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beautiful Parrots & nice shot

[Robster]

Nice! Such expressive creatures!

[Nevol]

I know someone who has a male and female king parrot for sale if anyone is interested and a huge cage to go with them.

That's one piece of info I won't pass onto my son. He's nuts over parrots and already has 9.  (1 Galah, 3 ring necks, 1 Conure, 2 Cockatiels, 2 Peachfaces.)  He'd be rapt with a pair of King parrots, but he ain't going to know about them.  :winkextra:

[Unicorn]

An interesting bunch of "arrows" on the current radar, coming from Sydney, Newcastle & Grafton radars ......

Some theme music

[ausjack]

Nothin happenin in grafton except I'm sweatin like a pig as the humidity is so high  :heat: Meant to have rain for the last week and had sweet FA..as usual :dodgy:

[Pedro]

It's a weather pattern Uni and those pointy things are the needles ...  :angel: :bye2:

Pedro

[Unicorn]

:laugh2: .... paid Pedro!!!

Good to see you using the thread to point that out!

[JeffH]

Had plans otherwise this morning but our washing machine decided not to pump out. After a few minutes shut down, showing error code number 74;
"Pump Block Error
While draining,  the water  level  reading  from the pressure transducer has not changed for over
3 minutes. There are four likely reasons for this fault. One is that the drain hose has been
squashed  or  kinked and the pump out rate has been dramatically reduced. The second
possibility is that the pump is partially or fully blocked. The third is that the pump is not
operating due to Motor Controller, wiring,  or pump failure or thermal overload cut out. The
fourth is that the Motor Controller is not reading the water level correctly. This fault could also
appear if Smartdrive is pumping to an unusually high head of drain hose or into an extended
length of drain hose." *
Gee whiz, I just assumed the pump was blocked, seized or burnt out. So I did what I would have done anyway -drained the machine, tipped it on its side and removed the pump. Nothing found whatsoever and pump ran perfectly with temporary connection to a power point. Maybe fault on control module circuit board I then thought.
Anyway I reassembled and tried a minimum wash and it worked perfectly!

So several hours wasted.

Before grabbing the tools I did enter diagnostic mode and tried to manually operate the pump (nothing going there) and reset (rebooted) the software but still no joy.

*I now have given the machine a name...."Sybil"

[JeffH]

We went picking blackberries this morning. Came home with 6.4kg (twice as much as last week); the fruit is really coming on. Plenty of immature berries on the vines so will go back next week for more.
Where? you ask. Sorry I cannot reveal that information as it is even more confidential than Australian Government documents.

So tonight we should have about 26 jars of jam plus a bowl of stewed berries to have for dessert (with cream -Yum!). If you happen to be passing by please feel free to call in for a taste.

[Unicorn]

We're always talking about fiddies .... fiddy dollars .... fiddy cents ..... but Mrs Uni came across a newie the other day when cleaning out the horses water, I have never seen one before.

It's an Australian fiddler / flower beetle ..... (or Eupoecila Australasiae) ..... (or mad looking green scarab beetle) ..... unfortunately he'd already karked it

[Unicorn]

Life Lesson #85942 - Dog (Shredder) Ownership
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If removing one's shirt on hot days ensure that reading glasses are removed from shirt pocket prior to putting shirt on outside chest freezer.

[Triggersmob]

Oh no. All I see is $$$$$.

[Unicorn]

:laugh2: .... All I see at the moment are blurs of superglue in my peripheral vision!

[trout]

I always get the Specsavers specials 2 for $199 frames as I have given up trying to count the number of frames/lenses I have either destroyed or lost over the years. :-/

[nealeffendi]

I always get the Specsavers specials 2 for $199 frames as I have given up trying to count the number of frames/lenses I have either destroyed or lost over the years. :-/

I'm supposed to wear glasses. My son (now 27) as a toddler loved to grab my glasses and twist them :s. They were nice wire framed glasses from OPSM ($300 back in the '90s). So I forked out the cash and got them replaced. Same result :@ Never got around to replacing them. Makes life interesting when I cannot identify people from across the room.