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Lothlorien
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Perhaps a little bit early but Happy New Year to you all.
A bright shiny new thread for those of us who live down under.
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Uncle Pete
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How will coming down under relieve my aches and pains?
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37 here.
No fires near bye, thanks be to God, but three towns on the Great Ocean Road being evacuated...
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Huia
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
How will coming down under relieve my aches and pains?
We've got good drugs - at least I scored some wonderful painkillers from the doctor ![[Biased]](wink.gif) . Pity I had to go through the worst pain I've ever experienced first ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) I'm carefully recording times and amounts taken, a good night's sleep is great, but I wouldn't want to make it permanent.
If you came back you could visit the Art Gallery, which has finally re-opened.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Rowen:
37 here.
No fires near bye, thanks be to God, but three towns on the Great Ocean Road being evacuated...
Terrible fires, some forecast to burn for months along that road. Picture after picture of fires right down to water line.
Have you moved yet?
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Banner Lady
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oooh...new....shiny... HNY everyone. May it be healthier for us and the planet in 2016. Meanwhile, here in Oz, bonfires and fireworks are not what is needed. May you all wake up with your pets still close by tomorrow.
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Lothlorien
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Happy new year to all.
I did not watch the fireworks although I can see a lot of them frim my balcony. Not a good day yesterday for various reasons. However I heard them. They woke me. Much noisier than usual and very smelly. I suspect there is a barge of fireworks further up the river than usual. Parramatta River is quite close as the crow flies, just a few minutes drive or about fifteen minutes walk away.
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Happy new year to all my antipodean shipmates. I'm expecting an interesting mix of nothing seeming very different while some things change quite a lot,,,,
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Worm in the Grass
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Returning after long absence , but New Year greetings to all. I don't quite know how it happened but while searching for weight watchers info I found Cranmer's baggage on the weight loss thread, so it occurred to me that I should add returning to the Ship to my. New Year's resolutions. Mr WitG and I are currently spending a few days in Clare. We recently ran into MM who was singing lessons and Carols at St A-frame's with Mr W.
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Lothlorien
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Now, is that a coincidence or what!! I was thinking of you this morning, just a few hours ago.
Hope all is well with you. I think you came to lunch or coffee one day when FD was still sailing here.
Welcome back.
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Banner Lady
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Hi WiT & CB!
TP and I said the evening prayer service together after the cricket had finished and before the fireworks to usher in 2016. One thing is certain - the family will always need prayer! TP does not do well on hot nights, and is struggling a bit today. However we have just returned from morning tea at the nursing home with my 97.5yr old mum, B3 and B3.1, B3.2 & B3.3 so the afternoon is definitely for siesta.
He repotted a large orchid into a glazed pot and carried it in as a present for my mother not realising how heavy it was. I was somewhat concerned we might have been beginning 2016 a bit unwisely for his blood pressure.
I have also been to the PO today to send off parcels to the orthodox members of the family. It was fun to get to write 1.1.16 on the postal declarations! So the PO is open, and the bin collectors have just been round. As we expected today to be a public holiday we had not put the bins out, so we are starting 2016 with the same old rubbish...
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
Hi WiT & CB!
I have also been to the PO today to send off parcels to the orthodox members of the family. It was fun to get to write 1.1.16 on the postal declarations! So the PO is open, and the bin collectors have just been round. As we expected today to be a public holiday we had not put the bins out, so we are starting 2016 with the same old rubbish...
Goodness me – I think everything stops here on NYD. No point in going out to look as our mail deliveries are Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday (and no, I don't expect one tomorrow) and rubbish collection is on Tuesdays.
There is at least a newspaper, with a seductive giant crossword – but I'm now the only one in our street hho gets it and my good friend at #9 says the car that brings it in the early hours wakes her up if she has the window open in this summer weather.
I hope that for everyone 2016 is better that 2015, even if 2015 was great. God bless all our readers!
GG
(Remembering the days when there were no newspapers on Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Good Friday, and what as the other one? There were no Sunday papers then.)
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I think someone at your post office missed a memo, Banner Lady - both the ACT government and Australia Post seem to think today is a public holiday.
In my council area, bins are collected, public holiday or no - so mine were emptied on Christmas morning,
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Kittyville:
I think someone at your post office missed a memo, Banner Lady - both the ACT government and Australia Post seem to think today is a public holiday.
