Good Morning Monday, 10th February 2025

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Good morning all.

Just returned from my usual coffee and cake morning followed by a bit of shopping.

Had some work on the computer updating the Senors’ club membership file which I have just finished.

Have been under a severe weather warning for flash flooding since yesterday but the rain has finally arrived at my place. Some places were getting 1mm per minute ie 1 litre of water per sq metre per minute (ya gotta love metric). There is a bit of thunder about too but I haven’t seen any sign of hail.

It looks like I might be indoors for the rest of the day. I have put my generator on my trolley just in case, I can bring it up if the power fails because of a lightning strike. (I doubt it)

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Looks much worse further north around the Sydney basin at the moment. Pretty sure I will be OK though it could rain for hours according to the radar.

Hope you are enjoying your Monday

Take care…

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Morning all – yet another cold, damp, grey and overcast day

My brother rang at 7.30 last night – a time he never rings – so I immediately thought something bad had happened. The nursing home had called him and told him Mum was very unwell, refusing to eat or take her medication. As you can imagine I didn’t have a very good night. He contacted me again this morning and said he had been to see her and she looked very pale and didn’t even register he was there. He plans to go back in after the doctor has visited. We are both really worried.

I found one of the under-cupboard lights in my kitchen had somehow fallen out of its fitting overnight – I have managed to put it back in but not sure how secure it is, I may ask my neighbour to come in when he gets home from work this evening to check it for me.

Don’t think I will be able to concentrate on anything today – my thoughts will be 12,000 miles away

Take care – have a good day

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good morning all

@SheilaP sorry to hear your bad news , having gone through similar I would prepare for the worst . Must be hard being so far away .

Its a wet morning rain is forecast for much of the day.

Have a good day .

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Thanks Eliza - I am preparing myself for bad news, Mum is 99 years old and has been suffering with ill health and dementia, I am hoping she recovers but part of me doesn’t want her to suffer any more, which makes me feel guilty.

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Good morning everyone… :+1:
Some light rain accompanied me on my walk this morning but nothing serious, stuff is drying and scattered about on various radiators. It’s a bit cold (4 C) so I’m not going out again.
The bloke from ‘Quickline’ is coming to fit my new router next Tuesday and I’ve still got a few jobs to do in the loft before he arrives (I hope he knows that the router is going up there) I’ve done most of the wiring for him already, that fibre cable is such a bitch to thread through and round things…

Sorry to hear about your Mum Sheila, I can’t imagine how bad you must feel not being able to be by her side… :hugs:

I don’t mind metric Bruce, I can work in either, it just depends which side of the rule I’m looking at… :grin:

I used to have a tropical tank Swim, 250 litres I think it was. Kept it for ten years and used to go and sit watching the brightly coloured fish do their thing, so relaxing but hard work doing partial changes and cleaning all the bits and pieces every month so we had to sell it in the end. I do miss it, but not the humping of buckets of water… :009:
:fish: :tropical_fish: :whale: :whale2: :dolphin: :shark:

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Sorry to hear about your mum @SheilaP, it must be so difficult being so far away. :cry:
Sending best wishes.

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Good morning from gray Florida!

@SheilaP, I am sorry to read about your mother and hope you are getting along ok. I know it’s a very difficult situation to be so far away, but it sounds like she is in good hands and that she will get the attention she needs.

@OFG, aside from a few degrees difference in temperature, we shared the same running conditions this morning. I am craving the sun, but with the clouds comes empty trails, roads, and spaces, so no complaints from me! BTW, I must be old because when you mentioned “router” my brain went to the woodworking kinds. Life was better when we spent more time with routers than…routers :smile:.

@Bruce, that is quite a lot of rain even to my customary measurement system! I wonder, is most of your rain tied into the seasonal monsoon system or more isolated because of convective heat?

Sticky.

I am sticky.

Everything is sticky. It’s bad. :tired_face:

The first thing I did this morning was knock over a giant bottle of Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce in the pantry. The result was gooey sauce and shattered glass - on the floor, shelves, canned goods, kitchenware and even - one of the dogs. She was thrilled, but the first thing I had to do was shoo her away from the puddle of goo, and now she has accused me of being a party pooper. There are days in which I had a drain installed in the center of every room and a firehose attachment on the sink - and this is one of them!

Aside from that, I have a day of tutoring and part of my new 3p routine: pitching, packing, and painting. Oh to be primping for a prince who would whisk me off for some pasta! But that’s not very practical…pffft.

Alright, enough of my terrible alliteration.

Have a nice day!

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I hate rulers with metric and imperial on them side by side because you can only use it one way round. Fortunately only cheap rules are like this, they are made in China and presumably want to cater for the US market.

I have a 1 metre steel rule in the garage with metric on one side and imperial on the other which is OK and occasionally useful.

It is a lot but yesterday one place had 80mm in an hour, Sydney had some flash flooding, I was fine I haven’t looked at the gauge yet but I would guess less than 10mm for the whole thing. Many years ago a town near me but on the escarpment had over 1 metre of rain in two days

Mostly the rain (we get more in summer than winter) is remnants coming south from the northern monsoon but this is warm easterly air from the Pacific Ocean (which is 1.5° hotter than mean) meeting a westerly travelling trough. Apparently there is a high atmosphere low which doesn’t show on the surface charts causing this - I am merely repeating the weather forecast.

It is not over yet.

2.30 in explains why

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This must be a very worrying time for you. I hope it turns out OK.

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I under estimated the ocean temperature off the NSW coast it is 27° apparently that is 3° above mean for this time of year. (it was on the weather forecast last night)

When I used to go swimming in the ocean I disliked it above 22/23°, I didn’t think it was refreshing but when my brother was visiting he went scuba diving on the Barrier Reef and thought 28° was lovely - I think it is like swimming in warm soup but I vaguely recalled that English indoor swimming pools left you feeling parboiled :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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You would get refreshed swimming here off the east coast Bruce…It’s 7 degrees C.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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