← 2020 December 2020
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This is a fascinating story about an Australia man with an illness discovering horology
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Thriller idea: As the year 2020 is escorted from the courthouse to a life sentence in prison, after a solid 365 days of wrecking havoc on the earth, a terrorist group hijacks the cavalcade and releases 2020 back into the world with a new hairstyle and a different colour jacket.
We’ll call it “2020 Vision.”
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In my almost 40 years on the planet, and most of them in Queensland, I’ve never kissed a stranger on NYE, or any other time. Am I doing life wrong or is the Chief Health Officer saying that sexually abusing strangers is the norm on New Year’s Eve?
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Don’t let anyone tell you today is December 31st, 2020.
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If you thought everything else that happened this year was scary, 2020 is going out with a bang with delightfully terrifying dancing robots from Boston Dynamics
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Don’t even talk to her before her morning oat milk froth.
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There’s a mum sitting in the conductor’s seat of the playground train Luna wants to drive. Do I have jurisdiction here or do I have to just sit here and let her ruin my kids day?
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Luna. Takes no bull.
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An interesting thought exercise is to imagine that something was being introduced fresh today, how would we approach it.
Much like how COVID-19 was introduced fresh just over a year ago, and we reacted as we did.
How would we react to cancer-causing cigarettes being introduced today? Or worse, road-accident causing cars, or violence and abuse causing alcohol?
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Money shot
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Turns out the TARDIS gets it’s time travelling power from books. Important lesson for us all to learn, ya know?
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Calling all true crime podcasters, I’m desperate to know the story of Henk and Lane and how the small Tasmanian town of Penguin got two IGA supermarkets next to each other.
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2014 article on ‘Silicon Valley data’ being the new ‘Wall Street debt’
“Built by geniuses, both products end up being deceptively cheap, morally corrupting, and of questionable long-term economic utility.”
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I try to avoid hot political issues here, but if Paw Patrol is a police officer, clumsy firefighter/paramedic, some tradies, & a pilot, how is it that they “always get the job done?” Surely they’d need a barista or a wedding celebrant or other assorted necessary type people.
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“Life is short, like Joe Pesci.”
— Chance, the rapper
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Tasmanian Devil time
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Emu
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Wombats
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Galah
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Luna vs Kangaroo
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“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.”
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How to spot a good fish and chip shop.
- it has the word ‘shack’ in its name
- there are lobster pots hanging for styling
- it’s near the ocean
- it’s located at a wharf
- Chico Rolls aren’t on the menu
- there’s a grumpy fisherman on premises
Bonus points for the shack being a seafood type of shack, for example this one is called ‘The Lobster Shack’
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All I want for all of you is to enjoy life as much as Luna enjoys ice cream
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I don’t like to boast on here, but I wanted to silence all the haters and the non-believers.
Yes, I totally can fit nine potato chips in my mouth at the same time.
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So it sounds like MONA is celebrating being open again, this is the view from Dodges Ferry.
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Nothing to see here, just an Independence Day-alien-ship-style laser beam going into Hobart ...
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Hello Coles, it's modern news media here,
I hope you're keeping well.
It's the 26th of December, and now they're ringing the last bells …
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Dodges Ferry.
With a fake sunset.
This is the first photo I’ve ever published with a synthetic element like a sky. But I’ve been colour-grading and removing things in the edit for years, and somehow this feels worse.
Who knows?
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Proud to be racing in the Salamanca Place to Hobart pram race today. Photographed is my First Mate taking us over the starting line.
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Bloke at the pharmacy tells me that this is the second highest selling fragrance in Australia this Christmas
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My personal answer to this thought is that I’m barely “on Facebook.” I publish any and all thoughts, opinions, photos, et cetera, to my personal blog which is managed and published here on Micro.Blog, a social network that is beautiful in nature and inherently keeps my data personal. It’s business model isn’t sharing my personal data, it’s business model is to be a social networ, and it costs $5 a month, because if something is free you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.
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Quote I’m pondering thanks to Tim Ferriss’ pondering it ...
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us… If we can forgive what we’ve done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Spending Christmas in the Switzerland of Australia’s south
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Shop inside a regional Tasmanian town’s local shopping centre. The professional life coach on staff on Christmas Eve is wearing knock-off AirPods.
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Our li’l traveller
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I've just watched an episode of The Wiggles where they're singing about, and boating in, The Big Red Boat. In this episode Anthony is assuming the position of captain, which is confusing, because for the first time in the entire show this is clearly a place where Captain Feathersword was the most qualified person for the job.
Why is Captain Feathersword landlocked even when The Wiggles go on the seven seas?
What's the real story with Captain Feathersword?
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Santa forgot a DHL sleigh at BNE
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A Christmas wish list from, and to, the wedding industry. Give the gift of algorithmic love this Christmas, to your favourite wedding vendors.
