Summer has appeared from over the horizon.

Morning punters and correctors, nothing of any great moment to report.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters and correctors, nothing of any great moment to report.

Not much happening here either.

13.3°C
Feels like 13.3°C
Dew Point
8.0°C
Gusts
0km/h
Relative Humidity
70%
Pressure
1011.8hPa
Wind
Calm
Rainfall
0.0mm

Heading for 22 this end, then tomorrow a more temperate 17, with 16 on Monday. But we’re set to suffer a searing 26 next Thursday & Friday.

Bubblecar said:

Heading for 22 this end, then tomorrow a more temperate 17, with 16 on Monday. But we’re set to suffer a searing 26 next Thursday & Friday.

Will be getting above 35 here by Thursday.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Heading for 22 this end, then tomorrow a more temperate 17, with 16 on Monday. But we’re set to suffer a searing 26 next Thursday & Friday.

Will be getting above 35 here by Thursday.

Insanity.

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Heading for 22 this end, then tomorrow a more temperate 17, with 16 on Monday. But we’re set to suffer a searing 26 next Thursday & Friday.

Will be getting above 35 here by Thursday.

Insanity.

I’ve been meaning to leave this place for years.

Good morning everyone.

Very warm and very humid (again). 23.6°C, 87% RH, 3/8 cloud (low and building rapidly) and calm. Some fire haze to the north. ORB = 0. BoM predicts 30°C, up from 18.2°C, with little to no chance of rain.

I have a long list of tasks that I won’t complete today. I won’t bore you with them.

Morning.

Heading for a sunny top of 31 today, no chance of rain.

Had some strange dreams. One where I was paying $200 to dye my hair; one where I was travelling with my mum, her cousin and her cousin’s son; and one where I was playing touch football.

Just had a knock on the door. Mr Mutant was expecting his new computer monitor to be delivered Monday. I was unaware that they delivered at 7.30am on Saturday mornings, but then again, it’s december.

Divine Angel said:

Morning.

Heading for a sunny top of 31 today, no chance of rain.

Had some strange dreams. One where I was paying $200 to dye my hair; one where I was travelling with my mum, her cousin and her cousin’s son; and one where I was playing touch football.

Just had a knock on the door. Mr Mutant was expecting his new computer monitor to be delivered Monday. I was unaware that they delivered at 7.30am on Saturday mornings, but then again, it’s december.

Amazing.

Actually had an ABS person knock on my door and want to do an interview to collect information for a survey.

roughbarked said:

Actually had an ABS person knock on my door and want to do an interview to collect information for a survey.

Yeah I hate being interrupted to talk about my car’s brakes :p

Divine Angel said:

roughbarked said:

Actually had an ABS person knock on my door and want to do an interview to collect information for a survey.

Yeah I hate being interrupted to talk about my car’s brakes :p

:)

I saw what you did there.
Australian Bureau of Statistics.

roughbarked said:

Actually had an ABS person knock on my door and want to do an interview to collect information for a survey.

Really? A gov’t person? Working on a Saturday?

Sure it wasn’t one of the private survey companies?

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Actually had an ABS person knock on my door and want to do an interview to collect information for a survey.

Really? A gov’t person? Working on a Saturday?

Sure it wasn’t one of the private survey companies?

It wasn’t today. She set up an appointment for nest week.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Actually had an ABS person knock on my door and want to do an interview to collect information for a survey.

Really? A gov’t person? Working on a Saturday?

Sure it wasn’t one of the private survey companies?

It wasn’t today. She set up an appointment for nest week.

Probably a private company, they’ll just want to know how many people in the house, number of pets, banking details, stuff like that.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Really? A gov’t person? Working on a Saturday?

Sure it wasn’t one of the private survey companies?

It wasn’t today. She set up an appointment for nest week.

Probably a private company, they’ll just want to know how many people in the house, number of pets, banking details, stuff like that.

I guess so.

Morning

Fancy some Saturday sweeties so I’m off to buy some sweeties, probably jersey caramels or suchlike.

Bubblecar said:

Fancy some Saturday sweeties so I’m off to buy some sweeties, probably jersey caramels or suchlike.

You’re living too close to the shops now.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning punters and correctors, nothing of any great moment to report.

updates ships log

Bogsnorkler said:

bit arsh.

We’re going on the Gympie Rattler today. An old steam train, but I think there’s a total fire ban so they’ll use the Diesel engine instead.

Good morning Holidayers. I have done my outside work. Well the heaviest bits of it. It is now a bit warm and a bit windy out there for me.

I thought the gusts were getting up….now wind around 30, gusts into the 50s. This is going to be a drying day. There is a forecast for some rain later. I might put the low use sprinkler on in the shade for the birds now though.

Divine Angel said:

We’re going on the Gympie Rattler today. An old steam train, but I think there’s a total fire ban so they’ll use the Diesel engine instead.

:)

Divine Angel said:

We’re going on the Gympie Rattler today. An old steam train, but I think there’s a total fire ban so they’ll use the Diesel engine instead.

Cool. Let us know how it is. Should I go and also take the grandkids?

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re going on the Gympie Rattler today. An old steam train, but I think there’s a total fire ban so they’ll use the Diesel engine instead.

Cool. Let us know how it is. Should I go and also take the grandkids?

Oh, and I should mention that last time I drove up the Mary Valley Way, they were doing extensive trackworks.

Bubblecar said:

Fancy some Saturday sweeties so I’m off to buy some sweeties, probably jersey caramels or suchlike.

Hmm, and there is another word never used in my family. Sweeties. We eat lollies. Well those of us who eat them eat lollies. Personally I eat chocolate.

Might get up the energy shortly to dress the front window for Christmas. I spent some time last night when I should have been sleeping planning what to do. I think a simple Christmas tree might be the go this year.

No correlation.

Prices of new washing machines. From local stores.

Lollies in this house.

Bogsnorkler said:

Not funny ha ha. Not funny peculiar. Just sad.

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit with an acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure. His medical history included heart failure with an ejection fraction of 20%, bioprosthetic aortic-valve replacement for bicuspid aortic stenosis, endovascular stenting of an aortic aneurysm, and placement of a permanent pacemaker for complete heart block. An Impella ventricular assist device was placed for management of acute heart failure, and a continuous heparin infusion was initiated for systemic anticoagulation. During the next week, the patient had episodes of small-volume hemoptysis, increasing respiratory distress, and increasing use of supplemental oxygen (up to 20 liters delivered through a high-flow nasal cannula). During an extreme bout of coughing, the patient spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. The right bronchial tree consists of three segmental branches in the upper lobe (blue arrows), two segmental branches in the middle lobe (white arrows), and five segmental branches in the lower lobe (black arrows). The patient’s trachea was subsequently intubated, and flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small amount of blood in the basilar branches of the right lower lobe. The patient was extubated 2 days later and had no further episodes of hemoptysis. One week after extubation, he died from complications of heart failure (volume overload and poor cardiac output) despite placement of the ventricular assist device.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1806493

Lollies. But then I married an American. So Australian fare was lollies but American fare was candy.

sarahs mum said:

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit with an acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure. His medical history included heart failure with an ejection fraction of 20%, bioprosthetic aortic-valve replacement for bicuspid aortic stenosis, endovascular stenting of an aortic aneurysm, and placement of a permanent pacemaker for complete heart block. An Impella ventricular assist device was placed for management of acute heart failure, and a continuous heparin infusion was initiated for systemic anticoagulation. During the next week, the patient had episodes of small-volume hemoptysis, increasing respiratory distress, and increasing use of supplemental oxygen (up to 20 liters delivered through a high-flow nasal cannula). During an extreme bout of coughing, the patient spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. The right bronchial tree consists of three segmental branches in the upper lobe (blue arrows), two segmental branches in the middle lobe (white arrows), and five segmental branches in the lower lobe (black arrows). The patient’s trachea was subsequently intubated, and flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small amount of blood in the basilar branches of the right lower lobe. The patient was extubated 2 days later and had no further episodes of hemoptysis. One week after extubation, he died from complications of heart failure (volume overload and poor cardiac output) despite placement of the ventricular assist device.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1806493

Blimey.

sweets. same as pud or dessert.

sarahs mum said:

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit with an acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure. His medical history included heart failure with an ejection fraction of 20%, bioprosthetic aortic-valve replacement for bicuspid aortic stenosis, endovascular stenting of an aortic aneurysm, and placement of a permanent pacemaker for complete heart block. An Impella ventricular assist device was placed for management of acute heart failure, and a continuous heparin infusion was initiated for systemic anticoagulation. During the next week, the patient had episodes of small-volume hemoptysis, increasing respiratory distress, and increasing use of supplemental oxygen (up to 20 liters delivered through a high-flow nasal cannula). During an extreme bout of coughing, the patient spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. The right bronchial tree consists of three segmental branches in the upper lobe (blue arrows), two segmental branches in the middle lobe (white arrows), and five segmental branches in the lower lobe (black arrows). The patient’s trachea was subsequently intubated, and flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small amount of blood in the basilar branches of the right lower lobe. The patient was extubated 2 days later and had no further episodes of hemoptysis. One week after extubation, he died from complications of heart failure (volume overload and poor cardiac output) despite placement of the ventricular assist device.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1806493

How odd.

Michael V said:

sarahs mum said:

A 36-year-old man was admitted to the intensive care unit with an acute exacerbation of chronic heart failure. His medical history included heart failure with an ejection fraction of 20%, bioprosthetic aortic-valve replacement for bicuspid aortic stenosis, endovascular stenting of an aortic aneurysm, and placement of a permanent pacemaker for complete heart block. An Impella ventricular assist device was placed for management of acute heart failure, and a continuous heparin infusion was initiated for systemic anticoagulation. During the next week, the patient had episodes of small-volume hemoptysis, increasing respiratory distress, and increasing use of supplemental oxygen (up to 20 liters delivered through a high-flow nasal cannula). During an extreme bout of coughing, the patient spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree. The right bronchial tree consists of three segmental branches in the upper lobe (blue arrows), two segmental branches in the middle lobe (white arrows), and five segmental branches in the lower lobe (black arrows). The patient’s trachea was subsequently intubated, and flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small amount of blood in the basilar branches of the right lower lobe. The patient was extubated 2 days later and had no further episodes of hemoptysis. One week after extubation, he died from complications of heart failure (volume overload and poor cardiac output) despite placement of the ventricular assist device.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1806493

How odd.

