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  1. CW: Talking about the weather.

    Yesterday, my partner and I took a moment from the earthmoving to sit in the sun and enjoy a chicken and green-thing-from-the-garden wrap. Nice

    There we saw this flower.

    The trouble is, this one flowered in the second half of March (in #Bywong, near #Canberra). Sometime after that, the first frost should come, and all the bulbs hunker down for winter.

    But this photo was taken TODAY. It is mid May.
    That poor pink flower bulb doesn't know what the date is anymore. #ClimateChange has buggered up its calendar. The frost hasn't come. Today it was 9° overnight and now it's 20°.

    So it is flowering a _second_ time.

    When you next see a farming or rural person; ask them if their bulbs flowered twice.

    Ask them if they think that's a problem.

    Ask them if that happened for their parents.

    Ask them what they think it'll be like for their children.

    #ClimateChange

  2. CW: Talking about the weather.

    Yesterday, my partner and I took a moment from the earthmoving to sit in the sun and enjoy a chicken and green-thing-from-the-garden wrap. Nice

    There we saw this flower.

    The trouble is, this one flowered in the second half of March (in #Bywong, near #Canberra). Sometime after that, the first frost should come, and all the bulbs hunker down for winter.

    But this photo was taken TODAY. It is mid May.
    That poor pink flower bulb doesn't know what the date is anymore. #ClimateChange has buggered up its calendar. The frost hasn't come. Today it was 9° overnight and now it's 20°.

    So it is flowering a _second_ time.

    When you next see a farming or rural person; ask them if their bulbs flowered twice.

    Ask them if they think that's a problem.

    Ask them if that happened for their parents.

    Ask them what they think it'll be like for their children.

    #ClimateChange

  3. CW: Talking about the weather.

    Yesterday, my partner and I took a moment from the earthmoving to sit in the sun and enjoy a chicken and green-thing-from-the-garden wrap. Nice

    There we saw this flower.

    The trouble is, this one flowered in the second half of March (in #Bywong, near #Canberra). Sometime after that, the first frost should come, and all the bulbs hunker down for winter.

    But this photo was taken TODAY. It is mid May.
    That poor pink flower bulb doesn't know what the date is anymore. #ClimateChange has buggered up its calendar. The frost hasn't come. Today it was 9° overnight and now it's 20°.

    So it is flowering a _second_ time.

    When you next see a farming or rural person; ask them if their bulbs flowered twice.

    Ask them if they think that's a problem.

    Ask them if that happened for their parents.

    Ask them what they think it'll be like for their children.

    #ClimateChange

  4. CW: Talking about the weather.

    Yesterday, my partner and I took a moment from the earthmoving to sit in the sun and enjoy a chicken and green-thing-from-the-garden wrap. Nice

    There we saw this flower.

    The trouble is, this one flowered in the second half of March (in #Bywong, near #Canberra). Sometime after that, the first frost should come, and all the bulbs hunker down for winter.

    But this photo was taken TODAY. It is mid May.
    That poor pink flower bulb doesn't know what the date is anymore. #ClimateChange has buggered up its calendar. The frost hasn't come. Today it was 9° overnight and now it's 20°.

    So it is flowering a _second_ time.

    When you next see a farming or rural person; ask them if their bulbs flowered twice.

    Ask them if they think that's a problem.

    Ask them if that happened for their parents.

    Ask them what they think it'll be like for their children.

    #ClimateChange

  5. @warblington In #Bywong, I am seventeen thousand kilometres away from the #Warblington level crossing. I do love to occasionally find out what the boom gates might be doing in the next half hour. Thank you for this bit of whimsy in an otherwise too serious world.

    A small point though; I feel that the minimum open time is probably a minute or two? Predictions like this one might allow Marty and Doc through, but lesser cars would struggle, I think.

    Also: Saying 'Warblington' is a marvellous feeling in the mouth. Please tell me it is pronounced as-written, and not something like Bicester or Magdalen?

  6. Steady steady rain in #Bywong.

    No lunar eclipse, but masses of little froggies moving about in the night, looking for their next damp home. Will do an eclipse another time. the rain is absohoppinglutely marvellous.
    There's nothing quite like overflowing the last #watertank in the string. I can loiter endlessly under the shower. I could learn Italian.

    #amphibians #frogs #eclipse #KristinaOlsen #wastingTime #blessedAreTheRoofmakers #canberra

  7. Steady steady rain in #Bywong.

    No lunar eclipse, but masses of little froggies moving about in the night, looking for their next damp home. Will do an eclipse another time. the rain is absohoppinglutely marvellous.
    There's nothing quite like overflowing the last #watertank in the string. I can loiter endlessly under the shower. I could learn Italian.

