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@hingehead,

Our new 50p piece, celebrating leaving the EU, was due to be released on 29th March. It hasn't been.

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Saw a rather surprising series of pics in WaPo on "bachelor and spinster balls" in Australia, by a certain Ingvar Kenne. Seems like loads of fun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/06/28/surreal-photos-two-year-odyssey-experiencing-rural-australias-bachelor-spinster-balls/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/YYAS5pXw1xuZQ2JWrN1V5nDFOxA=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/Q6EXDGUY5MI6TGQW3RKR5JNEHM.jpg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/euzi1epYcIXDBUEsg6YUMxuQyTw=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/PY5LB5EY5MI6TGQW3RKR5JNEHM.jpg

http://ingvarkenne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/002_Lowood_BNS_1153.jpg

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@Olivier5,

B&S balls are the pits

Unless of course you like to drive 500k to throw up on someone.

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@hingehead,

What's with the colors?

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@Olivier5,

Coloured Runs and Festivals sort of got trendy four or five years ago (vaguely inspired by India's Holi festival) - unsurprising that it's trickled down the B&S scene - here's the local company that sells the powders https://www.colourpowderaustralia.com.au/

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Droughts and flooding rains.

Three weeks after I extended our pipes out into the dam ten metres, to get clean water to the irrigation pumps, we had 15 megalitres at least overnight enter the dam, overflowing the spillway.

Such a land of contrasts.

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@Builder,

Either bushfires or floods. Or both at the same time.

Eastern Victoria has had so much rain lately that they are being warned about flash flooding, landslides, falling trees and wet and slippery conditions on tracks and roads.

Firefighters have been pulled out of some areas because it has become too dangerous for them to work while it's so wet.

The irony of it.

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@cherrie,

It's a late wet season; much too late for many, unfortunately.

I'm yet to hear word from those who lost it all, whether they're being dicked around by insurers, or not.

Still raining here, with more to come.

Lakeside living ain't so grand, when the lake comes up under your feet.

Must look at clearing the spillway of weeds today, and maybe get the digger in there.

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@Builder,

When the majority buys their home, they don't think about the potential natural disasters that can impact their home. By luck, we bought our home that's 125 feet above sea level, and we didn't learn this until many years after we bought it. However, we did notice during the rainy season that our street always drained the water down the street. Pure luck.

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@cicerone imposter,

We actually moved into the mountains, because where we were, was only metres above sea level, and there's lots of seismic activity in the Ring of Fire on New Zealand's north island.

If that one goes big time, our whole east coast is going under.

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Drought, fire, flooding rains! We've got 'em all - at once.

Dorothea Mackellar understated.

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@margo,

I saw some coverage on the flooding. Sorry.

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@msolga,

To this Australian the following is cringeworthy.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL: neither a governor nor a general, the G-G is the old school tie that binds the country to its colonial past. Worn around the neck of the body politic.

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@margo,

Yes that was some summer. Was a bit like the seven plagues of Egypt in the Bible. The hottest dry spell on record, some of the most extreme of all cyclones flooding large parts our tropical north and the most ferocious wildfires that scorched large swathes of our massive island continent.

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@msolga,

FLAG: as symbols go, it's unsurpassable. Australians have fought for their flag, marched under it, competed for it, performed for it, even sacrificed themselves for it. And that's just the one with the gloved kangaroo on it.

Laughing

I am a proud Australian but I dislike our national flag.. the one with a foreign flag on it. Yes people say that is our heritage. C'mon we loosened the apron strings in 1901 when we started to self govern ourselves as a nation. The flag is a connection to our colonial past..which is extinct.

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@Kris148,

My favourite line from the 2000 Olympics was Gerry Seinfeld (who I don't particularly like) commenting on the Australian flag "I love it, Britain at night".

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@hingehead,

Precisely. The Yanks still see us as a Brit possession. It grates me.

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@Kris148,

No, we don't. Seinfeld was (likely) making a joke. And a lousy one at that. He makes a ton of jokes that fall flat and that was probably one of them.

The rest of us? People who know you're independent know better. And people who don't probably don't realize you were ever a possession of the UK.

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@jespah,

Some of us still think Australia is almost as big as Texas.

Many of them are from Texas.

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@roger,

That's funny (but sadly true)

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