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Ballin’
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Me at age 2: has never heard of sushi. 1993: first sushi train comes to Queensland Luna at age 2:
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Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of #Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you, 2020! And now you're gonna hear about it.
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A South Australian Christmas
How the people of Kuitpo, outside of Adelaide, celebrate Christmas.
Photographed December 21, 2020.
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Even at the age of six I was a media tart, I just whanted you to know about me.
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South Australia is literally issuing tickets for admission to the state. (Not a joke, you get a ticket for answering the border questions correctly)
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Every airline’s business class is just an upper class hostel in the sky, and the frequent flyer lounge is just an upper class hostel kitchen, free to those who frequent the hostel.
Convince me otherwise.
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone”
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cactus Country // The closest I got to a desert this year, regional Victoria’s Cactus Country. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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A storm is brewin’
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Berrrd
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“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because it might hurt pawn shops.”
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You’ve got to read this LA Times report on how toxic jet engine fumes have been making their way into airplane’s air supplies FOR DECADES AND THE AVIATION INDUSTRY KNEW?! wtf.
For decades, the airline industry and its regulators have known about these incidents — called fume events — and have maintained that they are rare and that the toxic chemical levels are too low to pose serious health risks.
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If you’re flying into Gold Coast from today expect to stand in the sun for a while as they screen everyone entering.
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I never knew I wanted a Trump Presedntial Christmas Address deep fake for Christmas but here we are.
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On Thursday’s we fly in the rain
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Blue Mountains // I'm going here today, one of my favourite places in Australia. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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I don’t know what crime Remember The Milk committed to be left off this App Store list, but it must’ve been bad
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Birds on a wire // I think this is how the internet worked before computers. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Kinda feel embarrassed about my previous 38 Decembers where I’ve proclaimed something stupid about how it’s been a “big year” or something philosophical about how next year’s “our year.”
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If I worked at a newspaper in the buy, swap, and sell section, I would tell people my job was classified.
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“Flight capacity into Gold Coast Airport has soared, with Melbourne to Gold Coast gaining traction as the busiest route in Australia for Jetstar and Virgin Australia. Sydney to Gold Coast also tops Jetstar's two busiest routes in the country.” - Destination Gold Coast
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Olive // Olive this photo of an olive tree. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Cows // This photo is one of Luna’s favourites, because she loved seeing cows so close. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Surfing // My classic favourite photo is a top down of a surfer. This one’s at Palm Beach. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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It’s almost a crime how good Instagram works on a Mac (Apple Silicon + Big Sur) considering Instagram doesn’t allow it to be installed without a bit of hard work. You can just drag and drop an image onto the Dock icon to post.
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Valley // Particles that have travelled at the speed of light for 8 minutes and 20 seconds, just to fall here. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Lorikeet 🌈🦜 // Hungry li’l Rainbow Lorikeets. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Dunedin // The only international travel I made this year was to New Zealand. On a day off in between elopements Harley and I went to Dunedin and found this gem. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Currumbin Foam
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If you're not onboard with a password manager already, then you're leaving yourself at risk using the same password or password-ish for every website. I mention this because there's a deal right now for 10 months free for 1Password for Families. Do it!
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 Burnt // Literally hours before rushing back to Queensland before the border closed, I made this photo from one of the regions affected by bushfires at the start of the year. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Collection of my favourite photos of 2020 // 🖼 All of Brighton // Well before @karenfrombrighton3186 did all of Brighton, back on the 5th day of March this year, I was in Melbourne making a photograph of all of Brighton Beach. It’s one of the framed prints I’ve made available in my online store
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Palm Beach at high tide this morning, no wonder it’s closed
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Finally convinced the Apple Silicon (fanless) MacBook Air to heat up. 45 minutes of 4K video render in Final Cut Pro in an Australian summer.
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I'd like to say that I'm doing this due to popular demand, but the truth is, only 3 people asked. So based on that small cohort I've assumed that everyone would like to purchase on of my favourite photos I made from 2020
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Next month I’m talking at the Wedding Business CEO Summit. But because I can’t be there in person, I recorded it today. Start saving your pennies though, I’ll post about it when there’s tickets available to attend online.
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Is the @remarkable the best tablet for a wedding celebrant? Here's my Celebrant Institute review.
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Best Australian TV ad of 2020 has to be this banger from BCF
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“They try to get their users to do things that their advertisers want them to do, because that's how you sell advertising”
Matt Stoller in ‘We can have Facebook, or we can have democracy, but we can’t have both’
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Just Britt and Luna two years ago breastfeeding mid-walk on the Venice Pier as Britt mothers our two month old daughter in Los Angeles as if it’s her twentieth child. You’re a wizard, Britt, I’m so proud of you.