    #amphibians #frogs #eclipse #KristinaOlsen #wastingTime #blessedAreTheRoofmakers #canberra

  8. Steady steady rain in #Bywong.

    No lunar eclipse, but masses of little froggies moving about in the night, looking for their next damp home. Will do an eclipse another time. the rain is absohoppinglutely marvellous.
    There's nothing quite like overflowing the last #watertank in the string. I can loiter endlessly under the shower. I could learn Italian.

    #amphibians #frogs #eclipse #KristinaOlsen #wastingTime #blessedAreTheRoofmakers #canberra

  9. Steady steady rain in #Bywong.

    No lunar eclipse, but masses of little froggies moving about in the night, looking for their next damp home. Will do an eclipse another time. the rain is absohoppinglutely marvellous.
    There's nothing quite like overflowing the last #watertank in the string. I can loiter endlessly under the shower. I could learn Italian.

    #amphibians #frogs #eclipse #KristinaOlsen #wastingTime #blessedAreTheRoofmakers #canberra

  10. Steady steady rain in #Bywong.

    No lunar eclipse, but masses of little froggies moving about in the night, looking for their next damp home. Will do an eclipse another time. the rain is absohoppinglutely marvellous.
    There's nothing quite like overflowing the last #watertank in the string. I can loiter endlessly under the shower. I could learn Italian.

    #amphibians #frogs #eclipse #KristinaOlsen #wastingTime #blessedAreTheRoofmakers #canberra

  11. We have a tiny bat in the house!
    Not at all sure how the sillybilly got in (probably when we came in tonight) but it does not see the way out, and thinks our attempts of catching with tea towels are terrific fun.
    We will go to bed. And to the hammerbarn in the morning, to get some vast netting or similar to try again tomorrow. Until then, we have a professional bug catcher on the job, I guess.
    #bywong #bat #microbat #EverythingOpen

  12. We have a tiny bat in the house!
    Not at all sure how the sillybilly got in (probably when we came in tonight) but it does not see the way out, and thinks our attempts of catching with tea towels are terrific fun.
    We will go to bed. And to the hammerbarn in the morning, to get some vast netting or similar to try again tomorrow. Until then, we have a professional bug catcher on the job, I guess.
    #bywong #bat #microbat #EverythingOpen

  13. We have a tiny bat in the house!
    Not at all sure how the sillybilly got in (probably when we came in tonight) but it does not see the way out, and thinks our attempts of catching with tea towels are terrific fun.
    We will go to bed. And to the hammerbarn in the morning, to get some vast netting or similar to try again tomorrow. Until then, we have a professional bug catcher on the job, I guess.
    #bywong #bat #microbat #EverythingOpen

  14. We have a tiny bat in the house!
    Not at all sure how the sillybilly got in (probably when we came in tonight) but it does not see the way out, and thinks our attempts of catching with tea towels are terrific fun.
    We will go to bed. And to the hammerbarn in the morning, to get some vast netting or similar to try again tomorrow. Until then, we have a professional bug catcher on the job, I guess.
    #bywong #bat #microbat #EverythingOpen

  15. We have a tiny bat in the house!
    Not at all sure how the sillybilly got in (probably when we came in tonight) but it does not see the way out, and thinks our attempts of catching with tea towels are terrific fun.
    We will go to bed. And to the hammerbarn in the morning, to get some vast netting or similar to try again tomorrow. Until then, we have a professional bug catcher on the job, I guess.
    #bywong #bat #microbat #EverythingOpen

  16. Google asked: 'Industry'?
    Horseshit options include 'aAdvertising and marketing', 'Education'

    In #Bywong, say: 'What does your company make or do?'

    If the answer is 'we make earthmoving equipment', then you can call that 'industry', otherwise, #FuckOff.

    #FuckAmericanaFriday

  17. Inspired by the common sense of Trump requiring full access to every thoughtcrime before I cross any USA border, and determined that as long as I live, and America is fascist, I want to lay down a solid bank of material.

    It is #FuckAmericanaFriday

    My duty today will be to report American influence in #Bywong culture, give the correct version and tell American brown nosers to #fuckoff.

  18. Good News from #Bywong Today

    The sorrel has recovered now that the bunnies are kept out by a new fence.

    The white kangaroo is growing up fast.

    I had to give way to a shingleback on the driveway (my partner had to do the same for an echidna yesterday).
    It is shingleback sexytrain season, be careful out there boys and girls.

    The second coat of paint seems dry enough to apply a third tonight, and the cement filler (in the floortiles where the wall isn't anymore) worked a charm.

    #reno #nature #spring #roo #GardenVegetables

  19. Good News from #Bywong Today

    The sorrel has recovered now that the bunnies are kept out by a new fence.

    The white kangaroo is growing up fast.

    I had to give way to a shingleback on the driveway (my partner had to do the same for an echidna yesterday).
    It is shingleback sexytrain season, be careful out there boys and girls.

    The second coat of paint seems dry enough to apply a third tonight, and the cement filler (in the floortiles where the wall isn't anymore) worked a charm.

