New Formentor V Owner from Australia
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Well we get the Beast from the East for those living in the central and eastern areas. Wild Atlantic for those living in the West and Central UK. Sahara Dust for those in the Centre and South. That one is not loved by car owners. Sand.
Blast from the north for some and pesky dangler that directs cold weather from the Artic but other than that.... with climate change the American bad weather finds its way here due to the west to east air movement. Didn't mention the Gulf Stream air current that moves about trapping the north / south air. Hot / cold and weather patterns.
Blast from the north for some and pesky dangler that directs cold weather from the Artic but other than that.... with climate change the American bad weather finds its way here due to the west to east air movement. Didn't mention the Gulf Stream air current that moves about trapping the north / south air. Hot / cold and weather patterns.
One of my lads is in Brisbane at the moment....his Aunty lives in a place called Carrara.....
Well some of that Australia bad weather is good for people in the glass trade where it smashes stuff 
. Those big hailstones. Round here they like fallen trees for their wood burners 
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Fallen trees play havoc with the fibre cable hung between telegraph posts down gully roads. The fibre breaks, OpenReach the network infrastructure provider puts joints in them, then the cable stays down on the ground for days till they put it up and the next tree falls on it....the soil is too stony to bury it. Ours is buried to the house. A luxury.... mind you I still think its hung to get here onroute but hopefully no big trees close by.
No bears in trees here. Badgers rather wombats. Those charge through the garden at night. Worm farming our lawn. Dig a trench and come back later to scoop up what's appeared. Wildlife cameras. Had a mink once. Smiled at the camera. They escaped from mink farms in long gone history. I did share the picture with the wildlife park people... not really interested.
. Those big hailstones. Round here they like fallen trees for their wood burners .Fallen trees play havoc with the fibre cable hung between telegraph posts down gully roads. The fibre breaks, OpenReach the network infrastructure provider puts joints in them, then the cable stays down on the ground for days till they put it up and the next tree falls on it....the soil is too stony to bury it. Ours is buried to the house. A luxury.... mind you I still think its hung to get here onroute but hopefully no big trees close by.
No bears in trees here. Badgers rather wombats. Those charge through the garden at night. Worm farming our lawn. Dig a trench and come back later to scoop up what's appeared. Wildlife cameras. Had a mink once. Smiled at the camera. They escaped from mink farms in long gone history. I did share the picture with the wildlife park people... not really interested.
ah openreach we don't use them anymore one of the advantages of rural life there is now competition for broadband infrastructure.
Yes the other one didnt get here (Ogi). A scramble to rollout. Originally we were on wireless broadband rubbish reliability and only running at 40Mbs. Trees in the summer blocked the signal to the mast on the church roof a couple miles away. They would send an engineer to reboot their own equipment ehen it went down, often. Then the other provider rolling out their fibre put the boot under OpenReach to roll out fibre to the premises quickly. The villagers were on ADSL to a cabinet but on moving in, OpenReach and the providers claimed 2Mbs so went with the duff wireless broadband for 2 years (records not uptodate), then ADSL for 2 years, then FTTPs when it arrived. Rock solid reliability. Disconnected the BT hub and connected an Asus mesh direct. Has proved total reliability. Radiated wifi for Obdeleven.
Carrara is a nice area on the Gold Coast. Real suburbia and a newer part (1980's - 1990s from memory) of the Gold Coast.
+1 on the rural life. Big cities are not good places to be when you get older. Unfortunately, it is hard to make big city money in the bush.
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