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I never even felt it! I was sleeping the sleep of the just, warm and comfortable.

This Tik-Tok video is bloody hilarious, watch it right through.....

That's because FB has been tracking what you're looking at on your computer - even though they won't let you in!!

It wouldn't take long for a smart animal to learn where to press it down so they could step right over it! Cows will lean on a fence until it falls over!

Sir Michael Hill, of the jewellery design fame, has passed on at age 86. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/michael-hill-dies/105586068

We did the Corroboree Billabong croc tour in 2012, it's scary to see 4.7M crocs eating a full-sized water buffalo - on the land!

We've had good rains since the middle of July and Perth is already over its July average at 174mm (the average is 172.9mm). The farmers are smiling, the good rains have spread widely throughout the Wheatbelt, except for the far Northern and Eastern regions, which are still light on rain quantities. Overall, it's shaping up to be at least an average season, and if we get good rains in August and good finishing rains in September, the potential is there for an above-average cropping season. Some areas on the South and S.E. coastal strip, are actually too wet, now - so the aerial urea applicators are making a killing. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/wa-farmers-rejoice-over-double-digit-rainfall/105578990

Only in Australia, could you get a big croc stuck under your ute, when you were crossing a waterway!! 😄 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/nt-video-shows-crocodile-stuck-under-vehicle-cahills-crossing/105585016

An 86-year-old man went to his doctor for his quarterly check-up. The doctor asked the man how he was feeling, and the 86-year-old said, "Things are great, and I've never felt better! I now have a 20-year-old bride who is pregnant with my child. What do you think about that, doc?" The doctor considered the question for a minute, and then began to tell a story. "I have an older friend, much like you, who is an avid hunter and who never misses a season. One day he was setting off to go hunting. In a bit of a hurry, he accidentally picked up his walking cane instead of his gun." "As he neared a lake, he came across a very large male beaver sitting at the water's edge. He suddenly realized he left his gun at home, and so, he couldn't shoot the magnificent creature. Out of habit he raised his cane, aimed it at the animal as if it was his favorite hunting rifle, and yelled 'Bang Bang'. Miraculously, two shots rang out, and the beaver fell dead." "Now, what do you think of that?" asked the doctor. The 86-year-old replied, "Logic would strongly suggest that someone else pumped a couple of rounds into that beaver." The doctor replied, "My point exactly."

There's a good joke about that, I'll add it to the funnies.

Geez, that old bloke obviously owns a dozen coal mines, and his political views are well to the Right of Ghenghis Khan. I bet he reckons all Greenies should be hunted down and shot on sight, too!

We only genuinely wanted to secede once - in 1934 - but we have threatened to secede several times since - unless you're nicer to us. Oh, and we nearly didn't join in with Federation, too! We were producing all the countrys gold, back then - and so many Victorians flooded in looking for that gold, we had a name for them - "T'othersiders". I don't think many Tasmanians have left Tasmania, but I've known a few West Aussies who went to Tasmania and stayed. Cheap houses were the attraction back then, but I think that's changed now, too.

Octave, he should sell that little crawler to the Ukrainians, fitted with a remote control, so they can get their explosives or cameras right up close to the Russians.

The spout is rotted out, the minerals in the water react with the poor quality brass in the tap spout, and this etches out the metal, and creates pinholes in it. I have to replace our sink mixer every couple of years, it does the same thing. You can't fix them, or buy parts for them, just buy a new sink mixer, they're only about $35 - and they're just about all made in China, we make only minimal amounts of tapware in Australia today. You can buy Methven for lots more money, the Methven stuff is made in NZ, but the Methven stuff is horribly expensive. Phoenix, Brodware, Astra Walker, Faucet Strommen, and Sussex are made here, but are "exotic" in their pricing, too. The Estilo, Mondella, Caroma, Dorf and a few other brands are all made overseas, in China and Malaysia. They have a warranty period of between 1 and 2 years. I bought a Methven shower rose head with adjustable arm about 3 years ago, and the pipe on the arm rotted out, and developed pinholes, and sprayed all over the shower. I pulled it off, and found it was made out of a cheap-arse really thin piece of brass pipe. Then I studied up and found out Methven have a lifetime warranty! So I contacted the Methven agent here and told them my sob story, and sent them photos of the arm. In the best fashion, we'd lost the receipt - but I had the original box it came in, so I gave them photos of that, too. They hummed and hah'ed, and said by law, a receipt is required to claim (which is correct). So they thought about it for about a month, then said they'd replace it, as an act of grace. I waited about another 6 weeks, and was getting ready to contact them, when a parcel arrived. It contained a whole new shower arm, including the adjustable pivot ends (not just the pipe) - and this replacement unit was made out of a MASSIVE piece of brass, with the setup weighing about 2kgs!! I was amazed, and convinced they'd sent the wrong part. But I waited a week and heard nothing, so I thought I'd try fitting it up. It fitted perfectly to the old shower head, and looks a million dollars. The stunning part is - we paid $117 for the original shower head and arm - but the same part number is still available at Bunnings, and it's now $265! They must have lost a lot of money on warranty claims and are now making up for it! I have to say, the new shower arm looks like it would last the average persons lifespan.

