Better update this thing, dude

There's me and Chairman Stormy Jr last weekend.

I think we're looking rather good.

I've just been reading about Australian soldiers who, after WWI was over, volunteered for the British Army to fight in the Russian Civil War in 1919. There weren't that many - 150 in two platoons, and a few more here and there as advisers - a bit like Vietnam to start with and for just the same reason - fighting those nasty Commies in their own country, nowhere near ours. Hard to get much further from Launceston than Murmansk.

Two Australians won VCs, the only Allied winners in a four year campaign. One lived, one died. Even the one who lived died before his time, falling over on a footpath and hitting his head on the curb in London in 1934.

It can't have been much fun, most of them were based in the far North, above the Arctic Circle. For a bunch of mostly young blokes from Australia, that must have come as a rude shock. Not much frostbite in Kalgoorlie.

Seeing as how it is Australia Day coming up soon, that was kind of well timed really.