In my council area, bins are collected, public holiday or no - so mine were emptied on Christmas morning,
Same here for rubbish. The only day when it is not collected is Good Friday.
PO open on a public holiday? They must be trying to redeem their reputation. Or more to the point, they want triple time penalty rates.
GG, perhaps Good Friday? It does not seem long ago to me that service stations were shut on Christmas day. Too bad if there was a long drive to a holiday destination.
I can't remember a time here of no Sunday papers. The Herald used to have a good editorial for Christmas.
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Banner Lady
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Well, I did go down to the PO yesterday afternoon to find it shut. Notice on door said it was open 8-11am Friday because it was the Australia Post workers half holiday, and would therefore be open 8am-11am today. Maybe it is because we are a Territory and not a State, or maybe the franchised owner has some discretion about when things happen - I don't know. I was surprised to find it shut yesterday avo and equally surprised to see it would be open this morning. I am just happy I got my parcels off.
Recently I tried to put some spare unused stamps on an overseas letter only to be told I had to use specific ones designed and marked for overseas use. Some places won't even accept parcels unless they are in post office preferred boxes or envelopes. This makes it rather hard when there is no box or envelope that will fit the object being posted. So I was very relieved they did accept the outsize artwork I had carefully packaged - though I used white cardboard and taped it to look very like a PO issue box. More rules. More conformity. Grrr. I must be getting old!
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Gee D
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A Happy New Year to all.
BL, it's unlikely that your living in a territory makes any difference. Not sure, but probably the answer is that it is a franchise operation - in a news agency perhaps? - and that provided it is open for a basic core, the franchisee can pick and choose opening and closing times.
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Kittyville
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The stamp thing is something to do with GST, I've been told, BL. But I share your frustration with Australia Post and its prescriptiveness and general jobsworthiness.
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Huia
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Hi Worm in the Grass. Good to see you back.
I just followed up a link given on a local community board. The Warehouse (large retail chain here which I think was unsuccessful over the ditch) started putting out it's Easter stock before New Year's Day ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) I am totally walking stick, pain and drug-free The test will come as I gradually increase my walking, and I still have an x-ray on Tuesday to see if there is any real damage. I am impatiently waiting to see if I can get back on my bike, at least for short rides. I hope *The Great NZ January Shut-Down* doesn't hold up the results for too long.
Huia
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Lothlorien
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That really is good news, Huia.
The Warehouse had some branches in some of the northern beach type towns, but that was years ago. Haven't seen them at all for a long time.
We have that shutdown too in many areas. The one that affects my family the most is that the pizzeria, just a hundred metres from where my boys grew up, shuts almost all January. We are well known there and it is a popular gatheting place for birthdays and family dinners. We judge other places against this one.
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Glad to hear you're feeling better, Huia - prayers still ascending! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Kittyville
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I unwisely forgot the Aeroguard before dining outside last night and as a result, am covered in mozzie bites. What it is to be popular...
Ah well. For some reason, I tend to only suffer one mass attack per summer, so I have my fingers crossed for this being this summer's one.
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DangerousDeacon
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Happy New Year from the Top End - the cool part of Australia at this time of year ... May God bless all my fellow Antipodeans in 2016, and may the rest of you join us here to share in these blessings!
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Clarence
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for all FD and my onboard friends.
May your 2016 be full of wonderful things.
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Banner Lady
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Best of everything good for 2016 to you and FD too, Clarence -
Still miss FD's froth around here.
Grandchildren central today. I will be attempting to get them off the computers and actually building a minecraft village with cardboard and mod lodge today. It will be interesting to see how long their attention spans cope.
Tonight it's family dinner and going to see Star Wars together.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Happy New Year all. Back at work today, slightly resenting the sunshine after two days of rain, although it was perfectly timed for the garden and the new roses.
Like GG I hope 2016 is better than 2015.
Huia, excellent news. Rosie is off to the physio this afternoon after wrenching her shoulder carrying boxes - she's finally got up the courage to tackle her mother's papers, all 30-something boxes of them, and lugged them all into our living room, which now looks like a bomb site. She did find a photo of their medical school class though, quite fascinating, full of returned soldiers and a surprising number of women (25 out of a class of around 120).
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Huia
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Clarence, - Best wishes for a Happy New Year to you and FD.
