All my pics Thomas except the goole image of the Bee in the flower.
If this is factual. It is both Abhorrent and Horrific.
Good job with your lawn Terry. It looks like couch or is it buffalo. I too take pride in my buffalo lawns but some couch has crept into my front lawn from my neibors side gggrrr, while my dogs piss is killing some of my back.
My lawn is Couch grass Thomas. I've spent almost a year getting it to this point with all sorts of treatments like fertiliser, soil wetting agents, pulling out Buffalo runners, seeds and a top dressing.
Isn't this a lovely pic? Blue sky, a well-tended home and palm-trees planted by yourself. Is the red-roofed house your neighbour's?
You were replying to Craig, Terry.
But I share his view on your lawn and car 100%. 
Great job. I haven't heard of a paint protecting coating. Your car is as old as my brother's Toyota Auris which still looks good, too, but not as neat as yours. Recently, he had his hazy headlights cleaned but it was worth it.
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Opps, sorry Craig. I keep doing that with my old brain.You were replying to Craig, Terry.
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The red tiled roof is indeed my neighbours' home Thomas. Good country family, and friends for over thirty years. I used to tutor their son as needed and now he's a teacher himself.
Those poor people Craig. Life is so hard on the Philippines' people. Good people in the main beset with extreme weather events, like Jamica, and aggressive Chinese incursions into their territorial waters.Typhoon kills at least 46 in Philippines, thousands more left stranded
The death toll from Kalmaegi in the Philippines has risen as heavy rains and floods devastated the central region.
I spent a two week holiday in Cebu City five yrs ago. This is the second typhoon to hit the central Phillipine city in six months and either one could have been while I was staying there in a ground floor resort room, vulnerable to flooding which has happened past two times. So I can understand the devastation as there is a lot of poverty on the outskirts of the Cebu City CBD with large families crammed into small ramshackle wooden and tin roofed huts. These would have been washed away so easily. The city is also heavily polluted, I mean a choking pollution. No way will I return to the Phillipines but I do feel for those now suffering.
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It's a good and easy safety measure.
don't put on the lights of my old Corolla; it's quite noticeable already with its shiny white duco. Like most, I think it sensible to put my lights on when its rainy.
Must say I've come to appreciate daytime running lights which every modern car has. No matter what the weather conditions are, they make a car more visible. Since it's all LEDs anyway, there's hardly any battery drain.Cars and rules.
A retired mechanic mate said it's law now that we should all drive with lights on in WA. I checked and it's not strictly true except in rainy weather like having to have your wipers on. Most modern vehicles I've sèen have permanent lights on anyway, just like my motorbike.
Driving on a sunny clear day I
The other issue he mentioned was that recently it's now law for anyone seventy and over to have annual fitness to drive tests by one's GP. It used to be eighty. Why not 75?
That's eye tests, and existing medical conditions ... My mate was spot on with this new legal requirement. I checked.
What's your thoughts on this Craig? I'm 70 next Feb 2026.
Next time I see my GP I'm going there on my motorbike wearing all my garb. I also drive a nice 6 speed manual car and I haven't had a traffic fine in almost two decades. Still, there'll surely come a time when I shouldn't drive a car or ride a motorbike. Not if, but when.
Maybe then I could get a collapsible e-scooter one can take on buses and trains here. Home deliveries too.
No response to this.WOW!. Is this for real.
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That's so sad Craig.The unfortunate Philippine people have been struck by their second typhoon in two weeks and this one is even stronger and more widespread than the last which left at least 224 people dead and devastated large parts of the central provinces.
It hasn't stop raining this month worrying signs considering its spring.
It's the same views all over the world. One can really be afraid of summer not knowing what it'll be like. We've just had a fantastic summer with only two one-week spells of near 40 degrees and some rain. Yet weather was at a crossroads again and it was pure luck that it took the better course. Otherwise it would have been very unpleasant again.
