Richie
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No one will be offended as we are all white Caucasian and I expect all Christians.
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I love it!!!
My all-time fave survivorist!!! 
I'd happily spend some time with him in the outback, imagine me showing him what I've learnt from his TV shows.
Thanks Zman!
I love Les Hiddens, he's an ex army major too.Major Les 'bush tucker man' Hiddens is 79 now and he's one of the few people much older than me.
This sounds amazing
I will never experience anything like this so to read about it and watch it on BTM is the next best thing! Apart from the tripe and onions that is 
Grier
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I watched a great doco recently about great scenic drives in the UK. One amazing one was about Northen Scotland.This sounds amazing
Incredibly scenic !
Richie
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I prefer the Lakes District in Jessicas 'green and pleasant' England. I spent an enjoyable two weeks there in 1980 but on way back to London our Kombi van busted a rear end and we were stuck 100s of ks from our destination without transport, which put a dampner on the holiday.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
I imagine that 30° is heat in your neck of the woods. We've been lucky (how long will we be?) that the worse of the two predictions for central Europe has not materialised. We did have 40° as I wrote but not for long. This week we're going to have two warmer days if you like with around 30° but a real heat wave won't be very likely towards the end of summer. It's been way too dry with low water levels in many rivers and somehow strange with strong winds but no clouds as would be typical of cyclones.looker-on
As my nearest forum friend, are you experiencing this heatwave? Temps are predicted for 30 today!
We find it increasingly hard to cope with temps over 30° since they'd paralyse us. We're so glad, though, that it's been a bearable summer. It may not be long until I publicly announce that I look forward to winter rather than to summer as I used to do all my life. Winter doesn't prevent me from doing what I like but our extreme summers increasingly do.
Grier
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Thomas, do you have a reverse cycle Air-conditioner for your summer heat in Europe?
I'm hoping to buy one myself. A big 7.1 kw Fujitsu for about $3,000 installed. They are expensive to run so I'd only use it sparingly for when the heat becomes unbearable, especially if it's humid too. They can be used as a heater too and dry out the air ...
I've now got nice and cheap evaporative cooling with ducts all over my house. That's fine in hot dry heat and cheap to run. However, weather events will get more extreme as Global Warming increasingly causes Climate change all over the globe. Winter Weather in Australia is getting more severe as Craig knows well in the Eastern states.
It's gone weird here too in Western Australia with a very cold and rainy winter season. In Perth we've just had the coldest winter day in 60 years. Hail in Perth and snow on our Bluff Knoll mountain range. Constant Cold hard rain everywhere. Good for the dams though.
High winds and damaging Tornados too ripping roofs off homes and felling big trees. Water spouts crashing into beach side suburbs. It's hard to deny the affects of Global Warming.
Roll on Spring!
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Grier
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I enjoy my DIY projects and spent over an hour in our mega Hardware store Bunnings today. I needed paint, sprays, tough putty, a car and motorbike wheel rim cleaner and whimsically a little narrow brush to clean the tracks on sliding doors...
I'm happy to read the labels ... and ask questions of the very helpful staff there, ... and beforehand on line. All the staff have the items directory on their smart phones.
"Isle 47 halfway down on the left."
Anyone else have a favourite shop?
I'm happy to read the labels ... and ask questions of the very helpful staff there, ... and beforehand on line. All the staff have the items directory on their smart phones.
"Isle 47 halfway down on the left."
Anyone else have a favourite shop?
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
I wish I had it but, as I wrote some time ago, our condo management is against any kind of air con installed which would require extensive building work like wall- or floor breakthroughs . A co-owner even took legal action to make them, and the majority of the other co-owners behind them, agree to such a project but lost. Yet everybody knows that there's no way around it. All I've done so far is getting a tower ventilator for the hottest days. My apartment is south-facing, my MIL's faces north and you feel the difference. At your end it would be the opposite, wouldn't it?
I wonder what "evaporative cooling with ducts all over my house" is?
Shivering through 11° in winter marks the coldest day in 50 years? That's sounds really strange for someone enduring minus 10 degrees each winter and even -20° for three days in a row.
Yes, let spring come to AUS.
On Sunday I'll be heading north to what is called our sunshine island which had a gloomy yet interesting past. Will send some pics and reports.
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looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
What a coincidence! Is it the season although it's different? Now, towards the end of summer, I've decided to stop paying AUD 360 for changing summer or winter car tyres each year while all-season tyres would cost me short of AUD 900. Our MOT is also due again in September which is why I rushed to remove some scratches from one of the rims so as to make sure the car passes the test. I went to our DIY market and got everything I needed.
Richie
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You better have mein freund. What is the island called Thomas.
Grier
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Wow! Your MOT seems very fussy Thomas.
Swapping tyres too must be a task!
Grier
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An evaporative cooler is a device that cools air through the evaporation of water. Evaporative cooling exploits the fact that water will absorb a relatively large amount of heat in order to evaporate. This can cool air using much less energy than refrigeration. In extremely dry climates, evaporative cooling of air has the added benefit of conditioning the air with more moisture for the comfort of building occupants.
The main unit goes on the roof.
The ducts
A portable one, cheap to buy and run but not great, unless you put icy water into the tank. Ice cubes too.
The downside is that Evaporative air coolers work poorly in hot humid climes. The Ancient Egyptians used them too.
Zman
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They're the biggest scam ever, you're better off using your common house fan than this utter rubbish. To think even back in the day they charged thousands of dollars to install them as well.
Grier
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Zman, in Perth we often get very hot and dry days in Summer which my Evap system copes well with. With the odd cyclone coming down south with rain and high humidity it's not worth the bother of turning it on.
That's when I turn on my $20 pedestal fan.
Those portable refrigerated coolers are quite useless and the portable evap coolers aren't much better, but they are cheap to buy and run.
Zman
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They're still rubbish imo, and I'd never get another one ever again. I hope it at least cools you down friend.
Zman
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So, after getting a horrific quote yesterday to change over my car's carpet by a motor trimmer I've decided it to DIY fix it myself because I can't justify paying the big cost considering the age of it. Other than a big 3 inch by 1 inch hole on the driver's side and a small ciggie burn on the passenger's side it looks very repairable wish me luck.