Stephen Walter

To paraphrase BBC announcer back in the day, talking about the West Indies, “England won the toss and elected to collapse“.

Used to have a second team, the Montreal SomethingOrOthers which relocated and are now the Washington Nationals.

Baseball would be a bigger there because of the proximity of MLB down in USA, which would be aspirational for young Canadians.

I once tried to explain cricket to a Canadian with a similar lack of success, in spite of our common Britannic heritage. We did have a chuckle over terms such as “bowling a maiden over“ though.

Plus an unhealthy dose of her own disingenuous idiocy no doubt.

Freaking out your kids is one of the perks of parenthood, second only perhaps to embarrassing them in public.🤣

One of each. May we expect a video of them going hammer and tongs ☺️

i’ve been meaning to compliment you on your photography. You rarely miss getting a good composition and a perfect exposure. Well done. Tell me do you shoot raw?

Addendum: when the electrician came down after finding the bad circuit, he was literally white-faced and trembling from his near miss.

So, your point is quite relevant but in older houses wiring should be checked, particularly if the house dated from a time when standards weren’t as high as they are now. 3/3

They found that there was a loop in the circuitry which was not grounded, such that the electrician only avoided electrocution because of due diligence in the testing of each circuit. 2/3

Agreed, but with a cautionary note:
Our house was built in the mid 60s. A couple of years ago we had the main distribution board replaced with something more modern. In doing so the electricians needed to re-check the wiring, by way of deciding which circuits to place everything on. 1/3

As noted there, the 737 was as light as possible, no people, no fuel no nothing, but still it was impressive. 2/2

Back in the lead up to the 2019 election, when Morrison made his “… You can’t tow your boat with an EV“ statement, someone immediately posted a link to a YouTube video made 18 months prior to that showing a Tesla towing a 737 aeroplane. 1/2

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth The Liberals join the Nationals in dumping net zero | 7.30

For those who missed it, a link to the 730 interview with Dan Tien over the LP dumping of nit zero. The interview begins at 6:06 after an introductory package.
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They can read alright; their problem is that they don’t give a flying fuck about the rest of us.

Never done that, but I once found, after breakfast, the yoghurt in the cupboard and the Weetbix in the fridge.
It’s the short-term memory that goes first. I live by checklists and yet I can vividly remember things that happened to me when I was 3-4 years old which was quite some time ago.

I definitely recollect that it was all capital cities but, with the vagaries of an ageing memory, I could also be definitely wrong.

By 1976 or so, the sewerage initiative of Whitlam’s government had made it to the Adelaide adjacent suburbs of the Adelaide Hills. 3/3

I certainly know that that it was true of Adelaide. When I first started courting my wife, whose parents lived in the near Adelaide Hills, everyone was on septic tanks and the term “the Hills aroma“ was often used. 2/3

As to the sewerage, my understanding is that it wasn’t just the outer suburbs of Sydney that they sewered, but I think all of the capital cities. 1/3

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The dryness of chicken breast is a common theme across recipe sites. Nevertheless, see the attached link to the legendary Nagi of recipetineats fame:
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While we don’t have Harris farms shops here in South Australia, their product can be found here in other supermarkets, for example Drakes have it.

I still will only have it occasionally, because of the carbon cost in getting it from those far off places to here. 2/2

Same here. Harris Farms have several varieties some of which are sourced in Tasmania, but they also have a couple of varieties labelled “wild caught“ which are sourced from either Alaska or Norway. Read the label carefully, because some of the Norwegian stuff is also fish farmed. 1/2

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Glad that you had a great result, though I’m not at all surprised; I’ve been similarly treated there. In a similar vein, Good Guys are similarly good. Both make boycotting Harvey Norman that much easier.

Ah the pits of shamelessness that coffee addiction will drive a man to.

They are a brilliant choir. I had the privilege of hearing them on almost a weekly basis for 30 odd years. I was a member of the parish whilst living in Sydney. Oftentimes in close proximity when sitting in the chancel whilst serving at the altar.