Jimmy

Eastern grey kangaroos on a stormy and damp Friday. The mob is growing in number.

My contention is they disprove the theory of evolution. They have tormented me every season, at work, for the last 32yrs. That said, we’ve come to an understanding.

Too right

Australia ditched it and the 2c in 1992

OFN 113, rego first car, sold 1989 and 07 2771135 not lived there since ‘89. Put a tool down at work and spend a minute looking for it.

The media keeps pushing the lie that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables. They’re not. CSIRO and AEMO show solar and wind are far cheaper. The fossil fuel lobby funds the lie, and half our grid’s already renewable. The transition’s happening, like it or not.

COVID(special payments) proved a better redistribution maintains, or even improves, the bottom line. Must be just ideology holding things back.

Another glorious Spring day at the head of the Clarence valley. Digitaria still popping, cut twice@5mm. 35mm rain in the last 8 days.

Subs base enigma. NSW Government doesn't know what to hide or why - Michael West Getting access to documents on NSW nuclear subs base has become an FOI riddle wrapped in a submarine mystery inside a nuclear enigma.

"You can’t have the documents. Hang on, maybe .. Nope, too sensitive. OK .. not sensitive, you can have them. Except you can’t."
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the hunt for NSW nuke sub base #auspol

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Power is back on
Fingers and eyes crossed
It slips to the south of Yamba.

Big storm outbreak north coast and adjacent inland NSW, right up into QLD, they copped it last night and earlier today. Hail up to 7cm. Right now at the Clarence R. Mouth, it’s dark, humid and rumbling. Supercells a strong possibility.

37.7C at 2:30 pm then a southerly hit and dropped the temp’ to 24C by 3:30pm

Rain very likely tomorrow and hopefully that will spark some long awaited lateral grass growth.

Nudging 38 on the north coast
Am done for the day

37.6C in the shade and dry as a wooden post. Hydrating to the max. Wind eased back to a tempest.

Steal from the thieves - just don’t get caught, or if you do, don’t mention my name, cheers.

36 degrees C. 22% humidity. Peak gust 30knots from wsw. Summer doesn’t officially start until December 😳
12:41 AEDT.

Kicking up a gale, with dust from the road. Getting that storm brewing look to the northwest. That wind is dry and hot.

34c in the shade, 20 knot gusts - dry, from the inland and humidity(25%) dropping faster than a cold drink. The days you just hope the pyromaniacs are asleep. 2mm rain in the last 7 wks, it’s primed. Good news, storms/rain starting tonight for a few days.

Our best beef doesn’t wind up in local supermarkets too. Best cuts(porterhouse etc) $40-50/kg(2.2lb) and premium, dry aged of waygu varies $70-120/kg. Way too rich my pay grade. We are slowly turning vegetarian(frozen).

Aussie beef…just sayin’ 😄

Noticed this upriver shopping in Grafton: tall bunya pine(Araucaria Bidwillii) right and the lilac symbol of the upper Clarence valley, the sth American jacaranda(jacaranda mimosafolia) left. Pre-colonial and post colonial.

Priorities

Could the party leader’s salary be barnyards real motivation?

Hideous is looking at in the rear vision mirror.

Greetings from a warm(29c) and dry north coast NSW, Australia.

Picked this up on a regular visit to Launceston, from shiploads. It keeps me motivated on long hot days in the sun, that, and the mantra: Monday is payday. 😁 like me, it’s starting to fade.

The cool and foggy 20C morning before what if forecast to be Sydney's hottest October day EVER with temps over 40C.

Budget cuts ‘threaten Nobel Prize-generating research’ The government may close one-of-a-kind instruments at the synchrotron in Melbourne and Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney.

The Albanese govt can find $368 billion for submarines we’ll be lucky to ever see, but can’t provide very modest amounts of funding for our world-leading, Nobel Prize winning researchers.

Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.

"Marching for Australia". Bob Katter, poster-boy for anti-immigration, and weapons - Michael West Bob Katter claims Gaza refugees are part of Hamas, continues to position himself as one of parliament’s most outspoken defenders of Israel.

#MarchForAustralia Bob Katter the bellwether for getting his al Qaeda mixed up with his Hamas - and more - gets referred to ICC for IDF ties, weapons links @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol
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46c in western QLD 😳 summer doesn’t officially start until December. 3 more summers before hanging up the steel caps.