One hour & 45 minutes (& $1630) after calling the plumber I have a working hot water system. The previous unit could handle 16 litres per minute, this one does 26. Temp is regulated to no more than 50°C and there's no pilot light, the gas ignites via 240 volts on demand. I'm going for a shower now.
Plumber has arrived, is changing the unit over right now. I haven't showered or shaved for two days and it's hetting a bit smelly around me.
Great. Just what I didn't need to happen. My instantaneous gas hot water system has died, pissing water out everywhere. Plumber said it'll be around $1600 to fix it. It lasted about 15 or 16 years since it went in to teplace an older one. The cost then was $960.
Mac user group draws its annual raffle tomorrow at 3 pm. First prize, top-spec 12.9-in iPad Pro with Apple Pencil; 2nd prize is a $500 Apple Store card; 3rd prize is a 64 GB Apple TV 4 & 4th prize was donated by a member whose deceased husband never got to use it: a TEAC turntable/CD player/mp3 encoder.
I could use a big iPad.
We have the technology in the Men's Shed to do steelwork like this. So it makes sourcing Christmas gifts somewhat easier. I made this planter-pot wall/post mount myself. It's all cold twisted/curled & riveted with a single spot weld at the back. It's made from mild steel that's 15mm wide & 3mm thick. The equipment also guillotines the steel strips & punches out the rivet holes.
A few years ago in a Twitter conversation with @streakmachine I noted that Victoria is about half the area of Sweden but has only half the population, so the respective population density of each locale should be fairly close.
WolframAlpha calculates both to be the same - 24.3 persons per square km.