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zooterkin said:
:D

They can be very strict here. I dropped one of my grandsons off to a drama class, for the first time. The staff saw me, but when it came time to collect him, I had to call my daughter to get her to tell them that I was authorised to pick him up, as she hadn't notified them beforehand.
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I had to pick up my niece from school when she was in primary school, and they required confirmation from one of the parents by phone before I was allowed to pick her up...

Had to laugh, a lot of the parents were in Toorak Tractors (in Sydney lol)- many who seemed to think that because they were bigger than the sedans, they could just 'force their way' in the front of the line...
Um sorry- I aint scared of that little toy missus- not when I'm sitting in a prime mover LOL

(one woman actually drove past everyone and tried to push in the front of the line- I 'swung wide' to go into the school pickup bays, and 'oh sorry, didnt see you there, you'll just have to wait until I can get in, I'll just have to let this other one thats behind me go first so I got room to swing... oh and that next one... oh and the next one... until she was at the point she 'should' have been in- then let her 'back in line' behind me lol)

She was stuck- couldn't go forwards, couldn't go backwards, just had to wait her turn, just like everybody else lol

Made my nieces day getting picked up in a semi trailer lol (well half of one)
 
Dabop said:
Made my nieces day getting picked up in a semi trailer lol (well half of one)
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Half a semi trailer, is that a quarter trailer? A semi demi trailer? Or demi semi?

I can imagine that your niece felt on top of the world, though, literally as well as figuratively! My dad used to buy and sell high end used cars while he was at uni, and continued to do so for some time aftarwards as well, so he'd sometimes pick us up in Jaguars and Rolls Royces, not quite as impressive, but still good for dazzling your peers when you were six or seven...
 
Dabop said:
Town I used to live in in northern NSW near Lismore, had a tornado passed through it and did a LOT of damage- multiple houses were damaged or destroyed, as was one of the local churches and the local school!!!

Only a few doors down from where I used to live...
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Some of the classrooms at the school... (they had kids in them normally at that time- due to likely heavy rain and flash flooding closing some of the roads with creeks on them, school was let out early so the buses could get through before the rain hit...
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More of the school
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The church had the entire side blown out...
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In all, out of about 60 homes in the village, over a dozen were completely destroyed, and many damaged...

Video of it shot from Modanville (3 mins long)

Strangely enough, exactly a year later to the day, another hit only about 15km away!!! (but was in farmland and didnt do anything)
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Doesn't anyone build with bricks or blocks there?
 
catsmate said:
Doesn't anyone build with bricks or blocks there?
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The church and the sports club were pretty much the only brick buildings in the entire town- brick is bloody expensive to build in, so weatherboard and then fibro became the norm- its only the very newest houses that are being built in brick, but thats not likely to continue- too expensive again... (I noticed the last time I visited that steel frame places are again becoming the norm for new builds there)

My old place was a fibro clad timber frame place built back in the 1950's- at the time, if you wanted bricks, they came in by truck from several hours drive away- and they cost $$$$$$$$$

Why build in brick (with long construction times, and mega labour rates), when you can build a steel frame place in a tenth of the time and for far, far less....

Even my new place is (well will be- when its finished lol) a steel frame building- 4 bedroom for $38k to lockup- you couldn't even buy the bricks for a 2 bedroom house for that, let along build it....

Eventually look like this
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rather than this lol
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Dabop said:
The church and the sports club were pretty much the only brick buildings in the entire town- brick is bloody expensive to build in, so weatherboard and then fibro became the norm- its only the very newest houses that are being built in brick, but thats not likely to continue- too expensive again... (I noticed the last time I visited that steel frame places are again becoming the norm for new builds there)

My old place was a fibro clad timber frame place built back in the 1950's- at the time, if you wanted bricks, they came in by truck from several hours drive away- and they cost $$$$$$$$$

Why build in brick (with long construction times, and mega labour rates), when you can build a steel frame place in a tenth of the time and for far, far less....

Even my new place is (well will be- when its finished lol) a steel frame building- 4 bedroom for $38k to lockup- you couldn't even buy the bricks for a 2 bedroom house for that, let along build it....

Eventually look like this
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rather than this lol
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Curious. Here brick or block are the norm, wood is absolutely the exception.
 
catsmate said:
Curious. Here brick or block are the norm, wood is absolutely the exception.
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When I moved here (Washington State), I was actually appalled by the quality of the houses: no brick, but flimsy, single-wall particle board. Huge risk of fire as well, I thought. But, having lived through 3 major earthquakes in the past 40 years, I've actually begun to appreciate the reason for that.
 
Most of the new builds at my end of the state are wood frames. Especially all the nasty little estate developments.
There is one being built on a canal that is steel framed. The first one I’ve seen in the area in over a decade here.

We have a reticulated termite barrier around our place. Something a new neighbour is looking at when they found the walls of three of their rooms were basically only standing due to the termite mud daub!
 
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A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".

Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community are "deeply uncomfortable" with references to demons.

It said this was because they "associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness".

www.bbc.co.uk

Singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs banned at school in Poole - BBC News

The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians.
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Andy_Ross said:
A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".

Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community are "deeply uncomfortable" with references to demons.

It said this was because they "associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness".

www.bbc.co.uk

Singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs banned at school in Poole - BBC News

The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians.
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And here was I thinking that hunting demons was good, clean, christian fun.

Probably too wholesome for the church on second thoughts.
 
Andy_Ross said:
A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".

Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community are "deeply uncomfortable" with references to demons.

It said this was because they "associate them with spiritual forces opposed to God and goodness".

www.bbc.co.uk

Singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs banned at school in Poole - BBC News

The head teacher tells parents references to demons can feel "deeply uncomfortable" to Christians.
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My granddaughter has watched that show probably 50 times. It's about demons as much as Spongebob is about real-life aquatic happenings.
They're a loose plot device and it's more about teenage crushes on forbidden love. Thinking about it, it's more of a Romeo and Juliet style story than anything.
 
arthwollipot said:
They got asbestos in the play sand.

www.abc.net.au

ACT closes 70 schools after extra coloured sand products recalled

The ACT will close more schools after additional coloured sand products were recalled by Kmart and Target, while the schools that were shut on Friday will reopen on Monday.
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Asbestos sand traced to China.

www.abc.net.au

Coloured sand containing asbestos linked to Chinese quarry

Some of the coloured sand found to contain asbestos has been traced to a quarry in China, according to the ACCC.
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