With a forecast of clear skies and a temperature hovering around the one degree mark, it’s about time I rugged up warmly, turned down the lights, gritted my teeth, girded my … yes, well, you get the drift, and braved the great outdoors … my backyard, at least, and waited until my eyes adjusted to the dark.

Then, if I’m lucky, and not frozen to the core, I might see a Southern Delta Aquariid or an Alpha Capricornid or two .. or more.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/31/meteor-shower-australia-tonight-what-time-delta-aquariids-alpha-capricornids

AussieDJ said:

With a forecast of clear skies and a temperature hovering around the one degree mark, it’s about time I rugged up warmly, turned down the lights, gritted my teeth, girded my … yes, well, you get the drift, and braved the great outdoors … my backyard, at least, and waited until my eyes adjusted to the dark.

Then, if I’m lucky, and not frozen to the core, I might see a Southern Delta Aquariid or an Alpha Capricornid or two .. or more.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/31/meteor-shower-australia-tonight-what-time-delta-aquariids-alpha-capricornids

There’s also a slim chance of some Southern lights.

it’s 1C out there . And If I open the door, it would wake the dog. You should let sleeping dogs lie

Kingy said:

AussieDJ said:

With a forecast of clear skies and a temperature hovering around the one degree mark, it’s about time I rugged up warmly, turned down the lights, gritted my teeth, girded my … yes, well, you get the drift, and braved the great outdoors … my backyard, at least, and waited until my eyes adjusted to the dark.

Then, if I’m lucky, and not frozen to the core, I might see a Southern Delta Aquariid or an Alpha Capricornid or two .. or more.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/31/meteor-shower-australia-tonight-what-time-delta-aquariids-alpha-capricornids

There’s also a slim chance of some Southern lights.

I saw one meteor, but I think there might have been a light fog about. The stars weren’t as distinct as I expected them to be. No Southern lights seen.

Brindabellas said:

it’s 1C out there . And If I open the door, it would wake the dog. You should let sleeping dogs lie

Dunno about sleeping dogs, but one possum had its evening perambulations cut short by this figure lurching out of the gloom.

It was a little chilly

AussieDJ said:

It was a little chilly

holly shoot!!

monkey skipper said:

AussieDJ said:

It was a little chilly

holly shoot!!

Why? It’s winter.

Morning, I see it’s almost cold in Melbourne …

monkey skipper said:

AussieDJ said:

It was a little chilly

holly shoot!!

There are below zero temp’s all over the place.

Morning team, a bit warmer in the middle of the island today. Probably about 0 now, heading for 12 and 0 again tonight.

I’ll be doing a bit of IGA shopping this morning. Coles delivery won’t be until 4:30 – 5:30pm.

May then be making a wallaby meatloaf for dinner unless I decide to make it tomorrow, starting earlier and doing things more leisurely.

roughbarked said:

monkey skipper said:

AussieDJ said:

It was a little chilly

holly shoot!!

There are below zero temp’s all over the place.

positively barmy here in comparison

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 1 degree at the back door, clear sky, it’s light. We are forecast a partly cloudy 15 degrees today.

I will go and do a short walk around the local cemetery to see if any of the wildflowers are showing, although it’s a bit early in the year yet. And probably a bit of weeding in the garden here.

Bogsnorkler said:

roughbarked said:

monkey skipper said:

holly shoot!!

There are below zero temp’s all over the place.

positively barmy here in comparison

Looks a little moist over there.

I’ll be off with my farmer neighbour and maybe Mrs rb to look for early signs of Orchids and in an attempt to verify his possible sighting of a White Winged Wren locally.

roughbarked said:

Bogsnorkler said:

roughbarked said:

There are below zero temp’s all over the place.

positively barmy here in comparison

Looks a little moist over there.

yeah, been on off rain showers all day for a few days now.

Bogsnorkler said:

roughbarked said:

Bogsnorkler said:

positively barmy here in comparison

Looks a little moist over there.

yeah, been on off rain showers all day for a few days now.

You lucky bugger. Though we have had about 20mm for July, I still have to water. There is no soil moisture.

Local BOM must be broken. Say’s our temperature should be higher than other places but there’s the same cracker of a frost out there as when it was -3.7.

and shock horror news, Trump has just done it again.

Donald Trump uses an appearance at a gathering of Black journalists to suggest his election opponent, Kamala Harris, has switched racial identities from Indian to Black.

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Good idea.

I have to ring the local health centre about transport to LGH next Friday. But I’ll do that when I come back from the shops, which I’m just about to do.

Will probably return with a JJ’s pepper steak pie for brunch.

Bubblecar said:

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Good idea.

I have to ring the local health centre about transport to LGH next Friday. But I’ll do that when I come back from the shops, which I’m just about to do.

Will probably return with a JJ’s pepper steak pie for brunch.

which I’m just about to do = which I’m just about to set off for (if you don’t mind me ending with a preposition).

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Good idea.

I have to ring the local health centre about transport to LGH next Friday. But I’ll do that when I come back from the shops, which I’m just about to do.

Will probably return with a JJ’s pepper steak pie for brunch.

which I’m just about to do = which I’m just about to set off for (if you don’t mind me ending with a preposition).

Remember to get new sunglasses in the chemist, since you’ve lost yet another pair.

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Can’t change time of infusion on Tuesday, but I don’t want to delay it, so I’ll put up with peak for the trip home. And I’ll fortify myself with Nando’s.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Good idea.

I have to ring the local health centre about transport to LGH next Friday. But I’ll do that when I come back from the shops, which I’m just about to do.

Will probably return with a JJ’s pepper steak pie for brunch.

which I’m just about to do = which I’m just about to set off for (if you don’t mind me ending with a preposition).

Remember to get new sunglasses in the chemist, since you’ve lost yet another pair.

What the bloody hell are you doing with them all.

OCDC said:

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Can’t change time of infusion on Tuesday, but I don’t want to delay it, so I’ll put up with peak for the trip home. And I’ll fortify myself with Nando’s.

I understand that line of reasoning.
There are two ways for me to get home. One is 20+ km shorter but has 300+ bends. The other on is longer but has very few bends. I always take the longer but straighter one.

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

which I’m just about to do = which I’m just about to set off for (if you don’t mind me ending with a preposition).

Remember to get new sunglasses in the chemist, since you’ve lost yet another pair.

What the bloody hell are you doing with them all.

They go to the repository of lost socks, or some similar parallel universe.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Remember to get new sunglasses in the chemist, since you’ve lost yet another pair.

What the bloody hell are you doing with them all.

They go to the repository of lost socks, or some similar parallel universe.

With all my hats which Mz Tamb borrowed.

Tamb said:

OCDC said:

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Can’t change time of infusion on Tuesday, but I don’t want to delay it, so I’ll put up with peak for the trip home. And I’ll fortify myself with Nando’s.

I understand that line of reasoning.
There are two ways for me to get home. One is 20+ km shorter but has 300+ bends. The other on is longer but has very few bends. I always take the longer but straighter one.

I would do exactly the same.

Happy birthday Borris.

OCDC said:

Tamb said:

OCDC said:

Can’t change time of infusion on Tuesday, but I don’t want to delay it, so I’ll put up with peak for the trip home. And I’ll fortify myself with Nando’s.

I understand that line of reasoning.
There are two ways for me to get home. One is 20+ km shorter but has 300+ bends. The other on is longer but has very few bends. I always take the longer but straighter one.

I would do exactly the same.

The straighter road and the Ondansetron are a good combination.

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Remember to get new sunglasses in the chemist, since you’ve lost yet another pair.

What the bloody hell are you doing with them all.

They go to the repository of lost socks, or some similar parallel universe.

When i worked for Centrelink, people would send us documents to support their claims and entitlements.

It seemed to be an ironclad law of nature that if the original of a document was sent to Centrelink, it would be lost. There was a hypothesis that the rings of Saturn are made up of documents that were sent to Centrelink.

Never, ever send the orignal to any government department. Get a JP or someone to witness a copy of it, and sendthat.

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

hb Boris.

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Yes, Happy Boris birthday.

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

still a mere lad then.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

still a mere lad then.

the original lad of the lake.

Hello

Tamb said:

OCDC said:

Tamb said:

I understand that line of reasoning.
There are two ways for me to get home. One is 20+ km shorter but has 300+ bends. The other on is longer but has very few bends. I always take the longer but straighter one.

I would do exactly the same.

The straighter road and the Ondansetron are a good combination.

Good. Motion sickness is a barsteward.

ABC News:

This could proveto be interesting.

McDonalds hamburgers have been steadily shrinking in size for years now. Presumably, they’ll shrink further now, to try to preserve profits.

If the trend continues as it has done, we may see whether it’s possible to create, and sell, a physical product which has dimensions of less than zero.

BACK after a pleasant and vigorous walk with, remarkably, none of my usual aches and pains.

Nature is healing.

Bubblecar said:

BACK after a pleasant and vigorous walk with, remarkably, none of my usual aches and pains.

