Crikey it’s wet

[red750]

Only the slightest sprinkling of rain today, but it didn't get hot. Quite a bit of sunshine.

[onetrack]

Just wait - next week, you'll be turning on the A/C full blast.

 

30°C here today, the forecast is for 33°C tomorrow and 34°C on Tuesday, then dropping steadily all the rest of the week.

 

Edited November 9 by onetrack

[facthunter]

You Live in the WRONG Place. Plant Cacti and big rocks. . Nev

[onetrack]

I live in the best place in Australia, Nev, and I have no desire to live in any of the Eastern States. I have lived in Sydney for 7 mths (in the Army) and 3 mths at Puckapunyal. Nothing makes me want to return to either of those places to live. Give me warmth over cold any day. And I like our wide open spaces, and the finest, uncongested beaches in Australia.

[spacesailor]

I have found the " outback " too cold at night ! .

The East Coast stays warmer longer into the night so I don't need that big bombfire ( Dresden 1945 ) that most travellers have before bedtime .

spacesailor

Edited Monday at 10:27 PM by spacesailor

[facthunter]

That Post was Meant for OME, ot. I like the Victorian HIGH Country,  Mt Hotham Mt Buffalo,the Grampians.   Lakes Entrance and the Coast anywhere in Victoria and lot's of the Murray. Nev

[pmccarthy]

I am in Vic temporarily, last 47 years, always meant to go back to NSW.

[spacesailor]

My wife & I are 'temporarily ' in this house .

I always said " a few year's then move elsewhere ". 

My grandaughter says " it's home base " just incase !.

spacesailor

[nomadpete]

A long time ago, I said "Home is where you hang your hat".

 

Remember, the only home you really own, is your body.

 

I never did understand why some folk believe ther is anything sacred about the place you were born.

[onetrack]

I've been in this house for 35 years and I never ever dreamed I'd still be here after all this time. Previously, the longest I stayed in any one place was 13 years.

[red750]

I've been in this house 46 years and won't move anywhere unless I require palliative care. Don't have to worry about interest, commissions, inflation on house prices, et al. Moving costs money.

 

Back to the weather. Rained again most of today, with a few bursts of brilliant sunshine. My daughter said she remembered from her pamphlet delivery days, if it was raining and you could see blue sky, it meant it was going to rain harder within 30 minutes.

[facthunter]

Supposed to be Overcast. Lovely SUNSHINE NOW. 0830. Off to the M shed for an edifying experience. Nev

[spacesailor]

Sydney !

Had to water the garden last night .

Lots of plants wilting,  so out with the hose, hope they 

Manage with those added poisons in their water .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

The chlorine is there to control the e coli. Nev

[old man emu]

Sydney in drought?????? I don't believe it.

[facthunter]

I don't either.  IN DOUBT, Maybe ? Who can afford to LIVE there?  Nev

[spacesailor]

Two neighbours are at this time watering their gardens. 

It must dry ,  

spacesailor

[facthunter]

Sydney has a desal plant. WHY not water the Gardens? IF you are Brain dead. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Been bucketing it down all day today. As we're on top of a hill, we are OK, but the village roads have standing water everywhere. And to top it off, we have found our roof has a leak again! F! And the builder's phone is diverting straight to voicemail. 

 

First world problems, actucally. But it is still, F!'ed

 

But I still feel OK.. I get my motorbike on Monday.  Have I mentioned that, yet?

 

Forecast for Monday is stuill sunny, though the surrounding days forecast have become decidely worse

 

Quite the opposite woudl be the case if I have an aircraft booked!

 

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Jerry_Atrick

[nomadpete]

6 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

But I still feel OK.. I get my motorbike on Monday.  Have I mentioned that, yet?

My crystal ball predicts rain, rain, rain!

[onetrack]

Oh, the black ice is going to be fun, for this coming Honda riding! And watch out for the oil spills on the roads! My ideas around travelling in severely inclement weather, involves being cosy inside a warm, waterproof steel cage! But I'm old and soft, and my motorbike riding days are long gone.

[facthunter]

Oil on  wet Roundabouts Wet leaves and sand/gravel washed over  roads and using OLD hard tyres. Frosts in cool patches in the early morning. Water on Stainless Brake discs. Wet tram lines. Visor fogging up as well as the Usual way "TIN TOPS treat you. Nev

[onetrack]

I've never forgotten a hapless scooter rider many years ago (over 20), when I was waiting at an angled T-junction to turn right in my Holden ute, which was my transport back then.

The angled T-junction had sharper angle to my left, and a lesser angle to my right. As I waited for a gap in the traffic to pull out, a scooter rider came belting along on my right, and indicated a left turn into the road I was waiting on.

 

He zipped around the modest-angle intersection, leaning over in great style. Unfortunately, he hadn't read the road. Trucks had been hauling sand over that intersection, and a nice coating of sand covered the bitumen.

I looked left as he was cornering, then as I looked back again, I was startled to see the scooter rider part company with his now-nearly horizontal scooter, as it skated sideways - and both scooter and the hapless rider were now skating along the intersection join, flat on the road, making straight for the front of my ute!!

 

Fortunately, the scooter shot past the front of the ute, and ended up by the side of the road to my left - and the scooter rider ended up sliding unceremoniously to a stop, right in front of the ute bumper!!

The rider sprang up off the road in front of me, with an alacrity that would do credit to a 100M sprinter getting out of the starting blocks!!

 

I'm sure he was convinced he was going to get run over! But I wasn't going anywhere, as looked on in amazement at the performance! I was getting ready to get out to see if he was O.K., but it became obviously pretty much immediately, that he wasn't too badly hurt, just shook up and possibly a bit bruised.

He hurried over to pick up his errant scooter very promptly, so I took off and left him to sort out the damage and injuries! But I'll wager he learnt a valuable lesson that day!

 

It could've ended up a whole lot more serious if I'd been moving, and he went under my ute - which has no doubt, happened elsewhere.