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I've been playing eenie meenie miney moe with all these ceramic detailers for the last couple of months. I mean, I must have gone online and looked at Amplify 10 times in the last couple of months, looking at what else I could get from DS to offset the freight cost, but I never found anything I...

A short article about our cattle prices suddenly rising. Editing to add that I definitely don't think our cattle farmers hate you. Australian cow market takes off as tariffs loom and US burger prices rise - ABC News https://share.google/fEiHUKAaexx3VRxTI

We've had a couple of flood warnings this afternoon, nothing for us to worry about though. And it's snowing a couple of hours north of us, which isn't unheard of, but doesn't happen every winter. Lots of roads closed and cars stuck, most Australians don't know how to drive in the snow.

This is a 1963 Datsun Bluebird, my grandfather drove one of these in the early 70s, same colour too. It's the first car I remember being driven around in, apparently I always told him to go faster. My strongest memories are of how bouncy the seats were, no child seats back then, and the sign on...

It's been raining all morning, we didn't even get to go for a walk. This sucks.

Lots of rain at the moment, so I'm not doing much detailing, but I had to wipe the rear camera lens with some Carpro Eraser. When I wiped the FJ over with Meg's HCD the other day I wiped the lens as well, so when I was driving in the rain this morning the water getting on the lens beaded up, to...

I heard this somewhere a while back about watching stuff online, "if you don't know what the product is, you are the product". Basically eyes glued to screens watching the ads is the point, not the content.

We're in the process of changing over our energy company from one that uses fixed pricing to one with fluid pricing, half hourly. It does have a monthly subscription fee, but it works out less than the quarterly connection fee to the previous company. These are screenshots from their app. When...

Well the tariffs have gone up, again, but not on any of our exports, they've been left at 10%. Maybe some back room meetings have been going on.

Did you get the shingles vaccination? Now that you've had chicken pox you could get shingles at some point. I don't know if I've ever had chicken pox, and mum doesn't remember me ever having it, doesn't sound like fun.

Sounds like the last place I worked, everything is in stock, even when it isn't. And of course they take the money out of your account straight away. We would adjust stock levels to be correct, and someone would mysteriously put it back in so it showed up as available online, very frustrating...

Must be something to do with Japanese A/C, my FJ is the same, even with the fan on its lowest setting, I have to point the vents away. My Pathfinder from 20 years ago was excellent as well.

Our local government isn't too bad here, at least compared to what we had in Sydney. I see the guys out regularly fixing street lights, and they are least try to keep up with fixing potholes, but with the rain we've had this year it's been a losing battle. They built a new toilet block at our...

I wouldn't say we hate you, but there is a lot of anger at the way you're treating one of you staunchest allies, afterall we were with you in Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, all actions which really had nothing to do with us. We're even trying to buy some nuclear powered subs from...

This used to happen to my wagon a few years back, they would peck at the side mirrors while pooping on the door. I got some old socks and put them over the side mirrors, then it only happened to other people's cars.

Bingo, well spotted, the first two pics of the VR were taken on Mt Wellington, but on different trips, I'd changed plates and added spotties for the second trip.

Even though we've had solar for almost 5 years now, all of our power was coming from the grid, and the solar was sold back to the grid, and at way less than they were charging us for grid power. I won't go in to the politics, but the power companies were scamming us, with the support of...

Going through some old photos, taken with actual film, I found these blasts from the past. Both are ex-police vehicles, I guess I had a thing for them. The blue is a 91 Commodore with the 3.8 V6, it was probably a detectives car. The paint was horrible, it was oxidising as I looked at it. The...

I couldn't think of anything else to call them. The heavy rain has arrived. It has a few things on it, but the last was Meg's HCD, it even produced decent beads on the matte painted spare wheel cover in the second pic.

That was one of the reasons I put wider tyres on the Qashqai, she still tries to scratch them whenever she parks out on the street.