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A couple of examples of photos from my iPhone 6.

Last Monday we got the keys to the building the council has offered us as a temporary (possibly 5 years) location till our own made-to-measure shed is built. It was previously occupied by a pigeon racing club, but has been unused for about 8 months. The electricity has been cut off so there are no lights, the lighting coming from large skylights. The place looks like a bit of a dump at present with a bit of work needed to get it up to speed.

Kitchen

To be converted to workshop

Machine shop (has concrete floor.

Lunch/meeting/lounge area. Old honour boards to be removed. This area has a covered skylight.

I tried uploading a couple of videos, but the file size was too big, or the file type was not compatible.

24 minutes ago, octave said:

As I understand it these wage increases do not change what the government is paying for the project.  These wage increases were set by the Fair Work Commission which is a federal body, not a state body. 

Regardless of who "sets' them, who ends up paying them? The contracters out of their profits? Where do they come from?

Ever been to pick up your car and you get a long-winded explanation of the work carried out to justify the cost? Well …………

Octave, you are always on about the utopia in New Zealand. Have a look at this, from New Zealand radio. Think again about the Voice referendum.

The nightmare and disaster with the Vic Labor party continues unabated.

With the budget debt blowout, they are getting rid of health sector workers when the system is at breaking point, postponing recognition of paramedics when ambulance ramping is rampant and waiting times are costing lives, and at the same time paying record salaries and bonuses to consultants who get it wrong anyway.

Now workers on the 'big build' tunnels have been given pay rises to more than $300,000 p.a., PLUS  underground allowance PLUS living away from home allowance twice the average flat rental.

My mate has a Samsung phone, but is a tech illiterate, so is always cursing it. Wants to go back to his old flip phone. My first phon was a Nokia flip phone. My wife was given an Apple iPhone 6 when my son upgraded. Later he upgraded again, and gave her his old phone, so I inherited the iPhone 6. I find it perfect for what I want. Use bluetooth so I can hear it ring even if I'm in another room, it integrates with my smart watch, and takes great photos and videos, nearly as good as my Lumix digital camera. I can even take a photo on my phone using my smart watch. Set up the camera, select Camera on the watch, and shake my wrist to operate the shutter. I see no need to upgrade to a phone costing in excess of $700.

Sorry Octave, when I lived in Sydney I didn't see any multi-lingual street signs like, say Townsville has. Again, call me racist if you like, but a lot of Asians refuse to learn English, let alone aboriginal. Just watch Highway Patrol on TV. Our suburbs are becoming about 75-80% Asian now. Our street has 42 houses, of which about 30 have Asian occupants. There are more Asian supermarkets than Australian.

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

full cost of all the name changes to Aboriginal names

How are they going to translate the aboriginal names to Chinese/Japanese  for all those towns, particularly in Qld, which have dual language signs?

Melbourne Cup winner Gunsynd was known as the "Gunda-windy Grey".

5 hours ago, old man emu said:

Goonoo Goonoo

Pronounced Gunner Gunoo.

Worked with a guy who came from up near there, at Wallabadah (Wolla Budah).

Industry insider Dan Ufer has urged drivers to "reduce your risk of being at fault" in any carpark fender bender with one helpful tip, saying drivers should always reverse into a parking spot. Why? Because reversing out with limited vision could increase the chance of a collision and in a two car prang, the reversing driver is always deemed responsible.

"It’s best practice to reverse park into a car park because if you’re reversing, you’re 100 per cent always at fault," the Queenslander explained.

On 10/03/2020 at 9:17 PM, old man emu said:

Who hasn't been booked for doing 50 in a school zone at 3:45 pm?

There is a road at the end of our street which runs past a secondary school. The speed limit is 40 kph, 24/7. Supposedly because kids might be going the the basketball building or sports grounds at any time. The street also has speed humps, roundabouts or chicane.

The Facebook post said the photographer used 18 cameras and waited 5 weeks to get the reflection just right.

Photo No. 1, at the top.

Van Houten has now been released, aged 73.

Reilly went to trial for armed robbery. The jury foreman came out and announced, 'Not guilty.'

'That's grand!' shouted Reilly. 'Does that mean I can keep the money?'