*Queenstown - sorry about the spelling error, my proofreading needs to improve.

Nomadpete wants a meteorological instrument that predicts when it's going to stop raining for him, for at least half an hour. 😄 I can recall a bloke telling me how he worked at Queentown, and it rains so much there, that any time the sun came out for a few hours, workers would knock off and go for a picnic, just to enjoy a couple of hours of sunshine!

Trump is only interested in Trump, and making himself richer at every turn. He's corrupted the position of the U.S. Presidency into an extension of Trump Inc. businesses. Never read a Bible in his life, but sells them to Christian Fundamentalists at $75 a pop - when every Christian organisation in the world will give you a Bible for free. My Father was a member of The Gideons, they distribute Bibles to anyone and everyone in the world, for free. Trump would know nothing about giving things away for free, he wants to be paid handsomely for every single thing he does - and the suckers and losers who love him and think he's God, continue to fork over millions to him, so he can continue to shaft them ruthlessly, while they think it's Love. He's a grub, and a lying, BS-ing misogynistic one at that. If he hates Socialism so much, why does he reckon Putin is such a great bloke? It's because he loves the way Putin has suppressed every bit of opposition to him, so he can rule like an Emperor. Donny can only dream of doing that, but he threatens every lawmaker that proposes to stop his plans.

They had a fox-shooting weekend in Feb 2019 in Boyup Brook, W.A., and the final tally was a total of 705 foxes, 170 rabbits, 18 cats, and 2 pigs. I think there were about 30 or 40 shooters. The local farmers organised it, as they were sick of losing hundreds of lambs every month to foxes.

In an ironic turn of events, heavy rain has come with the hay runners, to the extent that some farms are now too wet to get the trucks into them - so the hay will be delivered to other points in S.A. This rain may turn out to be the point in time, where this dreadful S.A. drought ended. Here's hoping. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-27/hay-convoy-delivering-drought-relief-reaches-eyre-peninsula/105576844

Sharp eyes, there, men! My eyesight must have gone, doing all that study for the Roads Scholarship. 😄

We're on the receiving end of another large cold front and big rain band, which has produced another very welcome 10mm of rain between 7:00AM and 9:00AM this morning. There's a lot more to come, according to the BOM, but it has stopped raining for the moment (9:30AM). I went up to my block in the Wheatbelt yesterday just to check on things, and it was still bitterly cold. The area got down to below -2° the night before. I was walking around the yard at 10:30AM, and came to an open-topped crate that has a tarp draped over it, which always collects water. I looked at the water and it looked a little opaque. I thought, "That's ice, still in there!" Sure enough I reached into the pool and pulled out a large sheet of ice, which was still about 3mm thick!! It broke in half, but the piece I'm holding is still about 300x500mm. And yes, I'm still wearing my well-insulated mechanics gloves!

C. I know this is right, because I'm a Roads Scholar.

That's simply careless driving on the truck drivers part. There's no excuse for rolling a loaded truck, truck drivers are supposed to be professionals. It also appears this hay truck in the rollover, is not part of the W.A. convoy.

Ahem ... the "100 cattle lost annually to crocs", is just from ONE station! The cattle losses are in the thousands across the nation. Here's a good Yahoo article about them. https://au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-fishermans-confronting-crocodile-photo-reflects-hundred-thousand-dollar-issue-074455723.html

One of the things that gets me, is I have yet to see a properly-instituted "cost VS benefit" study done on the principle of letting crocs breed uncontrolled. They eat a LOT of fish - and excellent eating quality fish, too, such as Barramundi - thus depriving the humans of a substantial amount of good quality, high value food product. Then there's the amount of valuable cattle taken by crocs - which is considerable, by all reports. That's more good quality food out of the humans food demand. There seems to be a generally increasing belief trend amongst Queenslanders (and some Territorians too, no doubt), that croc numbers are making life a lot more dangerous for humans, and seriously impacting on the humans enjoyment of the waterways and waterholes of the North, and impacting on recreational fishing. Against that, there's obviously some major value in harvesting wild crocodile eggs (which appears to have little effect on their ever-increasing numbers), and some tourism value in seeing crocs in the wild. However, the only document I can find is a very "pro-Croc" document, the NT "Wildlife Trade Management Plan for the Saltwater Crocodile", which effectively just outlines all the NT laws around the protection of crocs (both wild and farmed). https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/env/pages/e85c86ad-0af5-40ad-b07b-99a27eed17e6/files/nt-saltwater-crocodile-mgt-plan-2016-20.pdf Here is the Qld Parliaments Report on Katters "Crocodile Control and Conservation Bill 2025". I believe the Qld Parliaments Report and Katters Bill are both deficient - and substantially more wild crocodile research, producing "pro" and "con" views on culling, backed by all the evidence and factors involved, with regard to how significant the crocodile problem is, is required. Too much of the consideration today appears to hinge completely on how good we are at conserving wild crocodile numbers, and little consideration is given to the possible benefits of reducing their numbers. https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-Committees/Committees/Committee-Details?cid=274&id=4504