Arabella, what a demanding job for Rosie - both physically and emotionally draining. I hope her shoulder heals quickly.
X-ray today, and contrary to my expectations, my G.P gets the results tomorrow - if she's there. I'll check on that as I prefer to see her or the doctor I saw before Christmas, neither of the other 2 in the practice inspire me and as I'm only getting short stabs of pain it's not urgent.
I find it weird after being in so much pain that it has settled so quickly, but a bit worried that it could flare up again.
Huia
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The monsoon which inundated DD on Christmas Eve has now drifted south and is uniting with another system to form a dreaded East Coast Low in the coming hours. Homes already inundated to the north of us and roads cut. Your old haunts around Wollombi are on flood watch Lothlorien, with up to moderate levels expected. We pray that it will not be a repeat of April's flooding.
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Lothlorien
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We were on relatively sandy soil and were fine where we were. Further out near Hunter Lodge main gate, the road and bridge could be cut. We always had supplies and matches for being out of touch for several days. The back road which comes in at side of Wollombi pub is probably not passable by now. Last bad floods the water was up over verandah floor. If you know the pub, that is quite deep..
Neighbours were similarly prepared. Some years back, a constable was tied to a tree at Wiseman's Ferry, pistolwhipped. His service revolver was stolen. All in area decided it was safer not to go at weekends till he was caught. He vanished up past St Albans. We were all equipped with tinned food, shelter, blankets. He could have gone from place to place for several weeks.
He was caught a hundred metres down railway track from my place in a railway shed between Croydon and Ashfield!
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Galloping Granny
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May shipmates and their loved ones be spared both floods and bushfires.
A calm clear evening. I went out before the light faded to try and spot the familiar stars as they came out one by one – Sirius first of course. Several tui were exchanging their bed-time calls from trees on the slopes behind and near at hand, with occasional whispered melodies.
Peace and aroha to all our readers.
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Lothlorien
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Thank you GG.
Peace and aroha to you as you start a new year without the physical presence of the grandad.
( I had to look up aroha, although I had guessed the meaning. I guessed love and that was one mentioned on the site where I checked.)
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Huia
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GG I envy you the tui. Although they can be aggressive to other birds, and each other their antics are amusing and their range of calls fascinating. I have been delighted to watch the suburb where I grew up go from a place where the sighting of a tui would be mentioned in a local newspaper to having 17 tui in the kowhai trees at the back of my dad's section on his birthday one year.
There is a group of people who are organising the re-introduction of tui to Banks Peninsula by culling possums as has been done in Wellington, but I haven't heard much about it recently. There are a few bellbirds in different areas of Christchurch and some kereru.
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Huia, In this part of the city we get the 'overflow' from Zealandia. Right here it's tui and kereru, the wood pigeon, but I understand kaka are quite common, and I think one flew by as I arrived at a friend's place up the hill the other evening. I've heard of bellbirds not far away, but again, they haven't found us. And I've heard a cuckoo calling recently, and hope the grew warblers that I've also heard haven't been 'visited'. There's sometimes an owl calling up the hill.
Great excitement when saddlebacks were seen in Aro Valley!
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Huia
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Saddlebacks!!! if there was the least likelihood of them here Georgie-Porgy would become a totally inside cat. She would hate me but I would do it for saddlebacks.
Actually my favourite night bird is the ruru (morepork). When I was growing up there was a family of them in the nearby hills, but they disappeared in later years, though the rangers in the water catchment area of Moore's Valley say they are thriving there. I did hear them when I visited Stewart Island. Next time I'm in Wellington I'll go back to the zoo as they have developed a large native bird area where they are breeding Kaka in partnership with Zealandia.
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Gee D
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Agreement from us about what you call morepork - although we would call it mopoke or boobook. There are often one or 2 of them nearby and the sound carries well at night.
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Agreement from us about what you call morepork - although we would call it mopoke or boobook. There are often one or 2 of them nearby and the sound carries well at night.
When I said 'owl' to avoid ambiguity, of course it's a morepork or ruru.
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Banner Lady
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Cold. I am cold. Brrrr. It has dropped over 20 degrees in a few days and my aging body does not cope well with this. TP loves it. I, on the other hand am spending lots of time wrapped up in blankets and reading from the Stack By The Bed. Finally got around to reading Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier, and a couple of wartime biographies. Eleni, by Nicholas Gage was a fascinating tome. Today, I think I will tackle the mending, and making of some velvet curtains and a matching chair cover for TP's study. At least the material will be warm to handle! I heard rumours there is snow in Tasmania. Someone tell me I am wrong, please.