Nature is healing.

Good to hear. It’s funny how things come and go like that.

Tamb said:

OCDC said:

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. 2° when I got up, 5°, max 14°. Sunny. Scone with last of the jam and cream for brekkie. Agenda: Star Trek: Discovery, not much else. Oh wait, I need to ring the hospital. Better do that before I forget. Again.

Can’t change time of infusion on Tuesday, but I don’t want to delay it, so I’ll put up with peak for the trip home. And I’ll fortify myself with Nando’s.

I understand that line of reasoning.
There are two ways for me to get home. One is 20+ km shorter but has 300+ bends. The other on is longer but has very few bends. I always take the longer but straighter one.

When I worked on the Agate Creek job, I chose the extra-winding road both ways, unless I had a meeting with the Ewamian mob in Mareeba.

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

I thought every day is your birthday.

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

This could proveto be interesting.

McDonalds hamburgers have been steadily shrinking in size for years now. Presumably, they’ll shrink further now, to try to preserve profits.

If the trend continues as it has done, we may see whether it’s possible to create, and sell, a physical product which has dimensions of less than zero.

They are expensive as well
I don’t eat there often but the price is a big factor for not buying them.

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

Michael V said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

I thought every day is your birthday.

this one is special. the others are just practice.

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

you don’t look a day over 70

Arts said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

you don’t look a day over 70

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

Tamb said:

Arts said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Thank you. 69.

you don’t look a day over 70

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

He’s all four.

Bubblecar said:

Tamb said:

Arts said:

you don’t look a day over 70

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

He’s all four.

So, four birthdays then?

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Tamb said:

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

He’s all four.

So, four birthdays then?

they are all on feb 29th

Bogsnorkler said:

Michael V said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Thank you. 69.

I thought every day is your birthday.

this one is special. the others are just practice.

A bit like my pit manager in Jamaica. He had 11 fathers, and one of them was a special father.

So, happy birthday from me.

Tamb said:

Arts said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Thank you. 69.

you don’t look a day over 70

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

All three.

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Tamb said:

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

He’s all four.

So, four birthdays then?

As many as he likes. But assuming this is the real one and at 69, the twilight of his youth, I’ll raise a glass of scotch to him later this afternoon.

Tamb said:

Arts said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Thank you. 69.

you don’t look a day over 70

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

all of them.

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Tamb said:

I’m confused. Is Boris Bogsnorkler or is he Chrispen Even?

He’s all four.

So, four birthdays then?

and this one.

JudgeMental said:

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

He’s all four.

So, four birthdays then?

and this one.

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Return transport now secured for next Friday’s LGH appointment, with no fuss.

Bubblecar said:

Return transport now secured for next Friday’s LGH appointment, with no fuss.

Does it cost you anything?

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Return transport now secured for next Friday’s LGH appointment, with no fuss.

Does it cost you anything?

$35

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

Tamb said:

So, four birthdays then?

and this one.

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Return transport now secured for next Friday’s LGH appointment, with no fuss.

Does it cost you anything?

$35

Mine is $50 but it is a 320km round trip.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

and this one.

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

Thank you Boris,

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Does it cost you anything?

$35

Mine is $50 but it is a 320km round trip.

Splendid value. 136km round trip here.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

and this one.

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

I’m Boris and so is my wife.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

and this one.

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

everyone is boris and every day is your birthday.

>>Dangerous gymnastics moves that are banned from the Olympics

Anything on the so called Ballance Beam.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

JudgeMental said:

and this one.

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

I’m Boris, and so is my wife.

Peak Warming Man said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

You’re only doing that to confuse me again. Pooh bear & I are bears of very little brain.

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

I’m Boris and so is my wife.

Damn

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Arts said:

Might be safe to just assume everyone is Boris… including yourself.

I’m Boris and so is my wife.

Damn

No, I am Spartacus Boris!

Cymek said:

Bogsnorkler said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Thank you. 69.

You beat me to it, like a pulp

Bubblecar said:

Return transport now secured for next Friday’s LGH appointment, with no fuss.

Well that’s good

captain_spalding said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I’m Boris and so is my wife.

Damn

No, I am Spartacus Boris!

women want me. men want to be me.

roughbarked said:

I’ll be off with my farmer neighbour and maybe Mrs rb to look for early signs of Orchids and in an attempt to verify his possible sighting of a White Winged Wren locally.

White Wringed Wren … that’s a decent tongue twister!

Hot dog with grated cheese and T sauce washed down with a Solo.
Over.

Peak Warming Man said:

Hot dog with grated cheese and T sauce washed down with a Solo.
Over.

Little bowl of lightly salted pecans + medications (candesartan cilexetil 32mg, hydrochlorothiazide 25mg, rosuvastatin calcium 20mg, metroprolol tartrate 25mg).

Peak Warming Man said:

Hot dog with grated cheese and T sauce washed down with a Solo.
Over.

the solo, did you slam it down fast?

JudgeMental said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Hot dog with grated cheese and T sauce washed down with a Solo.
Over.

the solo, did you slam it down fast?

He only does that when he’s white-watering the redoubt river.

Emailed the council to request my bills be sent via email, instead of by snail mail.

Received a response that I need to forward copies of mr kii’s driver’s license and my driver’s license.

I responded with:
Husband dead. I don’t have a driver’s license. Also pointed out (for a 2nd time) that they have me incorrectly listed by mr kii’s family name and an incorrect speeling of my first name.

Fourteen years ago when mr kii opened the account with the council they listed me incorrectly, even though the paperwork we submitted, had my correct details on it, he didn’t correct them.

I bet this will cause problems.

If mr kii was alive I’d tell him..I TOLD YOU SO!!

sex position or olympic event?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLkOl10k_bo

https://youtube.com/shorts/OexHvzrSWzM?si=R8fOyqx38o3yuMiB

This list of places to eat in Perth came up in my feed, no pun intended.

All looks a bit bougie. The best food is usually from places that look unsafe to sit in.

dv said:

https://youtube.com/shorts/OexHvzrSWzM?si=R8fOyqx38o3yuMiB

This list of places to eat in Perth came up in my feed, no pun intended.

All looks a bit bougie. The best food is usually from places that look unsafe to sit in.

Have you considered getting treatment for all these unintended puns that keep cropping up recently?

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

https://youtube.com/shorts/OexHvzrSWzM?si=R8fOyqx38o3yuMiB

This list of places to eat in Perth came up in my feed, no pun intended.

All looks a bit bougie. The best food is usually from places that look unsafe to sit in.

Have you considered getting treatment for all these unintended puns that keep cropping up recently?

I think it is mostly harmless.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

https://youtube.com/shorts/OexHvzrSWzM?si=R8fOyqx38o3yuMiB

This list of places to eat in Perth came up in my feed, no pun intended.

All looks a bit bougie. The best food is usually from places that look unsafe to sit in.

Have you considered getting treatment for all these unintended puns that keep cropping up recently?

I think it is mostly harmless.

Being armless is nothing to joke about.

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

The Rev Dodgson said:

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

Are they i-beams or j-beams?

G.J. Coles will be here within the hour.

Decided I’ll do the wallaby meatloaf tomorrow, when I have more time before dinnertime. I’m sure there’ll be something else to eat tonight amongst those Coles bags.

Bubblecar said:

G.J. Coles will be here within the hour.

Decided I’ll do the wallaby meatloaf tomorrow, when I have more time before dinnertime. I’m sure there’ll be something else to eat tonight amongst those Coles bags.

In fact he’s here at this moment. Truck name: Isla.

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

Are they i-beams or j-beams?

If I worked with steel they would probably be Irish J’s, but working with concrete we usually stick to plain old rectangles, with the occasional super-T.

The Rev Dodgson said:

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

Great moments in engineering.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

G.J. Coles will be here within the hour.

Decided I’ll do the wallaby meatloaf tomorrow, when I have more time before dinnertime. I’m sure there’ll be something else to eat tonight amongst those Coles bags.

In fact he’s here at this moment. Truck name: Isla.

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

G.J. Coles will be here within the hour.

Decided I’ll do the wallaby meatloaf tomorrow, when I have more time before dinnertime. I’m sure there’ll be something else to eat tonight amongst those Coles bags.

In fact he’s here at this moment. Truck name: Isla.

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

I just order the groceries, I don’t name the trucks.

Billson’s Brewery in administration

I really like their raspberry vinegar cordial. They have a big range of cordials.

Link

buffy said:

Billson’s Brewery in administration

I really like their raspberry vinegar cordial. They have a big range of cordials.

Link

Looks like the kind of compact industrial building kit-makers choose for the space-starved model railway market.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

In fact he’s here at this moment. Truck name: Isla.

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

I just order the groceries, I don’t name the trucks.

isla is a pretty normal girl’s name in Scotland.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

I just order the groceries, I don’t name the trucks.

isla is a pretty normal girl’s name in Scotland.

It’s a pleasant enough name in my book.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

I just order the groceries, I don’t name the trucks.

isla is a pretty normal girl’s name in Scotland.

