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Or you download a spirit-level app and it pops up a box saying it needs to access your camera, photos, contacts, files and location.. For a spirit level app? I wish there was a "tell 'em they're dreamin'!" response option. Uninstalled....

This guy has the same issue, looks like it wont work (Starting at the 11:10 mark if it doesn't jump there already). Although I live in Sydney it can get cold downstairs in my printing room in winter - down to 17 or so. I bought a small heater from the supermarket for about 25 dollars and sit that beside the printer when I need to print at those times.

Does anyone remember Miss Marilyn's Super Flying Fun Show, a channel 9 kids morning show from the early 1970's? It had Rod Hull who played some bloke called Caretaker Clot, from memory. Maybe it was a Sydney only show.....

I was in the Eastern Suburbs yesterday and took the opportunity to visit Waverley cemetery. It is perched on one of the headlands south of Bondi and the brilliant white of the marble monuments just glisten against the south Pacific ocean backdrop If I had to die one day , I'd like to be buried here! It was a bit cloudy, apologies for that.

Just need a bit more practice to knock a couple of points off then you can get your Canberra citizenship. Canberra, Australia is the global city with the best Wordle average: 3.58 guesses. The war memorial is brilliant, amongst heaps of other stuff it has G for George lancaster and it has not succumbed to the @iL Dottore greatest museum fear of wokeness by for instance having "War is Bad!" fluff exhibits or saying sorry to the Japanese Imperial Army for forcing them to invade everywhere down here and for making them try to kill us all etc. .But even so you can only go there so many times.... Other than that you just drive round and round looking at the government buildings while practicing your roundabout rules - and your wordle skills for fear of being deported back there again, a wordle reject.

For a couple of weeks I watched this UK blokes videos of his travels down here to Perth and Sydney. His main aim seemed to be to find fish and chips that was like what you get in the UK. Which was never going to work because we have different fish, and we don't do mushy peas and sliced white bread with it. He found a place in WA called The British Chippie run by an expat which got his highest rating, but the whole concept was ridiculous, fish and chips here is whiting or flathead or barramundi served with chips and a salad, none of which he tried. IT is NOT cod and chips and mushy peas with bread and butter and a cup of tea, so he wrote us off as a decent place to get fish and chips because he couldn't get it like he could back home. In revenge, if I ever go to the UK I shall waste my time trying to find the perfect Aussie hamburger with beetroot, bacon, fried egg, and a pineapple ring in it served with a Moove chocolate flavored milk and whinge for 5 videos that I cant find it and therefore the UK can't do hamburgers. Embrace the local culture rather than expect to find yours everywhere you go!

You can order chips with it if that helps.

The bit of coast from Cairns to Cooktown, is possibly the loveliest place in the world!, or this bit of the world at least.* I've spent many happy weeks up there in the Daintree rainforest. *Warning: may include cyclones, crocodiles, box jellyfish, Irukandji jellyfish, Sea snakes, sharks and overseas youtube influencers filming themselves.

Jeez, who's testicles were they?!?!

Personally I am not a seafood fan but I still admire it when I see it served up. The "Seafood platter" would be our version of the "Full English Breakfast" as far as how it is held in reverence or whatever by our respective societies. . The seafood platter is a menu option for dinner time rather than breakfast, best ordered when sitting on the deck of an RSL or surf club in a coastal town, watching the diehard evening surfers ride the waves before the sun sets and the night sharks get them.

When I was much younger my parents had an Irish Setter that would sit by the tea table watching us eat. Her drool would gradually descend from each side of her mouth and eventually join up so it looked like she was wearing a drool stethoscope. Then she would shake her head and cover us and our food in dog spit.

Same thing happens here from those who have never been here - we eat mainly bbq'd Witchety grubs and pies or something apparently. Actually being a hugely multicultural country so close to Southeast Asia and the South Pacific and blessed with the ability to locally grow every type of fresh food our restaurants are brimming with diversity and authentic flavours as well as great fusion combinations.

I've never had to suffer through a job interview, all my job moves have been via people recommending jobs to me, or letting me know there was an opening and then me calling them up and asking what they are offering, or just getting offered a job via someone in another company I was dealing with approaching me. Then once I got a high enough security clearance the world that I work in was my lucrative oyster. Its easier to teach someone who already has the right clearance the required skills, than it is to get a clearance for a skilled up person, so as a bonus I get lots of free training. I'd have no time for sitting in front of some idiot asking me what my aspirations were or whatever, or why I didnt talk with the right stupid sounding plumy bullsh1t accent or why my tie wasn't stripy enough, - or why I dont even own a tie, come to that. Actually, I don't think any of that would apply here unless you were going for a job at Rugby Australia, or maybe it applies in banking or when joining our version of the conservative party Here it would be more like "What footy team do you go for?... What, a Manly supporter?! F ^%# off before I call the cops!" Life is too short to sit through all that nonsense and there's heaps more opportunities and much better paid jobs down here than what those corporate interviewy types have to offer.

