Reasons to be cheerful!

[Sandra Craft]

Yay, indeed, esp. on the more certificates.  Always so useful.

[Dave]

Good news, G85!

Little bit of good stuff here as well, tax refund cheque for £70 arrived today and was immediately classified as toy money! Probably be the BBC micro:bit this time. The local library are loaning some out for adults to try coding. A million of these little beasties are being given free to year 7 kids to boost coding skills.  So it may be another thing for us Computer Buddies to sort . . .

Actually I have spent a year telling myself that I don't want to buy a Raspberry Pi or Arduino. The micro:bit is not as versatile but is a bit cheaper.

[hermes2015]

Good news, G85!

Little bit of good stuff here as well, tax refund cheque for £70 arrived today and was immediately classified as toy money! Probably be the BBC micro:bit this time. The local library are loaning some out for adults to try coding. A million of these little beasties are being given free to year 7 kids to boost coding skills.  So it may be another thing for us Computer Buddies to sort . . .

Actually I have spent a year telling myself that I don't want to buy a Raspberry Pi or Arduino. The micro:bit is not as versatile but is a bit cheaper.

Good news, G85!

Little bit of good stuff here as well, tax refund cheque for £70 arrived today and was immediately classified as toy money! Probably be the BBC micro:bit this time. The local library are loaning some out for adults to try coding. A million of these little beasties are being given free to year 7 kids to boost coding skills.  So it may be another thing for us Computer Buddies to sort . . .

Actually I have spent a year telling myself that I don't want to buy a Raspberry Pi or Arduino. The micro:bit is not as versatile but is a bit cheaper.

And why not? We all deserve some new toys from time to time.

This seems to be a good series of videos on it:

[Tank]

Having been been without permanent employment since November 2015 and coasting on temp work and seasonal jobs, I am happy to report that starting monday I have a new job!
It's for a company just down the road that sells and services RVs and caravans. A bit of a local institution and a cornerstone business around here.
They are bumping their inventory guy up to an office position, so there is an opening for a new warehouse monkey, and I got it! They are also looking into getting me more certificates within fire safety and equipment maintenance to capitalize on my previous work experience.

So yay! 

Brilliant news!

[Magdalena]

Having been been without permanent employment since November 2015 and coasting on temp work and seasonal jobs, I am happy to report that starting monday I have a new job!
It's for a company just down the road that sells and services RVs and caravans. A bit of a local institution and a cornerstone business around here.
They are bumping their inventory guy up to an office position, so there is an opening for a new warehouse monkey, and I got it! They are also looking into getting me more certificates within fire safety and equipment maintenance to capitalize on my previous work experience.

So yay! 

Brilliant news!

Yay! 
Wonderful news!

[xSilverPhinx]

Having been been without permanent employment since November 2015 and coasting on temp work and seasonal jobs, I am happy to report that starting monday I have a new job!
It's for a company just down the road that sells and services RVs and caravans. A bit of a local institution and a cornerstone business around here.
They are bumping their inventory guy up to an office position, so there is an opening for a new warehouse monkey, and I got it! They are also looking into getting me more certificates within fire safety and equipment maintenance to capitalize on my previous work experience.

So yay! 

That's great, G85! 

[Buddy]

Having been been without permanent employment since November 2015 and coasting on temp work and seasonal jobs, I am happy to report that starting monday I have a new job!
It's for a company just down the road that sells and services RVs and caravans. A bit of a local institution and a cornerstone business around here.
They are bumping their inventory guy up to an office position, so there is an opening for a new warehouse monkey, and I got it! They are also looking into getting me more certificates within fire safety and equipment maintenance to capitalize on my previous work experience.

So yay! 

Congrats! Always a relief to have a permanent place of employment and even better that it's close by. 

[Bluenose]

Australia wins again!

21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world (by LD50) are Australian.  Non-Australian snakes in red.

• Inland taipan
• Eastern brown snake
• Coastal taipan
• Eastern states tiger snake
• Reevsby inland tiger snake
• Beaked sea snake
• Western Australian tiger snake
• Chappell Island tiger snake
• Death adder
• Gwardar or western brown snake
• Australian copperhead
• Indian cobra
• Black mamba
• Dugite or spotted brown snake
• Papuan black snake
• Yellow-banded snake
• Rough scaled snake
• King cobra
• Blue-bellied black snake
• Collett's snake
• King brown or mulga snake
• Red-bellied black snake
• Small-eyed snake
• Spotted snake
• Eastern diamond-back rattlesnake

[Magdalena]

Australia wins again!

21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world (by LD50) are Australian.  Non-Australian snakes in red.

• Inland taipan
• Eastern brown snake
• Coastal taipan
• Eastern states tiger snake
• Reevsby inland tiger snake
• Beaked sea snake
• Western Australian tiger snake
• Chappell Island tiger snake
• Death adder
• Gwardar or western brown snake
• Australian copperhead
• Indian cobra
• Black mamba
• Dugite or spotted brown snake
• Papuan black snake
• Yellow-banded snake
• Rough scaled snake
• King cobra
• Blue-bellied black snake
• Collett's snake
• King brown or mulga snake
• Red-bellied black snake
• Small-eyed snake
• Spotted snake
• Eastern diamond-back rattlesnake

Wow! 

[Sandra Craft]

Australia wins again!

21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world (by LD50) are Australian.  Non-Australian snakes in red.

• Inland taipan
• Eastern brown snake
• Coastal taipan
• Eastern states tiger snake
• Reevsby inland tiger snake
• Beaked sea snake
• Western Australian tiger snake
• Chappell Island tiger snake
• Death adder
• Gwardar or western brown snake
• Australian copperhead
• Indian cobra
• Black mamba
• Dugite or spotted brown snake
• Papuan black snake
• Yellow-banded snake
• Rough scaled snake
• King cobra
• Blue-bellied black snake
• Collett's snake
• King brown or mulga snake
• Red-bellied black snake
• Small-eyed snake
• Spotted snake
• Eastern diamond-back rattlesnake

Wow! 

Well, at least we got one snake in there.  And somehow I do not find this plenitude of poisonous snakes nearly as upsetting as the idea of box jellyfish.

[hermes2015]

Well, at least we got one snake in there.  And somehow I do not find this plenitude of poisonous snakes nearly as upsetting as the idea of box jellyfish.

I assume your'e referring to me, Books. The venom of human kindness flows in my veins.

[Sandra Craft]

Well, at least we got one snake in there.  And somehow I do not find this plenitude of poisonous snakes nearly as upsetting as the idea of box jellyfish.

I assume your'e referring to me, Books. The venom of human kindness flows in my veins.

Sure, why not?

[Bluenose]

Well, at least we got one snake in there.  And somehow I do not find this plenitude of poisonous snakes nearly as upsetting as the idea of box jellyfish.

You're right there, especially the Irukandji - it scares me more than anything!

Still, more people get run over by buses than all of these put together and I suspect that not too many of us are scared of buses.

[Essie Mae]

We came back from a few weeks away to find that the tree in our neighbour's garden across the road has been removed! 😀 It was a dark green evergreen about 35' high and it made our living room very dark. Apparently the neighbours backing on to them obtained some sort of an order to pull it down. I detested that tree but we'd been home for three days before we noticed it had gone! We were very tired; that's my excuse.

[Dave]

Welcone bavk, Essie!