Barnaby Trump

Dear Reader, hot on the heels of the intergovernmental panel on climate change confirming that we have ten years to avert catastrophic anthropomorphic climate change, its encouraging to know that our Deputy PM Barnaby Trump is bellowing, : ‘Show me the figures’!

This is a source of great reassurance for us at pcbycp as it shows nothing changes and you cant keep a good man down. As a refresher, we wish to give parental advice for this despatch as it demonstrates a hopelessness in keeping with the wisdom of Barnaby Trump. Something about the cost as distinct for the value of things. Look where it got Oscar Wilde?

Frank writes….

Hola,
When my family left Argentina, I was twelve years old and had a twelve-year-old Spanish vocabulary. When Spanish ceased to be my quotidian language my Spanish word acquisition slowed down considerably.
The latest Spanish words I’ve added to my Spanish vocabulary are ‘gaviotas’ (sea gulls) and estelas’ (stelae). The latter also added to my English vocabulary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHQXBuQTwow

It was in Yuendumu that I learned the Spanish word ‘burbujas’. When preparing a freight list for the Yuendumu Mining Company I would ask Gloria “Necesitan burbujas?” We supplied Warlukurlangu Artists with wrapping paper and bubble wrap.

In Australia lately there is much talk of the ‘Canberra Bubble’. We in remote Aboriginal Australia consider we are dealing with ‘Canberra that other planet’ rather than a mere burbuja.

Barnaby feels a ” thought bubble coming on’!

Living in Yuendumu sharpened our ability to decode euphemisms and read thought bubbles.

When we first arrived in Central Australia, camped along the Todd River in Alice Springs there were groups of Aborigines from various communities, playing cards, sitting around campfires having a good time and often drinking and fighting. This didn’t look good to tourists and was seen as a threat to the ‘tourist dollar’.
The authorities would refer to the need to ‘clean up the Todd’. Their thought bubbles read: “we need to shift the drunken Abo’s out of sight from the visitors”. Over the years they managed to clean up the Todd. They did this by enforcing ever more regulations and using the blanket and swag police.
The Todd River is definitely clean, but nowhere near as interesting.

Often when we’d mention we live in Yuendumu we’d be asked “and what do you DOO out there?”, a rather silly question when you think about it. Such inquiries would usually be accompanied by a thought bubble: (what could people possibly do in such a dysfunctional and dangerous community?)

Barnaby and ‘the PM for hose-holding’.

When we’d mention that we have lived in Yuendumu for several decades, the incredulous stare would invariably be matched by a flashing neon light thought bubble. Most of these thought bubbles would fit one of four categories.
The ‘Mercenary thought bubble’- (They must be making a shitload of money to stay there that long)
The ‘Misfit thought bubble’- (They probably couldn’t hold a job anywhere else)
The ‘Missionary thought bubble’ (How brave, noble and devoted they must be trying to save the natives from living a life of primitive depravity)
The ‘Madman thought bubble’- (They must be stark raving bonkers)

Barnaby, hard at it , straining a thought bubble’.

The realisation that there are quite a few people who’ve lived here all their life and if they’re more than 48 years old, have lived here longer than us, does not occur to them.
They are not capable of reading our thought bubble- (This is a great place with great people. We love this place)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xarRSIyjzxM