The parents didn't get right up at me, they were just agitated and making calls/circling the area.
I've never actually had a problem with plovers despite plenty of stories from others about how aggressive they can be, similarly I've had magpies fly past and click their beaks near me a few times during their season but I've never had them go past that. I feel like a lot of the time people just get panicked when a bird starts trying to make a point.
I was heading down to water a tree on my little block and there was a agitated plover pair around. I was just wondering where their nest was (given their reactions I figured it was nearby) when I saw this little one right next to me.
They certainly camouflage well, I was within a metre or so of the chick before I noticed it even with the grass being pretty short at the moment.
I think it is getting a bit better, the last few years has seen slightly more colours come back. It's still largely boring but there are a few red, blue, and green cars around again instead of everything being grey, white, or silver. Grey can look rather nice on the right car but it's a bit much when every boring SUV joins in.
I'll note Mazda seemed to lead a bit of a resurgence a while back with red and that is a colour I do like, dark green is my favourite though (I've seen a few newish BMWs with a particularly nice dark green, I hope it starts a trend).
There's plenty of rock cairn trigs around but building one on top of a giant rock is something a bit out of the ordinary, I'd give points to whoever built this one.
The horse has well and truly bolted in this case. To get people back to buying legal cigarettes again they're going to have to both lower the price and find a way to crack down hard on the illegal market. It takes a pretty principled person to decide to pay two or three times the price to get legal cigarettes when you can walk down the road and every man and his dog will apparently sell you cheap illegal ones.
There is truth in that, as someone who also went to such a school (numbers dropped very noticeably in yr 11, either towards TAFE or simply leaving education as soon as legally possible).
Combining CIT and UC would indeed be a hard task to manage without scaring off those who are sick of schooling as they know it and desire more practical experience. The other end would have its own issues too as prestige does still play into people's university choices and the combined edifice would have to spend efforts on maintaining its reputation for research/academia to not scare off those prospective students.
your toddler brain
Ah yes, because insulting people instead of admitting actions can cause effects is such a marker of a developed intelligence...
That screeching is a great example of what helped shift people (and design/manufacturing budgets) away from building lighter and lower cars. No point prioritising those things which help handling when speed limits keep being set well below the safety limits of actual trucks (let alone cars), you can't advertise sporty handling, and roads become more and more potholed.
Take away people's ideas of one form of enjoyment when driving and they'll find another - this has ended up with everyone having ideas of adventure instead and now you've got herds of nominally off road capable SUVs everywhere and many more four wheel drives than there used to be in urban areas.
You're a lot of what is wrong with the modern left. No capacity for nuance and if someone is perceived as failing any of the multitudes of purity tests then they're obviously terrible and couldn't possibly have a point.
I've never even liked the proliferation of SUVs let alone the American utes, I'm just sick of the anti car crowd bewailing the current situation without having the intellectual honesty to admit they helped cause it.
Congrats to all those who stuck overly low speed limits anywhere people dared to have fun, complained when ads showed a car doing more than driving sedately, and complained about spending money on fixing roads to a proper smooth standard. You've successfully moved the aspirational goals of most people's car ownership from handling and performance to being larger, higher up, and capable of adventure holidays.
Not that I expect any of these people to admit they've helped caused this problem, the efforts will probably move now to trying to also ban anyone from enjoying themselves on the dirt.
They appear to have some smart features, the kmart website includes these on the description:
The last point is most relevant, I'm guessing that means it can do things like attempt to identify stuff you're looking at. I wouldn't have high hopes for the software being well coded or supported for any length of time though...
If you really want a forced saving experience with tax remove your claim to the tax free threshold for that job. Do that and I can basically guarantee you'll be sitting on a fat return every year.
The downside is of course that getting that tax return means you didn't have that money for the rest of the year, which is good if you can't save otherwise but means you didn't even get the pittance of interest you could have gotten if you had it (not to mention making your life hard if the weekly budget was already tight).
If someone tells you they understand a normal combustion engine commuter car transmission they are either a transmission expert or a scammer, whereas you can make an electric motor literally with a battery, wire and some magnets.
And you can make a working multi speed transmission with a kids toy, if you're going to reduce both sides to a simplistic representation rather than just the one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpuJRwjCfM is a manual transmission for example.
Trying to compare the simple motor you linked to a functioning transmission is like me using that mecanno video to say how simple a transmission is compared to the motor and control circuitry out of a modern electric car. Comparing like for like I'd venture to say that most people would have considerably better luck understanding exactly how a real manual transmission works than exactly how a modern electric car motor works.
Edit: Realised that was a bamboozle and I walked right into it too...
Something about their lack of filtering making it so you had to search through gobs of crap to find things
Marketplace is truly terrible when it comes to search filtering, so it probably was that. I've been trying to keep an eye out for a particular model of car and you simply cannot search for it on marketplace without getting results which are 99% other things. It can't even just return results for a particular make or model let alone basic characteristics like transmission type or drive type. The worst part is that we had this capability on places like carsales and gumtree but people decided they wanted to ignore all that and post ads on the most annoying option instead.
If you've got a storage type water heater they have a sacrificial anode inside to reduce corrosion of the actual heater tank. They're meant to be replaced at intervals (around five years typically) to make the heater last longer.
I changed mine today and it was showing very noticeable wear, I doubt anyone had changed it since the heater was put in around ten years ago (in part because it's installed in an awkward position under the sink so you have to remove the sink to change the anode).
Comparison photos between the old and new anodes:
Technically you should probably get a plumber to do this but it's easily done if you've got a decent sized socket set and are cluey enough to realise you should turn the inlet tap off and have a pull at the pressure release valve before you open the tank.