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Success! The eBay bid I put in on a 2003 Ricoh Caplio RR30 digital camera turned out to be the only bid. Something to be said for a smallish marketplace like eBay Australia, I guess. And the fact that it's a low-spec camera also cut down the bids. Cost $24.95, postage included. It's actually a very nice camera, has some interesting continuous shoot setups. On one, it takes 16 shots in 2 seconds, in another it takes a movie as long as the shutter is held open, then when the shutter is released, converts the last two seconds into 176 more quick pics. I used to use that quite a lot when I had such a camera.
It was my first digital camera but it wasn't tea-proof, as I discovered when it was drowned when a half-pint cup of tea spilled over it. Everything except the LCD eventually came good.

The replacement camera has a battery but no charger, not a problem, I still have the original Ricoh one, which also works with a shirt-pocketable Canon camera I have. The camera can run from its own 3.7 volt Li-ion battery or a pair of AA cells, another very useful feature.

@hazardwarning Logical, there were about five edits done.

Had to edit that last posting a few times. Nice being able to do so.

I had a most magnificent scotch egg and minestrone soup for dinner tonight. Very fine winter fare. I bought some beef cheeks on Thursday, they'll go in the slow cooker sometime later in the week.
And there's a smoked ham hock in one of the freezers that's gonna become pea and ham soup in the not-to-distant future.

@rossa Chilling out. It's the middle of winter, after all.

Goofed.

@matigo's version of the "failwhale."

@rossa G'day!

@streakmachine My mother does but we spell the word as cheque. Banks do as well, a cheque from a bank is used for large transactions like buying cars or laying down deposits on property.

// @phoneboy

Back in the days of the Roman Empire, the famous Emperor Nero instituted a new game. The players would take those little discs you set your glass on in order to protect the furniture, and see who could get the most distance rolling them across the floor.

They were the first roller coasters. Back in those days, the disks were made of iron, and they would bet on whose disk would roll the farthest.

They called them ferrous wheels.