I had several Isla’s over the years as patients. Mostly born around the 1920s/1930s.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

I just order the groceries, I don’t name the trucks.

isla is a pretty normal girl’s name in Scotland.

Even in England.

Isla Wight
Isla Man

To name but two.

I obviously don’t sign my name anywhere near as often as I used to. I had to sign my tax return paper, and felt it necessary to do a few practice signatures before doing so.

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

Are they i-beams or j-beams?

If they were C-beams, they’d glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate

buffy said:

I obviously don’t sign my name anywhere near as often as I used to. I had to sign my tax return paper, and felt it necessary to do a few practice signatures before doing so.

Mine has turned into a sad scribble over the years.

We are planning to go to the bush block tomorrow. I’ve rested up my knee this afternoon. And I’ll walk slowly around a flat path of around a km or so. I may even carry the walking staff with me. Mr buffy will drive around on his tractor and see if any trees have fallen down over the tracks. I should be able to hear him throughout my walk.

buffy said:

We are planning to go to the bush block tomorrow. I’ve rested up my knee this afternoon. And I’ll walk slowly around a flat path of around a km or so. I may even carry the walking staff with me. Mr buffy will drive around on his tractor and see if any trees have fallen down over the tracks. I should be able to hear him throughout my walk.

Well, until he gets bogged.

Bubblecar said:

buffy said:

We are planning to go to the bush block tomorrow. I’ve rested up my knee this afternoon. And I’ll walk slowly around a flat path of around a km or so. I may even carry the walking staff with me. Mr buffy will drive around on his tractor and see if any trees have fallen down over the tracks. I should be able to hear him throughout my walk.

Well, until he gets bogged.

Buffy will still hear him then.

The cursing will be legendary.

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

Are they i-beams or j-beams?

i think they are real beams.

https://youtu.be/0o_yQvnw3EI?si=HcT1BhRcGfEzHtSo

Why can’t NBN or Telstra Give Me The Correct Channel Pair For This FTTB Service? Part 2

dv said:

https://youtu.be/0o_yQvnw3EI?si=HcT1BhRcGfEzHtSo

Why can’t NBN or Telstra Give Me The Correct Channel Pair For This FTTB Service? Part 2

Have you threatened them? They don’t do much until they’re threatened with a query from the relevant Minister’s office.

captain_spalding said:

dv said:

https://youtu.be/0o_yQvnw3EI?si=HcT1BhRcGfEzHtSo

Why can’t NBN or Telstra Give Me The Correct Channel Pair For This FTTB Service? Part 2

Have you threatened them? They don’t do much until they’re threatened with a query from the relevant Minister’s office.

the TIO are good as a first step.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

But I’d better go and apply some moments to imaginary beams to see how they react.

Are they i-beams or j-beams?

If I worked with steel they would probably be Irish J’s, but working with concrete we usually stick to plain old rectangles, with the occasional super-T.

and Plain White T’s while they’re at it

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Michael V said:

Are they i-beams or j-beams?

If I worked with steel they would probably be Irish J’s, but working with concrete we usually stick to plain old rectangles, with the occasional super-T.

and Plain White T’s while they’re at it

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

G.J. Coles will be here within the hour.

Decided I’ll do the wallaby meatloaf tomorrow, when I have more time before dinnertime. I’m sure there’ll be something else to eat tonight amongst those Coles bags.

In fact he’s here at this moment. Truck name: Isla.

What sort of new age busted arsed name is that, what’s wrong with Sue or Wendy.

It’s Mrs V’s great-niece’s name.

keep thinking about the Berlin Olympic massacre today. i hope Paris has got security down to a fine art.

buffy said:

I obviously don’t sign my name anywhere near as often as I used to. I had to sign my tax return paper, and felt it necessary to do a few practice signatures before doing so.

Yep, like everything you don’t use it you lose it, or the ability to do it automatically.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

If I worked with steel they would probably be Irish J’s, but working with concrete we usually stick to plain old rectangles, with the occasional super-T.

and Plain White T’s while they’re at it

BREAKING:

“Two USA Swimming stars test positive”

More to come.

Peak Warming Man said:

BREAKING:

“Two USA Swimming stars test positive”

More to come.

“Two USA Swimming stars ‘test positive for COVID-19 at 2024 Olympics’”

it’s over

SCIENCE said:

it’s over

Oh thank God!

What is?

SCIENCE said:

it’s over

Now we can all get some sleep.

SCIENCE said:

it’s over

Now we can all get some sleep.

hey!

SCIENCE said:

it’s over

done like a dinner?

:-)

monkey skipper said:

hey!

Evening monkey. Enjoying a mellow one this end with a Scottish whisky or two, accompanied by some Dutch cheese and Indian polskie ogorki.

Bubblecar said:

monkey skipper said:

hey!

Evening monkey. Enjoying a mellow one this end with a Scottish whisky or two, accompanied by some Dutch cheese and Indian polskie ogorki.

Indian polskie ogorki. —- hmm.. an unexpected combination there

“Waanyi writer Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Praiseworthy, a 730-page epic about colonisation, Aboriginal sovereignty and climate change.”

monkey skipper said:

Bubblecar said:

monkey skipper said:

hey!

Evening monkey. Enjoying a mellow one this end with a Scottish whisky or two, accompanied by some Dutch cheese and Indian polskie ogorki.

Indian polskie ogorki. —- hmm.. an unexpected combination there

India has long produced good quality dill pickles. I had some actual Polish polskie ogorki recently that were disappointing compared with these Indian ones.

Peak Warming Man said:

“Waanyi writer Alexis Wright has won the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Praiseworthy, a 730-page epic about colonisation, Aboriginal sovereignty and climate change.”

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright review – how can one novel contain so much?

Linguistically commodious and panoramically plotted, Wright’s 700-page monster would have given Henry James a heart attack – but it has so much to say

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/28/praiseworthy-by-alexis-wright-review-how-can-one-novel-contain-so-much

has the world ended?

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

I hope not, I’ve got stuff to do tomorrow.

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

I think US politics is important to us. Sad. But it’s the truth.

I’m not sure why we aren’t all worried more about the middle east. It’s a worry.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

I think US politics is important to us. Sad. But it’s the truth.

I’m not sure why we aren’t all worried more about the middle east. It’s a worry.

I don’t like worrying so I tend to ignore all that stuff.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

I think US politics is important to us. Sad. But it’s the truth.

I’m not sure why we aren’t all worried more about the middle east. It’s a worry.

I don’t like worrying so I tend to ignore all that stuff.

I can’t do anything to moderate any of the world’s sectarian violence and carnage, which will go on long after I’m dust, so there’s really no reason to pay it any heed.

Just keep a safe distance from it all and pursue a more peaceful and creative life, is my advice.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

Ah yes. The body politic.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

I think US politics is important to us. Sad. But it’s the truth.

I’m not sure why we aren’t all worried more about the middle east. It’s a worry.

I don’t like worrying so I tend to ignore all that stuff.

I can’t do anything to moderate any of the world’s sectarian violence and carnage, which will go on long after I’m dust, so there’s really no reason to pay it any heed.

Just keep a safe distance from it all and pursue a more peaceful and creative life, is my advice.

the vid I posted of Kamala and queer eye people was very warm and hopeful and inspiring. Bloody shining beacon stuff in the time of hate politics.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

I don’t like worrying so I tend to ignore all that stuff.

I can’t do anything to moderate any of the world’s sectarian violence and carnage, which will go on long after I’m dust, so there’s really no reason to pay it any heed.

Just keep a safe distance from it all and pursue a more peaceful and creative life, is my advice.

the vid I posted of Kamala and queer eye people was very warm and hopeful and inspiring. Bloody shining beacon stuff in the time of hate politics.

I’m wary of chronic extroverts and their motives. There’s so much pointless “hey look at me, look at me!” out there.

I can understand the pressure to support and follow the extroverts who are “on our side” against those who aren’t, but I often tend to wish they’d just all go away :)

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

Oh just stfu. Stop whining.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

I don’t like worrying so I tend to ignore all that stuff.

I can’t do anything to moderate any of the world’s sectarian violence and carnage, which will go on long after I’m dust, so there’s really no reason to pay it any heed.

Just keep a safe distance from it all and pursue a more peaceful and creative life, is my advice.

the vid I posted of Kamala and queer eye people was very warm and hopeful and inspiring. Bloody shining beacon stuff in the time of hate politics.

I enjoyed that, thanks.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

has the world ended?

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

I think US politics is important to us. Sad. But it’s the truth.

I’m not sure why we aren’t all worried more about the middle east. It’s a worry.

I think the US election is done. Harris will romp home in a landslide. Some MAGA crazies will attempt an armed rebellion but they will be quickly squashed – killed, imprisoned or sold abroad as slaves.

Except if Harris completely shits the bed, but she seems pretty switched on and has an experienced team behind her.

party_pants said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

The modern politics-heavy HF is becoming less attractive to those of us less interested in politics, and especially US politics.

