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Reply #15 - Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:48pm

After a chilly start to summer, and yesterday with fireplace going, today the temp went to nearly 30 deg!
It’s so up and down … cold one day, hot the next.
About 18-20 years ago, on Xmas day, I recall….it was freezing with heavy rain, then it snowed!
Who would believe that! Someone must be f@&k!ng round with the weather!
It’s a joke. Shocked

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Reply #16 - Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:53pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:58am:

Sophia wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2025 at 8:13pm:

It’s the second day of summer and was cold! Had the fire place going last night, and today!
Sigh….. Roll Eyes

I have had the ceiling fan on fastest setting to make watching television bearable. The heat and humidity have been so bad that I don't want to do much else.

You’re up near the Tropic of Capricorn and the humidity there kills me!
That sort of heat takes all the energy out of me too!
Just a fan you have? You should get an air con. It will make you feel human again Grin

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Reply #18 - Dec 4^th, 2025 at 3:06pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 11:51am:

Yup.

Can get to 35°C during summer BUT evenings are always 10–12°C—you can sleep!

Around here, it rarely gets below 20°C at night between October and March, unless it has been raining. During the winter, it is fairly common to have nighttime temperatures not reach below 15°C. But in the June-July dead of winter, you would experience 5 to 10°C nighttime temperatures. Even for those times, the daytime temperatures rarely get below a maximum of 20°C.

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Reply #19 - Dec 4^th, 2025 at 3:10pm

Sophia wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:48pm:

After a chilly start to summer, and yesterday with fireplace going, today the temp went to nearly 30 deg!
It’s so up and down … cold one day, hot the next.
About 18-20 years ago, on Xmas day, I recall….it was freezing with heavy rain, then it snowed!
Who would believe that! Someone must be f@&k!ng round with the weather!
It’s a joke. Shocked

I watched a December game of cricket being played at Hobart. They panned the camera around from the game to show that it was snowing nearby.

I turn off the hot water system by around September or October and don't switch it back on until mid-March. Depending on the weather conditions.

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Reply #20 - Dec 4^th, 2025 at 3:14pm

Sophia wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:53pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:58am:

Sophia wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2025 at 8:13pm:

It’s the second day of summer and was cold! Had the fire place going last night, and today!
Sigh….. Roll Eyes

I have had the ceiling fan on fastest setting to make watching television bearable. The heat and humidity have been so bad that I don't want to do much else.

You’re up near the Tropic of Capricorn and the humidity there kills me!
That sort of heat takes all the energy out of me too!
Just a fan you have? You should get an air con. It will make you feel human again Grin

I have an airconditioner in this room. But the other week, I turned it on and lost power to my computer. So, I either use the airconditioner without using the computer. Or I keep it off. I have the feeling that the airconditioner is getting a bit inefficient. Last week, I was going to spend $50 on one of those small portable airconditioning units that cool a room. Some old guy tried to convince me to get one of those larger units that do a better job and bring down the humidity levels of the room. I might get one of those in the next week.

This week has been quite reasonable. It was 35°C+ all last week. This week, it feels like between 30 and 35°C and fairly breezy.

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Reply #21 - Dec 5^th, 2025 at 5:58am

Sounds like you have an electrical problem!

My house was rented out for a long time, some decades, to a number of tenants before I bought it. Electrician was not impressed by some of the work! The “earth” he just laughed at and replaced.

Two sockets had the inactive and neutral lines switched—switch the socket on and the switch in the meter box flipped! The fuses—actual fuses—passed it, the smart meter I had installed cut the circuit.

One power point had a mouse in it, killed when it touched the active wire Grin

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Reply #22 - Dec 5^th, 2025 at 6:00am

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 5:58am:

Sounds like you have an electrical problem!

My house was rented out for a long time, some decades, to a number of tenants before I bought it. Electrician was not impressed by some of the work! The “earth” he just laughed at and replaced.

Two sockets had the inactive and neutral lines switched—switch the socket on and the switch in the meter box flipped! The fuses—actual fuses—passed it, the smart meter I had installed cut the circuit.

One power point had a mouse in it, killed when it touched the active wire Grin

You mean the Active and Neutral? Roll Eyes

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Reply #23 - Dec 5^th, 2025 at 12:55pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 5:58am:

Sounds like you have an electrical problem!

Ya reckon? I had to swap electrical sockets to be able to grill my sausages. I went to make bacon and eggs. The eggs would not cook -- atleast, not that well.

My bathroom light is not lighting. Sometimes it would come on. For the last week, it has remained off. Either the lightbulb is just not screwed in properly, or it is an electrical problem.

I am too afraid to get my parents to get some electrical work done, as the house is in such an untidy and dirty state. I will put up with the problems until I get the house cleaned up.

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Reply #25 - Dec 6^th, 2025 at 7:22pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 12:55pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 5:58am:

Sounds like you have an electrical problem!

Ya reckon? I had to swap electrical sockets to be able to grill my sausages. I went to make bacon and eggs. The eggs would not cook -- atleast, not that well.

My bathroom light is not lighting. Sometimes it would come on. For the last week, it has remained off. Either the lightbulb is just not screwed in properly, or it is an electrical problem.

I am too afraid to get my parents to get some electrical work done, as the house is in such an untidy and dirty state. I will put up with the problems until I get the house cleaned up.

What is it with your generation & living like pigs?

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Reply #26 - Dec 7^th, 2025 at 12:24am

I can’t believe these fires in NSW!!!
We are barely touching in sumner and there’s houses burnt down Embarrassed

Yesterday here in Melbourne was a stinker of 30 deg I was nearly dying as we went to a work break up party outdoors …. sunblock and sun hat and sunglasses! At home later with air con on.
And today …. It’s freezing and raining again! Fireplace going.
‘Tis madness. Roll Eyes

But look at this photo of Koolewong with fire blazing. What a capture!
I can’t understand how they live close to the sea but can’t be saved from fire?
Perhaps lives can be saved being near water?

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Reply #27 - Dec 7^th, 2025 at 7:24am

Sophia wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 12:24am:

I can’t believe these fires in NSW!!!
We are barely touching in sumner and there’s houses burnt down Embarrassed

Yesterday here in Melbourne was a stinker of 30 deg I was nearly dying as we went to a work break up party outdoors …. sunblock and sun hat and sunglasses! At home later with air con on.
And today …. It’s freezing and raining again! Fireplace going.
‘Tis madness. Roll Eyes

But look at this photo of Koolewong with fire blazing. What a capture!
I can’t understand how they live close to the sea but can’t be saved from fire?
Perhaps lives can be saved being near water?

The 2019-2020 "Black Summer" bushfires started in November too and it has started again.

Boat fires at sea are probably the worse.

It was 42C here yesterday, normally we would go up hills to waterfalls but with bushfires starting to burn decided to stay at home. It was rain at night so fire danger has been somewhat reduced.

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Reply #29 - Dec 18^th, 2025 at 7:20pm

In the 30's here for a few days... just transplanted TOG's Monstera Deliciosa - it was suffering and root bound in the heat in the biggest pot we could find - so The Honourable Slave put together a raised garden bed from bits left over from the bigger ones, and filled it with soil. Nearly did my back in lifting that plant out of the pot...

As the back discs wear thin they crush easier... ouch...

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