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Ash Barty, you silly English Farang ! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…! And I watched your chick cricketers almost choke this arvo, hanging on for a draw with numbers 10 & 11 saving your bacon for you. It was a cracking final 15 overs (that’s all I saw of the entire match ????)

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They look like VERY big oranges on a very little tree !

I’m concerned about the age difference, I really think you should consider someone more appropriate. Maybe her sister has a daughter…?

That may be so about the concerns for years but as a bloke on the street it’s the first I’ve heard about the potential issue. Its amazing that country that produced NASA can also produce this situation… surely a little Research and development would enable a clean cut decision to be made before investing $78 million USD !

I also have this Bosch front loader (in Australia) 6/7 years old hasn’t missed a beat. No hesitation in buying again.

There was a similar article on Australian ABC today, apparently the yanks are using a frequency with “less spread” separating the phone and airline bands. Its mindboggling that it could get to the moment of flicking the switch before the airlines speak out ! Surely there’s either an anti science mentality (think Covid denial) or a political agenda at play…

30 yrs ago I worked as a salesman for one of Australias biggest “roof painting” companies. We pressure cleaned, repaired the pointing to the ridge capping, primed and 2 coated the roof with an acrylic coating, which I believe was an early bathroom/balcony under tile waterproofing coating (think thick and rubbery) with some sort of uv stabiliser in it. As far as I can see you have cement tiles where the initial coating has degraded but your ridge cap pointing looks uncosmetic but sound. Our presentation to customers (we were a sales driven company) was that when the original coating broke down the cement tile was “enormously porous” and would place stress upon their roof structure… we were told the added weight was “up to 20% increased weight”. I personally never believed that claim, but that was the company line, I’d suggest you maybe do an experiment to see how much one of your roof tiles increases in weight after soaking in a bucket of water for a day or two… If you want your roof to have a nice color again I’d be pressure cleaning, repointing where required, priming and a couple of color coats. I’m a ceramic tiler in Australia and I believe in primers… I said that your ridgecap pointing looks solid but unattractive but it looks like the (same ?) guy has cemented over some (cracked ?) roof tiles…? If they are cracked tiles they are prime leakage points, leaks rarely drip straight down, they will run along rafters etc before they drip. If tiles are cracked and then cemented they will recrack and leak… 100% guaranteed ???? You ideally would replace the affected tiles or as a (distant) 2nd option remove the patch cement and use clear silicone in between the two pieces of tile (in a continuous bead from 1 end to the other) and flatten the protruding silicone with your finger (spray with water/dishwashing liquid mix) The moss/mould/fungus needs to be removed if a color coating is to be applied, there is a “knack” to it, as if done incorrectly the result will be moss not removed from the front vertical edge of the tile or excess water penetration into the roof cavity… Some water will get in, you can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs… As mentioned any tiles that are out of alignment need to be repositioned so they will seal better. Unfortunately I can’t offer you any advice on pricing but I’d be at least getting a price from “the best company” and use that as a reference, I personally don’t go with lowest quotes, but that’s my choice not yours, good luck ????

If I was Welsh I’d be succeeding from England so I didn’t have to play cricket with them either !

Blind test ???????? The gold standard though is when you don’t know (or forget) that it’s in your pocket AND he doesn’t know ????

I’m currently wandering around Sydney Australia and it’s staggering on two counts… 1/ The high percentage of people out and about with no masks or wearing them on their chin. 2/ Sydney is deathly quiet, I’m mean DEATHLY QUIET… Sure it’s the 13 January, but there’s small foot traffic on the street and there’s few, very few restaurants/cafes open… This pic is The Rocks precinct at 7pm on Tuesday night and I think surmises the fear of some of the public and the difficulty of business to have Covid free staff…

Looks like the navy ships from the 1st world war

OP keep the hell away from black cats !

I didn’t feel any ill effects, I was happy to have two legs ! I hope you feel better and recover soon ????????

I’d be taking the antibiotics. Up to you…

Seemed like strips of old rags to me… ????

Yes, my initial Dr rummaged around with a knitting needle type thing and pronounced the puncture 25-30mm deep ! I never had a chance of cleaning that !

Post surgery

Hospital presentation, black is necrosis, red is infection.

I was trying to post a couple of salient pics on the pitfalls of not going to hospital for our op, but forum says no…

On presentation to hospital

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Do directly to a hospital. I had your experience 8 weeks ago in Australia, “a good scratch” I thought as I gave it a good dose of antibacterial. 4 days later, it started to smell in spite of my regular swabbing and redressing. Short story is 3 bags of iv antibiotics, 1 x tetanus, 1 x rabies (we don’t have rabies in Australia, but the dog wasn’t known to me) general anesthetic surgery to clean out the necrotising tissue 1.5 days in hospital, a week off work and medical appointments to get the open wound inspected and redressed 3 times a week for 5 weeks. Not so long ago, I’d have lost my leg and or my life. Go to the emergency ward at the nearest hospital.

In my small, humble sample size Thai are not particularly coffee people either… that may skew your observations slightly.