Givess real life to the saying “coughed up a lung”.

thunder monsters rolling in, hopefully it’ll rain up front, might be gusting 30km/h. Fire unit filled up, checked.

this morning, courtesy a mosquito got me up earlier than i’d like…

party_pants said:

Bogsnorkler said:

bit arsh.

i honestly didn’t think of either you or btm when i posted that. just thought the joke was a little “lame”.

transition said:

thunder monsters rolling in, hopefully it’ll rain up front, might be gusting 30km/h. Fire unit filled up, checked.

this morning, courtesy a mosquito got me up earlier than i’d like…

:)

I really like the top sort of image. I play with that stuff a lot in my art.

sarahs mum said:

transition said:

thunder monsters rolling in, hopefully it’ll rain up front, might be gusting 30km/h. Fire unit filled up, checked.

this morning, courtesy a mosquito got me up earlier than i’d like…

:)

I really like the top sort of image. I play with that stuff a lot in my art.

bet you missed the to birds, probably starlings, on the stone heap

:-)

50047 words. The worst I’ve eever done in NaNo, but in my defence, last month I

• moved to a different city
• started a new job
• finished a course of study
• spent a week in hospital

transition said:

sarahs mum said:

transition said:

thunder monsters rolling in, hopefully it’ll rain up front, might be gusting 30km/h. Fire unit filled up, checked.

this morning, courtesy a mosquito got me up earlier than i’d like…

:)

I really like the top sort of image. I play with that stuff a lot in my art.

bet you missed the to birds, probably starlings, on the stone heap

:-)

I missed the stone heap.

Oh Ms Tingle…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/morrison-government-facing-a-threat-from-a-new-direction/10572068

transition said:

sarahs mum said:

transition said:

thunder monsters rolling in, hopefully it’ll rain up front, might be gusting 30km/h. Fire unit filled up, checked.

this morning, courtesy a mosquito got me up earlier than i’d like…

:)

I really like the top sort of image. I play with that stuff a lot in my art.

bet you missed the to birds, probably starlings, on the stone heap

:-)

my little joke, while you think anything but birds, please!

always surprises me how many scenery shots have, unintentionally, birds in the background

Bogsnorkler said:

party_pants said:

Bogsnorkler said:

bit arsh.

i honestly didn’t think of either you or btm when i posted that. just thought the joke was a little “lame”.

How insensitive! Absolutely no consideration for those here that are ‘a little “lame”’.

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re going on the Gympie Rattler today. An old steam train, but I think there’s a total fire ban so they’ll use the Diesel engine instead.

Cool. Let us know how it is. Should I go and also take the grandkids?

Stay tuned.

Michael V said:

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

We’re going on the Gympie Rattler today. An old steam train, but I think there’s a total fire ban so they’ll use the Diesel engine instead.

Cool. Let us know how it is. Should I go and also take the grandkids?

Oh, and I should mention that last time I drove up the Mary Valley Way, they were doing extensive trackworks.

Roger that.

btm said:

50047 words. The worst I’ve eever done in NaNo, but in my defence, last month I

• moved to a different city
• started a new job
• finished a course of study
• spent a week in hospital
  

😊

buffy said:

Oh Ms Tingle…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/morrison-government-facing-a-threat-from-a-new-direction/10572068

read that yesterday. poor mr morrison.

:-)

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Fancy some Saturday sweeties so I’m off to buy some sweeties, probably jersey caramels or suchlike.

Hmm, and there is another word never used in my family. Sweeties. We eat lollies. Well those of us who eat them eat lollies. Personally I eat chocolate.

In England sweets was the word (or “sweeties” when being infantile) and that’s the word my family has retained. Although funnily enough we had one use of “lollies” which we didn’t find in Australia – ice lollies. In Australia they were called “ice blocks” or suchlike.

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

Bubblecar said:

Fancy some Saturday sweeties so I’m off to buy some sweeties, probably jersey caramels or suchlike.

Hmm, and there is another word never used in my family. Sweeties. We eat lollies. Well those of us who eat them eat lollies. Personally I eat chocolate.

In England sweets was the word (or “sweeties” when being infantile) and that’s the word my family has retained. Although funnily enough we had one use of “lollies” which we didn’t find in Australia – ice lollies. In Australia they were called “ice blocks” or suchlike.

Sweets is very English, lollies is wot Aussies say.
When I’m on public transport and I hear a kid say sweets I give them a good dressing down in front of the whole carriage. I use words like Aussie, unAustralian and Gallipoli.

btm said:

50047 words. The worst I’ve eever done in NaNo, but in my defence, last month I

• moved to a different city
• started a new job
• finished a course of study
• spent a week in hospital
  

Bloody good effort, I reckon.

Michael V said:

btm said:

50047 words. The worst I’ve eever done in NaNo, but in my defence, last month I

• moved to a different city
• started a new job
• finished a course of study
• spent a week in hospital
  

Bloody good effort, I reckon.

DA cheated if I remember correctly, just typed ‘Ks’.

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Michael V said:

Cool. Let us know how it is. Should I go and also take the grandkids?

Oh, and I should mention that last time I drove up the Mary Valley Way, they were doing extensive trackworks.

Roger that.

Should make the journey heaps nicer than it would’ve been.

Worth a repost off facebook. I haven’t heard of birds surfing before.

https://www.facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAU/videos/931851377000744/

Bogsnorkler said:

It’s brilliant. It will do so much for ScoMO’s ratings.

It’s hot here, a few more chores and then a nice cold shower.

sarahs mum said:

Bogsnorkler said:

It’s brilliant. It will do so much for ScoMO’s ratings.

I’m wondering which leader is more embarrassing (apart from Trump), Australia’s gormless Scomo or UK’s useless Theresa May.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bogsnorkler said:

It’s brilliant. It will do so much for ScoMO’s ratings.

I’m wondering which leader is more embarrassing (apart from Trump), Australia’s gormless Scomo or UK’s useless Theresa May.

At least May hasn’t been advertising American beer.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bogsnorkler said:

It’s brilliant. It will do so much for ScoMO’s ratings.

I’m wondering which leader is more embarrassing (apart from Trump), Australia’s gormless Scomo or UK’s useless Theresa May.

So does ScoMo get a meeting with Putin?

party_pants said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

It’s brilliant. It will do so much for ScoMO’s ratings.

I’m wondering which leader is more embarrassing (apart from Trump), Australia’s gormless Scomo or UK’s useless Theresa May.

So does ScoMo get a meeting with Putin?

Let’s hope not.

Really we need this mob to lose around 40 or more seats at the next election. There’s no sensible place for them in Australia’s future.

mollwollfumble said:

Worth a repost off facebook. I haven’t heard of birds surfing before.

https://www.facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAU/videos/931851377000744/

WOW!

Seriously: WOW!

Thanks you for re-posting that.

party_pants said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

It’s brilliant. It will do so much for ScoMO’s ratings.

I’m wondering which leader is more embarrassing (apart from Trump), Australia’s gormless Scomo or UK’s useless Theresa May.

So does ScoMo get a meeting with Putin?

He hasn’t got a $50M penthouse in an old city to give away.

Bubblecar said:

party_pants said:

Bubblecar said:

I’m wondering which leader is more embarrassing (apart from Trump), Australia’s gormless Scomo or UK’s useless Theresa May.

So does ScoMo get a meeting with Putin?

Let’s hope not.

Really we need this mob to lose around 40 or more seats at the next election. There’s no sensible place for them in Australia’s future.

No, it would be piss-funny if they had a meeting and ScoMo tried to give him a dressing down.

Finished the last gobful of wine and am pleasantly mellow.

Another fortnight of wagon kicks in, in which the present painting will be finished and more music will be composed and recorded.

The various toy trains and track that have been ordered will arrive and I’ll try out the minimum effective radius of the locomotives. And then finalise the layout plans, and order the baseboard woods.

party_pants said:

Bubblecar said:

party_pants said:

So does ScoMo get a meeting with Putin?

Let’s hope not.

Really we need this mob to lose around 40 or more seats at the next election. There’s no sensible place for them in Australia’s future.

No, it would be piss-funny if they had a meeting and ScoMo tried to give him a dressing down.

He could present him with one of Tony’s shirt fronts.

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

Worth a repost off facebook. I haven’t heard of birds surfing before.

https://www.facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAU/videos/931851377000744/

WOW!

Seriously: WOW!

Thanks you for re-posting that.

:)

It could get ugly for the surfers in Kirra..

mollwollfumble said:

Worth a repost off facebook. I haven’t heard of birds surfing before.

https://www.facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAU/videos/931851377000744/

That’s brilliant, shame about the ‘giant surf’ caption.

Ian said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

Worth a repost off facebook. I haven’t heard of birds surfing before.

https://www.facebook.com/NTDTelevisionAU/videos/931851377000744/

WOW!

Seriously: WOW!

Thanks you for re-posting that.

:)

It could get ugly for the surfers in Kirra..

Yes, they displayed no “dropping-in” etiquette.

Bubblecar said:

Finished the last gobful of wine and am pleasantly mellow.

Another fortnight of wagon kicks in, in which the present painting will be finished and more music will be composed and recorded.

The various toy trains and track that have been ordered will arrive and I’ll try out the minimum effective radius of the locomotives. And then finalise the layout plans, and order the baseboard woods.

You’re a lucky bastard indeed so it’s a wonder why your demeanour is so often tragic. Nothing to do with your time except create art and music and play with toys and go for walks in the countryside.

You really ought to smile a lot more than you normally do.

:)

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Finished the last gobful of wine and am pleasantly mellow.

Another fortnight of wagon kicks in, in which the present painting will be finished and more music will be composed and recorded.

The various toy trains and track that have been ordered will arrive and I’ll try out the minimum effective radius of the locomotives. And then finalise the layout plans, and order the baseboard woods.

You’re a lucky bastard indeed so it’s a wonder why your demeanour is so often tragic. Nothing to do with your time except create art and music and play with toys and go for walks in the countryside.