I think US politics is important to us. Sad. But it’s the truth.

I’m not sure why we aren’t all worried more about the middle east. It’s a worry.

I think the US election is done. Harris will romp home in a landslide. Some MAGA crazies will attempt an armed rebellion but they will be quickly squashed – killed, imprisoned or sold abroad as slaves.

Except if Harris completely shits the bed, but she seems pretty switched on and has an experienced team behind her.

Here’s hoping, but if, as they say, a week is a long time in politics, then three months is an eternity.

It’s a strange thing adjusting to a house without a cat. I can leave doors open, especially ones to the outside world. No nagging me for 2nd breakfast, or late morning milk. No little lump at the end of the bed, or cuddled up to my side.

Now I am trying to get back on track to move.

The moving company was scheduled for yesterday and today, but I have postponed them. The Sally Cat’s impending death was making me sick with unresolved grief. At least I got to cry when the vet was here.

kii said:

It’s a strange thing adjusting to a house without a cat. I can leave doors open, especially ones to the outside world. No nagging me for 2nd breakfast, or late morning milk. No little lump at the end of the bed, or cuddled up to my side.

Now I am trying to get back on track to move.

The moving company was scheduled for yesterday and today, but I have postponed them. The Sally Cat’s impending death was making me sick with unresolved grief. At least I got to cry when the vet was here.

Time off for hard stuff is okay. *sends bests.

Gawd there’s a bunch of Karens on Call the Midwife.

sarahs mum said:

kii said:

It’s a strange thing adjusting to a house without a cat. I can leave doors open, especially ones to the outside world. No nagging me for 2nd breakfast, or late morning milk. No little lump at the end of the bed, or cuddled up to my side.

Now I am trying to get back on track to move.

The moving company was scheduled for yesterday and today, but I have postponed them. The Sally Cat’s impending death was making me sick with unresolved grief. At least I got to cry when the vet was here.

Time off for hard stuff is okay. *sends bests.

Ta, too much time off lately.

Peak Warming Man said:

Happy birthday Borris.

Bluddy hell is it that time again already?

AussieDJ said:

roughbarked said:

I’ll be off with my farmer neighbour and maybe Mrs rb to look for early signs of Orchids and in an attempt to verify his possible sighting of a White Winged Wren locally.

White Wringed Wren … that’s a decent tongue twister!

It is. We spent too much time on the orchid hunt. Will try to wring out the wrens wings tomorrow. Oops. that’s today.

Brindabellas said:

And here I am at 2am wide awake. Why? Yesterday was a good day, and we got a buyer for Dad’s house – so one less major thing to worry about. :) shouldn’t that make you sleep easier?

yes, yes I should be – but here I am….

Brindabellas said:

Brindabellas said:

And here I am at 2am wide awake. Why? Yesterday was a good day, and we got a buyer for Dad’s house – so one less major thing to worry about. :) shouldn’t that make you sleep easier?

yes, yes I should be – but here I am….

Same. Should be asleep but am looking through photos from the bush.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 2 degrees at the back door, lightly overcast and getting light. We are forecast a partly cloudy 14 degrees.

Going to the bush. I think we will get a couple of cold pizza rolls from the bakery for lunch, and a piece of hedgehog and a piece of lemon slice. I’d better eat some weetbix or something for breakfast though.

ABC news quiz

4/10. Waaay too much Olympics for someone like me who isn’t interested and hasn’t been watching. Never the less, I did get a couple of Olympics questions right, by shrewd guessing.

Lomandra. Not sure which one yet.

Milkmaids are out.

So too Pterostylis nana.

Even found one in the recent sediment from erosion on roadside.

Then there was the shrub violet. Hybanthus floribunda.

Found lots of onion orchid leaves but no flowers yet, Diuris leaves, some showing spikes. Same with the spiders, lots of leaves and a couple of spikes showing. More later.

Weekly quiz. Lomandra marginate

ruby said:

Heh.

Up and about to scoff an egg & sausage breakfast.

egg & sausage
egg & sausage

we want egg and
we want sausage

ruby said:

I’ve been lying on the bed doing breathing exercises to control my anxiety. Strangely I manage to get to a calm place and then it all falls to shit, just like this meme.
I remember The Sally Cat is not here so I can fondle her silky ears, and it’s red scribbles all over the mandala.
Small steps.

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

Morning,

I wish the delete button would delete other stuff. We need an update to the delete function so that it apply to other things, like neighbours, cold weather, annoying politicians, things that don’t exist, bird shit on the car, etc.

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

Good.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning,

I wish the delete button would delete other stuff. We need an update to the delete function so that it apply to other things, like neighbours, cold weather, annoying politicians, things that don’t exist, bird shit on the car, etc.

7° feels like -2° wind gusts at 50km

Guess I’ll clean the bird shit off the car.

My favourite job.

Hello

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning,

I wish the delete button would delete other stuff. We need an update to the delete function so that it apply to other things, like neighbours, cold weather, annoying politicians, things that don’t exist, bird shit on the car, etc.

7° feels like -2° wind gusts at 50km

Guess I’ll clean the bird shit off the car.

My favourite job.

Easier when it’s fresh.

Cymek said:

Hello

He’s back again!

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning,

I wish the delete button would delete other stuff. We need an update to the delete function so that it apply to other things, like neighbours, cold weather, annoying politicians, things that don’t exist, bird shit on the car, etc.

7° feels like -2° wind gusts at 50km

Guess I’ll clean the bird shit off the car.

My favourite job.

Ok, 🐦 shit is off the car.

Very chilly wind.

Physicists report new insights into exotic particles key to magnetism

MIT physicists and colleagues report new insights into exotic particles key to a form of magnetism that has attracted growing interest because it originates from ultrathin materials only a few atomic layers thick. The work, which could impact future electronics and more, also establishes a new way to study these particles through a powerful instrument at the National Synchrotron Light Source II

More…

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

Yesterday was a bit like that here, I went for a walk and noticed the near perfect weather, sunny, not cold, slight breezes, just right.

Study suggests cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have generated building blocks for life on Earth

A large team of chemists at Harvard University has found evidence suggesting that cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have helped generate some of the building blocks needed for life on Earth to arise.

More…

That reminds me…

Any other links that I should add to the DV List main page above?

6/10 in the weekly ABC quiz

dv said:

That reminds me…

Any other links that I should add to the DV List main page above?

Wot I am eating, probably.

From The Boating Industry, Jan 1957.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

That reminds me…

Any other links that I should add to the DV List main page above?

Wot I am eating, probably.

Lololol 😆

Do we need a elderly forumites posting multiple threads on Venezuelan politics because they’re going gaga thread?

Just had a telephone call from a robot saying “Emergency epidemic notice…” but I hung up before receiving the vital information.

Serves me right if I don’t survive the day.

Hey, Mr. Car,

The Toronto Globe and Mail has a new cryptic crossword format, supplied by The Times of London.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/cryptic-crossword/

I had to learn the ‘style’ of the compiler. Took me 23 min 46 sec.

The old format is also still available under the ‘classic’ option on the cryptic puzzle page.

Bubblecar said:

Just had a telephone call from a robot saying “Emergency epidemic notice…” but I hung up before receiving the vital information.

Serves me right if I don’t survive the day.

Just the mpox spreading.

captain_spalding said:

Hey, Mr. Car,

The Toronto Globe and Mail has a new cryptic crossword format, supplied by The Times of London.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/cryptic-crossword/

I had to learn the ‘style’ of the compiler. Took me 23 min 46 sec.

The old format is also still available under the ‘classic’ option on the cryptic puzzle page.

Ta, bookmarked.

poikilotherm said:

Bubblecar said:

Just had a telephone call from a robot saying “Emergency epidemic notice…” but I hung up before receiving the vital information.

Serves me right if I don’t survive the day.

Just the mpox spreading.

shakes fist at random monkeys

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

Peak Warming Man said:

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

Don’t let them take too much off the top.

Peak Warming Man said:

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

How much do they charge for all that?

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

How much do they charge for all that?

Bubblecar said:

Just had a telephone call from a robot saying “Emergency epidemic notice…” but I hung up before receiving the vital information.

Serves me right if I don’t survive the day.

Why are those robocallers so incompetent? It seems to me as tbough they could easily be made more engaging.

Seriously, mine could do with a trim.

Mr Tunks does actually do haircuts. He cut the Ross bro-in-law’s hair once. I might be daring and give him a go.

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

How much do they charge for all that?

Great band

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

Just had a telephone call from a robot saying “Emergency epidemic notice…” but I hung up before receiving the vital information.

Serves me right if I don’t survive the day.

Why are those robocallers so incompetent? It seems to me as tbough they could easily be made more engaging.

They might only be seeking the dumbest demographic.

Bubblecar said:

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

Just had a telephone call from a robot saying “Emergency epidemic notice…” but I hung up before receiving the vital information.

Serves me right if I don’t survive the day.

Why are those robocallers so incompetent? It seems to me as tbough they could easily be made more engaging.

