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Ummm. It's summer in Oz Art, it's supposed to be hot. Beware what you wish for. La Nina is finally abating and we're going to enter a neutral phase this year. Whether the next year brings the next El Nino, it'll happen sooner or later, then you'll see some heat. Yep. Can't say I'm looking forward t...

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George Hayter was an artist who worked in the 19th Century, producing many famous portraits, including several of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. She was so enamoured of him in fact that she knighted him and named him her Principle Painter. But when she asked him what inspired him to paint, he replied ...

Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:34 pmUmmm. It's summer in Oz Art, it's supposed to be hot.

I'm in Canberra. 31 is "pretty warm", and that's where it's forecast to get to today. Saturday it's supposed to get to 34, which I'd consider "quite warm". It rarely gets above that here.

Australia to swelter through another heatwave as hot weather warnings issued around the country BoM forecasts parts of the country will reach the high 30s and low 40s on Thursday Large parts of Australia are set to swelter through another heatwave in the coming days with hot weather warnings in pla...

Yeah I saw that. Seriously bad luck to get into that situation twice. I hope she's getting some good counselling.

This latest shooting was barely a blip anyway.

We in the rest of the world hear news of a shooting in America and our reaction is "huh, must be Tuesday".

It sounds awful to say that, but there it is.

Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 9:48 pmJust when there's talk of making it legal (and thus taxable) in Oz this bovver breaks out.

Bring it on. I've long said that if I could smoke dope legally I wouldn't have a drinking problem.

I wasn't offered any of those books in school. I was in school in a time and place where pedagogical theory was pretty casual. I remember getting a little bit (a very little bit) of Shakespeare, Evelyn Waught's The Loved One , Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and something called Doctor Wooreddy's...

A blowgun makes a better ambush weapon than a defensive one.