There’s new farms planned for Flyers Creek and another at Bodangora near Wellington has just been connected to the grid and when completed will have 33 turbines.

The proposed Flyers Creek wind farm is 20 kilometres south of Orange in Blayney Shire and will have up to 38 turbines, a substation, access tracks and an electrical collection system.

Infigen Energy now wants to change its original proposal with larger 160-metre turbines and connect the farm to the grid via a transmission line that would join a line from Orange to the Cadia mine.

This has resulted in 57 objections from Flyers Creek people.

People near wind farms believe turbines as high as a 40-storey building are a blot on the landscape and have an annoying whoosh-whoosh-whoosh noise.

They’ve split communities, causing bitter rifts between families who don’t want them and next-door neighbours who agree.

Wind farms are also copping flak overseas, with the Poms giving power to local communities to block turbines before a planning application can even be made.

They’ve also come up with a plan to bribe homeowners within 1.6 kilometres of a wind farm with a 20 per cent discount on their power bills in an attempt to reduce opposition to the green technology.

People could also get university fee bursaries and free home improvements as part of government attempts to win the support of communities and reduce new wind farm objections.

So, if you Flyers Creek people near these proposed windmills need any free home improvements or two, you know what to do: hold your hands out.

But then trying to get any compensation here would be about as hopeless as trying to sneak the dawn past the rooster.

SWEDEN’S Museum of Failure has just put on show some of the world's most polarising foods and said a Disgusting Food exhibition had to include Vegemite.

That’s very insulting.

Putting our national dish among awful international cuisines being exhibited like century eggs, witchetty grubs, infested cheese and roasted guinea pigs.

Vegemite is an Aussie obsession.

A rich source of the energy-giving Vitamin B group, it’s almost as much a part of our heritage as kangaroos and koalas as millions of us grew up with the black, yeasty stuff.

Spread on toast or bread Vegemite has a unique salty taste that most overseas people have never come to grips with.

Be that as it may, we consume more than 22.7 million jars every year and spread about 1.2 billion serves on toast, bread or biscuits.

If that was all put end to end it would go around the world three times. Nothing disgusting about that.

SNAILS are starting to appear in Orange gardens, so what do we do when we find them chomping away on our plants?

If you’re like lots of gardeners you’ll hoick them over your neighbour’s fence, according to a horticultural poll.

It’s not very neighbourly but 22 per cent of gardeners admitted to getting rid of snails that way.

Apparently snails like a tipple because Gardening Australia magazine says you can put out some old beer in a saucer and they’ll drown.