Appreciated Minty :)

Suicide Squad: Less interesting than discussing linguistics xD

Took me a few tries to understand.

Police shut the road and were diverting traffic, not sure. Buses were getting radio instructions on how to avoid the area.

All dementia is different and difficult in different ways, so I don’t want to claim my experience will be the same as yours.

Both my grandmothers have been in full time care of my parents until recently. One with strong dementia and depression, the other mild dementia but argumentative. It was very stressful for my folks, particularly with one being a nightly wanderer and fall risk.

Government support packages were hard to navigate but they did get some at home assistance. We had a really nice carer come in a few days per week to help with showers and a little bit of cleaning, but the company behind them was awful to deal with and would try to reschedule or cancel all of the time. Definitely still worth it though.

Getting carers allowance (money/week) took a lot of paperwork. It was not much money, but it was something.

Now my parents only care for one of my grandmothers and only for half of the week (family is now taking her for the rest). This is still difficult but much more manageable.

My other grandmother is now in a nursing home. This was really hard for everyone, both emotionally (family saw nursing homes as places you go to die) and practically (first nursing home run by the Salvation Army was neglectful; hospitalised after 4 days). It’s working out much better now, my grandmother seems to be going OK (on average, the dementia and depression are intermittent) and the family is coping better with just occasional visits rather than 24/7 care. x

If your loved one lives alone: get a doctor’s advice and get them assessed. There are support services for them that can come in and help them occasionally.

If you are taking care of them full time: the government offers a few weeks of “respite” every year. This is essentially temporary nursing home stays, fully paid for. The idea is that you are a better carer if you take breaks; and this also lets you see how they respond to a nursing home without committing.

For nursing homes: visit them and try them out first with respite. They vary a LOT in terms of what they can cope with and what their staff are like.

It’s not land banking. It’s land investment. We’re making the land better, more luscious, stronger.

Did mine last year. Took a little while to get results back, but it was really nice to see everything was OK in the yard and veggie patch. My garden has had lots of treated pine timberwork for decades (some CCA treatment type).

reap children

“Aint webassy we doms?”

Perhaps the software OP is using has a second layer of generation (with a different network) that focuses on details like eyes. It might not even know the input prompt (and if it does then it might not have the training background to reward keeping things pixelated).

“Just got the message that the police operation at Redfern has been cleared, trains should commence moving shortly.”

“No timeframe can be provided at the moment, we’re here indefinitely”.

STRIKE FORCE

I love your take on this, thankyou for sharing. My friend didn’t do too much rooting so maybe that’s why he was missing out xD

“When in Rome…”

Glad to hear it’s better than I heard.

Glad to hear it’s better than I heard :) Although McDonalds density is a terrifying metric.

Do you use public transport to get out or mostly car?

Fluorindson Park? I thought they were too new for that.

I had a friend who used to live in Edmondson Park. He hated it. Little public transport and mostly houses. I don’t think it even really had parks last I looked.

Anyone here live in the area? Hope you’re not affected by the fires.

Pretty much. Dance between them every day.

I’m going to carry pants in my bag to work, public transport is too hot for pants but work is too air conditioned for shorts.

BOM says it’s going to be sunny for more than a week.

(Translation: there’s a 50% chance it’ll snow without warning.)

Can confirm, 20 decimals gives you 100.