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My lawn is a mess. There are weeds and bad grasses all over it. So i went ballistic with the Roundup yesterday. Once the worst of it is gone the following is what I picked up at the garden centre yesterday:

1. Ammonium sulphate is good for couch and bad for the broadleaf meadow grass.

2. Senstive weed needs to be treated with lime. It can’t tolerate the pH change.

3. Singapore daisy needs to be poisoned with double conc roundup. But I might try transplanting it onto the bank at the back of the house. It’s supposed to be a pretty good anti erosion thing.

Had a brilliant idea to put together some cheap furniture fast.  I bought some steel shelving units that other day for the spare room and they are pretty good, but they look like they should be in a shed. But they have a pretty good construction so that the outside rails are completely flat. So I reckon I can cover them in some pine, stain it and varnish it. They should look good without all the hassle of building wooden frames for furniture if I was to do it all myself.

The shelving units only cost $75.

Will post pictures when I get down to it.

“Nerf” is a word used by people who play massively multi-player on-line role playing games (or MMPORGs). It is a term used to describe the actions of the host company when they change the way a character plays so that it is no longer as powerful as it once was. This always leads to unrest among those who have that character type. Anyway, this is probably utterly uninteresting to most of you.

In Queensland you go to a hardware shop and buy a shower head for your shower. I did this because I didn’t like the one that came with the house. So Igot my new shower home and fitted it and turned it on. I had expected the same sort of pressure that comes out of all the other taps in the house, but instead there was barely a trickle.

Further investigation found a revealing message in the packaging indicating that the showerhead was rated for 9 litres per minute. A quicks search discovers that this is the regulation put in place by the Queensland government to save water. In effect, they are nerffing everyone’s showers. See how good a word it is?

I live in a tropical rainforest environment. We have stacks of water. It seems a bit thick to me that the same regulations should apply to us as are applied to all those people who live in the desert south of Townsville.

Anyway, I opened up the showerhead and discovered the small piece of grey plastic that was responsible. For good measure I drill some extra holes in the interior workings of the thing.

Now I have a shower which you can actually wash yourself in. I wonder if you can measure just how much unhappiness that small piece of plastic causes the people of Queensland?

Think I’ll put all thoughts of a new computer on hold for a while. The highest priority is to get rid of the carpet in my house and replace it with something else. I saw laminate flooring recently in Bunnings which is going for $14.90 a square metere which looks very reasonable. It’s cheap enough that if I dont like it I can replace it later on.