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There are two types of Australian online stores. The first doesn't ship to PO Boxes and doesn't take American Express. The second is everyone else.
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I’m pretending like everything is fine, please hold your applause til the end of the performance.
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Palmy Army
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Light and cameras explained in the most technical but easily understood way. If you want to actually understand how a camera works, read this through.
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I could watch this YouTube channel all night long
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Finally mapped out my talk for next month’s wedding business summit, now I just need to find a quiet place to film it
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Just received an awkward phone call from someone contracted by a real estate agent, to wish me a Merry Christmas “on behalf of” the agent.
I’m not as well financed as the agent, so can I ask each of you to randomly dial a phone number and wish that person a Merry Christmas on my behalf please.
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I’m forecasting that within 12 months the remaining non-greys will be turned to the grey-side as we embark upon what will be our busiest and most taxing year ever. 2021 sees Britt and I with a newborn, a toddler, new 2021 weddings and elopements, and also most of 2020’s couples.
My friend Geoff at Motion Art Cinema said we should take before and after photos to see how 2021 ages us.
Bring it on 2021!
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Whatever your wedding photographer is charging you, Luna will beat their packages by 10%.
Wedding has to start after her midday nap and she’ll need a never ending supply of Smarties.
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Nashua
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and roundabouts
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Report: Humanity not ready for aliens to be ready for humanity to be ready to find out that aliens have told the USA and Israel that humanity’s not ready for aliens.
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In honour of my birthday today, please make a donation in my name to the Human Fund, money for people.
Photo by human, Jason Corroto.
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Three weeks into taking a shot on Qoin, an Australian crypto currency launched by Batercard that you can actually use in retail and for services, and although I have not spent money yet, I’ve sold a few second hand things and from that injection of AUD I’m 12% up on Aussie dollar valuation over three weeks.
I wish I knew more about crypto currencies, but then whenever I look I feel like I know everything there is to know, so maybe it’s just all Wild West?
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The reports of my 39th birthday are greatly exaggerated. I’m actually only 12.
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A story about an Aussie athelete who posted himself in a crate from the UK to Australia, disappeared from Adelaide after he was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine, sentenced to death for drugs offences in Sri Lanka, but only spent five years in jail in Australia.
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I'd neglected to mention weight/size in my reMarkable 2 review - so it's been updated. The reMarkable is 18% smaller than the iPad Pro and weighs 15% less. When you're talking about gadgets held in hands, that's a difference.
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I’m starting to focus on self portraits
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Luna, teaching bubba to swim
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This is Maddie and Casey’s elopement, with me creating the marriage ceremony, photographed by Bec Zacher Photography for The Elopement Collective on the Sunshine Coast.
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What do I actually do?
I lead my whole life in preparation to be your celebrant. Living the joy in my own marriage, leading my family, enjoying my friendships, travelling, living, drinking, sleeping, and eating, preparing for this succinct and breathtaking moment in your wedding. We’ll have meetings, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffees and beers. We email, talk, text, and DM, over months and years.
You walk down this aisle, everyone cheers, and then the crowd hushes.
You’re standing here, holding hands, and everyone waits for me to start talking.
What do I say? How do I say it? What vibe do I leave? How long do I speak for? Will it be too long or too short? Do I say and pronounce your name correctly? Will my PA speaker system actually work? How will everyone feel? Will I do anything awkward or weird? Do you trust me? What kind of marriage are we talking about?
It all comes down to that moment where I bring the microphone to my mouth and starting dropping syllables.
Someone watching me create a ceremony recently said that I just “ad-libbed” the ceremony because I didn’t read from a script. It’s so much more than that. I have to stand there confident about what I’m going to say after asking myself all those questions I just mentioned, and do it with a calm and happy demeanour, without burying my face and voice in a script.
I arrive an hour or more early, and I wait while you’re late, then stay around after to help with group photos or to help your Nanna to the reception.
I live an entire life preparing for these 18-minute-long moments we call a marriage ceremony. And it’s amazing, I’m so grateful I get to be that guy. Thank you for inviting me in.
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Looks like a glasshouse ...
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Aircraft doing hard time
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Feels good to be back, standing outside the Gold Coast Qantas Club with a bunch of other members moments before it opens, as each new person who would imagine the lounge to be open by now, stridently - almost aggressively - walks past the congregation, gets to the automatic sliding door and their face sinks as it doesn’t open.
It’s been nine months, I miss you Qantas frequent flyers, you bring me joy.
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Sunset from Mooloolaba to the Glasshouse Mountains
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Ok, it’s competition time, let’s do this.
Best palindromes, go!
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The first rule of drone club is don’t take your drone swimming.
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Today we find out if my iPad Pro is for sale
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