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I had a quiet ANZAC day, and the weather today is as good as it was yesterday so like most of the place I'm taking today off too. Not a cloud in the sky and 22 forecast, although last nights 8 degrees was chilly. In footage to bring a tear of appreciation to the eye of @Gwiwer, Collingwoods Jamie Elliot took the Mark Of The Year So Far in yesterdays ANZAC Day match. When you catch the ball from a kick its a Mark, when its a spectacular mark it becomes a "Skeccy". This is one of the best Speccies for a long time!

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" !