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Billy Thorpe's death was a bit of a shock. Same age as my dad. While Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy) is probably the one that gets stuck in your head, I have a soft spot for his cover of Somewhere over the rainbow.

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Danny bird had a sore eye this morning, kept it closed. Took him out to have a look at it, dripped some water into it just in case there was something caught, he really appreciated that. He's better tonight, but I think it's still bothering him. He might have scratched it.

If it continues I'll need to get him an eye patch and a pirate.

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Billy Thorpe's death was a bit of a shock. Same age as my dad. While Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy) is probably the one that gets stuck in your head, I have a soft spot for his cover of Somewhere over the rainbow.

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Danny bird had a sore eye this morning, kept it closed. Took him out to have a look at it, dripped some water into it just in case there was something caught, he really appreciated that. He's better tonight, but I think it's still bothering him. He might have scratched it.

If it continues I'll need to get him an eye patch and a pirate.

weather weather everywhere

Bloody big storm in SW Sydney mid afternoon. I heard on the radio that it had hit around Campbelltown and called home, as that's my brother's area and he's had a leaky roof since the last big downpour 2 weeks ago (the bloke's coming to fix it tomorrow). Sure enough, it was leaking into the garage again and he was running around with containers (luckily it was his day off). The tarps stayed on the roof thankfully, which helped minimise it. He said the rain was coming in at about a 45 degree angle, there was thunder, lightning, hail, the sky was green...

Menangle, which isn't far from him, had 84mm (over 3 inches) in a short period of time. A dozen cars in a school carpark ended up being submerged, several swept up and over a 7 foot fence. One then got trapped in a culvert and caused the road to flood. The shopping centre just up the road from my brother was evacuated, and its roof partially collapsed.

M said that his pool was overflowing, and that the street was a river, with the water up over the curb and partway up the driveway. He lives next door to an oval, and it was a lake.

( let's go swimming at the oval )

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Last night there was a massive hail storm in Canberra, deep enough to still be hanging around nearly 12 hours later in hail drifts. Lots of cars caught in flash flooding, sliding on the hail...damage to a number of public buildings/businesses, including the Australian National University.

( hail drifts )

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And it looks like a tropical cyclone is about to form in the Coral Sea. Apparently if it does it will be the biggest size-wise they've seen in about 40 years. Will be number 3 for the season...now that El Nino is over, I'm hoping it might be a bit busier in March/April. Otherwise I'm going to be totally off for my forecast. It's been very quiet.

weather weather everywhere

Bloody big storm in SW Sydney mid afternoon. I heard on the radio that it had hit around Campbelltown and called home, as that's my brother's area and he's had a leaky roof since the last big downpour 2 weeks ago (the bloke's coming to fix it tomorrow). Sure enough, it was leaking into the garage again and he was running around with containers (luckily it was his day off). The tarps stayed on the roof thankfully, which helped minimise it. He said the rain was coming in at about a 45 degree angle, there was thunder, lightning, hail, the sky was green...

Menangle, which isn't far from him, had 84mm (over 3 inches) in a short period of time. A dozen cars in a school carpark ended up being submerged, several swept up and over a 7 foot fence. One then got trapped in a culvert and caused the road to flood. The shopping centre just up the road from my brother was evacuated, and its roof partially collapsed.

M said that his pool was overflowing, and that the street was a river, with the water up over the curb and partway up the driveway. He lives next door to an oval, and it was a lake.

( let's go swimming at the oval )

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Last night there was a massive hail storm in Canberra, deep enough to still be hanging around nearly 12 hours later in hail drifts. Lots of cars caught in flash flooding, sliding on the hail...damage to a number of public buildings/businesses, including the Australian National University.

( hail drifts )

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And it looks like a tropical cyclone is about to form in the Coral Sea. Apparently if it does it will be the biggest size-wise they've seen in about 40 years. Will be number 3 for the season...now that El Nino is over, I'm hoping it might be a bit busier in March/April. Otherwise I'm going to be totally off for my forecast. It's been very quiet.