Thanks Hairs I’m 73 so I’m not so worried about taking pain relief these days figure if it does some damage I’ll probably fall off the perch by then anyway. You’re right about the advances in medicine. I guess 50 years & more ago you just had to put up with it.
Sorry for the long reply.
35 years ago, My parents & my self operated the Maclean Taxis, you meet many people from all walks of life.
One particular regular customer was a little old Aboriginal lady, Annie.
She was about 5 foot 2, she usually had her daughter with her.
Her husband had passed, but she was surrounded by her children & Grandchildren & Great Grandchildren, she was a pleasure to talk to and and a laugh with.
On the way into tiqn one day, I asked her how long it had been since she had visited the Maclean Lookout, she replied, it must been over 60 years, so I took her for a drive up there and it was a dirt track then.
I pointted out the Norfolk Pines on Yamba Hill, the Sugar mill, Iluka, Clarence Peak, and on the way down the view over to her home at Ilarwill, she was amazed.
When I dropped her off at her daughters, I said to her,
Annie, I would of loved to of seen the things you have seen as the world has changed.
You have seen from horse & cart, to the Motor vehicle, to man landing on the moon.
Unborn babies being operated on while still in the womb.
She smiled at me, and said.
And just imagine what you are going to see.
I'll never forget that.
You don't use magic to disappear, ya use a 4x4 & Swag.
