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I can wholly recommend the Southern Hemisphere, we haven't started a single world war and looking at tripadvisor reviews, places south of the equator generally get more stars. And if you ignore much of Sth America and Africa, there are less dictators per capita.

I can envision the starting sequence for the new Swiss TV series "Cooking With @iL Dottore": The music starts : 'Lets cook"!,.... lets cook!,..... lets cook!,........ Cooking with @iL Dottore!: scene cut to @iL Dottoreslamming the door of his kitchen room. Roll end credits.

YEs THAT kind of stuff. In comparison this clip of Pte Hettie Adams back in 2022 is showing what she did tonight, at that years ANZAC-eve game. New Zealand don't play AFL but they are part of the ANZAC commemorations and the capacity crowd and the players at the MCG were as respectful in this clip as they were tonight.

I have several "What the ($*@ is that?" videos from home security cameras taken at night time.........

Re plan two, despite having a lift, which is a big plus as I said before - I've been investigating further and have come up with a massive snag (which is another word for sausage here, but in this case means a problem) Soooo - the kitchen (which I'm assuming is the room callled "Kitche" - unless thats Swedish or European or whatever for "Bathroom" - this European language is tricky from down here) - is all closed off. That is very un_Australian - knock down the walls and make the kitchen part of the open plan bit, then you can be boiling all that stuff in your Souz boiling thingy AND organising your dippity melted cheese fondoo AND still talk to your guests. Unless your guest was @polybearin which case you'd have all the lights turned off and be pretending you were out.

That'll probably be the Orb Weavers! I usually cop a face full of them on summer bin nights.

They look so huge on the wall, but once you catch them in a Chinese food container and release them outside, they always seem suddenly so little and vulnerable as they run up the garden path, hoping they wont be grabbed by Butcherbirds and so on before they make it to the cover of the grevillea or whatever. I always feel guilty letting them loose in the big scary world, having them inside is always a fun game of "I wonder where it is now" as it appears for 2 days above my telly then disappears, only to have me wondering where it'll turn up next - maybe the laundry, or on the ceiling above the toilet where I spot it at 2AM in the morning two days later. They definitely ARE natures pranksters.

This one for sure!!!!! ........it has a lift! I'd have the theme to "Are you Being Served" playing in there on a loop, that would be a fun way to go to work each day. Other than that, it has too many zimmers, and not enough bedrooms but you can get that sorted.

Theres no nasty snakes, they turn up in the wrong spot sometimes but they are nomadic and they'll usually just move on if you leave them alone. I've had maybe a dozen snakes in the backyard here - Eastern Browns, Red Belly Blacks and Tiger Snakes, and none of them have hung around for that long. I did have a Red Belly Black living in my bird aviary for a while, I'd just make sure I knew where it was every Saturday when I cleaned the aviary, it'd be under a rock or sunning itself. I had Quails in there but it never harmed them which was strange, I guess it was after mice. It went away after a month or so. Live and let live, we are blessed to have all the nutty wildlife that we have here - deadly and otherwise - , usually right in our faces.

Cosmic Psychos have a run of UK dates coming up. They started back in 1989 and played in the early '90's with Nirvana, L7, Mudhoney and those other US bands that came over here at that time to play the Big Day Out Gigs, and all cited the Cosmic Psychics as an influence on them. Eddie Vedder became great mates with the band and most indie US bands who toured here in the 90's and later ended up spending time at Ross Knights farm to hang out. I saw them at several gigs down Wollongong in the late 90's. Australian no bullsh1t rock and roll!

They have the same coloured blue school uniform that I had back in primary school . No ones parents picked us up back in those days, you walked, or you got the bus. It'd be schoolyard death by endless mockery if your parents came and picked you up, (unless you were sick).

I had a Border Collie who lived to 14, jeez he sure looked his age at the end! I also had a black and white Papillon, which everyone assumed was a miniature Border Collie and when I walked them together I'd get "Awww cute - a mummy dog and her puppy!" which definitely would have annoyed Cooper the Border Collie if he had heard it. I got Gary the Parrot about 5 years before the Papillon died at the age of 17, he (Gary) is meant to live to 40 or so which means unless I live into my late 90's he will be less pet, more family heirloom. If you want longevity in pets , parrots are the way to go.