You really ought to smile a lot more than you normally do.

:)

And then I watch some swans surfing and think back on times when I smiled and was a bit happy. And then I remember being dumped. And caught in a rip. And thinking I was going die. And then being saved.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Finished the last gobful of wine and am pleasantly mellow.

Another fortnight of wagon kicks in, in which the present painting will be finished and more music will be composed and recorded.

The various toy trains and track that have been ordered will arrive and I’ll try out the minimum effective radius of the locomotives. And then finalise the layout plans, and order the baseboard woods.

You’re a lucky bastard indeed so it’s a wonder why your demeanour is so often tragic. Nothing to do with your time except create art and music and play with toys and go for walks in the countryside.

You really ought to smile a lot more than you normally do.

:)

But you need to get out more, walking the hills and dales with the sun on your back and a cooling breeze in your face and with a knapsack on your back.

And while buffy cleans the big window and faffs about with tinsel and Christmas tree….I choose to sleep on the gentleman’s chair in the other room.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Finished the last gobful of wine and am pleasantly mellow.

Another fortnight of wagon kicks in, in which the present painting will be finished and more music will be composed and recorded.

The various toy trains and track that have been ordered will arrive and I’ll try out the minimum effective radius of the locomotives. And then finalise the layout plans, and order the baseboard woods.

You’re a lucky bastard indeed so it’s a wonder why your demeanour is so often tragic. Nothing to do with your time except create art and music and play with toys and go for walks in the countryside.

You really ought to smile a lot more than you normally do.

:)

And then I watch some swans surfing and think back on times when I smiled and was a bit happy. And then I remember being dumped. And caught in a rip. And thinking I was going die. And then being saved.

It’s certainly a strange mixture. In theory I should be a free and cheery spirit but I’m often feeling as though I ought to work out the practicalities of leaving.

But I’m happy with this little painting. And looking forward to the next one which will be more colourful.

And the teddy sits in the rocking chair watching.

And the Big Balls are up. I’d better go and find the tree and see how it goes for height.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

You’re a lucky bastard indeed so it’s a wonder why your demeanour is so often tragic. Nothing to do with your time except create art and music and play with toys and go for walks in the countryside.

You really ought to smile a lot more than you normally do.

:)

And then I watch some swans surfing and think back on times when I smiled and was a bit happy. And then I remember being dumped. And caught in a rip. And thinking I was going die. And then being saved.

It’s certainly a strange mixture. In theory I should be a free and cheery spirit but I’m often feeling as though I ought to work out the practicalities of leaving.

But I’m happy with this little painting. And looking forward to the next one which will be more colourful.

I was lucky that day that I was swimming with two lifesavers. The whole family was caught in a rip. My brother and sister were strong swimmers, bronze medallion types and they managed to get to shore. Dad was a good swimmer but needed a rescue. I was treading water and had resolved to try to get off the rip at the next beach. But Peter swam out to get me. It took a long time to get back to shore.

I etched a bit on my coos last night. I’ll give them a print later and put another coat of bitumen on them tonight. Tomorrow I have a small etching workshop. Maybe they will get another then.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

And then I watch some swans surfing and think back on times when I smiled and was a bit happy. And then I remember being dumped. And caught in a rip. And thinking I was going die. And then being saved.

It’s certainly a strange mixture. In theory I should be a free and cheery spirit but I’m often feeling as though I ought to work out the practicalities of leaving.

But I’m happy with this little painting. And looking forward to the next one which will be more colourful.

I was lucky that day that I was swimming with two lifesavers. The whole family was caught in a rip. My brother and sister were strong swimmers, bronze medallion types and they managed to get to shore. Dad was a good swimmer but needed a rescue. I was treading water and had resolved to try to get off the rip at the next beach. But Peter swam out to get me. It took a long time to get back to shore.

I etched a bit on my coos last night. I’ll give them a print later and put another coat of bitumen on them tonight. Tomorrow I have a small etching workshop. Maybe they will get another then.

another etching then.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

And then I watch some swans surfing and think back on times when I smiled and was a bit happy. And then I remember being dumped. And caught in a rip. And thinking I was going die. And then being saved.

It’s certainly a strange mixture. In theory I should be a free and cheery spirit but I’m often feeling as though I ought to work out the practicalities of leaving.

But I’m happy with this little painting. And looking forward to the next one which will be more colourful.

I was lucky that day that I was swimming with two lifesavers. The whole family was caught in a rip. My brother and sister were strong swimmers, bronze medallion types and they managed to get to shore. Dad was a good swimmer but needed a rescue. I was treading water and had resolved to try to get off the rip at the next beach. But Peter swam out to get me. It took a long time to get back to shore.

I etched a bit on my coos last night. I’ll give them a print later and put another coat of bitumen on them tonight. Tomorrow I have a small etching workshop. Maybe they will get another then.

A very dramatic family experience. Nothing like that in my archives. My parents and I were in a violent car crash but although the car was written off we were only superficially injured.

Ex ABC staff form new group to campaign against the Coalition.
They kicked off by handing out anti Coalition how to vote cards at the Wentworth by-election.
https://www.abcalumni.net/

They seem to be just continuing from when they worked at the broadcaster, seamless.

Peak Warming Man said:

Ex ABC staff form new group to campaign against the Coalition.
They kicked off by handing out anti Coalition how to vote cards at the Wentworth by-election.
https://www.abcalumni.net/

They seem to be just continuing from when they worked at the broadcaster, seamless.

same old, same old. boring. get a new record.

Peak Warming Man said:

Ex ABC staff form new group to campaign against the Coalition.
They kicked off by handing out anti Coalition how to vote cards at the Wentworth by-election.
https://www.abcalumni.net/

They seem to be just continuing from when they worked at the broadcaster, seamless.

And yet I keep on turning off ABC24 in the mornings when some Liberal has called a press conference to say the same stuff.

George H.W. Bush is dead.

dv said:

George H.W. Bush is dead.

Not a bad innings. 94 and out.

Moon Now Overrun With Cane Toads After Species Accidentally Introduced Into Environment During Apollo 17 Mission

Michael V said:

dv said:

George H.W. Bush is dead.

Not a bad innings. 94 and out.

“Mr Bush was awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen in 1993 “

dv said:

Moon Now Overrun With Cane Toads After Species Accidentally Introduced Into Environment During Apollo 17 Mission

:)

roughbarked said:

I’m hoping that’s a flower.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

I’m hoping that’s a flower.

it isn’t a flower though it was once part of a flower head. It is the popped top off a leek flower head.

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

I’m hoping that’s a flower.

it isn’t a flower though it was once part of a flower head. It is the popped top off a leek flower head.

roughbarked said:

A wormhole from space?

roughbarked said:

It is! It is a wormhole from space. Where’s the Tardis?

Woodie said:

roughbarked said:

It is! It is a wormhole from space. Where’s the Tardis?

:)

Woodie said:

roughbarked said:

It is! It is a wormhole from space. Where’s the Tardis?

No, no, no! You are confused! It’s “Swirly Thing Alert!! Swirly Thing Alert!!”

buffy said:

Woodie said:

roughbarked said:

It is! It is a wormhole from space. Where’s the Tardis?

No, no, no! You are confused! It’s “Swirly Thing Alert!! Swirly Thing Alert!!”

My baby has gone down the plug’ole.

buffy said:

Woodie said:

roughbarked said:

It is! It is a wormhole from space. Where’s the Tardis?

No, no, no! You are confused! It’s “Swirly Thing Alert!! Swirly Thing Alert!!”

This is not a daffodil. Repeat. This is not a daffodil.

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Woodie said:

It is! It is a wormhole from space. Where’s the Tardis?

No, no, no! You are confused! It’s “Swirly Thing Alert!! Swirly Thing Alert!!”

My baby has gone down the plug’ole.

Your baby has gone down the plug

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

He was a communist spy and was murdered by the same people who murdered Bogle and Chandler.

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

And while we’re youtubing:

Strange Affair

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

agree.

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

No, no, no! You are confused! It’s “Swirly Thing Alert!! Swirly Thing Alert!!”

My baby has gone down the plug’ole.

Your baby has gone down the plug

yep. That’s the one.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

And while we’re youtubing:

Strange Affair

Damn I thought it was going to be about a precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridge FEA model video.

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

And while we’re youtubing:

Strange Affair

Damn I thought it was going to be about a precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridge FEA model video.

Still working on it.

“The low is moving south southwest at 13 kilometres per hour and is expected to
deepen further, most likely developing into a tropical cyclone during the next
12 hours.
The system will continue drifting south until Monday afternoon or evening, and
is then expected to turn and move slowly west. It is expected to intensify
further during this time. However, this system poses no immediate threat to the
Queensland coast, and should remain well off the coast until it weakens later
in the week.”

Bugger

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

It is.

Peak Warming Man said:

“The low is moving south southwest at 13 kilometres per hour and is expected to
deepen further, most likely developing into a tropical cyclone during the next
12 hours.
The system will continue drifting south until Monday afternoon or evening, and
is then expected to turn and move slowly west. It is expected to intensify
further during this time. However, this system poses no immediate threat to the
Queensland coast, and should remain well off the coast until it weakens later
in the week.”

Bugger

If we’re lucky, we might get some rain out of it though, and dampen the fires a bit.

Smoked salmon, hard boiled eggs, feta cheese washed down with a tall cool glass of popular cola with a slice of orange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

Chinese magician performs world’s best magic trick

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

Chinese magician performs world’s best magic trick

Blood good effort.

Michael V said:

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

Chinese magician performs world’s best magic trick

Blood good effort.

Is he as good as Brendon?

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

Chinese magician performs world’s best magic trick

I am not as a general rule a fan of card tricks. My normal reaction is “why bother”, they’re usually too small to see anyway.

But this is spectacular, and it’s even better because it doesn’t rely on the values of the cards.

Grass ID.
Native Millet, Fescu, Hairy Panic?
It’s in the back yard in Brisbane.

Peak Warming Man said:

Michael V said:

Bogsnorkler said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

Chinese magician performs world’s best magic trick

Blood good effort.

Is he as good as Brendon?

I don’t know, because I’ve never seen Brendon perform.

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Strange case.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794

It is.

Clever website layout. I like it.

