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Now that I have cut them to ground level, igure thf I keep cuttick theill not flower and that will get rid of them over time. Because they are so leafy, cutting them down will let the light get to the grasses and clover that I don't mind having.

After the rain finally came a month or so ago, the earth burst forth with mallow weed which took over where I would have liked to have had a lawn, save for two years of drought. It had grown to shin-deep in thick patches, and I knew I had to cut it down. Unfortunately, my lawn mower hasn't been used for two years, either. I pulled it out of the shed, and put in some fuel, which had been in the can for two years as well. You knop already that teh mower would not start. So I had been thinking for a while that the mower had probably had it, and I done some looking around at the price of a new one - about $400. As a last resort, I tipped out the old fuel and oput in some freash stuff. I rejoiced when the mower fired up. I set about attacking one section of my yard and will knock over teh rest of it tomorrow. Eight bucks worth of fresh fuel save me a coulple of hundred bucks, abd gave me a bit of satisfaction for finally starting a job that was high on the To Do list.

Seems that a passport is no loinger ameans of identification, but a tool to restrict entry into a country.

With the excise coming off fuel on Sunday, I topped up my tank this morning. The price was already 10 cents higher than on last Monday. As I was pumping fuel, I watched the price counter change. If the price of fuel keeps going up, the figures in that price counter will be a blur.

To get an Ausie passport, my grandson who was born in 2012 had to supply my birth certificate to show that I was born in Australia. My kids could get British passports becasue thier mother was born in Blighty. I suppose that applies to their kids as well.

I think I just swore at the Pope.

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Bubba-Loo???? Isn't that what Ricky Ricardo sang?

Here's a literary gripe. I'm reading, and enjoying, a series of fiction books set in modern Edinburgh about the lives of people living in a small, middle class area of the city. The writing is good and make for good bedtime reading. However my gripe concerns the practice of the author to have his characters include either Latin or foreign phrases in their speches. Sometimes I know the phrase, but very often I have no idea. Of course, since the characters are Scots and the setting is Scotland, some of those unique Gaelic words sometime appear, but that is what is called "atmosphere'. What gripes me is that these phrases cause me to stumble, losing the otherwise free flow of the writing. I have to pause and wonder if my interpretation of the phrase makes sense. Frotunately, the words are printed in Bold, so I can see them coming and can decisde whether to pause at them, or ignore them and leap over them like a gazelle.

Tougher on Crime is always a good clarion call to the electorate, but like all calls be the clarion, it's mostly hot air in the implementation.

To appreciate The Goodies one had to have been exposed to English humour. The show involving pizza and hot dogs suggests to me that it was American, and we all know that American humour is not as intelligent as that of the British. The British made excellent children's programmes. Did anyone ever watch Worzel Gummage starring Jon Pertwee and Una Stubbs? Pertwee was, of course the third Dr Who.

These explanations use words with new meanings that I do not know, the jargon of AI creators. I think that I might understand what is going on if it was depicted in a diagram so that I could follow the process from an entered enquiry to the response.

We should not be too dismissive of what we experienced. After all, it was a test. The system was being tested to see if it worked. It was the 'beta' version. I suppose we should congratulate the testers for making it clear that they are seeking feedeback. Did you receive the test? If you did not, what equipment do you have? Where were you at teh time of the test? Actually, a bloke came into the shop just after 2:00pm and was asked if he had heard the alarm. 'Nah. I left my phone in the car.'

Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic??????

I remember back to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. A farmer whose place was under an incoming flight route planted a big paddock with canola and a ceral grain in the design of the logo. The logo could be seen from on high.