The Perth Thread

[Illinois Nazi]

I knew a girl with the surname Cockman. Unfortunate.

I knew a guy with the surname Wankey.

 

[Stronzo]

Jack Hiscox.

 

[LukasTheGreat]

There's two very different conversations happening right now.

 

[Borry]

I knew a girl with the surname Cockman. Unfortunate.

One of my brothers pre school teachers had that surname too.

 

[FreoGirl]

Who else went to the cricket at Aquinas today? Loved it!

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Looked good, couldn't make it though

 

[Freofalcon]

Who else went to the cricket at Aquinas today? Loved it!

Looked good on TV with the old school buildings beyond a healthy looking crowd.

Made me think of the Lilac Hill matches we had at the start of every summer. I miss them. I think I only missed one of them. Was there the day DK Lillie opened the bowling with his son Adam coming in from the other end.

 

[Noobz0r]

Looked good on TV with the old school buildings beyond a healthy looking crowd.

Made me think of the Lilac Hill matches we had at the start of every summer. I miss them. I think I only missed one of them. Was there the day DK Lillie opened the bowling with his son Adam coming in from the other end.

I used to work at them every year as a junior, just as I turn of the age where I can enjoy it properly it stops being run.

Was a great day of cricket, though.

 

[kfc1]

Where is/was Lilac Hill?

 

[Kram]

Where is/was Lilac Hill?

Out in Guilford, next to the Swan River.

 

[davo99]

Who else went to the cricket at Aquinas today? Loved it!

Should be more of it.

Why can't they play shield cricket their? Or similar grounds?

 

[Teriyakicat]

My son's photo of the freeway from the train this morning


Up near hay st. Going south.
Truck is 200m up the road....
My son says it looks like the driver forgot the arm of the backhoe was up. Looks like there's a bit of damage to the bridge.

 

[Off The Couch]

That section of the freeway is a snail at the best of times so you shudder to think what time you would get to work this morning

 

[kfc1]

Was an interesting surprise on the way to work, for sure. Lots of people taking photos from the vantage point your son was at

 

[Scotland]

That section of Freeway suuuuuucks.

To go South you need to be in the two right lanes else you end up taking one of the city exits. If you couple the fact that 90% of people don't know this and 95% don't know how to merge it's a complete disaster.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

My son's photo of the freeway from the train this morning
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Up near hay st. Going south.
Truck is 200m up the road....
My son says it looks like the driver forgot the arm of the backhoe was up. Looks like there's a bit of damage to the bridge.

Well, I'd love to know which train he took that from....

Would have been absolute chaos (and probably still is I guess). I normally start later on Thursdays, thank **** I was in by 8.00 this morning.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Well, I'd love to know which train he took that from....

Would have been absolute chaos (and probably still is I guess). I normally start later on Thursdays, thank **** I was in by 8.00 this morning.

That was on the Mandurah line, going North to the city. I received the text just after 8am.

 

[Teriyakicat]

That section of Freeway suuuuuucks.

To go South you need to be in the two right lanes else you end up taking one of the city exits. If you couple the fact that 90% of people don't know this and 95% don't know how to merge it's a complete disaster.

Yeah, I used to get on from Murray St going South after a swim meet and it's bloody really difficult to swing across two lanes of traffic within such a short distance. I remember almost cleaning up a stupid speeding motorcyclist who was speeding in between the cars one evening- couldn't see his light in amongst the crowd of car lights. Thank F&*^ I saw him as I started to change lanes because I know who would've come out the better of the two of us- and it would definitely not have been him. I see motorbikes split the traffic on my way up the freeway every day- never thought I'd be in that situation because I always look twice or three times before I change lanes as I'm very aware of how the motorcyclists ride.

 

[kfc1]

That was on the Mandurah line, going North to the city. I received the text just after 8am.

Think was IN was getting at is that the photo was taken from here
http://goo.gl/maps/AwjVM
not the train

 

[Teriyakicat]

Think was IN was getting at is that the photo was taken from here
http://goo.gl/maps/AwjVM
not the train

Ah, OK- I've only looked at it from my phone so didn't notice the details and didn't calculate the angles, etc... I assumed that he'd taken it because he said it was what he saw on the train to work...
my bad

The railway looks a fair distance from there. I obviously have NFI about the city!!

 

[Teriyakicat]

and the train would have been going through too fast to have taken the photo as well.. OH well.. I obviously need to go and have a few more coffees to wake my brain up
You wouldn't know I was a scientist, would you?

 

[The_Reaper]

Should be more of it.

Why can't they play shield cricket their? Or similar grounds?

The WACA is a pretty nice place to watch shield matches

 

[davo99]

The WACA is a pretty nice place to watch shield matches

Yeah it is. But my point was more to do with crowd numbers. Would more people turn up to watch the warriors play at Abbot Park instead of the WACA?

 

[Teriyakicat]

Think was IN was getting at is that the photo was taken from here
http://goo.gl/maps/AwjVM
not the train

I asked my son- he said he walks over the bridge on the way to work and heard the sirens, so looked down to see what the fuss was about- and took his photo. Apparently it happened 5 mins before he got there.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Sorry to interrupt the cricket talk guys- just wanted to post a photo of the bridge accident, looking from the other side:


You can see the arm up on the backhoe more clearly from this angle