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Barnaby was a bean counter in St. George before he went into politics.

Zelensky has said the Americans are not happy with Ukraine striking Russia's oil refineries. Zelensky told them they are using Ukrainian built drones only, so they are free to do what they want with them. Those refineries are supplying a big proportion of the cash for putler to wage war as well as fuel for his war machine.

West of there at Cunnamulla is pretty bad as well. Rotten egg gas smell.

I think part of the idea of unarmed troops advancing into enemy fire was that they would be able to obtain a spare rifle when one of their armed comrades was hit.

I was watching a short video clip where a Ukrainian soldier was describing Russian battlefield tactics. He said they send in a first wave of low quality, poorly equipped troops first. They've intercepted Russian radio transmissions where the Russians in command refer to these troops as sheep. The sheep are accompanied by a small number of experienced troops who's job it is to identify Ukrainian defending positions then retreat, leaving the sheep to perish on the battlefield. They do this a couple of times until they have the Ukrainian positions well located. Then they work those positions with artillery before sending in experienced units. To defend against the meat assaults, the Ukrainians have no option but to expose their defending positions. The Russians divide their troops into two classes - the useful ones worth keeping and the expendable ones. Their regard for the lives of their own troops hasn't changed much since WW2. In that war when there was a shortage of weapons and ammunition, unarmed troops were sometimes forced to advance into German machine gun fire.

Marty, it sounds like you haven't tried Southwark.

Around 5 seconds per spin. It's upside down as well.

That's with the towns that get their town water supply from bores. Those that source it from the river have muddy coloured town water. It puts some of the tourists off a bit.

When I was a kid we used calgon in the bath to try to get the soap to lather in the bore water. It was in powdered form like washing powder and was like sitting on sand in the bath. It was hard water but at least it didn't smell too bad. The town water in some western Queensland towns smells like rotten egg gas and the smell stays on you after having a shower.

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By a process of elimination I found out why Google Translate detects it as Hmong. In Esrever ni hsilgne tsuj si siht, the words ni, tsuj, and siht all correspond to Hmong words.

Bearing in mind, the biggest flood we've had here came up to the bottom of those steel gates in the foreground, so quite a bit higher than the flood in the photo.

During the boom quite a few interstate buyers got caught out buying properties sight unseen. At the time it was like a shark feeding frenzy and buyers were just snapping up whatever they could get. I have next door neighbours who moved from NSW and they bought sight unseen. At the time they paid a lot more than what it was worth and didn't realise it was on a floodplain. In a big flood, it goes several feet underwater. As it's a flat block, they've had to spend a fortune on drainage and imported fill for a pad for their horses to survive in the floods. It used to be cane land and before that it was paperbark swampland. This is what they have to live with:

The Russians have shot down their own Su-35 over Sevastopol.

In my area the reason for the increase is mainly due to cashed up Victorians (and a few from from NSW) flooding into the place and driving the prices. At least the boom has slowed down now so valuations probably won't jump as much for a while. In the boom, houses were on the market for a day or two and selling much higher than the asking price due to buyers competing with offers. Now it's back to the normal three months average to sell a property. The covid lockdowns resulted in a lot of city people making a lifestyle choice to move here. That plus the comparative good value for money of real estate here. It's always been undervalued; the boom just brought it up to par with some other areas.

According to Google Translate, Esrever ni hsilgne tsuj si siht is Hmong for Esrever ni hsilgne tsuj si siht.

I've got a 5,000 gallon aquaplate tank that's just clocked up 30 years and still holding water. When I put it down, I blackjacked the bottom and around the outside joins of the rings. The tank makers run goop around the inside joins and over the exposed screw ends, but I doubled up on it to make sure. I also had a non aquaplate zincalume tank that lasted about 25 years before leaking. It will be all poly tanks from now on, but the old tin tanks have served me well. The best thing I've ever had is gravity fed water from the tanks. Not big pressure at the house but the running costs are low. It also runs about another 400 metres downhill through 1.5" poly pipe and about 300' of head at the bottom. Crack a tap there and it's almost like a gerni.

The new state government unimproved property valuations arrived today. My place increased in unimproved value by 60% which will mean a rate rise of $1,000 or around an extra $20 per week. It will be interesting to see what comes of the big rises and whether council will be under pressure to reduce the dollar rate in calculating the general rate. If it stays as is and most people get a huge rise in rate bills, it couldn't come at a worse time for the state government with an election later in the year. The opposition LNP is running on cost of living and law and order, so another hit to people's pockets is to their advantage in an election year. Surely some way of compensating the rises would be in order, otherwise the local council will be scoring an obscene windfall. The rise is no doubt a correction for the last couple of real estate boom years. It wouldn't be expected to rise by that amount every valuation.

It's almost two weeks since the local government elections and we still don't have a clear winner in the mayoral race. They must be still counting postal votes and allocating preferences. In Queensland, the state elections have compulsory preferential voting but in local government elections it's optional to mark preferences. When it's optional, not many preference votes result, so it's looking like our winner will get the job with less than 30% of the vote.

I had a job one harvest season carting grain into the silos at Toobeah from Lundavra in a Road Commander. It was a nice truck except the 250 Cummins engine was way too small. It was a White but it was red, so it was a red White.

For anyone who wants a mechanical bush turkey in their backyard, this is just the thing:

Trump's involvement with the religious sector is win/win. He gets their vote and in return they get concessions if he's elected.

Donald is selling Trump endorsed bibles.

There's a concern he might bleed votes from Biden in some crucial swing states. Trump will get all the Republican crazies and Kennedy will pick up the nutters among the Democrats. Kennedy has some serious mental health problems but that won't stop other mad people from voting for him.

I finally figured out the issue with accessing Xcrement on the mobile phone as posted above. It turned out to be very simple. On the phone, because I don't use it very often for internet access, I rarely delete the browsing history and cookies. Did that and everything's fine. The cookies were no doubt throwing up all the spam in the suggestion feed. The problem wasn't encountered on the laptop as I clean it thoroughly every day, including deletion of cookies, and have Firefox privacy settings set to not keep history.