Peak Warming Man said:

Grass ID.
Native Millet, Fescu, Hairy Panic?
It’s in the back yard in Brisbane.

It doesn’t look like Tall Fescue:

https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/166094/p256.pdf

This page describes how to visually distinguish between Native Millet and Hairy Panic, both of which look like what you’ve photographed:

https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pastures-and-rangelands/species-varieties/native-millet

Peak Warming Man said:

Grass ID.
Native Millet, Fescu, Hairy Panic?
It’s in the back yard in Brisbane.

Dunno what it is but a mower or roundup will sort it.

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Hit it with a hammer.

Peak Warming Man said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Hit it with a hammer.

STOP

Tap, tap it with a hammer.

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

They got it wrong. They said it’ll only be 38C at 2pm. Can’t that BOM get anything right?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

And while we’re youtubing:

Strange Affair

Damn I thought it was going to be about a precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridge FEA model video.

Still working on it.

I’d like to see it. What FEA software? I used to use ANSYS, but only for thermal and fluids modelling. Precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridges I was only taught to calculate using BOE.

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

They got it wrong. They said it’ll only be 38C at 2pm. Can’t that BOM get anything right?

Maybe buy yourself a new thermometer or start looking for the bushfire that’s bearing down on you?

Peak Warming Man said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Hit it with a hammer.

Should I hammer in the morning? or hammer in the evening?

roughbarked said:

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

They got it wrong. They said it’ll only be 38C at 2pm. Can’t that BOM get anything right?

Maybe buy yourself a new thermometer or start looking for the bushfire that’s bearing down on you?

Proberlee 40kms away.

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

They got it wrong. They said it’ll only be 38C at 2pm. Can’t that BOM get anything right?

They’re even wronger now.

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

They got it wrong. They said it’ll only be 38C at 2pm. Can’t that BOM get anything right?

They’re even wronger now.

have you tried turning it off then on again?

Just treated myself to a Christmas present.

The CSIRO Australian Bird Guide. By Menkhorst.
Oh dang it. I paid too much for it.

mollwollfumble said:

Just treated myself to a Christmas present.

The CSIRO Australian Bird Guide. By Menkhorst.
Oh dang it. I paid too much for it.

Do they have a digital version with their calls in it?
Over.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Hit it with a hammer.

Should I hammer in the morning? or hammer in the evening?

All over this land.

Peak Warming Man said:

mollwollfumble said:

Just treated myself to a Christmas present.

The CSIRO Australian Bird Guide. By Menkhorst.
Oh dang it. I paid too much for it.

Do they have a digital version with their calls in it?
Over.

http://www.graemechapman.com.au/library/index.php

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Fermometar here says firty free point five. Electronic hygrometer here says 53% RH.

Woodie said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

They got it wrong. They said it’ll only be 38C at 2pm. Can’t that BOM get anything right?

Bar-stewards.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Woodie said:

Fermometar says firty nine point free.

Hit it with a hammer.

Should I hammer in the morning? or hammer in the evening?

:)

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Damn I thought it was going to be about a precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridge FEA model video.

Still working on it.

I’d like to see it. What FEA software? I used to use ANSYS, but only for thermal and fluids modelling. Precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridges I was only taught to calculate using BOE.

I use Strand7 and/or my own spreadsheet based frame analysis programs, but I was joking.

I have actually done a fair bit on precast concrete bridge girders recently, but they were pre-tensioned, and a video would be as boring as watching a beam hog.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-09/kristallnacht-survivor-warns-of-antisemitism-white-nationalism/10475828

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Still working on it.

I’d like to see it. What FEA software? I used to use ANSYS, but only for thermal and fluids modelling. Precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridges I was only taught to calculate using BOE.

I use Strand7 and/or my own spreadsheet based frame analysis programs, but I was joking.

I have actually done a fair bit on precast concrete bridge girders recently, but they were pre-tensioned, and a video would be as boring as watching a beam hog.

I don’t know what a beam hog is and so this gives me no reference as to its potential boredom quotient.

sibeen said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’d like to see it. What FEA software? I used to use ANSYS, but only for thermal and fluids modelling. Precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridges I was only taught to calculate using BOE.

I use Strand7 and/or my own spreadsheet based frame analysis programs, but I was joking.

I have actually done a fair bit on precast concrete bridge girders recently, but they were pre-tensioned, and a video would be as boring as watching a beam hog.

I don’t know what a beam hog is and so this gives me no reference as to its potential boredom quotient.

Well ya know more than most, Beeny Boy. Most wouldn’t now what a quotient is. But I do. It’s a car made by Toyota. A Toyota Quotient.

sibeen said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’d like to see it. What FEA software? I used to use ANSYS, but only for thermal and fluids modelling. Precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridges I was only taught to calculate using BOE.

I use Strand7 and/or my own spreadsheet based frame analysis programs, but I was joking.

I have actually done a fair bit on precast concrete bridge girders recently, but they were pre-tensioned, and a video would be as boring as watching a beam hog.

I don’t know what a beam hog is and so this gives me no reference as to its potential boredom quotient.

From the bloke who said on Desert Island Disks that he’d take a Wings album and The Concise Oxford Volumes I, II, III and IV of Differential Equations.

Michael V said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-09/kristallnacht-survivor-warns-of-antisemitism-white-nationalism/10475828

Thanks for posting that.

It’s too hot to do anyfink. So I’m gunna annoy you lot.

P’raps I could watch tele instead?

This might cool me off. Ya know, the quality of tele these days really makes it feel like you’re actually there.

ISU FIGURE SKATING: FINLAND GRAND PRIX

Woodie said:

It’s too hot to do anyfink. So I’m gunna annoy you lot.

P’raps I could watch tele instead?

This might cool me off. Ya know, the quality of tele these days really makes it feel like you’re actually there.

ISU FIGURE SKATING: FINLAND GRAND PRIX

:)

sibeen said:

I don’t know what a beam hog is

The mid-span of a beam rising by about 50 mm, over the course of several days or weeks.

sibeen said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’d like to see it. What FEA software? I used to use ANSYS, but only for thermal and fluids modelling. Precast post tensioned cambered concrete bridges I was only taught to calculate using BOE.

I use Strand7 and/or my own spreadsheet based frame analysis programs, but I was joking.

I have actually done a fair bit on precast concrete bridge girders recently, but they were pre-tensioned, and a video would be as boring as watching a beam hog.

I don’t know what a beam hog is and so this gives me no reference as to its potential boredom quotient.

a beam hog is a scientist at CERN who always gets to run their experiments and doesn’t want to share.

The Rev Dodgson said:

sibeen said:

I don’t know what a beam hog is

The mid-span of a beam rising by about 50 mm, over the course of several days or weeks.

TIL that hogging is the opposite of sagging.

I had no idea that that term even existed.

Thanks.

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

sibeen said:

I don’t know what a beam hog is

The mid-span of a beam rising by about 50 mm, over the course of several days or weeks.

TIL that hogging is the opposite of sagging.

I had no idea that that term even existed.

Thanks.

I have heard of it in terms of ship design.

I SAW HIM I SAW HIM.
SANTA I JUST SAW SANTA.
HE…..HE…..WAS STANDING UP IN A UTE HEADING DOWN TO THE PARK.

Peak Warming Man said:

I SAW HIM I SAW HIM.
SANTA I JUST SAW SANTA.
HE…..HE…..WAS STANDING UP IN A UTE HEADING DOWN TO THE PARK.

I am overjoyed at the mere thought of your good fortune.

Peak Warming Man said:

I SAW HIM I SAW HIM.
SANTA I JUST SAW SANTA.
HE…..HE…..WAS STANDING UP IN A UTE HEADING DOWN TO THE PARK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAvd0ReS4nY

going to a fancy dress party next week. thought i’d go as a pirate and to look authentic get my ears pierced for those gold earrings. bloody hell the price! was going to cost me a buck an ear!

Bogsnorkler said:

going to a fancy dress party next week. thought i’d go as a pirate and to look authentic get my ears pierced for those gold earrings. bloody hell the price! was going to cost me a buck an ear!

Sad!

Bogsnorkler said:

going to a fancy dress party next week. thought i’d go as a pirate and to look authentic get my ears pierced for those gold earrings. bloody hell the price! was going to cost me a buck an ear!

Cheap at half the price.

Witty Rejoinder said:

Bogsnorkler said:

going to a fancy dress party next week. thought i’d go as a pirate and to look authentic get my ears pierced for those gold earrings. bloody hell the price! was going to cost me a buck an ear!

Sad!

don’t encourage me you awful man.

Deep thought.

https://i.imgur.com/sNan7pf.mp4

I went down to the shops earlier. There was a man standing on one leg at the ATM. I asked what he was up to and he said: “just checking my balance”.

I’m back. What did I miss?

buffy said:

I’m back. What did I miss?

I saw Santa.

Boris tried to tell a joke.

sibeen said:

Boris tried to tell a joke.

making you laugh is on my bucket list.

buffy said:

I’m back. What did I miss?

I’ve been out in the sun reaching down a deep hole, attempting to unscrew a bit of broken thread in the plumbing. If I can get that out and plug the hole, I’ll be able to have a shower tonight.

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

Boris tried to tell a joke.

making you laugh is on my bucket list.

Keep trying, you’ll probably get there eventually.

Saw a fox last night, eating something off the road. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a fox that close to a city.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

I’m back. What did I miss?

I’ve been out in the sun reaching down a deep hole, attempting to unscrew a bit of broken thread in the plumbing. If I can get that out and plug the hole, I’ll be able to have a shower tonight.

dv said:

Saw a fox last night, eating something off the road. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a fox that close to a city.

See them in town backyards often. Cities are no exception. Foxes are excellent scavengers.

I’m about 8ks from the centre of Melboune, so considered one of the inner city suburbs and occasionally I spot a fox if I’m driving through the back streets late at night.

Peak Warming Man said:

I SAW HIM I SAW HIM.
SANTA I JUST SAW SANTA.
HE…..HE…..WAS STANDING UP IN A UTE HEADING DOWN TO THE PARK.

I suppose all the firetrucks were busy today. He comes to the park here on the local firetruck.

roughbarked said:

dv said:

Saw a fox last night, eating something off the road. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a fox that close to a city.

