Caryl

Very good :lol:

I wouldn't put it past them! :lol:

You hit a nerve with me sorry oeminx. I was in a similar situation but reversed. When 16 I was attacked by a group of drunk men (you can guess what sort of attack but I will not mention it specifically in a family forum). It took 2 breakdowns and over 10 years of therapy to recover. I cannot bear to watch that ad at all. The attack still affects me to this day. I cannot bear drunks and go out of my way to avoid them. Luckily I am a tee totaller (only because I hate the taste) so don't frequent pubs. I did like the those V(?) ads with the insects. I thought they were cleverly done. Anyone remember ye olde ads for Brylcreme (a little dab 'il do ya), Pinkie Bars, or Jockey Junior underwear??? :lol: We all say, you'll agree, Jockey Juniors are for me With a hey ho pull 'em up, 1, 2, 3 Jockey Juniors are for me! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Picture a group of boys marching down the road in their tightey whiteys and singlets singing that to the tune of "This old man he played one, he played nick nacks on his drum". Most of you probably aren't old enough to know that song either! :roll:

Very cute (considering rabbits are rodent pests :lol: ). My daughter has one of those broken eared rabbits too 8)

Oh yeah, I remember that one! :lol:

Perhaps the key here is the size of the tank the fish is in. Given plenty of territory it is probably a much nicer fish

I can look it all up on the medical database when I am at work next if you like.

No such thing as too much filtration

Thanks for posting that. We often learn more from our own, and others', mistakes and this has been a good lesson to all. Why were you not going to post it?

So oeminx are you saying it is perfectly acceptable for someone to attack someone else and abuse them because they are drunk?

I must say I watch little TV and when the ads come on I tune them out. It took me ages to get the joke behind the painted clothes on those Air NZ ads :roll: :oops: The BAM man worries me and anyone who tries to sell me cleaning products. :lol: One ad I always noticed and watched cos it made me laugh (I like ads that make me laugh) was the bulls in the Toyota ute. "Hellooo ladies!" :lol:

phenix44 they don't know how the ice formed that way as it has never done so before. It has somehow come up from below where the cables go down through the floor to the outside. The snow isn't so much squishy up there as icy so most of the time they didn't sink further than their knees It is the ice factor that makes southern hemisphere heavier than snow in the northern hemisphere apparently. They say northern hemisphere snow has less ice so is not so hard and doesn't do so much damage when you fall over in it :-? Barrie, that is why he was wearing Arctic survival gear :lol:

By the way, this isn't bubbles, it is ice that formed inside the building!

Can you carry 80kg batteries? :lol:

He laughs and says "And they pay me to do this!!!" :lol: :bounce: :lol:

Up on the Black Birch Range (1700m) Telecom have a hut containing various radio telephone (RT) equipment for other companies including service for police, ambulance, DOC etc. With the unusual snowfall on Monday night, the overhead powerline, much lower down the hill, couldn't handle the ice load, breaking some of the lines and cross arms on the poles, thus mains power was lost. The battery capacity is only designed for short term mains outages as there is a diesel generator on-site which should start automatically. It didn't. Further down the hill at 1400m is another Telecom site for telephone service for most of the Awatere Valley. This also lost mains power and the batteries failed shortly afterwards. They should have lasted more than 24hrs. Their mission, should they accept it, was to fix it! They first tried to drive up but got stuck in snow at only 500m up :-? . Next, they got to fly in a helicopter to the lower site but it coould not shut down as the weather was likely to change and the cloud ceiling was almost at that level. It lifted 4 batteries weighing more than 80kg each close to the site for them, along with tools, so they could temporarily connect them to the system to get it operational. The pilot warned them that if they heard the helicopter rev, to stop everything and run because as soon as he got the engine up to speed he was lifting off whether they were on board or not! :lol: The first problem was opening the door of the hut as the locks were frozen. They couldn't get to the higher site due to low cloud so went home. Next day was too cloudy for choppers so they got a digger to break a path up the Mt. It took them 4 hours to do 8km :roll: Then it was too dark to see the road so they had to return home until next day. Today they headed up again and eventually got to the top site about midday. It only took 2hrs to do the final 3km. There are more shots here This is ice formed on a waratah

I thought it was illegal to let cows into natural waterways?

Does anyone know if the cleaners, used to suck up muck in swimming pools, can be used in fish ponds?

Thank you all for the suggestions. They are making me laugh! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ummmm, I have never looked that closely at swamps and wetlands, which I think are too separate things (but don't quote me). Swamps tend to be a lot of still water with trees around the edges. Wetlands have shallower water and a lot of marshy areas for frogs and other critters. Have a look here and here

Hmmm I thought Bud, the wonder budgie, was the only pet in here with his own computer. I see your angel appears to have a Blackberry or similar! :lol:

A high proton diet? 8) Just don't fiddle with the knobs

Hi and welcome. I can't comment on HRV V DVS but would like to point out your tank is really too small for two goldfish and a plec. All those fish would be much happier in something twice the size

I think it was tinytawnykitten. Called Butterfly and Insect World and next to a large Dobbies Garden Centre

Got some pics whetu? Our club did a walk in the dark at Whites Bay. There are supposed to be carnivorous snails there but we didn't find any.