I had Cooper the Border Collie, he would eat everything, his epic most moment was when I took him for a walk and he dashed off into the scrub and came back chewing on something which once I'd finally wrestled it off him turned out to be a full packet of jelly snakes. I read somewhere later that that kind of confectionery isn't compatible with dogs but he came through it in one piece. Some foods are fatal to parrots too so I have to be careful with what treats I give Gary The Parrot and Buttons The House Budgie. . Avocado apparently is like Kryptonite to them, and mushrooms and onions are apparently also a no no. Gary doesnt help by yelling out "YUM?!!" every time I open the fridge because I then have to explain to him why the slice of pizza or whatever I'm heating up is out of bounds for him.

Woah there, Mr Rent A Kill! We only need to repel them, not obliterate everything in the vicinity, and for that a consumer level insect repellant is completely adequate. True story! when I went to Trever Grice's 9th birthday party at a picnic ground at Warragamba dam in 1973 , his mum - annoyed at the swarms of flies that descended on the food, sprayed Aerogard (a popular insect repellant here, ad slogan "Aveagoodweekend - remember the Aerogard") over the table, she tried to avoid the food but there would have been drift and overspray since she didn't mask the plates off first. Lacking an authentic polaroid picture taken on the day, I've invoked AI (but only because Grizz did first), to illustrate the situation. It misrepresents the number of kangaroos, there were 3 hanging around from memory. They have learned to hang around picnic areas, apparently solely in order get their photo taken, because they never seem to be interested in the food.

Plus, that thing he did with his finger, we'd all wait for it!

Oh well, at least you got to stand where he did. He was much loved here, something about him just endeared him to the Australian supporters and the players. If Dickie Bird gave one of ours out it didn't seem as bad. The same thing applied for Alan Knott, the UK wickie in the mid-seventies, we had a lot of time for him, with his gloves and floppy hat he looked a bit like a flowerpot man. Derek Randall too springs to mind, his cunning strategy of being humourous won us over, they'd have both been welcome in the Australian team!

Ben obviously needs to broaden his horizons!

And the increasing risk of natural disasters. The 2022 floods cost the insurance companies here $5.87 billion. The 2020 bushfires, $2.32 billion. Increased premiums reflect both the recouping of payouts like that as well as building up the kitty for the next one.

LOL, ITs half over.. And Collingwood won.

That doesnt cover the judge apparently....

All good here now, they went months ago - apparently the 4 legged freeloaders didn't pay their agistment fees which is typical of horses so the paddock is empty. It is also free of all the eyesores that horses bring with them, blankets chucked over fences, feed bins and troughs, abandoned horse floats. Cows are much neater, and unlike horses they add something to the landscape, like the ones I overlook behind.

Not recommended legal strategy - when about to be tried on numerous charges, publicly call the judge who will decide your sentence if convicted a "whackjob".

Tasmanian Huon pine has a very high oil content, methyl eugenol, which renders it impervious to insects, and it is waterproof. It grows only in the Southwest forests of Tasmania and is not actually a pine and is the only member of its family. It grows extremely slowly, averaging just 1 millimetre in girth per year, so is not viable as a plantation timber although specimens have been found that are 2,500 years old so it could be a very long term proposition. The felling of green Huon Pines stopped completely in the 1970’s after a consensus that it was neither sustainable nor prudent to cut down trees that were 1000 years old. However, a careful stockpiling operation was begun when trees were felled and collected prior to the flooding of several valleys to create dams for hydro electric schemes. For decades these logs were tied into huge rafts and left to float unperturbed on the water until needed. The stockpile created when Lake Gordon was flooded in 1972 still supplies the majority of logs released for use each year. Only 3 sawmills are licensed to process the logs. The retrieval of stumps left over from old logging is another source of salvage timber and led to the discovery of tons of ancient buried Huon pine logs, some dated at 38,000 years old and still intact despite being buried in the damp earth all that time. In addition, perfectly millable logs are being recovered from the bottom of Macquarie Harbour where they were lost due to capsizes and mishaps when it was being cut down and transported by convicts in the late 1700's and early 1800's. It also smells amazing when cut or worked.

Did you do the Dickie Bird Dismissal Finger in tribute?