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Well it’s noon and not much change.

Mostly Cloudy
5°F/-15°C
Wind Speed N 10 mph
Wind Chill -10°F (-23°C)

Snow chances are 60%.

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Posting on a dull Monday morning down under where it's 16C (feels like 13C) with 25C being expected, along with rain and storms later in the day.

Anyhow it's time for a coffee.

Cheers.

31f, the warmest it has been in a long time, the upper left coast may get above freezing. woo hoo.

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Clear sky under a beautiful canopy of vibrant stars.

And yep, it's frosty already. Winter protection woolies are back!

(Still warming my toes from letting them get a bit too chilly earlier...)

Fantastic visibility in this relatively unpolluted clear Arctic air.

Enjoy!

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After getting some supplies from across the road, mowing the backyard again, paying another bill at the P.O., as well as enjoying a few beers and a feed at the pub the mercury here has reached a muggy 26C (feels like 24C) as a wet push from off the coast now assaults our escarpment trying to get at us up here on top of it.

Anyhow it must be nearing time for a well deserved spinal reset.

Cheers.

Poked my nose outside and decided it was a mistake. A good dusting of snow and Antarctic feeling cold said retreat to the warmth inside.

2:15am. Mostly Cloudy
4°F/-16°C
Wind Speed N 10 mph
Wind Chill -11°F (-24°C)

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Light snow 0C.
It feels much colder.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Lights on in about an hour from now. Even colder outside by a couple degrees.

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Sunshine outside!

And the last two parts to install inside. Beautiful when everything arrives exactly as ordered.

Training up the operators continues... Over the years, procedures have 'evolved', the training manuals abandoned, and so everyone here operates on a mix of traditions and magical happenings. On-the-job 'training' is simply "do this" and 'magic' happens. There is the inevitable hammer to add percussive persuasion to do whatever Voodoo...

There is some amazing lazy resistance to accepting learning anything more than blindly 'going through the motions'. Regardless, we're seeing smoother operations just from this week of motivation and small bits of training... Hard going.

Getting off their junk food and booze and TV stereotypes would greatly help them move better! Might actually allow them to start to think also!!...

I make my escape to civilisation today, yay! (My stand-in has a hard week ahead of him...)

All good fun?!

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Over night low 24f, the warmest overnight low in 4 days. Today we are expected to finaly get a bit above freezing. That would be welcome!

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Posting from a 17C (feels like 15C) start on this Tuesday morning as wet weather continues to batter the escarpment while 23C is expected.

It's coffee time.

Cheers.

Mid-day 50f but overcast. We have been invaded by Canadians. I have seen thousands fly by. Geese, ducks, and types I can not identify.

34f, finally above frezzing, this is moat welcome!

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Escaped!

Long drive and now back into the beauty of civilisation and real ground coffee! Yay!!

No worries about the temperature outside being sub-zero.

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I'll stick with our main version of coffee down here. ;-)

Instant coffee vs ground coffee: Which is healthier?

And I certainly give that stuff coming in from the U.S. a big miss as it taste like s*#t even at the best of times (when nothing else is available because crap companies try to cut costs by trying to serve it).

How you people over in the U.S. drink that stuff is beyond me (even the brands that we share now are totally different between countries).

The U.K. stuff is just the opposite being as weak as and then some countries try just to overdose you on the caffeine content alone (eg: Mediterranean/Middle East countries).

We had plenty of that cheap as Yankee instant crap around here during the 70's and my jet setting baby sister likes coming back from overseas to inflict us here with all the stuff that she comes across as she thinks that it's funny to see our reactions to whatever it is, but she'll always sniff out an Aussie coffee bar somewhere no matter wherever she goes.

Anyhow the mercury here did reach our expected 23C (felt like 22C) today between bouts of lite showers, but it's on the slide now as I'm ready for a short spinal reset after a few beers and a feed.

Coffee, Thank god I never got addicted.

Wiggo, the joke I remember from way back is the people down under eat their coffee with a fork because it is so strong.

Don't ask me. Despite being old enough to retire I have more digits than I have had cups of coffee.

Wiggo, the joke I remember from way back is the people down under eat their coffee with a fork because it is so strong.

Those people very likely went to many of those Mediterranean/Middle Eastern cafes that were the 1st to pop up here very many decades ago now Gary (coffee shop below, gambling/gaming den above), but you also need the heritage to chew on that stuff as well and I certainly don't have that in me either. ;-)

During the 50-60's here many Greek, Italian and Turkish coffee shops opened up here to accommodate the new citizens that we had arriving from those countries at that time to fill a severe skills shortage that we had back then and very likely where those jokes originated from, us Aussies had "Tea Houses/Rooms" (mainly for the ladies at the time) or just pubs before then (basically for the men).

Yes we were a very provincial mob back in them days and if you looked white and could speak/understand English to some degree of you were in, the rest of your family could also come even if they didn't, and these coffee shops (gambling/gaming dens) were a connection for them in a new country where everything is the right way up instead upside down. :-D

But if they did need a fork then they went to a Turkish coffee shop for sure (they get a little thinner the further west that you go from there). ;-)

Anyhow, after replying to a couple of PM's, feeding Dog and a couple of phone calls (including 1 some scam caller that got abused until they hung up), I'm certainly ready for that nap now.

Cheers.

Sometimes i think about starting with cofffee.
I simply don`t like the taste.
Once i had a coffee in a jewelery teaching the ladies MS Office i needed 5 spoons of sugar.

One of the ladies asked me if i want some coffee for my sugar ?????

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

20f, 100% humidity, warming up during the day with a snow rain mix in the late afternoon. The extreme cold is ending I hope.

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