later wrote that while flying past Cardabia he saw two girls on the roof waving at his aircraft. He identified them as Wanda French, about 19, and Mara French, about 17. He deliberately made a low pass, and on a later flight actually landed on a nearby claypan to visit the girls and their parents for tea. �

doczz.net

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Yes. It's interesting. 

It appears one of dads crashes were as a result of girls. 

In dad's case, we think a wing tip hit the ground and the plane spun out. Killing a crew member but dad and pilot survived with injuries. Apparently there's a inquiry report in the national archives.

I guess young men and young women showing off to each other. 

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Dad at 10

Aunty marg recites a story where dad and aunty marg and the brothers walked several miles from the farm homestead to the front gate. Aunty marg was 6 and dad was 10. Aunty marg was then tired and dad piggybacked her back.

F & H Visit Aunty Margaret

Henry and Frank drove to Aunty Margaret's place at mooloolaba.

We, mostly Henry and Aunty Margaret, are going through postcards that will later be sent en bulk to various family members who keep historical documents. 

Earlier we went to lunch at Penny's Fish and Chips. 

1981 Ski Trip

7-6-1981

Postcard from mum Eileen to Aunty Margaret.

The photo is taken from Mount Perisher looking back toward the Perisher centre. In the foreground, the Mount P double and if you zoom in you can see the front valley double T bar that was replaced by the V8

Dinner W Henry

Last Friday I picked up Henry from the Airport and he borrowed my Tesla to travel to Toowoomba for a school reunion. 

On Sunday he drove back to Fairfield.  He and I then drove him to an apartment "Bridgewater" he'd rented at Kangaroo pt.  

We then drove back to Fairfield and then Phoebe, Fletch, Henry, Magnus and myself drove to the Thai place on Gladstone Rd.

After that we dropped Henry at his apartment. 

Airport viewing

Today in picking Henry up from Brisbane airport.

One of the difficulties associated with airports is coordinating the pick up. Brisbane does a reasonable job of it providing a 10 minute free car park and a free stop-drop-go.  But i was unsure how long I'd need to wait so...

Decided to explore the roads around there airport.

At the Northern end I found a viewing spot that I recalled seeing somewhere recently. Great lots of free parking and it's kind of interesting. There's something exhilarating about planes. Maybe it's feelings associated with holidays or just activity. 

The installation kind of reminded me of Holbrook.  They've got a submarine that's surfaced we've got a plane that's submerged.

Garden Dinner

Tim

Phoebe 

Fletch

Sam

Hugo 

Frank

I cooked (rump) steak,  mashed pot+sweet pot+   mushrooms, onion, carrot and beans. 

It was a bit sub par. The steak was a bit rubbery. The beans and carrot were sightly under done. 

Aging Weights Heart Rate Muscles

Ref:

 https://share.google/KG3EsXX2hfKS6wjt2

See below....

My observations:

I note they mention that:"falling peak heart rate and the reduced ability of the working muscles". When I do park run my heart rate seems to max out at 132bpm.

And... they mention"

"The reassuring part is that muscle stays responsive into very old age. Resistance training reliably improves strength and physical function in people in their 70s, 80s and beyond."--> Weights Tuesday's at 5:30 in the shed and Thursday's one can do INSPIRE at (I think 5:30 ) or I try to do [free] weights at RQ shed at the gentleman's hour 6:30.

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What happens to strength, balance, stamina and reflexes as you age – and what you can do about it

 Some age-related decline is locked in. Strength, balance and fall risk are not - and the evidence shows what works. 

Here is a finding that surprises most people, including plenty of regular gym-goers.

When researchers tracked nearly 1900 older adults (aged 70-79) over three years, those who held on to their muscle mass, and even those who gained some, still lost strength. Leg strength declined about three times faster than muscle mass.

That gap matters because it tells you something the mirror does not. Legs can look much the same while the force they produce quietly drains away. It also explains why so much advice about ageing misses the mark. The question is not whether you are losing anything, because you are. The question is which losses you can do something about.

Peak aerobic capacity, the amount of oxygen your body can use when working hard, declines as you age. 

Some things are genuinely non-negotiable. Your maximum heart rate falls steadily with age, and a large analysis of more than 18,000 people found this happens at essentially the same rate whether you are an athlete or entirely sedentary. Training has little effect.

The same goes for much of the plumbing. With age, the large arteries thicken and stiffen as elastic fibres give way to collagen and calcium, which is why systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) tends to creep up.

The heart’s early filling rate – how quickly it draws in blood in the first moments after each beat – drops by 30 to 50 percent between the third and ninth decades, though the upper chambers compensate. This means it is not the heart’s pumping volume that limits older people during exercise. It is the falling peak heart rate and the reduced ability of the working muscles in the arms and legs to pull oxygen out of the blood delivered to them.