Oh, hello!

After-school pickup hour? In that case, where are all the massive SUV's that without which children cannot travel safely from home to school and back again? I call this pic " photoshop shenanigans" !

And what about @Grizz , the most evolved of everyone? (Not AI - I got it from the internet - honest!)

Halftime at the ANZAC-eve AFL match between Melbourne and Richmond, they are going goal for goal so far, entertaining stuff. The pre-game featured the last post, as is traditional on ANZAC related matches, and the singing of both the Australian and NZ national anthem. Although NZ isnt playing, or even represented on the field other than by NZ born Dusty Martin of Richmond, they put the NZ into ANZAC so we owe them. A special Hats Off to Private Hettie Adams of the NZ army who did the singing honours for the NZ anthem, she nailed it, and singing in front of 70,000+ Aussie Rules fans at the MCG, none of whom are probably New Zealanders, would have been a huge ask. Brilliant voice, and its still nice to know that we haven't suffered from that "oversingingi-itis" that has infected US NFL games national anthem singing, where the object seems to be how many notes they can go through before they arrive at the final one. She just came in, did the job with none of that Mariah Carey style overwrought nonsense. New Zealand national anthem sung by Private Hettie Adams - 5 stars, even though I understood not a single word.

Heres my heater and its approximate location when printing. Its probably not the most economical of solutions re power consumption but there's only about 2 months of the year that I need it and I only run it for the first 30 minutes or so of each print, once the bottom layer has stuck the rest goes ok. After 5 years printing I finally discovered how to keep sticky resin fingers off of the printer cover - don't remove the plastic packing film it came wrapped in!! (wont work for the Ultra 4 with its flippy cover though....)

So that means there won't be a sudden influx of English accents among the staff on Sydney Ferries then?😉 (unlike among the staff in Sydney Emergency Departments.. ) Actually, just looked up deckhand pay scales on Sydney ferries, turns out its not too shabby given its a government award rate - average base salary is $78,637 (£41,000). Thats for a 38 hour week, any extra hours attracts overtime, pushing the average to £46,000 to £54,000. Plus they apparently get 10 weeks annual leave. The annual leave attracts a holiday leave loading of an additional 17%. And they get to spend the day chugging backwards and forwards on Sydney Harbour, taking pretty young things to Watsons Bay, Manly and so on. I'd be in it! (I dont' think public transport in NSW has ever made a profit but then that's not what public transport is meant to be about..)

OOoooh, political.... Unless you are referring to the Snake House at Taronga Zoo, which would be the @polybear solution..

Smoke from a hazard-reduction burn in the BLue Mountains to the west is probably no good for the lungs but has led to a gorgeous sunset last night, and this mornings sunrise was epic too, starting dark red, then pink then through to orange. I couldn't get outside to get a photo because Gary The Parrot ws on my shoulder and wouldn't get off, but the Sydney Live webcam caught a bit of the orange stage and is a more interesting view so it'll have to do instead. The sun is rising out of shot on the left hand side of the photo so you don't get the full effect unfortunately. Hmmm, some cloud, that's disappointing, the last few days have been lovely!

Not quite correct - both prosecution and defence gave their opening statements and the first witness got 30 minutes of questioning by the prosecution prior to the adjournment at 12;30PM, which may be where the 30 minutes figure came from.

When and where I grew up, everyone said that about Khe Sanh by Cold Chisel!

If the padlock isnt too big the two-spanner trick works pretty well I've found, on the occasions I've lost the key. For bigger locks maybe use bigger spanners!

A 7.09 is pretty quick but honourable mention to GMKILR, a street-legal Ford Falcon ute with the mighty 6 cylinder Barra motor that does high 7's, and it is road registered so he can legally drive it back home afterwards and take stuff to the tip on the way. In comparison a Mclaren P1 takes 9.8 seconds.

Last years Mulletfest was won by a blow-in from the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-67613617