 Luke Skywalker, wielding his classic weapon
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Today we have an oven with cookies to share
Bacon and Banana
Recently a friend who lives in the UK posted a fascinating pair of pictures.
Being from Queensland I’ve always grown up with fresh delicious bananas being available during summer - and most of the rest of the year, to be honest. Having the idea of banana and bacon in a trifle brought to my attention was a revelation, to say the least!
From a Daily Mail post on the topic
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Today’s minifig is a fire fighting ranger with a cake!
2016 Star Wars Advent Calendar Day 18
 A tiny little desert base
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Today I think we have an xmas bar providing us drinks!
2016 Star Wars Advent Calendar Day 17
 It’s a GoNK droid, full of power for party time!
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A neat little jet, ready to take you on an adventure!
2016 Star Wars Advent Calendar Day 16
 A protocol droid, ready to translate
[Read More]Traffic Infringement Malspam
This appeared in my email today:
From: Avis Vanhise <[email protected]>
Subject: TRAFFIC INFRINGMENT NOTICE
Message:
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE
This is automatically generated message, please do not reply.
ou have been issued with a traffic infrigement:
Reason: negligent driving
Infringement No: 886658188
Date of issue: 11/10/2016
Amount due: $ 221 AUD
This fine will be sent to you by mail to your adress, but you can check it now, please click here
https://traffic-law/notification/
This fine must be paid within the statutory period of up to 12.18.2016.
No, I didn’t fail to copy it, they misspelled “you” and “address”. The wording’s got the usual eastern-european mangling of phrasing, and it was neat that it identified that I’m Australian, sending me a fine in AUD. They used two different date-display formats, dots and slashes, but both dates seem to be in US date format, MM/DD/YYYY which is another tell.
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