BL. Missing summer.
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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We have some of the overflow from Zealandia over our way as well - mostly tui, but also my favourite, little waxeyes. There's a kowhai tree right outside our bedroom window, and it attracts both. As a result we have a never failing alarm clock, which goes off the minute the sun starts rising!
Rosie has bursitis in her shoulder and is doing exercises. The latest box upacked turned out to be full of piano music, and she had a lovely couple of hours sitting at the piano wandering down memory lane. Fortunately some big names in the peace movement have offered to help sort the actual papers - they will end up at the National Library once in order. We've begun to realise just how many pies Rosie's mother had her fingers in...
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Lothlorien
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I don't know about snow, but it was cold here yesterday too, enough to make me put warmer clothes on. Sister is dog sitting at Glenorie and she has been on lounge with rugs and dog on top. At least she is resting after the pneumonia.
Dry last night for about six hours but more rain now.
My brother was disturbed by bang mid evening. Looked up to see a plump possum in his lounge room. It had shifted a heavy manhole cover upstairs, fallen through and brought a large amount of ceiling insulation with it. I wonder if it was looking for dry quarters to raise a family. He managed to evict it.
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Lothlorien
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TRIGGER! description of spider
I glanced up a minute ago to find a large huntsman resting comfortably in a corner between ceilng cornice and my wall. It is near my balcony door so perhaps came in as a refugee from the rain. It is quite large, not as big as those we had at Wollombi but far too large to have just hatched. It is several inches if measured from tip of leg to similar position on another leg.
If it were lower, I would catch it in a jar and return to outside, but it is far too high for me to reach. As son said, it may catch mosquitoes. Spiders don't boher me at all, so I will keep an eye on it and see what it does.
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Banner Lady
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Forget about being scared of our enormous spiders....better being wary of our wicked wasps.
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Lothlorien
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Your TRIGGER! suggests a method...
I take your point but can happily co-exist with prctically any spider. Perhaps not too closely with a funnel web.
When we had a place in the bush, we had dozens of these huntsmen, some two or three times larger than this. The place we built was a dismantled portable double classroom from a government school. There was no ceiling and they ran happliy along roof joists.
BL,
I keep away from wasps if possible. Youngest son fell into a wasps nest at Ophir when he was three. His father and I both had earphones connected to sensitive metal detectors. We did not hear him cry.
I took him back to tent, slathered him with Stingose and gave him anti-histamine tablet and he slept several hours. The Stingose was good but I don't know if it is still available.
Wasps used to nest in the exhaust pipe of our Kawasaki brush cutter, prevnting it starting. We had to clean it every time with a pipecleaner, it was narrow in diameter.
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...wicked wasps.[/URL]
Tautology!
Wasps are, by definition, wicked and generally a Bad Thing!
Wasps & mosquitoes, both.
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Huia
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What am amazing woman Arabella, I'm glad Rosie had some help with the sorting and that the papers are going to a place where historians and other scholars will have access. Too much of our valuable history has been lost.
I often have waxeyes in the autumn when I deliberately let some plants go to seed so they will be fed if the cold comes early. They also do a great job eating the bugs off the roses. Dad used to love watching them.
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Barnabas Aus, are you safe this time round. Things don't look good for those caught in floods not long ago.
Thanks for asking, Lothlorien. We only had about half the rainfall compared with April, so no overland flow from our neighbours, which was what did the damage last time.
Williams Bridge at Wollombi went under by at least 1.5m, but the worst of the rain hugged the coast on the southern edge of the low, while it stretched further inland to the north of the Hunter River. Sun and breeze today are drying things out, but it will be a few days before streams recede.
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Commiserations for those affected by flooding rain this week. Please send some of your rain to Tasmania which is in the grip of severe drought. Where I live we have had negligible rain since September, the lakes are drying up and our hydro-electricity scheme is compromised, while farmers are under severe difficuties. The weather bureau keeps predicting rain but nothing eventuates. So as I said, send your excess rain south please.
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Newcastle, NSW made it on to the Canadian Weather Channel today for its flooding; I hope any of you in those parts* are safe.
* my knowledge of Australian geography isn't up to much ... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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