They might only be seeking the dumbest demographic.

Damn… that might be right. Dire.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

How much do they charge for all that?

He needs your Temu head-shaver.

dv said:

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

How much do they charge for all that?

Great band

Nick Heyward has kept himself in good trim.

Talking about skeletons, I ought to inform my siblings that I want to be buried, not cremated.

Don’t want to miss out on turning into a skeleton and starring in an archaeological dig one day.

Have recently learnt of the online esistence of ‘The Smithsonian Magazine’:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/

It’s just full of interesting stuff. Ideal for a casual readwhile having a coffee, or similar.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Study suggests cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have generated building blocks for life on Earth

A large team of chemists at Harvard University has found evidence suggesting that cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have helped generate some of the building blocks needed for life on Earth to arise.

More…

It seems to be a slight extension of the ground-breaking1952 Miller and Urey experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment

captain_spalding said:

Have recently learnt of the online esistence of ‘The Smithsonian Magazine’:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/

It’s just full of interesting stuff. Ideal for a casual readwhile having a coffee, or similar.

It’s a decent ragbag of a site, sometimes linked here.

captain_spalding said:

Have recently learnt of the online esistence of ‘The Smithsonian Magazine’:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/

It’s just full of interesting stuff. Ideal for a casual readwhile having a coffee, or similar.

Permeate Free used to post stuff from that magazine.

Sore throat and headache. I think it’s repressed screams. Maybe a cuppa tea will soothe me?

kii said:

Sore throat and headache. I think it’s repressed screams. Maybe a cuppa tea will soothe me?

…and a Bex and a good lie down.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

Sore throat and headache. I think it’s repressed screams. Maybe a cuppa tea will soothe me?

…and a Bex and a good lie down.

I’ve taken the drugs. Lying down makes me cough, and there’s no cat to snuggle me. Tea and a heating pad on my chest, me thinks.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Right off for my haircut.
I’ll decide whether to get a No. 3 allover or a No. 2 allover 0n the way there and trim the mo.
It’s a big day make no mistake.

How much do they charge for all that?

25 dorrah

Bubblecar said:

Seriously, mine could do with a trim.

Mr Tunks does actually do haircuts. He cut the Ross bro-in-law’s hair once. I might be daring and give him a go.

Does he use a whipper snipper.

kii said:

Sore throat and headache. I think it’s repressed screams. Maybe a cuppa tea will soothe me?

Mine is feeling unwell.
Can’t concentrate properly at work, keep making errors

kii said:

Sore throat and headache. I think it’s repressed screams. Maybe a cuppa tea will soothe me?

Bex and a lie down

Peak Warming Man said:

Bubblecar said:

Seriously, mine could do with a trim.

Mr Tunks does actually do haircuts. He cut the Ross bro-in-law’s hair once. I might be daring and give him a go.

Does he use a whipper snipper.

Hang upside down on those monkey bars Mr Bubblecar
Allow you hair to hang down.
Now I’ve been drinking and have Parkinson so its likely to hurt

Very heavy wallaby meatloaf now ovened. I’ll cook it for about 45 minutes before adding more glaze then cook for another half hour or so.

Contains nearly a kilo of wallaby mince + onion, garlic, sliced kalamatas, crushed tomato, tomato paste, eggs, breadcrumbs, grated grana padano, oregano, thyme, basil, beef stock, ground pepper, balsamic vinegar, olive oil.

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

Or put a shovel and a spade in the cave and take your pict.

Peak Warming Man said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

Or put a shovel and a spade in the cave and take your pict.

Heh. I should actually do that down an opal hole but the government won’t let us at the moment.

Bubblecar said:

Very heavy wallaby meatloaf now ovened. I’ll cook it for about 45 minutes before adding more glaze then cook for another half hour or so.

Contains nearly a kilo of wallaby mince + onion, garlic, sliced kalamatas, crushed tomato, tomato paste, eggs, breadcrumbs, grated grana padano, oregano, thyme, basil, beef stock, ground pepper, balsamic vinegar, olive oil.

The wallaby mince needs beef stock?

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

Convoy of cygnets.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

We have an absolutely perfect day in Toowoomba.

Cloudless blue sky, the BOM says it’s 13 deg, but it’s lovely in the sun.

No haze, and perfect visibility. A light breeze from the SW, bringing fresh, clean air such that it feels like a privilege to just stand there and breathe it.

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

Yes and there were dragonflies at this time of year! We didn’t see the white winged wren but we did see a lot of variegated wrens and thornbills weebills plus many honeyeaters the noisiest being the spiny cheeked. We also saw a swamp harrier and a couple of small groups of white faced herons. There was a little falcon doing the rounds as well.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

Nice spot to watch the water birdies.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Very heavy wallaby meatloaf now ovened. I’ll cook it for about 45 minutes before adding more glaze then cook for another half hour or so.

Contains nearly a kilo of wallaby mince + onion, garlic, sliced kalamatas, crushed tomato, tomato paste, eggs, breadcrumbs, grated grana padano, oregano, thyme, basil, beef stock, ground pepper, balsamic vinegar, olive oil.

The wallaby mince needs beef stock?

Basically just added salt with a little flavour enhancement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2SQ3kdH3UE

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@AnnaCramling
4 hours ago
Hey everyone! Nemo wasn’t trying to cheat or act like a hustler when she accidentally dropped the clock – it was just that, an accident we both were confused about where the bishop was placed, so we called the arbiter over and we saw that she made an illegal move, and I got extra time for it. Thanks for watching the video <3

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@puupmanmcgee
4 hours ago
I accept that it was an accident but if I was the arbitration, I would have counted her as timed out.
She hit the clock right as it clicked from 1 to 0, after making an illegal move.

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bbaarneyy 4 hours ago (edited) ​​puupmanmcgee Papa Botez got it right. Nemo brought the clock up with 31 seconds for her and Anna’s clock counting down. Luckily she fumbled the move trying to save the clock so the illegal move added time for Anna. No big deal, but funny as hell.

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@NotTheUnsub
4 hours ago (edited)
Definitely an accident. The tables were a bit small for the boards. In the Alex vs Jules game., Jules accidentally knocked a rook off the board and table onto the floor. In the game between you and Alex, while you were away from table, just trying to sit down, Alex accidently bumped against the table or table leg and the whole board moved and she had to recenter the board on the table. Great recap video, by the way!

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

Nice spot to watch the water birdies.

As long as you leave before the mossies start.
There’s a few species of frogs there calling in the daytime.

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

roughbarked said:

Nice spot to watch the water birdies.

As long as you leave before the mossies start.
There’s a few species of frogs there calling in the daytime.

no native water rats….?

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

Bubblecar said:

Nice spot to watch the water birdies.

As long as you leave before the mossies start.
There’s a few species of frogs there calling in the daytime.

no native water rats….?

I’d probably have to set traps to see them.

roughbarked said:

sarahs mum said:

roughbarked said:

As long as you leave before the mossies start.
There’s a few species of frogs there calling in the daytime.

no native water rats….?

I’d probably have to set traps to see them.

i’ve seen ducklings just get swallowed by the pond. one minute they are swimming in a neat little row and then one just disappears. until there are none left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5l8SZMd8I

Twin guys marry twin girls. Each pair produces a male singleton. They are quaternary twins.

I’m back. I haven’t caught up with you lot yet, been sorting photos.

Early dinner went down a treat with some sweet tomato relish and a nice shiraz. Finish this glass then I’d better be enjoying a lay-me-down.

If anyone wants me, tell them: “Sadly, Bubblecar was set upon by a gang of wallabies and badly beaten up in a meatloaf revenge attack. He may not pull through.”

Also photographed some mushrooms, mostly Cortinarius, I think.

buffy said:

Also photographed some mushrooms, mostly Cortinarius, I think.

That black thing looks evil.

Early dinner in the Styx as well. A day away from the great unwashed was nice.

Dustin Mopman has done a good job cleaning the floors as well.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

It has been 17 deg. here since 1:00pm.
Have been down at the swamp wetland,watching the swans and other birds. If there’d been a cave I may have found a Pict.

There are more than a hundred swans and then there is the matter of counting their cygnets.

Um, those small ones are not cygnets.

poikilotherm said:

Early dinner in the Styx as well. A day away from the great unwashed was nice.

Dustin Mopman has done a good job cleaning the floors as well.

Looks like dv’s pun-virus is spreading fast.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/01/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-broadway

#=

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter
The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd

dv said:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/01/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-broadway

#=

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter
The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd

Saw a production of WforG in Edinburgh (fringe festival) over 50 yeras ago.

IIRC, I wasn’t that impressed.

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

Also photographed some mushrooms, mostly Cortinarius, I think.

That black thing looks evil.

I thought so too. Would you like to taste it?

buffy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

Also photographed some mushrooms, mostly Cortinarius, I think.

That black thing looks evil.

I thought so too. Would you like to taste it?

Umm no.

hello!

monkey skipper said:

hello!

