Blacktown Council Cleanup

You know when you've called council to come out and pick up rubbish? You sort of expect them to actually pick up the rubbish. This is what Blacktown council cleanup people leave behind. The house this is outside is empty. No one is going to clean up after council. No one lives there anymore.

Just to add to the irony is the sign directly across the road from the rubbish.

More Tregear ice

More ice from the same car windshield

Tregear Ice

From the car windshield

Frosty!

It's cold now. Lots of frost. 2 deg C on my front porch and that's after the sun has come up. Frost not just in the reserve but in my front and back yard. The days are perfect, warm so long as you're in a sheltered spot. I have requested photos of frost from my friend, but that means the poor dear would have to get outside and get cold... we'll see if it happens.

All sympathy to the Tregear woman who got caught up in the accident at Springwood. Soft tissue injuries? Hope you're feeling much better. I bet that stuffed up your day.

Warm(ish) winter

It's so dark at this time of the morning. I had to go to work early yesterday, left the house at 6am, and it just felt so strange to be leaving the house while it was still totally black. The sun didn't become a glimmer until I was down at the station. But it's also not all that cold. I think maybe that there's been so much cloud cover that it's acted like a blanket and kept us a little warmer than we'd expect. We've had no frost at all besides the first couple at the beginning of the season. Now we are towards the end of June and it's just not cold enough. Mind you, if the cloud cover clears we are going to freeze!!

On a completely different subject Westbus doesn't have timetables on their site anymore. They have a link to the government timetable site, http://www.131500.info/realtime/timetableentry.asp and their timetables are on there. I suppose they are saving money by not maintaining their own site. It doesn't say it's temporary. And the wording is peculiar, it looks as if you have to ring for timetable info. You don't - it's a link to a website.

Fogs

The fogs have been amazing!

Poor puppy

All sympathy for the people who owned the puppy that was killed. I can't begin to imagine how bad that felt.

To the person who killed the puppy - you should leave. You should just go. What happened? Puppy bark at you? Scare you? Maybe you just didn't like the people and thought you'd take it out on the puppy. You are so out of touch with your humanity that you think that's ok. There's a word for people who are so dysfunctional they can't feel even a basic connection with other human beings - psychopath isn't it? Go away.

Truck crash

I saw the truck crash on Forrester Road the other day. The funny thing is that it got onto tv news once and then dissappeared. It was pushed off the news quickly by the story of the police chase where someone shot at the police, but it doesn't appear on the net anywhere either. It isn't even on the news section of the police site and the last crash down there was on their site within hours of it happening. The local papers that have been delivered haven't covered it either.

It looked as if the two trucks were driving towards each other and have clipped each other on the front edge. I couldn't get close enough to see what the damage was but one of the trucks ended up on it's left side and went through the guard rail just before the bridge over Ropes Creek and got very close to going over the bank into the creek. The guard rail is still trashed. Forrester road was blocked for some hours.

Fog

Took this with my camera phone from the bus. It's worked out much better than I thought. Just imagine how good it could have been if I'd had the proper camera instead of a phone, if I wasn't on a moving bus, and if the bus windows weren't grotty!

Cold

Getting cold in the mornings and warming up so quickly. I need a padded jacket and scarf to get out of the house to go to work, but by the time I get down to the station I have to take the scarf off. The jacket comes off at work and by the time I go outside for morning tea or lunch I don't need the jacket at all. Yesterday I knocked off just after 6 and didn't need the jacket for at least a half hour. This is tasting winter. Nearly time to put the timer on the heater so it comes on before I get up. Already time for my slippers and soft wooly shawl in the morning.