@hybotics Obviously you've been thinking for me. Sunday was yesterday.
@hazardwarning Saw pictures of cars trapped in ice in Boston, they'd been caught in a flood the previous day & hadn't been moved in time.
// @kdfrawg
@indigo It's an alternative to the paper wrapping. Still needs refrigeration.
// @hazardwarning @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg They closed the 3'6" narrow gauge line in 1980. Now runs on Standard gauge of 4'8½". Since 2004, trains have been able to travel the full distance of 2979 km. The train on the TV program was 903 metres long, weighed in at some 1800 tonnes, had 38 carriages & was hauled by two big locos. Sometimes the train can be 200 metres longer.
I shall be watching a TV show called "The Ghan" in about ten minutes, it goes for 185 minutes. Here's the blurb from a TV guide:
'An Australian first foray into the 'Slow TV‘ movement. This is an immersive journey on Australia's most iconic railway that reveals - in real time - the stunning topographical vistas and dramatic palette changes from Adelaide to Darwin, while unpacking our indigenous, multicultural and social history in the most surprising way. The train line and subsequent development of
Central Australia and the growth of Darwin, Alice Springs and Port Augusta can be attributed to local indigenous communities' knowledge of surviving the harsh desert, as well as early immigrants, including Europeans, Chinese and the Afghan cameleers “The Ghan” is named after.'
Off to see if a local branch of a particular retailer still stocks lithium AA cells at $6 per pair. That's a 40% discount.
@matigo Lemsip is a lemon-flavoured hot drink containing 650 mg of paracetamol (an analgesic), and 10 mg phenylephrine hydrochloride (a decongestant) to help to relieve headache, fever, blocked nose, body aches and pains, and a sore throat.
A Twitter contact (also former ADN-user) & I collaborated in thinking up some unlikely cocktail combinations, the best one being the "ginslip" (so called because it's wrong on so many levels) which consisted of gin & Lemsip, aka the gin'n'lemsip.
// @paulgit @hazardwarning