See them in town backyards often. Cities are no exception. Foxes are excellent scavengers.

There are foxes in the city of Melbourne.

Oh, sorry sibeen, I should have read another post.

I’ve caught up now. Have I mentioned that there is a new Sherlock on ABC tonight?

dv said:

Saw a fox last night, eating something off the road. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a fox that close to a city.

how close to the city?

I’ve seen a few when I was living on the edge of the metro area.

buffy said:

Have I mentioned that there is a new Sherlock on ABC tonight?

No.

party_pants said:

buffy said:

Have I mentioned that there is a new Sherlock on ABC tonight?

No.

There is a new Sherlock on ABC tonight.

Sherlock

Sunday, 2 Dec

Series 4 | Episode 1 | The Six Thatchers

8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

m CC Repeated on Friday 7 Dec at 12:55 AM, ABC

As Sherlock waits for Moriarty to make his posthumous move, an intriguing puzzle captures the mercurial detective’s attention. Why is someone destroying images of the late PM Margaret Thatcher?

my friend kestrel, and ripping the wheat off on the home place, distant

buffy said:

Sherlock

Sunday, 2 Dec

Series 4 | Episode 1 | The Six Thatchers

8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

m CC Repeated on Friday 7 Dec at 12:55 AM, ABC

As Sherlock waits for Moriarty to make his posthumous move, an intriguing puzzle captures the mercurial detective’s attention. Why is someone destroying images of the late PM Margaret Thatcher?

Solved it without watching it, Billy Bragg dunnit.

Bogsnorkler said:

going to a fancy dress party next week. thought i’d go as a pirate and to look authentic get my ears pierced for those gold earrings. bloody hell the price! was going to cost me a buck an ear!

Not many people know this, but the reason sailors wore gold earrings was so that if they died away from home their shipmates could sell the gold and pay for a decent funeral.

buffy said:

Oh, sorry sibeen, I should have read another post.

nobody reads sibeen’s posts.

btm said:

Bogsnorkler said:

going to a fancy dress party next week. thought i’d go as a pirate and to look authentic get my ears pierced for those gold earrings. bloody hell the price! was going to cost me a buck an ear!

Not many people know this, but the reason sailors wore gold earrings was so that if they died away from home their shipmates could sell the gold and pay for a decent funeral.

Did you know, some people, claim pirates had the first workers compensation.

buffy said:

I’ve caught up now. Have I mentioned that there is a new Sherlock on ABC tonight?

Yes.

This may interest you Skunky: in the past you’ve questioned why a budding superpower might still claim to be treated like a developing country on issues like foreign aid.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/still-poor-or-a-superpower-defining-china-central-to-trade-dispute-20181123-p50hsa.html

Witty Rejoinder said:

buffy said:

I’ve caught up now. Have I mentioned that there is a new Sherlock on ABC tonight?

Yes.

Actually, it’s not all that new. It was shown in Britain in 2017. But it’s new to me.

Witty Rejoinder said:

This may interest you Skunky: in the past you’ve questioned why a budding superpower might still claim to be treated like a developing country on issues like foreign aid.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/still-poor-or-a-superpower-defining-china-central-to-trade-dispute-20181123-p50hsa.html

Cheers, I saw that the other day. It’s a crock, to my mind they can self select but if you are running a space program it’s a big ask for other countries to accept it.

party_pants said:

dv said:

Saw a fox last night, eating something off the road. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a fox that close to a city.

how close to the city?

I’ve seen a few when I was living on the edge of the metro area.

22 km odd.

near a large nature reserve, admittedly.

AwesomeO said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

This may interest you Skunky: in the past you’ve questioned why a budding superpower might still claim to be treated like a developing country on issues like foreign aid.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/still-poor-or-a-superpower-defining-china-central-to-trade-dispute-20181123-p50hsa.html

Cheers, I saw that the other day. It’s a crock, to my mind they can self select but if you are running a space program it’s a big ask for other countries to accept it.

(shrugs) China is a major aid donor, doling out 450 billion dollars to the third world in 2017, nearly half of it going to Africa.

dv said:

party_pants said:

dv said:

Saw a fox last night, eating something off the road. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a fox that close to a city.

how close to the city?

I’ve seen a few when I was living on the edge of the metro area.

22 km odd.

near a large nature reserve, admittedly.

saw one years ago crossing guildford road by the tonkin hwy flyover.

dv said:

AwesomeO said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

This may interest you Skunky: in the past you’ve questioned why a budding superpower might still claim to be treated like a developing country on issues like foreign aid.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/still-poor-or-a-superpower-defining-china-central-to-trade-dispute-20181123-p50hsa.html

Cheers, I saw that the other day. It’s a crock, to my mind they can self select but if you are running a space program it’s a big ask for other countries to accept it.

(shrugs) China is a major aid donor, doling out 450 billion dollars to the third world in 2017, nearly half of it going to Africa.

India, on the other hand, is not a net foreign aid donor.

Punpkin soup with an egg in it.

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

dv said:

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

Aid buys influence.

Bubblecar said:

Pumpkin soup with an egg in it.

Makes more sense than egg soup with a pumpkin in it.

dv said:

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

I take it that it is Israel?

sibeen said:

dv said:

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

I take it that it is Israel?

Yes

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

I’m back. What did I miss?

I’ve been out in the sun reaching down a deep hole, attempting to unscrew a bit of broken thread in the plumbing. If I can get that out and plug the hole, I’ll be able to have a shower tonight.

Bummer.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

I’m back. What did I miss?

I’ve been out in the sun reaching down a deep hole, attempting to unscrew a bit of broken thread in the plumbing. If I can get that out and plug the hole, I’ll be able to have a shower tonight.

How’d you break the pipe off?

dv said:

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

What country is that?

dv said:

sibeen said:

dv said:

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

I take it that it is Israel?

Yes

Ignore me. Thanks.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Pumpkin soup with an egg in it.

Makes more sense than egg soup with a pumpkin in it.

Oh, I don’t know. I’ve made egg soup with pumpkin leaves. Putting lumps of pumpkin in it would’ve been nice, too.

I’ve been experimenting with egg soups on Mrs V’s low kJ days.

I’m making pancakes for tea. I don’t think after the lunch we et that we need to eat a lot of food at this juncture.

Tonight it will be steak burgers (scotch fillet) washed down with the popular cola.
It will be the Classic Cola, not the low sugar salt reduced permeate free low octane fat free dolphin friendly low palm oil gluten free low in white rhino horn organic variety they are trying to flog these days.

Michael V said:

dv said:

The Conservatives came in for some stick for the aid they gave to India last year.

Then again, the single largest recipient of foreign aid from the US is a moderately wealthy country so I guess politics has a lot to do with it.

What country is that?

That’s Israel.

Per the US government websites, Israel receives more aid from the US than does all of subSaharan Africa put together.

Michael V said:

Ignore me.

Never

dv said:

Still not funny.

dv said:

IDGI

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Pumpkin soup with an egg in it.

Makes more sense than egg soup with a pumpkin in it.

Oh, I don’t know. I’ve made egg soup with pumpkin leaves. Putting lumps of pumpkin in it would’ve been nice, too.

I’ve been experimenting with egg soups on Mrs V’s low kJ days.

Egg drop soup is pleasant.

Peak Warming Man said:

Tonight it will be steak burgers (scotch fillet) washed down with the popular cola.
It will be the Classic Cola, not the low sugar salt reduced permeate free low octane fat free dolphin friendly low palm oil gluten free low in white rhino horn organic variety they are trying to flog these days.

LOL

Bubblecar said:

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Makes more sense than egg soup with a pumpkin in it.

Oh, I don’t know. I’ve made egg soup with pumpkin leaves. Putting lumps of pumpkin in it would’ve been nice, too.

I’ve been experimenting with egg soups on Mrs V’s low kJ days.

Egg drop soup is pleasant.

The egg might not cook properly because of the varying temperature at different levels in the soup due to convection.

Michael V said:

dv said:

sibeen said:

I take it that it is Israel?

Yes

Ignore me. Thanks.

makes whistling noise

Witty Rejoinder said:

Still not funny.

can’t please everyone

Peak Warming Man said:

Tonight it will be steak burgers (scotch fillet) washed down with the popular cola.
It will be the Classic Cola, not the low sugar salt reduced permeate free low octane fat free dolphin friendly low palm oil gluten free low in white rhino horn organic variety they are trying to flog these days.

you bastard!

sibeen said:

dv said:

IDGI

Me neither.

Michael V said:

sibeen said:

dv said:

IDGI

Me neither.

+2

Bubblecar said:

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Makes more sense than egg soup with a pumpkin in it.

Oh, I don’t know. I’ve made egg soup with pumpkin leaves. Putting lumps of pumpkin in it would’ve been nice, too.

I’ve been experimenting with egg soups on Mrs V’s low kJ days.

Egg drop soup is pleasant.

That’s the sort of thing.

Print social today.

3 plates/15 prints in three hours.

sarahs mum said:

Print social today.

3 plates/15 prints in three hours.

Well done :)

Weeds.

sarahs mum said:

Print social today.

3 plates/15 prints in three hours.

I’m thinking those two were separated at birth.

sibeen said:

I’m looking at a few recipes for borscht that I’m thinking of doing during the week and I’m not sure which way to go..

Hot, beefy, red, Russian borscht is only to be served with copious amounts of beer; which is quite a distinction from the cold, vegetarian, pink Polish borscht, which is only to be served with copious amounts of beer.

It has me in a pickle.

Do a hot, red, porky Ukrainian borscht.

Peak Warming Man said:

sarahs mum said:

Print social today.

3 plates/15 prints in three hours.

I’m thinking those two were separated at birth.

I think one is 18 months older than the other one. Mum did a BFA/BA(History) double major. Is close to finishing a PhD about slavery in the Pacific.

Bubblecar said:

sibeen said:

I’m looking at a few recipes for borscht that I’m thinking of doing during the week and I’m not sure which way to go..

Hot, beefy, red, Russian borscht is only to be served with copious amounts of beer; which is quite a distinction from the cold, vegetarian, pink Polish borscht, which is only to be served with copious amounts of beer.

It has me in a pickle.