G’day MS

Peak Warming Man said:

monkey skipper said:

hello!

G’day MS

very sad was just reading about that horrific stabbing in the uk of 3 young girls :(

Talking about Irwin Allen and The Swarm (1978), I’ll have a peep at it tonight. Supposed to be one of the worst films ever made.

First 15 minutes should tell me whether it’s one of those films that’s so bad it’s good, or one of those films that’s so bad it’s unwatchable.

Bubblecar said:

Talking about Irwin Allen and The Swarm (1978), I’ll have a peep at it tonight. Supposed to be one of the worst films ever made.

First 15 minutes should tell me whether it’s one of those films that’s so bad it’s good, or one of those films that’s so bad it’s unwatchable.

It’s on choob BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-lsfOdTEU

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/01/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-broadway

#=

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter
The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd

Saw a production of WforG in Edinburgh (fringe festival) over 50 yeras ago.

IIRC, I wasn’t that impressed.

Are you still waiting after all these years?

Witty Rejoinder said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/01/keanu-reeves-alex-winter-broadway

#=

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter
The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd

Saw a production of WforG in Edinburgh (fringe festival) over 50 yeras ago.

IIRC, I wasn’t that impressed.

Are you still waiting after all these years?

You’d expect so, considering…

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Talking about Irwin Allen and The Swarm (1978), I’ll have a peep at it tonight. Supposed to be one of the worst films ever made.

First 15 minutes should tell me whether it’s one of those films that’s so bad it’s good, or one of those films that’s so bad it’s unwatchable.

It’s on choob BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-lsfOdTEU

Well it’s more boring-bad than fun-bad, so I’ll leave the rest for some other time all eternity.

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Talking about Irwin Allen and The Swarm (1978), I’ll have a peep at it tonight. Supposed to be one of the worst films ever made.

First 15 minutes should tell me whether it’s one of those films that’s so bad it’s good, or one of those films that’s so bad it’s unwatchable.

It’s on choob BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-lsfOdTEU

Well it’s more boring-bad than fun-bad, so I’ll leave the rest for some other time all eternity.

Hope you noticed the disclaimer at the end: “The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation.”

Neophyte said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s on choob BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-lsfOdTEU

Well it’s more boring-bad than fun-bad, so I’ll leave the rest for some other time all eternity.

Hope you noticed the disclaimer at the end: “The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation.”

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Chuckle

Neophyte said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s on choob BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-lsfOdTEU

Well it’s more boring-bad than fun-bad, so I’ll leave the rest for some other time all eternity.

Hope you noticed the disclaimer at the end: “The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation.”

See the current chat in the “Consider” thread :)

Neophyte said:

Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s on choob BTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-lsfOdTEU

Well it’s more boring-bad than fun-bad, so I’ll leave the rest for some other time all eternity.

Hope you noticed the disclaimer at the end: “The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation.”

Japan stocks take largest dive since the Black Monday of 1987

Crazy Japanese. Green means the stock price has fallen? This is as weird as octopus porn.

I got this message on Instagram. Quite flattering, really.

In the news this AM: People are moving from hot states to cold states as the climate changes. Hot states are too hot. Cold states are not as cold now.

dv said:

I got this message on Instagram. Quite flattering, really.

I got that too.

listening various, and stokes fires now breakfasting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8sp8o0cv0
Joining the Dots – Long Covid, Viral Reactivation and #Lyme with Dr. Bruce Patterson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vp5Yf6GlOc
Long lived monocytes in spike injury (update #152)

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 6 degrees at the back door and still fairly dark outside. We are forecast a partly cloudy 14 degrees today.

Breakfast with my bushwandering friend this morning. Then probably some light weeding/gardening.

transition said:

listening various, and stokes fires now breakfasting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8sp8o0cv0
Joining the Dots – Long Covid, Viral Reactivation and #Lyme with Dr. Bruce Patterson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vp5Yf6GlOc
Long lived monocytes in spike injury (update #152)

and reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocyte

Ooh, a fog has rolled in. I’ll be walking to the bakery in the fog. Might get out some gloves.

Good morning forum. Sunny today but the kittens are enjoying the warm dispenser and my lap instead. Not much on the agenda today. Tomorrow I’ll try to go to the Monash open day with my youngest first cousin.

Earless dragon thought to be extinct, isn’t

Morning punters, track good weather fine.
Over.

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. Sunny today but the kittens are enjoying the warm dispenser and my lap instead. Not much on the agenda today. Tomorrow I’ll try to go to the Monash open day with my youngest first cousin.

Bottom of 4 deg C here with 97 relhum.

dv said:

OCDC said:

Good morning forum. Sunny today but the kittens are enjoying the warm dispenser and my lap instead. Not much on the agenda today. Tomorrow I’ll try to go to the Monash open day with my youngest first cousin.

Bottom of 4 deg C here with 97 relhum.

Min 7.5° here. Currently 11.4°.

Heading for lucky number 13 here, as we will be for some days to come.

Traces of polio – which is spread through faecal matter – were found in sewage samples collected from two sites in Gaza a month ago, indicating it may be circulating.

OCDC said:

Traces of polio – which is spread through faecal matter – were found in sewage samples collected from two sites in Gaza a month ago, indicating it may be circulating.

Now come the rolling catastrophes.
When is the rest of the world going to convince this war to end?

Another day of adjusting to The Sally Cat’s absence. I hate it.
The internet was down for hours.
A storm dumped a lot of rain.
Did a grocery order and forgot to get tissues. Luckily mr kii’s bandana hankies are plentiful.
Received another response from the local council to my email about getting the monthly bill via email.

Adjustment sucks.

Rain is good as long as it didn’t turn your house into a swamp box.

OCDC said:

Adjustment sucks.

Rain is good as long as it didn’t turn your house into a swamp box.

Melbourne weather? That’ll change soon surely?

Think bubblecar posted that he had a week of 13’s.
Mine will be a bit warmer.

Great news 🤗

Wee Isabel McNecessaryonabike has finally found
her cat “Tich” after two years, apparently the wee
rascal was found curled up next to nuclear submarine
engine at HM Naval Base Clyde , Faslane .

Isabel told a spokesperson “ It’s great to have him
back even though he doesn’t fit on the bed anymore
but makes a great night light 💡

NOTICE TO READERS !!!
The tainted quality of the picture is caused by high
levels of radiation ☢️

No Submarines were harmed during the making of
this incredible story

OCDC said:

Adjustment sucks.

Rain is good as long as it didn’t turn your house into a swamp box.

It blew in the open window above the cat tower. Gave it a nice wash. Still waiting to get a response from a local cat rescue about various cat items I want to donate to them, so at least the cat tower is freshly washed.

JudgeMental said:

Great news 🤗

Wee Isabel McNecessaryonabike has finally found
her cat “Tich” after two years, apparently the wee
rascal was found curled up next to nuclear submarine
engine at HM Naval Base Clyde , Faslane .

Isabel told a spokesperson “ It’s great to have him
back even though he doesn’t fit on the bed anymore
but makes a great night light 💡

NOTICE TO READERS !!!
The tainted quality of the picture is caused by high
levels of radiation ☢️

No Submarines were harmed during the making of
this incredible story

Incredible indeed :)

The Rev Dodgson said:

JudgeMental said:

Great news 🤗

Wee Isabel McNecessaryonabike has finally found
her cat “Tich” after two years, apparently the wee
rascal was found curled up next to nuclear submarine
engine at HM Naval Base Clyde , Faslane .

Isabel told a spokesperson “ It’s great to have him
back even though he doesn’t fit on the bed anymore
but makes a great night light 💡

NOTICE TO READERS !!!
The tainted quality of the picture is caused by high
levels of radiation ☢️

No Submarines were harmed during the making of
this incredible story

Incredible indeed :)

Gives a new dimension to the chore of ‘putting the cat out’.

captain_spalding said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

JudgeMental said:

Great news 🤗

Wee Isabel McNecessaryonabike has finally found
her cat “Tich” after two years, apparently the wee
rascal was found curled up next to nuclear submarine
engine at HM Naval Base Clyde , Faslane .

Isabel told a spokesperson “ It’s great to have him
back even though he doesn’t fit on the bed anymore
but makes a great night light 💡

NOTICE TO READERS !!!
The tainted quality of the picture is caused by high
levels of radiation ☢️

No Submarines were harmed during the making of
this incredible story

Incredible indeed :)

Gives a new dimension to the chore of ‘putting the cat out’.

gunna need a bigger cat flap.

Ian said:

Looks good.

But I’ll be off to appreciate something more classical tonight.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Looks good.

But I’ll be off to appreciate something more classical tonight.

Going to see some country and western live.

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Looks good.

But I’ll be off to appreciate something more classical tonight.

Going to see some country and western live.

T & P

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Looks good.

But I’ll be off to appreciate something more classical tonight.

Give us a hint

AussieDJ said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Ian said:

Looks good.

But I’ll be off to appreciate something more classical tonight.

