Wednesday Update

What a glorious start to the day!  A gorgeous blue sky, sun in the sky and the temperature heading into the low 20's.  My bike ride was extremely enjoyable and I did my 12.5k's without a problem.

The backyard was a picture on this beautiful late winter day

My TV show downloads all came through on time and being Wednesday, the rubbish bins went out ready for collection tomorrow.

But the forecast was for possible storms around lunchtime. This didn't occur at all.  We sat outside to eat lunch and to soak up the sunshine.  Trish had been to "Stitchers" during the morning so it was extremely pleasant to sit outside, the both of us quietly.

But the thunderstorms did roll in around 2:50 in the afternoon.  Half an hour later there were 27mls of rain in the gauge, the front road was awash and the temperature plummeted to around 16 degrees.

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Welcome to the sub-tropics!  It is expected that will be the end of most of the rain.  By this time next week the temperature will be on a steady rise to about 27 degrees!

Already the pool is beginning to get a little warmer.  It was around 18 degrees before the heavy thundery rain came this afternoon.

The Community Association website has been down for a few days!  Repeated pleas to the hosting company with phone calls and emails had met with no response at all, not even the courtesy of a reply!

Eventually contact was made via a roundabout way and the website is now back online.  It appears we are not the only people with this problem and were being ignored by the Web Host.  We will be on the lookout for a new web-hoster I think!

And I am busy copying some older movie files over to a spare hard disk drive I have.  This will free up a heap of space on my large 3TB drive!

Trish has been having a little trouble with her phone.  Originally all she was after was a new phone so she could make calls.  But as you get into the smart phone world you come to appreciate you can just do so much more with one than just make calls.  Her current phone cost $89, makes calls OK, allows her to read her emails and to play a few games.

With Kate and family now overseas Facebook has become another 'want' for a smart phone.  She is beginning to discover her phone just isn't really powerful enough to do all the things she wants it to do easily and without having problems!

I have been reading about a phone from China called a THL T6s which is available online for around $100 delivered.  It has a more modern processor, double the storage and double the memory of her current phone.  You can read about it HERE.  I ordered one for her yesterday.

The beauty of the site is that it is especially set up for Australia and orders placed via that site get free 'expedited' delivery.  We expect it to arrive well within a fortnight!

It is a little big for what she wants as it has a 5" screen.  But the bigger screen will make typing, reading emails and looking at photos better than her current 4" screen. I think she will get used to it.

Let's face it, you can't go too far wrong when it only costs $100!