Do a hot, red, porky Ukrainian borscht.

If it wasn’t Melbourne we could comfortably tell him to do the cold one for Christmas.

Bubblecar said:

sibeen said:

I’m looking at a few recipes for borscht that I’m thinking of doing during the week and I’m not sure which way to go..

Hot, beefy, red, Russian borscht is only to be served with copious amounts of beer; which is quite a distinction from the cold, vegetarian, pink Polish borscht, which is only to be served with copious amounts of beer.

It has me in a pickle.

Do a hot, red, porky Ukrainian borscht.

If it’s too good the Russians might just pop over and nick it.

Bubblecar said:

sibeen said:

I’m looking at a few recipes for borscht that I’m thinking of doing during the week and I’m not sure which way to go..

Hot, beefy, red, Russian borscht is only to be served with copious amounts of beer; which is quite a distinction from the cold, vegetarian, pink Polish borscht, which is only to be served with copious amounts of beer.

It has me in a pickle.

Do a hot, red, porky Ukrainian borscht.

I have a few dutch cream potatoes in jackets in the oven. I’m going to crack open some sour cream and a small tin of salmon..

The original recording console used on Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is going up for auction.

In a press release, Bonhams auction house specialist Claire Tole-Moir said it’s “hard to overestimate how crucial a role this console has played in the British rock and pop scene. … This console is a piece of Britain’s modern cultural history.” In other words, the purchase price won’t be cheap.

The console is actually a hybrid of two separate studio desks built by Helios Electronics. The first is the Basing Street Studio 2 console, which was installed at Island Records’ London studios in 1969. While housed there, the console was used on many famous recordings, including Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “I Shot the Sheriff,” Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train” and parts of the the Rolling Stones’ “Angie.”

Still, the most legendary recording took place in December 1970, when Led Zeppelin began work on their fourth album. While most of the record was produced in a mobile studio owned by the Rolling Stones, work began at Basing Street. It was there that the band completed the majority of “Stairway to Heaven”; Jimmy Page even returned several months later to record his epic guitar solo.

The second half of the HeliosCentric comes from a console used in the late Alvin Lee’s studio between 1973 and 1979. Lee, the guitarist and singer for the band Ten Years After, worked during that time with an array of collaborators, including George Harrison, Mick Fleetwood and Ronnie Wood.

Both desks eventually ended up in storage until they were rescued and given new life by another pair of music legends: Elvis Costello and Squeeze’s Chris Difford. The pair teamed up in 1996 to open their own recording studio, and spent years painstakingly fusing the two historic consoles together into one desk. The result was a studio that attracted contemporary artists such as Sia, Cage the Elephant and Dido.

This isn’t the first time Bonhams has auctioned off a piece of music history. Last year the auction house sold the EMI TG12345 MK IV console on which Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon for $1.8 million.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/stairway-to-heaven-recording-console/?fbclid=IwAR0OluBg2y9nqSx41LID3hphfC0t0TdtSPAeQS_mpyJbYMlb91o2Kwvgh4w

Peak Warming Man said:

Tonight it will be steak burgers (scotch fillet) washed down with the popular cola.
It will be the Classic Cola, not the low sugar salt reduced permeate free low octane fat free dolphin friendly low palm oil gluten free low in white rhino horn organic variety they are trying to flog these days.

So it’s the one with real sugar and real caffeine then?

sarahs mum said:

The original recording console used on Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is going up for auction.

In a press release, Bonhams auction house specialist Claire Tole-Moir said it’s “hard to overestimate how crucial a role this console has played in the British rock and pop scene. … This console is a piece of Britain’s modern cultural history.” In other words, the purchase price won’t be cheap.

The console is actually a hybrid of two separate studio desks built by Helios Electronics. The first is the Basing Street Studio 2 console, which was installed at Island Records’ London studios in 1969. While housed there, the console was used on many famous recordings, including Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “I Shot the Sheriff,” Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train” and parts of the the Rolling Stones’ “Angie.”

Still, the most legendary recording took place in December 1970, when Led Zeppelin began work on their fourth album. While most of the record was produced in a mobile studio owned by the Rolling Stones, work began at Basing Street. It was there that the band completed the majority of “Stairway to Heaven”; Jimmy Page even returned several months later to record his epic guitar solo.

The second half of the HeliosCentric comes from a console used in the late Alvin Lee’s studio between 1973 and 1979. Lee, the guitarist and singer for the band Ten Years After, worked during that time with an array of collaborators, including George Harrison, Mick Fleetwood and Ronnie Wood.

Both desks eventually ended up in storage until they were rescued and given new life by another pair of music legends: Elvis Costello and Squeeze’s Chris Difford. The pair teamed up in 1996 to open their own recording studio, and spent years painstakingly fusing the two historic consoles together into one desk. The result was a studio that attracted contemporary artists such as Sia, Cage the Elephant and Dido.

This isn’t the first time Bonhams has auctioned off a piece of music history. Last year the auction house sold the EMI TG12345 MK IV console on which Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon for $1.8 million.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/stairway-to-heaven-recording-console/?fbclid=IwAR0OluBg2y9nqSx41LID3hphfC0t0TdtSPAeQS_mpyJbYMlb91o2Kwvgh4w

I didn’t realise that Elvis Costello was such an electronic wizard.

Has a little rolls eyes

sarahs mum said:

Weeds.

My brother at Neika has a whole hillside like that. He put up a picture that he labelled Matisse. While pretty, it really shouldn’t be like that. I commented about them being weeds but got no reply.

sibeen said:

I’m looking at a few recipes for borscht that I’m thinking of doing during the week and I’m not sure which way to go..

Hot, beefy, red, Russian borscht is only to be served with copious amounts of beer; which is quite a distinction from the cold, vegetarian, pink Polish borscht, which is only to be served with copious amounts of beer.

It has me in a pickle.

What the hell are you wasting time on borscht for? Have beer, served with copious amounts of beer.

Is someone going to explain that cartoon? I also don’t get it.

btm said:

sibeen said:

I’m looking at a few recipes for borscht that I’m thinking of doing during the week and I’m not sure which way to go..

Hot, beefy, red, Russian borscht is only to be served with copious amounts of beer; which is quite a distinction from the cold, vegetarian, pink Polish borscht, which is only to be served with copious amounts of beer.

It has me in a pickle.

What the hell are you wasting time on borscht for? Have beer, served with copious amounts of beer.

Someone has to think of the children.

buffy said:

Is someone going to explain that cartoon? I also don’t get it.

Its Vorshtein.

buffy said:

sarahs mum said:

Weeds.

My brother at Neika has a whole hillside like that. He put up a picture that he labelled Matisse. While pretty, it really shouldn’t be like that. I commented about them being weeds but got no reply.

Looks nice in that mistiness. But..weeds.

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

I’m going to watch Insiders, and then Sherlock. I may be back later. Much later.

buffy said:

I’m going to watch Insiders, and then Sherlock. I may be back later. Much later.

OK. See ya then.

sarahs mum said:

The original recording console used on Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is going up for auction.

In a press release, Bonhams auction house specialist Claire Tole-Moir said it’s “hard to overestimate how crucial a role this console has played in the British rock and pop scene. … This console is a piece of Britain’s modern cultural history.” In other words, the purchase price won’t be cheap.

The console is actually a hybrid of two separate studio desks built by Helios Electronics. The first is the Basing Street Studio 2 console, which was installed at Island Records’ London studios in 1969. While housed there, the console was used on many famous recordings, including Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “I Shot the Sheriff,” Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train” and parts of the the Rolling Stones’ “Angie.”

Still, the most legendary recording took place in December 1970, when Led Zeppelin began work on their fourth album. While most of the record was produced in a mobile studio owned by the Rolling Stones, work began at Basing Street. It was there that the band completed the majority of “Stairway to Heaven”; Jimmy Page even returned several months later to record his epic guitar solo.

The second half of the HeliosCentric comes from a console used in the late Alvin Lee’s studio between 1973 and 1979. Lee, the guitarist and singer for the band Ten Years After, worked during that time with an array of collaborators, including George Harrison, Mick Fleetwood and Ronnie Wood.

Both desks eventually ended up in storage until they were rescued and given new life by another pair of music legends: Elvis Costello and Squeeze’s Chris Difford. The pair teamed up in 1996 to open their own recording studio, and spent years painstakingly fusing the two historic consoles together into one desk. The result was a studio that attracted contemporary artists such as Sia, Cage the Elephant and Dido.

This isn’t the first time Bonhams has auctioned off a piece of music history. Last year the auction house sold the EMI TG12345 MK IV console on which Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon for $1.8 million.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/stairway-to-heaven-recording-console/?fbclid=IwAR0OluBg2y9nqSx41LID3hphfC0t0TdtSPAeQS_mpyJbYMlb91o2Kwvgh4w

Perfect Christmas gift from sibeen to himself.

Got the plimbing problem fixed.

roughbarked said:

Got the plimbing problem fixed.

good work,

buffy said:

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

roughbarked said:

Got the plimbing problem fixed.

Well done.

Michael V said:

buffy said:

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

buffy said:

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

It’s a funny old world.

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

buffy said:

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

If the fire is being fanned by hot gale force winds and you are on the side of a hill in tall timber country you would be crazy to stay, but fire conditions vary so much that general statements don’t mean a great deal.

dv said:

It alludes to the new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanagh and his youthful shenanigans. Something also about ‘head in the clouds’ or ‘a storm brewing’ which I am not so sure about.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

It alludes to the new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanagh and his youthful shenanigans. Something also about ‘head in the clouds’ or ‘a storm brewing’ which I am not so sure about.

Oh, so you were right earlier, it’s not funny.

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

buffy said:

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

In 1992 I evacuated Sarah down to friends in the township and stayed. The fire arrived at midnight and burned all around us and cut us off. We were surrounded by fire for a few days but it came no closer than 50 metres from the house.

If it is on again I am out of here. I am no longer young and I am alone.

sibeen said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

It alludes to the new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanagh and his youthful shenanigans. Something also about ‘head in the clouds’ or ‘a storm brewing’ which I am not so sure about.

Oh, so you were right earlier, it’s not funny.