Give us a hint

ACO
Bach in Parts

There’s 3 for you.

The Rev Dodgson said:

AussieDJ said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Looks good.

But I’ll be off to appreciate something more classical tonight.

Give us a hint

ACO
Bach in Parts

There’s 3 for you.

Silence and Rapture – looks like an excellent program!

AussieDJ said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

AussieDJ said:

Give us a hint

ACO
Bach in Parts

There’s 3 for you.

Silence and Rapture – looks like an excellent program!

The very one :)

I’m going to put new blades on my mower. Maybe change the sparking plug and do an oil change.

JudgeMental said:

I’m going to put new blades on my mower. Maybe change the sparking plug and do an oil change.

Have you got a set of feelers.

Peak Warming Man said:

JudgeMental said:

I’m going to put new blades on my mower. Maybe change the sparking plug and do an oil change.

Have you got a set of feelers.

BACK with nice wine and some sweet chilli relish to accompany tonight’s meatloaf & mash.

The sunset clouds looked lovely through my new sepia-tinted polarising sunglasses.

The world’s next food superpower
Farming in India should be about profits and productivity, not poverty

Jul 11th 2024

For years the Araku Valley, deep in the mountains on India’s east coast, was mired in poverty and rocked by Maoist violence. The government classifies most of its inhabitants as “particularly vulnerable tribal groups”; for generations they relied on slash-and-burn farming to scrape by. But now locals grow high-grade coffee that is sold at high prices to posh Europeans. Araku Coffee, the company that processes and markets their berries, runs cafés in fancy bits of Bangalore, Mumbai and Paris. The valley’s transformation is an agricultural success story. It is also a glimpse of what—with the right policies—the rest of rural India might achieve.

Indian agriculture has come a long way since the “ship-to-mouth” days of the 1950s and 1960s, when the country depended on food aid from abroad. It has long since become a net exporter of stuff people eat. Yet big inefficiencies persist. Although India has a third more land under cultivation than China, it harvests only a third as much produce by value, according to analysis by Unupom Kausik of Olam, an agri-business listed in Singapore. Agriculture employs almost half of all Indian workers—some 260m people—but contributes only 15% of output and 12% of exports (see chart 1). By contrast, business services such as call centres and it companies employ less than 1% of workers but produce 7% of gdp and almost a quarter of exports.

Handouts of every kind warp incentives for farmers. These giveaways weigh down production and prop up practices that degrade the land, all without making anyone much richer. Farm incomes have hovered at around one-third of non-farm incomes for decades. A study published in 2018 by the oecd, a club of mostly rich countries, found that despite huge subsidies the net effect of regulations and trade restrictions was to lower gross farm revenues by 6%.

Making even modest progress might produce outsize gains. Yields in India are lower than the global average for almost all produce. Merely raising them to the average would make India a massive power in global commodity markets: India’s excess rice production would be greater than the current global rice trade, reckons Mr Kausik. Should it raise yields to match the world’s best, India would be producing twice as much maize, three times as much cotton and eight times as much rice and pulses as is traded across borders today.

Making farmers more prosperous would also have a big knock-on effect for the rest of India’s economy. Agricultural employment figures mask huge underemployment. Pushing up incomes in the countryside would create demand for new goods and services, which would in turn create better jobs for India’s many millions of surplus farmhands. They would have the chance to earn better wages without having to decamp to the country’s booming but overcrowded cities.

Success in the Araku Valley offers hints about how to proceed. In the late 1990s the state government of Andhra Pradesh, hoping to reduce deforestation and boost incomes, supplied farmers there with fast-growing silver oak trees. A few years later they were given coffee seedlings to grow in their shade. Locals such as Kora Venkatrao, who farms three acres, grew the berries as best they could. But they often sold their produce to unscrupulous middlemen at well below the market price.

Mr Venkatrao’s fortunes changed in 2016, when he joined a co-operative run by Araku Coffee that taught farmers how to grow higher-quality berries—then bought them for unheard-of prices. His income has since increased ten-fold to over 200,000 rupees ($2,400) a year. His thatched hut has become a concrete home with two bedrooms. He has bought a motorcycle and started building up savings. Manoj Kumar, Araku Coffee’s boss, says that some 2,000 of his farmers have become rupee millionaires. His secret? “Seeing agriculture as a profit-making, revenue-making, export-earning sector.”

The problem is that this is not how successive Indian governments have approached agriculture. Policymakers are inclined to view it as a conduit for welfare. They struggle to see it as an engine of growth. During his first term Narendra Modi, the prime minister, pledged to double farmers’ incomes. Yet many of his policies have ended up working against this goal. Consider, for example, the decision in 2016 to stop recognising high-denomination bank notes that made up 86% of India’s currency by value, for fear that they were enabling corruption and tax evasion. That extraordinary experiment damaged the cash-dependent rural economy.

A sudden lockdown at the start of the pandemic, in 2020, drove millions of workers away from cities and back to farms, reversing efforts to make agriculture more efficient. That same year, Mr Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp) produced a set of sensible agricultural reforms but rammed them through parliament without consultation, setting off a year-long farmers’ protest that eventually forced their repeal.

Lately optimists have dared to wonder if the bjp—chastened by its poor performance in recent elections—might be stumbling towards a cleverer approach. Since his embarrassment at the polls Mr Modi has appointed a new agriculture minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who previously served as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, a state in central India. Under Mr Chouhan, Madhya Pradesh invested in irrigation, rural roads and warehouses. It sought to nudge farmers towards horticulture and made it easier for them to sell their produce in venues other than state-run agricultural marketplaces. All this bore fruit: the state’s agricultural gdp grew at an annual average rate of 7% between 2005 and 2023, roughly the period of Mr Chouhan’s rule, compared with 3.8% nationally.

The question now is whether Mr Chouhan can drive similar progress at the national level. The bjp’s previous, bungled attempts at reform have made large swathes of agricultural policy too toxic for the central government to tinker with. Mr Chouhan also cannot do much about the very big problem of small landholdings (the average Indian farm covers only a bit more than one hectare) and the resultant low rate of mechanisation.

But he could prioritise many other things. About half of Indian farmland has no access to water other than from the sky. India has enough cold storage for only about 10% of its perishable produce; the government reckons that up to 6% of cereals, 12% of vegetables and 15% of fruit are lost after harvest. Most of India’s agricultural exports are raw, unbranded commodities. Less than 10% of food produced in the country gets processed, compared with 30% in Thailand and 70% in Brazil. So tackling patchy irrigation and weak infrastructure, and encouraging higher-value processing, would all be profitable moves. Boosting agricultural output would support overall growth, too (see chart 2).

Some problems could be fixed with the stroke of a pen. Each year India splurges about 2trn rupees on food subsidies and nearly as much again on fertiliser subsidies, but spends just 95bn rupees on agricultural research and development. Spending on research as a share of agricultural gdp is less than 0.7%. The coming ravages of climate change all but demand greater investment: farmers will find it impossible to adapt without scientific breakthroughs.

There are also things that the government should simply stop doing. It regularly intervenes when food prices rise, for example by imposing limits on stock accumulation or by suspending futures markets. It banned exports of wheat in 2022 and most kinds of rice in 2023. All this prevents farmers from making money when prices are high and discourages traders from taking risks. It is mostly the better off who benefit: the poorest 800m Indians get free grain from the government, so changes in its price affect them less.

Mr Kumar, Araku Coffee’s boss, is about to open a second café in Paris. His company is expanding into other commodities. Many of its coffee farmers also grow pepper; the firm is encouraging people working in other parts of India to grow kidney beans and millets. But only the government has the power to truly transform Indian agriculture. The way to do that, says Mr Kumar, “is not loan waivers, it is not subsidies, it is to see how we can create an ecosystem which is conducive” to growth. In other words, to nurture conditions in which a million Arakus can grow.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/07/11/the-worlds-next-food-superpower?

JudgeMental said:

I’m going to put new blades on my mower. Maybe change the sparking plug and do an oil change.

recommend the engine be stopped for all those, worth mentioning just in case it’s not stated in the user manual

i’ll unload the wood, everyone stay seated, don’t want to die in a stampede of volunteer goodwill, be perverse wouldn’t‘t

In good news, I’m rather enjoying my Star Trek binge.

OCDC said:

In good news, I’m rather enjoying my Star Trek binge.

Splendid.

OCDC said:

In good news, I’m rather enjoying my Star Trek binge.

it’s a life Jim, but not how we know it!

I done did
unload’t
that wood
finished
could had
pretend
more of it
but no I
not a idiot

transition said:

I done did
unload’t
that wood
finished
could had
pretend
more of it
but no I
not a idiot

Well done. Have a cold beer, they’re in the fridge.

I’m watching some of the Olympic Games in Paris, France.

Crocodile 1 man 0

Peak Warming Man said:

Crocodile 1 man 0

Which of your legs did it take off?

Fungi’s Resilience and Intelligence 54 min video

OCDC said:

In good news, I’m rather enjoying my Star Trek binge.

