‘I won’t accept the way you’ve lied!
We’re at war now!’ Donald cried,
‘Everything you say is crap!’
(He thought iRan was a fitness app).

Heard a steam train whistle about 40 minutes ago. It’s the first annual Snow Train, a 180 km each way trip from the city out to various regional stops. From those stops, buses go to cafes & restaurants, off to a ski-field (hence the name Snow Train) & eventually to a town where the two big locos can be turned around on the turntable.
There’s another Snow Train running next week, too, this time on Sunday.
I followed it partway on its outward journey last year, got some great photos & videos.

https://www.steamrail.com.au/documents/brochures/2018/2018_SnowTrains.pdf

On Tuesday, July 31st, the next episode will feature a lamppost called Maeve.

I think I’m hooked on that podcast, too.

I’ve been driving for over 40 years & this is the first time I’ve been pinged by a red-light camera.

No chance of removing them from the 2nd-largest city in the country.

Fucking rapacious whores.

Found a traffic infriungement notice in the mailbox today. When I was bringing my mother back to the rehab hospital from another hospital where she’d had an MRI scan done, I ran a red light. No doubt of it, I’ve seen the photos the camera took.
$403 worth of ouch.

23 years ago an errant vehicle partially demolished a low brick wall separating the main road from the carpark of a small convenience store. Since then, the shop has been reconstructed, now occupying twice the original area, but still the brick wall is only half there.

Technically, zero is rounder. It’s mid-winter here, 38º South lattitude. At last the violent winds of the last four or five days are subsiding. Limited precipitation expected today, top temperature of 14º forecast.