The Grinch is depicted as a hairy, pot-bellied, pear-shaped, snub-nosed green colored creature with a cat-like face and cynical personality and is portrayed as a bitter and ill-tempered character…

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

It alludes to the new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanagh and his youthful shenanigans. Something also about ‘head in the clouds’ or ‘a storm brewing’ which I am not so sure about.

Oh, so you were right earlier, it’s not funny.

The Grinch is depicted as a hairy, pot-bellied, pear-shaped, snub-nosed green colored creature with a cat-like face and cynical personality and is portrayed as a bitter and ill-tempered character…

Up till the green coloured bit it does describe me rather accurately.

Witty Rejoinder said:

dv said:

It alludes to the new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanagh and his youthful shenanigans. Something also about ‘head in the clouds’ or ‘a storm brewing’ which I am not so sure about.

Uh-huh.

Ta.

Bogsnorkler said:

:)

hello

monkey skipper said:

hello

Hello. Hot enough for you?

Michael V said:

monkey skipper said:

hello

Hello. Hot enough for you?

yeah.

The fire a few km southwest of us has breached its containment lines and now has been upgraded to a yellow warning. That’s concerning.

Michael V said:

The fire a few km southwest of us has breached its containment lines and now has been upgraded to a yellow warning. That’s concerning.

Sounds concerning

Michael V said:

The fire a few km southwest of us has breached its containment lines and now has been upgraded to a yellow warning. That’s concerning.

yeah, which way is the wind blowing?

monkey skipper said:

hello

normal vague wave given

sibeen said:

monkey skipper said:

hello

normal vague wave given

waves back to sibeen and

says it is feckin hot and humid here

monkey skipper said:

says it is feckin hot and humid here

You’re not wrong Narelle.

Watching this.

Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Not sure if it’s meant to be a drama or comedy. Might help a bit if I spoke French but. It’s got Gérard Depardieu in drag.

When Julius Caesar challenges Cleopatra to build a sumptuous palace in record time, Edifis the Architect is driven to desperate measures to get the job done (or risk being thrown to the crocodiles). With the help of his friends Astérix, Obélix and a magic potion from the Druid Miraculix, he must win the challenge against all odds.

Peak Warming Man said:

monkey skipper said:

says it is feckin hot and humid here

You’re not wrong Narelle.

You don’t see many Narelles anymore.

Michael V said:

The fire a few km southwest of us has breached its containment lines and now has been upgraded to a yellow warning. That’s concerning.

Fark.

Problem with Rainbow Beach is, there’s only one way out.

Divine Angel said:

Peak Warming Man said:

monkey skipper said:

says it is feckin hot and humid here

You’re not wrong Narelle.

You don’t see many Narelles anymore.

I have seen one a family friend sorta

Woodie said:

Watching this.

Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Not sure if it’s meant to be a drama or comedy. Might help a bit if I spoke French but. It’s got Gérard Depardieu in drag.

When Julius Caesar challenges Cleopatra to build a sumptuous palace in record time, Edifis the Architect is driven to desperate measures to get the job done (or risk being thrown to the crocodiles). With the help of his friends Astérix, Obélix and a magic potion from the Druid Miraculix, he must win the challenge against all odds.

Comedy gold that movie.

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

sarahs mum said:

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

Hippy!

sarahs mum said:

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

nice. should be a mellow experience (potentially)

sarahs mum said:

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

Way kewlies. :) We should try and catch up.

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

Hippy!

I told my sister I wasn’t into Nimbin.She said there was nowhere nice to stay in Kyogle.

Woodie said:

sarahs mum said:

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

Way kewlies. :) We should try and catch up.

I am leaving here on Saturday. And I think we are going up the coast on Monday. I will try to keep you in the loop.

sarahs mum said:

Woodie said:

sarahs mum said:

Apparently I am staying a couple of nights in Nimbin next week Woodie.

Way kewlies. :) We should try and catch up.

I am leaving here on Saturday. And I think we are going up the coast on Monday. I will try to keep you in the loop.

I

I’m working all week. Mon & Tues Byron Bay, Wed – Fri in Casino. Then I’m on hols til the New Year. So I’m on hols as of next Saturday.

Woodie said:

sarahs mum said:

Woodie said:

Way kewlies. :) We should try and catch up.

I am leaving here on Saturday. And I think we are going up the coast on Monday. I will try to keep you in the loop.

I

I’m working all week. Mon & Tues Byron Bay, Wed – Fri in Casino. Then I’m on hols til the New Year. So I’m on hols as of next Saturday.

So it might work? Okay. I shall make some posts when plans begin to firm up. :)

At this stage Brother John is in Lismore base. But he will probably be back in Kyogle by the time we get there.

sarahs mum said:

So it might work? Okay. I shall make some posts when plans begin to firm up. :)

At this stage Brother John is in Lismore base. But he will probably be back in Kyogle by the time we get there.

When are you planning to return?

So, it looks like December Chat, 2018 is the winner.

I was wondering which of the three December chat threads would triumph.

sibeen said:

Woodie said:

Watching this.

Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Not sure if it’s meant to be a drama or comedy. Might help a bit if I spoke French but. It’s got Gérard Depardieu in drag.

When Julius Caesar challenges Cleopatra to build a sumptuous palace in record time, Edifis the Architect is driven to desperate measures to get the job done (or risk being thrown to the crocodiles). With the help of his friends Astérix, Obélix and a magic potion from the Druid Miraculix, he must win the challenge against all odds.

Comedy gold that movie.

Actually, I agree. I never could understand the humour of the comic strip when I was young. The movie is actually much better.

Woodie said:

sarahs mum said:

So it might work? Okay. I shall make some posts when plans begin to firm up. :)

At this stage Brother John is in Lismore base. But he will probably be back in Kyogle by the time we get there.

When are you planning to return?

I think we will only be up there a couple of days. I am only out of Tassie for 8 days.

Woodie said:

Watching this.

Asterix And Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Not sure if it’s meant to be a drama or comedy. Might help a bit if I spoke French but. It’s got Gérard Depardieu in drag.

When Julius Caesar challenges Cleopatra to build a sumptuous palace in record time, Edifis the Architect is driven to desperate measures to get the job done (or risk being thrown to the crocodiles). With the help of his friends Astérix, Obélix and a magic potion from the Druid Miraculix, he must win the challenge against all odds.

I decided it’s meant to be a comedy. You can’t possible take Gerard Depardieu seriously while he’s dressed like that.

Michael V said:

monkey skipper said:

hello

Hello. Hot enough for you?

Not here, would you mind exporting some of that heat.

Best wishes for the fire situation.

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

buffy said:

So, with these bushfires in Queensland. One person has died, yes? The young fellow cutting down a tree? How many houses and sheds and stuff have burnt? I heard a news item, yesterday I think, and I was surprised at the low number. Five houses? For such big fires, that’s a light toll.

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

Before Black Saturday, CSIRO was advising people to stay and fight. And it was the right advice, until the Greens got voted in to the local councils.

The CSIRO advice didn’t take into account that the councils run by the Greens had stopped backburning and were fining people $20,000 for the simple act of clearing a firebreak around their house.

Without backburning and firebreaks, a huge loss of life was inevitable.

mollwollfumble said:

So, it looks like December Chat, 2018 is the winner.

I was wondering which of the three December chat threads would triumph.

Why do we have three threads? I missed all the fun.

Divine Angel said:

mollwollfumble said:

So, it looks like December Chat, 2018 is the winner.

I was wondering which of the three December chat threads would triumph.

Why do we have three threads? I missed all the fun.

I thought we had four.

one.

will there be a 2019 predictions thread?

I tentatively predict there may be :P

That was a good Sherlock. But you have to concentrate the whole time.

should I start another one?

party_pants said:

should I start another one?

go on … you know you want to

buffy said:

That was a good Sherlock. But you have to concentrate the whole time.

You need something less cerebral, something where attention span is irrelevant.
A good western where they circle the wagons and the hero rescues the brother, little Timmy, of his love interest from a cattle stampede. That sort of thing.

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

That was a good Sherlock. But you have to concentrate the whole time.

You need something less cerebral, something where attention span is irrelevant.
A good western where they circle the wagons and the hero rescues the brother, little Timmy, of his love interest from a cattle stampede. That sort of thing.

That’s daytime TV. When I’m at work or outside in the garden. Mr buffy watches those.

mollwollfumble said:

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

Before Black Saturday, CSIRO was advising people to stay and fight. And it was the right advice, until the Greens got voted in to the local councils.

The CSIRO advice didn’t take into account that the councils run by the Greens had stopped backburning and were fining people $20,000 for the simple act of clearing a firebreak around their house.

Without backburning and firebreaks, a huge loss of life was inevitable.

You have to differentiate between forest and grassfires. We have a stay and defend plan based on our fires are grassfires. Fast and through. And embers before and after. If we lived in a forest we would have an evacuate plan. And when we are older we will have an evacuate plan. But for now things are probably manageable. The stay and defend stuff came from the Ash Wednesday investigations and it was quite specific about the circumstances which were and were not survivable.

buffy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

That was a good Sherlock. But you have to concentrate the whole time.

You need something less cerebral, something where attention span is irrelevant.
A good western where they circle the wagons and the hero rescues the brother, little Timmy, of his love interest from a cattle stampede. That sort of thing.

That’s daytime TV. When I’m at work or outside in the garden. Mr buffy watches those.

rofl

buffy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

That was a good Sherlock. But you have to concentrate the whole time.

You need something less cerebral, something where attention span is irrelevant.
A good western where they circle the wagons and the hero rescues the brother, little Timmy, of his love interest from a cattle stampede. That sort of thing.

That’s daytime TV. When I’m at work or outside in the garden. Mr buffy watches those.

Except for Manitou’s Shoe. I’ll watch Manitou’s Shoe again whenever I can.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248408/

If everyone had there own individual chat thread each month, grant you, the conversation may be a bit one-sided; but on the upside you would miss out on Boris’ joke attempted telling.

It’s a toss up.

sibeen said:

If everyone had there own individual chat thread each month, grant you, the conversation may be a bit one-sided; but on the upside you would miss out on Boris’ joke attempted telling.

It’s a toss up.

their

See, I even self correct. I’d still do this in my own individual thread.

I saw a snippit of tv over the weekend suggesting the next focus for human space visiting is to the moon again for a space station of the future and robots to mars will continue.