I watched a few eps of ‘Discovery’ when it first came out but didn’t stick with it. A few days ago though I caught an ep and the constant use of a handheld camera was a bit annoying. Would give lesser souls motion sickness I reckon.

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

transition said:

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

The shop I worked in sold this sort of stuff along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

transition said:

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

I’m sipping J&B whisky from a brandy snifter as we speak.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

I’m sipping J&B whisky from a brandy snifter as we speak.

i’m typing, silent communication, non-verbal I might argue, rolling the alphabet out

I wonder, technically, if I had no internal monologue would it be speak

I guess it’s speaking of sorts

what say you, master car?

transition said:

I wonder, technically, if I had no internal monologue would it be speak

I guess it’s speaking of sorts

what say you, master car?

Strange that you put it this way.

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

I’m sipping J&B whisky from a brandy snifter as we speak.

i’m typing, silent communication, non-verbal I might argue, rolling the alphabet out

I wonder, technically, if I had no internal monologue would it be speak

I guess it’s speaking of sorts

what say you, master car?

I’ll keep my big mouth shut, except to admit a little Scottish whisky.

roughbarked said:

transition said:

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

The shop I worked in sold this sort of stuff along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

I bet there was more stuff it(the shop) didn’t sell than it did actually sell, you’re misleading me with alphabet

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

I’m sipping J&B whisky from a brandy snifter as we speak.

i’m typing, silent communication, non-verbal I might argue, rolling the alphabet out

I wonder, technically, if I had no internal monologue would it be speak

I guess it’s speaking of sorts

what say you, master car?

I’ll keep my big mouth shut, except to admit a little Scottish whisky.

I bet you’re imbibing large quantities, disguised in a modest container, probably got RSI from refilling the glass

back to my coffee

just struck me how useless would a coffee cup be without gravity, I bet with some study it would be demonstrated gravity had a lot to do with development of the cup, really it’s a gravity-assisted containment vessel

transition said:

roughbarked said:

transition said:

my reading, didn’t need a translator, all there in plain wiki speak, encyclopedic speak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snifter
“A snifter (also called brandy snifter, brandy glass, brandy bowl, or a cognac glass) is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy, and whisky.
Design
The large surface area of the contained liquid helps evaporate it, the narrow top traps the aroma inside the glass, while the rounded bottom allows the glass to be cupped in the hand, thus warming the liquor. Most snifters will hold 180–240 ml (6–8 US fl oz), but are almost always filled to only a small part of their capacity. Most snifters are designed so that when placed sideways on a level surface, they will hold just the proper amount before spilling…

A variant is called a pipe glass or pipe snifter, used for port and brandy.
Usage with beer
The attributes that have made the snifter a popular glass for brandy have also made it a preferred glass for some styles of beer, mainly those that feature complex aromas and have an ABV measure of 8% or higher, such as imperial stout, Baltic porter, barley wine, and double India pale ale”

how’s that pipe snifter

oh look coffee there to my right, still hot, I might drink that now, incorporate it, metabolize it

The shop I worked in sold this sort of stuff along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

I bet there was more stuff it(the shop) didn’t sell than it did actually sell, you’re misleading me with alphabet

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

transition said:

back to my coffee

just struck me how useless would a coffee cup be without gravity, I bet with some study it would be demonstrated gravity had a lot to do with development of the cup, really it’s a gravity-assisted containment vessel

I’ll now see the gravity assisted morsel in the cup that muscularly assisted, reaches my lips.

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

i’m typing, silent communication, non-verbal I might argue, rolling the alphabet out

I wonder, technically, if I had no internal monologue would it be speak

I guess it’s speaking of sorts

what say you, master car?

I’ll keep my big mouth shut, except to admit a little Scottish whisky.

I bet you’re imbibing large quantities, disguised in a modest container, probably got RSI from refilling the glass

It’s very easy to pour “a large one” into a snifter because it’s so wide at the base. Here’s a snap from some time ago.

roughbarked said:

transition said:

roughbarked said:

The shop I worked in sold this sort of stuff along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

I bet there was more stuff it(the shop) didn’t sell than it did actually sell, you’re misleading me with alphabet

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

dear God someone there had rigamaroles no hang on i’ve got to get a spelling…rigor mortis

postmorten rigidity, hell don’t catch that, sounds nasty

roughbarked said:

transition said:

roughbarked said:

The shop I worked in sold this sort of stuff along with a lot of other interesting stuff.

I bet there was more stuff it(the shop) didn’t sell than it did actually sell, you’re misleading me with alphabet

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

Original prices?

transition said:

roughbarked said:

transition said:

I bet there was more stuff it(the shop) didn’t sell than it did actually sell, you’re misleading me with alphabet

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

dear God someone there had rigamaroles no hang on i’ve got to get a spelling…rigor mortis

postmorten rigidity, hell don’t catch that, sounds nasty

For the life of me, God had nothing to do with it. ;)

Woodie said:

roughbarked said:

transition said:

I bet there was more stuff it(the shop) didn’t sell than it did actually sell, you’re misleading me with alphabet

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

Original prices?

Yep.

roughbarked said:

Woodie said:

roughbarked said:

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

Original prices?

Yep.

I bought a 14carat Certina for the ladywife for 90 bucks, it was probably worth $900 at the current price at the time.

roughbarked said:

transition said:

roughbarked said:

Mate, the shop still had stiff in there that had been on the shelf fifty years before, when it eventually shut the doors.

dear God someone there had rigamaroles no hang on i’ve got to get a spelling…rigor mortis

postmorten rigidity, hell don’t catch that, sounds nasty

For the life of me, God had nothing to do with it. ;)

rolls eyes

that atheism, nothing good will come of it

go to church tomorrow seek salvation

transition said:

roughbarked said:

transition said:

dear God someone there had rigamaroles no hang on i’ve got to get a spelling…rigor mortis

postmorten rigidity, hell don’t catch that, sounds nasty

For the life of me, God had nothing to do with it. ;)

rolls eyes

that atheism, nothing good will come of it

go to church tomorrow seek salvation

I’m in church every time I open my back door and walk outside.

ooo. wordle..

Good morning Holidayers. It’s minus 2 at the back door, the sky is clear, there is no wind and we’ve got the best frost we’ve had so far this year. We are forecast 14 degrees with a little cloud.

Sunday Quiz

20/50. Pretty much all guesses, except for the warrior queen.

Anyway…

buffy said:

Sunday Quiz

20/50. Pretty much all guesses, except for the warrior queen.

15/50

Even got the warrior queen one wrong.

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

Sunday Quiz

20/50. Pretty much all guesses, except for the warrior queen.

15/50

Even got the warrior queen one wrong.

5/10

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

Sunday Quiz

20/50. Pretty much all guesses, except for the warrior queen.

15/50

Even got the warrior queen one wrong.

I’m enjoying a cosy Sunday looking through issues of Yachting magazine from the first half of the 20th century.

Yachting 1907-2002

light rain, raining lightly, not heavy, not a downpour, and consistent, not intermittently inconsistent

update shortly after couple slurps and long ponder, pondering ponder, time in the imaginary Land of Ponder, top the magic far away tree today

Bubblecar said:

I’m enjoying a cosy Sunday looking through issues of Yachting magazine from the first half of the 20th century.

Yachting 1907-2002

This ne is very similar to my brother’s 38 footer.

Bubblecar said:

I’m enjoying a cosy Sunday looking through issues of Yachting magazine from the first half of the 20th century.

Yachting 1907-2002

Oh, gosh, thanks for that link, that’s going to occupy me for ages!

(have come back while having morning tea)

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

I’m enjoying a cosy Sunday looking through issues of Yachting magazine from the first half of the 20th century.

Yachting 1907-2002

This ne is very similar to my brother’s 38 footer.

ne = one

a nice coffee too might add, I make a good coffee

car he makes shit coffee, can’t even taste it, no flavor at all, no telling if it’s real or imaginary coffee, lazy bastard would deceive a person with an imaginary coffee, be wary of him, devious sort, can’t be trusted regard coffee

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

I’m enjoying a cosy Sunday looking through issues of Yachting magazine from the first half of the 20th century.

Yachting 1907-2002

This ne is very similar to my brother’s 38 footer.

Handsome vessel.

captain_spalding said:

Bubblecar said:

I’m enjoying a cosy Sunday looking through issues of Yachting magazine from the first half of the 20th century.

Yachting 1907-2002

Oh, gosh, thanks for that link, that’s going to occupy me for ages!

(have come back while having morning tea)

The scans aren’t as clear as I’d like but there’s still much of interest to enjoy.

transition said:

a nice coffee too might add, I make a good coffee

car he makes shit coffee, can’t even taste it, no flavor at all, no telling if it’s real or imaginary coffee, lazy bastard would deceive a person with an imaginary coffee, be wary of him, devious sort, can’t be trusted regard coffee

I do simple plunger coffee using good ground beans.

But these days I drink more cocoa than coffee (and more tea than either).