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Jimmy
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Lawn bowls turf manager ok, greenkeeper, in the picturesque Clarence Valley of New South Wales. Masters swimmer and volunteer surf lifesaver, skilled in terrifying my crew in the rescue boat. Intraventricular meningioma and bacterial meningitis survivor.
The croquet lawn still popping despite inconsistent rainfall. Digitaria Didactyla(blue couch) cut twice@5mm with 30” optidrive, 16 blade cylinder.
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Bowlo chinese and Trivia
Living the dream 😀 Iluka
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Today. Renewable energy more than half the electricity grid for the first time, despite Coalition/Murdoch fear campaign
(data also proves solar & wind far cheaper than coal & gas)
#whatsthescam #auspol #NEM
michaelwest.com.au/renewable-en...
Renewable energy hits half the grid as Coalition scaremongering hits overdrive - Michael West
While the Coalition and Murdoch media ramp up their campaign against renewable energy, renewables set yet another record - 50.1% of the grid
michaelwest.com.au
December 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Clarence R. and the beach and Bluff at Iluka
NSW
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Sunday morning in Maclean again. Work done - foliar fert(phosphite/silica/liquid organics) applied and a green cut and rolled for any possible heathens practicing on a Sunday. It’s already28C I’m sweating.
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Eastern grey kangaroos on a stormy and damp Friday. The mob is growing in number.
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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The media keeps pushing the lie that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables. They’re not. CSIRO and AEMO show solar and wind are far cheaper. The fossil fuel lobby funds the lie, and half our grid’s already renewable. The transition’s happening, like it or not.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Another glorious Spring day at the head of the Clarence valley. Digitaria still popping, cut twice@5mm. 35mm rain in the last 8 days.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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"You can’t have the documents. Hang on, maybe .. Nope, too sensitive. OK .. not sensitive, you can have them. Except you can’t."
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social on the hunt for NSW nuke sub base #auspol

michaelwest.com.au/nuclear-subs...
Subs base enigma. NSW Government doesn't know what to hide or why - Michael West
Getting access to documents on NSW nuclear subs base has become an FOI riddle wrapped in a submarine mystery inside a nuclear enigma.
michaelwest.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Power is back on
Fingers and eyes crossed
It slips to the south of Yamba.
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Big storm outbreak north coast and adjacent inland NSW, right up into QLD, they copped it last night and earlier today. Hail up to 7cm. Right now at the Clarence R. Mouth, it’s dark, humid and rumbling. Supercells a strong possibility.
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
37.7C at 2:30 pm then a southerly hit and dropped the temp’ to 24C by 3:30pm

Rain very likely tomorrow and hopefully that will spark some long awaited lateral grass growth.
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
37.6C in the shade and dry as a wooden post. Hydrating to the max. Wind eased back to a tempest.
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 AM
36 degrees C. 22% humidity. Peak gust 30knots from wsw. Summer doesn’t officially start until December 😳
12:41 AEDT.
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Kicking up a gale, with dust from the road. Getting that storm brewing look to the northwest. That wind is dry and hot.
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
34c in the shade, 20 knot gusts - dry, from the inland and humidity(25%) dropping faster than a cold drink. The days you just hope the pyromaniacs are asleep. 2mm rain in the last 7 wks, it’s primed. Good news, storms/rain starting tonight for a few days.
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Noticed this upriver shopping in Grafton: tall bunya pine(Araucaria Bidwillii) right and the lilac symbol of the upper Clarence valley, the sth American jacaranda(jacaranda mimosafolia) left. Pre-colonial and post colonial.
October 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Picked this up on a regular visit to Launceston, from shiploads. It keeps me motivated on long hot days in the sun, that, and the mantra: Monday is payday. 😁 like me, it’s starting to fade.
October 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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The cool and foggy 20C morning before what if forecast to be Sydney's hottest October day EVER with temps over 40C.
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The Albanese govt can find $368 billion for submarines we’ll be lucky to ever see, but can’t provide very modest amounts of funding for our world-leading, Nobel Prize winning researchers.

Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.
Budget cuts ‘threaten Nobel Prize-generating research’
The government may close one-of-a-kind instruments at the synchrotron in Melbourne and Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney.
www.theage.com.au
October 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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#MarchForAustralia Bob Katter the bellwether for getting his al Qaeda mixed up with his Hamas - and more - gets referred to ICC for IDF ties, weapons links @sstephanietrann.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/marching-for...
"Marching for Australia". Bob Katter, poster-boy for anti-immigration, and weapons - Michael West
Bob Katter claims Gaza refugees are part of Hamas, continues to position himself as one of parliament’s most outspoken defenders of Israel.
michaelwest.com.au
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
46c in western QLD 😳 summer doesn’t officially start until December. 3 more summers before hanging up the steel caps.
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Turners beach and lighthouse, Yamba, Clarence river.
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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NO KINGS!
The Australian perspective... "The British themselves would not accept an Australian as a head of state, and it is time we declared at that level who we are, at last."

Thank you,Thomas Keneally!
www.smh.com.au/national/cal...
Call this a geriatric rant if you wish, but at 90, I’ve decided enough is enough
I’m fond of King Charles but, on my significant birthday, I must declare: I am not his subject. I owe him no allegiance.
www.smh.com.au
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM