Shed

Lest we Forget

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

One traditional recitation on ANZAC Day is the Ode, the fourth stanza of the poem For the fallen by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943). Binyon was the assistant keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, and the author of several volumes of verse. For the fallen was first published in the London Times in 1914 and later in many anthologies of war verse.

I had plans to be at the Dawn Service today to take some photographs, but I didn't make it. My father served in Papua New Guinea but would never talk about his experiences. ANZAC Day was always special to him and he would become very emotional at times, which is highly understandable.
I assumed that there would be quite a few ANZAC blips today from the Aussies and Kiwis. Unfortunately I had nothing associated with ANZAC Day to blip.


The rusted corrugated iron shed is a common sight on an Aussie farm. Corrugated iron is everywhere in Australia and has become a bit of a National symbol.
The closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics feature a "Tin Symphony" where sheets of corrugated iron were used as musical instruments.
We associate it with distinctively Australian buildings such as "the Queenslander", with its steeply pitched roof clad in corrugated iron; the shearing shed; the woolshed; the outdoor dunny (toilet); and the ubiquitous water tank that is so essential in this country.
The rusted, weathered forms of corrugated iron blend in particularly well with the hues and textures of the Australian landscape and can be found in many modern Australian artworks.

Interesting aside:
Clapping hands or snapping your fingers when standing next to perpendicular sheets of corrugated iron (for example, in a fence) will produce a high-pitched echo with a rapidly falling pitch. This is due to a sequence of echoes from adjacent corrugations.
If sound is traveling at 344 m/s and the corrugated iron has the modern standard wavelength (pitch = distance between corrugations) of 3" or 76 mm this will produce an echo with a maximum wavelength of that order, which corresponds to a frequency of 4500 Hz or so (approximately the C above top A on a standard piano). The first part of the echo will have a much higher pitch because the sound impulses from iron nearly opposite the clapper will arrive almost simultaneously.

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Other pics from today.