[KLhdfskja]

Morning all. Fine drizzle here. Hope it's better tomorrow, I have a funeral to attend and I have to drive two hour to get there.

Morning Mr. D

Sorry to hear you have to drive under such circumstance (the funeral, not so much the weather).

[seodiary]

My uncle (Dad's sister's husband) passed away the day after ANZAC Day. He was old and very crook.

[sniskelsowwef]

Morning Mr. D

Sorry to hear you have to drive under such circumstance (the funeral, not so much the weather).

yeo. go well, geoff d. and I am outside here now for an early hour or so

[pipojambo]

Morning all.

Hectic here.
Mums hip replacement today, packing for the WA trip.

[seodiary]

All the best with that. Hip replacements aren't all that scary these days. They have you up and around within a couple of days.

[sniskelsowwef]

hey wataday, are you heading anywhere near "past ADL"?
Someof us have been known to duck out to catch a cuppa with scribbly friends as they go past.

I'll pop back later to check up on you guys

[HawksBurnDown]

9 mm dropped as the front passed over with a big lightning display, early this morn.

Morning all.

[KLhdfskja]

9 mm dropped as the front passed over with a big lightning display, early this morn.

Morning all.

Mornin' Mr. Barked. The wet stuff that you received is moving over our way quite quickly. Bummer actually 'coz I'm 'sposed to be going to a lunchtime BBQ in town (we might just get away with it).

[66paptroump]

G'day, Scottie. Are you settling in to the forum? It's not so bad after a while.

They have been investigated. Researchers even know the source of the toxin --- it's produced by beetles that the bird eats.


Edited to add: Geoff types faster.

Edited again: And so does Scottie. Now I look insensitive!

Sorry I left so quickly last night. I have a xouple of days before we go up to Queensland to visit our friends. First time and it is rare that we even go on holiday. I have to prepare for my son to look after the animals. It is so hard to forsee all of their needs (both pets and son and new wife)
no Helix you are not insensitive, and last night I fell asleep while I was here on the computer OMGoodness how will I stay awake up there.

[66paptroump]

Scottie, this is a quiz thread. (Not that you'd be able to tell from the title!) If you can answer Geoff's question, you get to set your own.

now I feel stupid,what else is happening here.. better findout before I post next

[66paptroump]

I don't think anyone but me would be interested in this, but this is a Google Maps link to the proposed location of one of the SAM batteries for the London Olympics. (It would liven up the pole vaulting no end.) It's part of the old Bryant & May factory complex, which is now fancy apartments. The only reason I link to it at all, is that it's very close to where I used to live. And I all know you're desperate for that information.

The putative SAM site is the complex on the right, with the black tiled roofs. Where I lived is in one of the complexes on the far left with the dark grey roofed buildings running NW-SE and the light grey roofed buildings running SW - NE or thereabouts. Nowadays, they are all genteel and called 'Lacey Mews', although there weren't any stables in the area. It was all slums and housing estates back in my day.

*tugs forelock, calls everyone guv'nor and starts singing about being a chimney sweep*

not that I am not interested but more like I don't understand- please explain

[66paptroump]

-maube I need not understand. Your roofs are not near my roof 9-)

[seodiary]

It's all about the security arrangements for the London Olympics, Scottie. Surface to air missile on high points, including apartment blocks.

[mloversia]

is watching the noisy miners swoop up under the eaves, and pluck spiders from their webs , and wishes she lived alone , so she could have lots of spidee webs, and skinks squeezing under the doors , and , and ...

[HawksBurnDown]

is watching the noisy miners swoop up under the eaves, and pluck spiders from their webs , and wishes she lived alone , so she could have lots of spidee webs, and skinks squeezing under the doors , and , and ...

You don't have to and won't be living alone.. for the above scenario.

[DexOnenlyCymn]

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Greetings Earthlings...

Going to the Art Gallery for a talk on the Biennele.

Parrots are fit as fiddles!

Painting hard.

[seodiary]

X-ray and ultrasound booked in this arvo, to see what has gone wrong with this bloody knee.

[sniskelsowwef]

You lot have been busy again

I am just back in from the weeding work.

Today is more of a "well I hope this is worth it one day" than an "it is satisfying" one.
There is no particular reason for it being one rather than the other; generally I can call up the "satisfying" feelings one, but today it isn't working

oh well ... by going down provisioned and in ALF I have been able to do a really steady big heap of stuff ... what's the time now ...1:00PM ... so about 6 hours ' worth ... with a couple of breaks (one of them a good half hour long while I caught up with a friend talking about Watson and little Albert, Skinner and Co and then Dewey blahblahblah so that was a good off topc spell. We got onto the Dionne quins and then the Sara Quads and how the State gets into family stuff ... ideology driven stuff of the science that informed those interventions (Canada particularly) I was glad to have a yarn about all that which made my paid-for-work-life so interesting.
H and M are staying overnight here, so now I have to see if I can find a floor space big enough for them to sleep on!

[sniskelsowwef]

One for Squeezebabe


http://pinterest.com/pin/55309901643152470/

[eocavrWM]

Well, the power was out for a few hours this morning. But I did learn something very valuable from this --- Gallery 5 cafe in Atherton is on the hospital grid, so they can keep serving coffee. (I wish I'd know this when Yasi came through.)