Bamboo Shishi Odoshi (Deer Chaser)

We are ready to add water...tomorrow, enough for tonight.

I will need to go through a balance exercise by cutting slices off the end of the main tube until the thing see-saws reliably. More to come...

Water revolution would turn roof-tops into catchments

Commented: Whatever the outcomes you can bet the cost of water will surge - pay more for less.

Water revolution would turn roof-tops into catchments

Knock knock power joke that has a poorer punchline

A government-sanctioned charge of $39 per customer is imposed to "customer acquisition costs" to "encourage competition" – unbelievable. Now we have to pay for their door knockers to do the rounds!

 

Knock knock power joke that has a poorer punchline

POWER retailers will slug struggling customers $65 million through a secret charge to fund door-to-door sales, cold-

Gazebo paving – Part 3

We are almost done and I've just discovered someone at Bunnings can't count!

I am short one 200x200 but have four extra 400x200 pavers?

Fortunately that works out for me as two of the larger ones cracked while walking around when I was sweeping in the cement/sand mix to fill the joints

Gazebo paving – Part 2

Picking up from where we left off the first row is done.

Gazebo paving – Part 1

Finally doing something about paving the gazebo area. The chooks won’t be happy as this was a nice dry area for them to shelter, even dust during wet weather. The paved area is 3 x 3 meters and I started digging before we even decided on the paver type and pattern.

Cable internet down

Cable internet down last night around midnight, we are on Telstra BigPond and the Netgear CGD24N was obviously not establishing a connection with Send flashing and the Receive light off. We also have Foxtel (from Telstra) which uses the same cable and that was working normally which usually means there is no physical cable fault and the problem is within the BigPond network – which is good. Never mind off to bed and see if it’s back in the morning.