Peak aerobic capacity, the amount of oxygen your body can use when working hard, declines alongside all this. The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging found the decline is not steady: roughly 3 to 6 percent per decade in your 20s and 30s, accelerating past 20 percent per decade after 70. Sobering detail: that acceleration happened at much the same rate in active and inactive people alike.

Where you start from matters

So the rate of decline is largely fixed. What is not fixed is the level you decline from, and that is the whole game. A fitter 60-year-old and a sedentary one may lose capacity at similar rates, but they are falling from very different heights, and across three decades that is the difference between managing your stairs at 85 and not managing them at all. Strength, power, balance and reaction time are all in this category.

Muscle tends to be overlooked until it starts to disappear. From midlife onwards, people gradually lose muscle mass and strength. In some people, this becomes severe enough to be diagnosed as sarcopenia, increasing the risk of frailty, falls and losing independence.

The reassuring part is that muscle stays responsive into very old age. Resistance training reliably improves strength and physical function in people in their 70s, 80s and beyond. This matters particularly after the menopause, when falling oestrogen accelerates bone loss.

Resistance training equipment.

Progressive resistance training is one of the few interventions that loads bone and muscle at once, though the evidence that it builds strength and bone density is considerably stronger than fracture prevention, experts say. 

Progressive resistance training is one of the few interventions that loads bone and muscle at once, though it is worth being straight here: the evidence that it builds strength and bone density is considerably stronger than the evidence that it prevents fractures.

What counts as enough? The UK chief medical officers’ guidelines ask older adults to work on strength, balance and flexibility on at least two days a week. This is a sensible floor, but a vague one, which is why many people technically meet it while getting no stronger. The principle that matters is progression. If the last two or three repetitions of a set do not feel genuinely hard, the load needs to go up.

The fall-prevention paradox

It is tempting to assume that getting stronger stops you falling. The evidence is more specific.

A review of 59 trials found exercise cuts the rate of falls by 23 percent. Exercises that improved balance and everyday movements were particularly effective, reducing falls by 24 percent. Programmes combining balance work with resistance training reduced falls by 34 percent, but programmes built mainly around resistance training had uncertain effects. Strength is necessary, but, on its own, it is not sufficient. You have to practise being unstable. Single-leg standing, heel-to-toe walking and tai chi can all help.

Practise being unstable, experts say. Single-leg standing, heel-to-toe walking and tai chi can all help. 

What about stretching? Here the honest answer is that nobody really knows if it helps. A 2024 review looked at 29 studies and found small improvements in balance, but the evidence was weak. And when stretching was compared with other types of exercise, rather than with doing nothing, it showed no benefit at all. Only one of the long-term studies even included people over 65. Stretching might feel good and help you move more easily. But don’t rely on it to stop you falling.

Eccentric strength is a better bet. That’s when your muscles work to control a movement as they stretch out, like when you walk down stairs or slowly lower yourself into a chair. A meta-analysis of 19 trials found this type of training helped people stand up from a chair and walk short distances faster than conventional strength training did.

However, the study didn’t measure falls directly and rated its own evidence as only “fair” quality. Practising slow, controlled stair descents is a free way to train this – and many people can do this at home.

Training your reflexes

When you trip, your muscles don’t have time to build up to their full strength before you need to react – that build-up normally takes a moment. What saves you instead is speed: the ability to get a foot down in exactly the right place within a fraction of a second.

This turns out to be one of the most trainable things on the list. A meta-analysis of seven trials found that step training, whether practising rapid voluntary steps or recovering from deliberate trips and slips, cut the rate of falls by around half and reduced the proportion of people who fell by roughly the same margin. The results were remarkably consistent across trials.

Staying active is also linked to a roughly 20 percent lower risk of developing dementia. This link held up even in studies that followed people for more than 20 years. That matters because it makes it less likely the link is just backwards – that early, undiagnosed dementia caused people to become less active, rather than the other way round.

None of this needs a gym or an athletic history. It does need honesty about your starting point. The NHS advises speaking to a GP first if you have not exercised for some time or have health problems. That is sensible rather than discouraging, and for most conditions the answer will be yes, with adjustments. Anyone with diagnosed osteoporosis or a previous spinal fracture should get individual advice before adding impact work, such as hopping or skipping.

Begin below what you think you can manage and add a little each week. Standing up from a chair without using your hands is resistance training. Standing on one leg while the kettle boils is balance training. Taking the stairs is both.

The slope is real. Where you sit on it is largely up to you.

*Jack McNamara is a senior lecturer in clinical exercise physiology at University of East London. Lee Brown is a senior lecturer of strength and conditioning at University of East London.