They also mention jellyfish spawned in space once returned to earth could not swim as they lacked the skill sets.

6 chat threads.

With some added synchronicity.

monkey skipper said:

I saw a snippit of tv over the weekend suggesting the next focus for human space visiting is to the moon again for a space station of the future and robots to mars will continue.

They also mention jellyfish spawned in space once returned to earth could not swim as they lacked the skill sets.

environmental changes affecting the first generation that is a quick reaction to environmental changes (I thought) for that level animal in the eco ladder.

sarahs mum said:

6 chat threads.

With some added synchronicity.

Synchronicity · Loudon Wainwright III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eucxdzWS5k

sibeen said:

If everyone had there own individual chat thread each month, grant you, the conversation may be a bit one-sided; but on the upside you would miss out on Boris’ joke attempted telling.

It’s a toss up.

no crash hot grammar.

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

If everyone had there own individual chat thread each month, grant you, the conversation may be a bit one-sided; but on the upside you would miss out on Boris’ joke attempted telling.

It’s a toss up.

no crash hot grammar.

wait for it…wait for it

Bogsnorkler said:

sibeen said:

If everyone had there own individual chat thread each month, grant you, the conversation may be a bit one-sided; but on the upside you would miss out on Boris’ joke attempted telling.

It’s a toss up.

no crash hot grammar.

buffy said:

That was a good Sherlock. But you have to concentrate the whole time.

complicatwed plot.

Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting after worst unrest in decade

More than 400 people were arrested on Saturday, with over 300 still in police custody on Sunday. More than 130 people were injured, while one protester is in serious condition in a coma.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/02/paris-riots-worst-unrest-decade-with-shops-and-cars-set-alight-gilets-jaunes?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR1Mp8Brgi-x_QFvN6MV3HtaQ313abBfxv05UV2JaDpOamgYQWsh5mD-ngI

A few years back I was talking to a young French man about Tony Abbott and a crappy budget. He asked why we weren’t out on the streets protesting. I said we Aussies weren’t the types to throw up a barricade and hurl things.

sarahs mum said:

Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting after worst unrest in decade

More than 400 people were arrested on Saturday, with over 300 still in police custody on Sunday. More than 130 people were injured, while one protester is in serious condition in a coma.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/02/paris-riots-worst-unrest-decade-with-shops-and-cars-set-alight-gilets-jaunes?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR1Mp8Brgi-x_QFvN6MV3HtaQ313abBfxv05UV2JaDpOamgYQWsh5mD-ngI

A few years back I was talking to a young French man about Tony Abbott and a crappy budget. He asked why we weren’t out on the streets protesting. I said we Aussies weren’t the types to throw up a barricade and hurl things.

In the main we aren’t. Our protests are usually non-violent.

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting after worst unrest in decade

More than 400 people were arrested on Saturday, with over 300 still in police custody on Sunday. More than 130 people were injured, while one protester is in serious condition in a coma.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/02/paris-riots-worst-unrest-decade-with-shops-and-cars-set-alight-gilets-jaunes?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR1Mp8Brgi-x_QFvN6MV3HtaQ313abBfxv05UV2JaDpOamgYQWsh5mD-ngI

A few years back I was talking to a young French man about Tony Abbott and a crappy budget. He asked why we weren’t out on the streets protesting. I said we Aussies weren’t the types to throw up a barricade and hurl things.

In the main we aren’t. Our protests are usually non-violent.

We tend to go a march or a sit in.

i’m calling this swallow razor

transition said:

i’m calling this swallow razor

Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire 1979]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPUu-rMpWA

mollwollfumble said:

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

Yeah one death. And a few houses. The Firies, Police and Disaster Management have done well.

Queensland is quite sparsely settled. And fires are scary. We don’t have big ones often. My fire plan is quite simply to run away.

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

Before Black Saturday, CSIRO was advising people to stay and fight. And it was the right advice, until the Greens got voted in to the local councils.

The CSIRO advice didn’t take into account that the councils run by the Greens had stopped backburning and were fining people $20,000 for the simple act of clearing a firebreak around their house.

Without backburning and firebreaks, a huge loss of life was inevitable.

I think you have distorted the situation. The $20,000 fine was for someone who cleared his entire block of trees, it was not simply clearing a firebreak around the building. If these people are so frightened to live in the bush, then they should live in a city, instead they move to a pleasant treed area with wildlife and destroy it to make it just like the city.

sarahs mum said:

Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting after worst unrest in decade

More than 400 people were arrested on Saturday, with over 300 still in police custody on Sunday. More than 130 people were injured, while one protester is in serious condition in a coma.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/02/paris-riots-worst-unrest-decade-with-shops-and-cars-set-alight-gilets-jaunes?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR1Mp8Brgi-x_QFvN6MV3HtaQ313abBfxv05UV2JaDpOamgYQWsh5mD-ngI

A few years back I was talking to a young French man about Tony Abbott and a crappy budget. He asked why we weren’t out on the streets protesting. I said we Aussies weren’t the types to throw up a barricade and hurl things.

The French will riot at the drop of a hat, which IMO is not a bad thing as we live in a democracy and people have the right to express their views. Perhaps we should try it instead of leaving it to the school children.

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting after worst unrest in decade

More than 400 people were arrested on Saturday, with over 300 still in police custody on Sunday. More than 130 people were injured, while one protester is in serious condition in a coma.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/02/paris-riots-worst-unrest-decade-with-shops-and-cars-set-alight-gilets-jaunes?CMP=fb_gu&fbclid=IwAR1Mp8Brgi-x_QFvN6MV3HtaQ313abBfxv05UV2JaDpOamgYQWsh5mD-ngI

A few years back I was talking to a young French man about Tony Abbott and a crappy budget. He asked why we weren’t out on the streets protesting. I said we Aussies weren’t the types to throw up a barricade and hurl things.

In the main we aren’t. Our protests are usually non-violent.

We tend to go a march or a sit in.

Or do nothing, with the possible except of a letter to the editor, or to whine on the internet.

Just in case your week wasn’t weird enough.

https://i.imgur.com/9JHuxCJ.mp4

PermeateFree said:

mollwollfumble said:

sibeen said:

It always surprises me the people who want to stay and fight. In Victoria a lot of people changed their mind after Black Saturday. Now the general feeling is ‘run away’. Give it twenty years or so, the memories will fade, and people will want to stay and fight.

Before Black Saturday, CSIRO was advising people to stay and fight. And it was the right advice, until the Greens got voted in to the local councils.

The CSIRO advice didn’t take into account that the councils run by the Greens had stopped backburning and were fining people $20,000 for the simple act of clearing a firebreak around their house.

Without backburning and firebreaks, a huge loss of life was inevitable.

I think you have distorted the situation. The $20,000 fine was for someone who cleared his entire block of trees, it was not simply clearing a firebreak around the building. If these people are so frightened to live in the bush, then they should live in a city, instead they move to a pleasant treed area with wildlife and destroy it to make it just like the city.

If they earn their money in a city, they should live there rather than move out into the nearby forested country.

Good morning.

Very smoky around here this morning from the fire on North Stradbroke Island. Slightly cooler today than the weekend and sunny.

Mr Mutant is going to a conference today and Mini Me will be in daycare so I’ll take the opportunity to wrap some Christmas and birthday presents.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 10 degrees, overcast and misty. That’s fine. Intending to cut grass at Casterton today, but it can wait until the afternoon. I see we still have a 35 forecast for Thursday.

Good morning everybody.

Very warm, very humid and very smoky here. Looks like cloud, and the sun is giving that weird yellow hue through it. And of course, it’s smelly.

The nearest fire is still on yellow alert this morning, having broken containment lines last night. It was very windy last night, too. We left an outside light on so police could find the front door (which is not on the front of the house) in case the fire got to town and we needed to evacuate, which it hasn’t and we didn’t. The wind has settled somewhat.

Morning punters and correctors, smoky here too.

So we need a bear?

Michael V said:

So we need a bear?

Or a bandit.

Michael V said:

So we need a bear?

You need a Yogi.

The sky that really gets my adrenaline running is a particular red colour from the smoke.

I have changed my plans. Not going mowing today, grass is too damp. So Buffy’s Biscuit Bakery is in session. We’ll go mowing tomorrow after my haircut is done. I’m not allowed to forget the appointment again.

Peak Warming Man said:

Michael V said:

So we need a bear?

Or a bandit.

I’ve got one of those. Looks like this:

Peak Warming Man said:

Michael V said:

So we need a bear?

Or a bandit.

or a band.

love the broad church of the libs, where any arsehole is welcome and be protected if necessary.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/craig-kelly-s-expletive-laden-rant-exposes-depth-of-liberal-party-tensions-20181202-p50jra.html

How effective is bushfire smoke at deflecting UV?

#showerthoughts

Bogsnorkler said:

Kids should have better protection from that sort of thing.

Greetings all. I have returned from the cloudy uplands of the mid west. They seem to have things under control there.

my underhouse bandicoot has a baby. saw it this morning loping across the lawn.

I ought fuck off, got shit to do

make my day if someone said something nasty before I left, for motivation.

something outside the polite coma of being thoroughly convinced of ones own good intentions

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/neil-degrasse-tyson-welcomes-investigation-into-claims/10576128

Just as well he didn’t say he was searching for another planet.

Rule 303 said:

Greetings all. I have returned from the cloudy uplands of the mid west. They seem to have things under control there.

Goodo 😊

transition said:

I ought fuck off, got shit to do

make my day if someone said something nasty before I left, for motivation.

something outside the polite coma of being thoroughly convinced of ones own good intentions

Greetings from the north.

Peak Warming Man said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/neil-degrasse-tyson-welcomes-investigation-into-claims/10576128

Just as well he didn’t say he was searching for another planet.

ROFL

I’m home alone so this is my breakfast.

sibeen said:

Peak Warming Man said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/neil-degrasse-tyson-welcomes-investigation-into-claims/10576128

Just as well he didn’t say he was searching for another planet.

ROFL

should do FB, that joke was done two days ago.

:-)

Divine Angel said:

I’m home alone so this is my breakfast.

That should give you heaps of energy for mowing the yard and washing and cleaning and baking.