    #reno #nature #spring #roo #GardenVegetables

  20. Good News from #Bywong Today

    The sorrel has recovered now that the bunnies are kept out by a new fence.

    The white kangaroo is growing up fast.

    I had to give way to a shingleback on the driveway (my partner had to do the same for an echidna yesterday).
    It is shingleback sexytrain season, be careful out there boys and girls.

    The second coat of paint seems dry enough to apply a third tonight, and the cement filler (in the floortiles where the wall isn't anymore) worked a charm.

    #reno #nature #spring #roo #GardenVegetables

  21. Good News from #Bywong Today

    The sorrel has recovered now that the bunnies are kept out by a new fence.

    The white kangaroo is growing up fast.

    I had to give way to a shingleback on the driveway (my partner had to do the same for an echidna yesterday).
    It is shingleback sexytrain season, be careful out there boys and girls.

    The second coat of paint seems dry enough to apply a third tonight, and the cement filler (in the floortiles where the wall isn't anymore) worked a charm.

    #reno #nature #spring #roo #GardenVegetables

  22. Good News from #Bywong Today

    The sorrel has recovered now that the bunnies are kept out by a new fence.

    The white kangaroo is growing up fast.

    I had to give way to a shingleback on the driveway (my partner had to do the same for an echidna yesterday).
    It is shingleback sexytrain season, be careful out there boys and girls.

    The second coat of paint seems dry enough to apply a third tonight, and the cement filler (in the floortiles where the wall isn't anymore) worked a charm.

    #reno #nature #spring #roo #GardenVegetables

  23. #Spring in #Bywong. The magpies are set to lay, the wrens are busy and chatty, the bulbs that Peter, the very nice bonkers man planted all those tears ago are UP.

    And #bunnies. My lovely #sorrel absolutely murdered in the night by the bloody bunnies. They've discovered a leaky section of electric fence, lucky buggers.

  24. It is exactly this time of year in the hills around #Canberra.
    Accurate to within a few days.

    #wattle #bywong #macro #flowers

  25. #Canberra #Bywong #Wamboin #bungendore
    Help me not use #facebook #marketplace please.

    I need a pack frame (with pack? I don't really care, yes OK I suppose) to carry about loads of rocks up a hill. It can be beaten up - it will certainly get that way after a short time.

  26. Goodness me, having one of these

    > Reg.: A27-012 Australia
    > DB flags: military
    > Type: HAWK BRITISH AEROSPACE T-45 Goshawk
    > Type Desc.: L1J
    > Squawk: 4547

    Circling above your home is noisy. I do hope I've not become a 'Person Of Interest'
    #military #aviation #bywong #canberra #boystoys

  27. CW: Nature, its all over me. The outside world.

    #GeoCell retaining walls, #MSE Mechanically Stabilised Earth, #Bywong, #Canberra, #australia

    I am wanting to build domestic grade retaining-walls, all with green growy things on/in them, and I came across GeoCells.

    Trouble is, I am not a company, and the suppliers so far would rather deal with companies, not consumers. Does anyone have a retailer of stuff that looks like this? Preferably with geotextile mat to strengthen the dirt in layers behind it too?

    #godSpeedMastoMissive To definity and below!

  28. Yesterday, in #bywong.

    This butterfly. I wish you could see its metallic sheen. These colours are only three of thousands it made.

    #flower #butterfly #scarab #interference #colours #Australia

  29. Just back from a trip;
    Flight from #Canberra - #Sydney - #Tamworth, overnight near #Coonabarabran, then drive with a lunch stop at #Molong at 1pm, back to #Bywong at 4pm Saturday.

    Why the itinerary? Well I'm glad I pretended you asked.

    My partner threw-up suddenly at 3pm Sunday, and now, at 8pm Sunday she's got a lovely #fever.

    So, she's caught something horrid, which I've not got (yet?). No respiratory symptoms, no headache, just spew. We've eaten all the same things except for lunch at Molong, but it is 24hrs since then, so ... it's not likely food poisoning.

    Mostly only a few people interactions for us both. The planes were barely half-full DASH-8s. Say 25 people in each. No-one obviously sick. But? I #dunno.

    What bug is this? Dr. Google has been #rogeredSenseless by LLM AIs. Flutracking has no particular bumps, but yhis one's NOT respiratory, so, they wouldn't, I guess.

    Maybe the fedithing can offer their thought.

    What virus is #goingAround in #australian #GI tracts these days? #vomit #talkingToGodOnThePorcelainTelephone, #ralph

  30. Good morning #bywong #bungendore #canberra

    This is going to take some getting used to. Suffice it to say for now; I give no fucks about my #pufferJacket's stylessness.

  31. Lovely day here on the #Bywong #Massif. Clouds sweeping over the lake this morning like fluffy Zambonis. #Sunny now and the clouds have moved up up up to their cauliflower towers.
    Suspect it's about to get damp over towards Bungendore though.