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pilgrimage to the dump

Phoebe and I took the landy loaded with junk to the dump. 1 voucher and a exit token. 

Coaching

Phoebe came with me and shared the tinnie with Mags.

Parkrun 22 AUG

Rocks Riverside parkrun results for event #633. Your time was 00:36:24.

Last week at Main Beach 36:53

PB 00:33:09

Congratulations on completing your 82nd parkrun and your 58th at Rocks Riverside parkrun today. You finished in 342nd place out of a field of 498 parkrunners. You were the 210th male and came 16th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:33:09. Your best time this year remains 00:33:09.

Monday men

Gold Coast ParkRun 15-Aug

Main Beach parkrun results for event #744. Your time was 00:36:53.

Congratulations on completing your 81st parkrun and your 9th at Main Beach parkrun today. You finished in 174th place out of a field of 254 parkrunners. You were the 83rd male and came 9th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.

Your all time PB from Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:36:07. 

The Odyssey Movie

Phoebe and I went and saw the movie called "The Odyssey".

$24 each at Event cinema at Indooroopilly shopping Town.

Hmm good and bad. 

A key "Good" is that is a movie that stimulates discussion.

At times I felt I was in a episode of Dr Who.

Ulysses leaves the scene to do the Trojan horse thing and leaves the wife and the Kingdom alone and of course the leaches move in. Proporting to be suiters to marry the Queen.

CYCLOPS

A giant one eyed monster with a tame flock of sheep. The sailors followed the sheep into a cave.  The Cyclops arrived and blocked the entrance with a large stone trapping the sailors & sheep with the Cyclops. The Cyclops ate a few sailors and fell asleep. Presented the sailors with a dilemma. If they kill him,  they will be trapped forever because they would not be able to move the rock. 

THE SIRENS

I didn't think this was done very well. The sirens represent temptation but the movie didn't let us hear or see the anything. I'm not sure how I'd script it but I would think a temptation is a very topical topic.

Ekka Wednesday Row

It's interesting how a small change creates ripples.

Monday I received a text asking if the crew would like a later start time. Dutifully replied in the affirmative. Later received a text confirming the later start time of 5:45.

First ripple, as I got in my car at 5:15, I see a text from Sarah our cox asking if rowing is on. The most valuable person in the crew had been forgotten. 

Next ripple, a usually reliable person was late. 

Third ripple and the Brisbane rowing club who live next door decided to move their row later to the same time and got in the queue in front of us. 

Fourth ripple: City cats had awoken and were in full force. 

On the other hand it was a pretty good row. After various technique bits we did a number of 5 minute work pieces. 

ReImage Lenovo X1 Yoga

 I have a Lenovo X1 Yoga that I bought off ebay.

I want to re-image it from the Lenovo web site.

1. ACTIVATION
I want to make sure that windows is activated so that when I do the reinstall, that I dont get stuck having to buy a new license.

 

 

My understanding is that this means that after I reinstall windows, that I log into my Microsoft account and that activates windows on this machine. 

2. Download Lenovo Service Bridge
https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/ht104055-lenovo-service-bridge-automatically-detects-your-system-type-and-serial-number-for-an-improved-lenovo-support-experience

3.
Recovery is to Win10.  This is awkward

Can  

 

I cant find a recovery option

Kids come to dinner

Going back a week the plan for this week had been to have a birthday celebration for Chris and Jemma complete with cakes:

Chris: chocolate + Berries.

Jemma: Red velvet. 

Alas Jemma got sick.  I didn't want her to feel obligated to attend and after some thought and traded messages,  decided to cancel the Birthday celebrations.  

Flowing on from that,  I decided on a simpler meal of sausages, mashed potatoes, peas and corn. 

Before cooking dinner I made sticky date pudding.

I cooked the sausages on Graham's BBQ.

Phoebe took a wheelbarrow load of wood to the front yard and I lit a fire.  We sat around the fire and ate our meal. 

I pulled out my laptop and showed some of Tim's photos of me when I was much younger.  Dan has some photos of a younger me too.

Sunday Night Joy

"We" being Phoebe, Jai, Fletch and myself went to the Power House on Sunday evening.  The event was called the Night Feast. The particular draw card was Phoebe's daughter Amy was the DJ at one of the venues. 

next to Amy's venue was the vibrating mirror 

Behind the mirror was a big bass speaker.  A sign indicated a 14 minute loop. The mirror seemed to be made of a thick aluminium foil stretched taughtly across a frame.  I assume the thing has two fundamental modes of resonance. One based on the width and one on the length. 

Finally the main draw card was Amy's DJ space.  Zac was there. We went twice before and after the walk and eat.