In case you hadn't noticed

[artme]

I've been away.

Went south to Newcastle and met the three grandchildren I had never seen, ages 5,3 and 18months. Delightful kids.

Had to come back earlier than planned to Bris. because of a cardiologist appointment that Ana had and then caught a bug that laid me low for three days.

Several memorable things of note:

*The Kempsey bypass is fabulous.

*The butcher birds in Wauchope sing slightly differently to those in Bris and up here.

* There are still more idiots per kilometer of road than is reasonable.

[Scott]

Welcome back. I always enjoyed driving through Kempsey for some reason. That's progress. Unlike Albury, the bypass was the best thing to happen it

[wheelinround]

Most importantly I am pleased you got to see the grandchildren and I hope your children and you have become closer for it.

So Kempsey is open wow one day we will have that National East Coast route open all the way saving time and money which was an election promise when I was a kid.

[artme]

Welcome back. I always enjoyed driving through Kempsey for some reason. That's progress. Unlike Albury, the bypass was the best thing to happen it

Surely you jest good sire!!

As dictator I would have solved two problems at once the other being to push the place into the river. Always hated Kempsey for some reason.

[wheelinround]

Surely you jest good sire!!

As dictator I would have solved two problems at once the other being to push the place into the river. Always hated Kempsey for some reason.

Arthur why the river rises to drown the town.

[cava]

My Dad lives just out of Kempsey at Crescent Head. The last time I was up there just before Christmas, I took the time to really explore Kempsey, and basically it is becoming a modern day ghost town. There really is nothing there!

Congratulations on meeting the Grandkids.

[artme]

Taa.

Yep, Crescent head is on my to do list. Funny how i grew up on the Nambucca but many close by places
have never had my eyes laid upon them. That is something I intend to correct.

[AlexS]

The only thing I know about Nambucca is the limerick about the girl from there.

[Scott]

The only thing I know about Nambucca is the limerick about the girl from there.

I'm having trouble thinking of words that rhyme with Nambucca.

[rwbuild]

I'm having trouble thinking of words that rhyme with Nambucca.

Thank goodness for that!!

[Christos]

..So Kempsey is open wow one day we will have that National East Coast route open all the way saving time and money which was an election promise when I was a kid.

Just a matter of time now.

[artme]

Yes the highway is a vastly different drive to what it was when I started driving.

Just a few stretches to go and life will be bliss. For me the most annoying section
is that from Kempsey to Nambucca, particularly through Macksville and along the river to Nambucca.


Funny, I must have led a sheltered youth. I don't recall any limericks about Nambucca.

[_fly_]

I'm thankful for the pakenham bypass.
I think pakenham is the new name for the olde english name "Hamlet of Puke" or pukenham.

Always hated going thru the town on the way fishing, Hated it worse coming back when the speed signs changed every 40 metres to a different number. And a traffic light every 60 metres when all I wanted to do was get back home.

[AlexS]

Just for interest, a pic from the 1949 floods in Kempsey.
MacleayKempsey1949.jpg

I have a few others if anyone's interested.

[The Bleeder]

Surely you jest good sire!!

As dictator I would have solved two problems at once the other being to push the place into the river. Always hated Kempsey for some reason.

Why is that Arthur? I lived there for 15 years...couldn't wait to get out of the place once I turned 18.

I remember some of the floods, 63 was a good one and few through the mid sixties to seventies.

It's now going to 'ghost town' status. Not that many jobs in the town but plenty of welfare reciepents.

Just cleaned up the old mans place (he lived there for 50+ years) and now trying to sell the house..so far no luck.