Drivers in Bathurst lose their fucking minds when there's the tiniest bit of weather.

We have weather a lot.

#Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia #weather #driving

THIS WEATHER ISN'T EVEN GOOD FOR DUCKS

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Us, in our tiny little Suzuki Swift nearly got rear ended by one of those giant fucking RAM SUVs this morning (irony noted).

The guy in front of the guy in front of us braked hard, causing the guy in front of us to break, and me to break... the guy in the SUV behind us braked hard as well, but had to swerve into the side verge so he didn't just run into the back of us.

I think it was a mixture of him going fast and not paying attention, more than him being too close (although those giant things have so much weight to them that drivers really need to leave way more stopping space than they do).

Anyways, I'm glad he thought quickly and didn't hit us. But also those things shouldn't be driven by most of the people who have them.

#Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia #cars #driving #SUVs

Last night was bin night on my street, and my bin was knocked over by the garbage truck this morning. I've had a horrible headache today and hadn't been able to pop out, pick it up, and bring it.

This afternoon, a girl who looked maybe 8 or 10, wearing the uniform from the local primary school around the corner and a couple of blocks away, was just walking home from school along my street, and stopped to pick up my bin and put the lid back on. I saw through my front windows.

The kids around here often get a really hard time, with people criticising what they're like when they're outside just existing. We have people in the local Facebook groups posting Ring camera footage of kids walking past their house and complaining that there are kids playing in the local park. They're always talked about with suspicion and distrust.

This girl did something super helpful, not because she was asked or because she was being watched.. but because she saw something that needed to be done, and she stepped up and did it. This is an action grounded in a sense of community spirit, kindness, and care.

Her actions are really appreciated! I feel proud and thankful to live in a world where young people are thoughtful and kind.

#CommunityCare #CommunityNotCops #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia

I wish I could put the sprinklers on every day, just to listen to the frogs.

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We're off to Orange tomorrow, to take my housemate to the Asian grocery store so she can stock up on everything she eats from there. My guess is that this will be one of the last times we can take a longer* drive for such a small reason.

I'm really going to cut down driving in the next couple of weeks. I'm trying to get my housemate to sort out her room so she can have a functional office in there as well, so we can perhaps start having her work from home a few days a week. We need to get her a new desk, and some more bookcases, I also need to spin her bed around 90° so this against her other wall to get everything to fit in there. She's not a neat person, and her bedroom is vmessy.. which is fine, it's her room and I'm not her mother (tbh, if I was I wouldn't worry about her space either).. so I think it's going to be hard work for her to tidy enough that we can move furniture.

My hope is to sort out the house so that she can work from it and I can live in it without us wanting to murder each other.. with the goal of driving only maybe once or twice a week to help with the fuel crisis because it's only going to get worse towards the end of the month.

#FuelPrices #FuelCrisis #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia

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* longer drive = more than the 10 minutes it takes to get into town. Orange is about 40 minutes away.

My hairdresser has played "My Old Man Was Right", by Luke Combs 3 times in a row so far.. and that's just since I've been here.

Ma'am, are you OK?

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