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RaptorSA said:
Dude, so it's been a long time....
Does this thing still work?

I've been looking at the Landroid M500 and would love to see a long term opinion.
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Yes it's still working in its new home (we converted to astro)
 
Some bird dropping his lunch in the messiest, most hidden corner of the garden and leaving me a future White Stinkwood tree just as I was trying to figure out which type of plants to buy.

Merry Christmas to me.

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It'll get way too big for my little garden but decided to pot it for now and deal with it in a few years.

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Sinbad said:
Yes it's still working in its new home (we converted to astro)
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That's pretty impressive.

My yard is probably a bit small to justify it and we do have gardening services in the complex, but I'm almost tempted to get one just for the cool factor and the fact that I hate it when the gardening services always pick the worst time to rattle my brain from right outside my office window when I'm trying to get work done.
 
RaptorSA said:
That's pretty impressive.

My yard is probably a bit small to justify it and we do have gardening services in the complex, but I'm almost tempted to get one just for the cool factor and the fact that I hate it when the gardening services always pick the worst time to rattle my brain from right outside my office window when I'm trying to get work done.
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It should be pretty robust. It has replacable blades and battery which are pretty much the only wear parts.

Get one that goes right to the edge though, the cheapest one doesn't. You get left with a border you have to trim.

Also I'm sure tech has moved on in terms of obstacle avoidance etc. The basic one I had did nothing of that.
 
Sinbad said:
It should be pretty robust. It has replacable blades and battery which are pretty much the only wear parts.

Get one that goes right to the edge though, the cheapest one doesn't. You get left with a border you have to trim.

Also I'm sure tech has moved on in terms of obstacle avoidance etc. The basic one I had did nothing of that.
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I actually like that the thing is "stupid".

Less stuff to go wrong, and the fact that the batteries can actually be bought easily and used for other Worx products is awesome (a SDS prercussion drill is also on my future list of stuff to get). Their electric weed eater that uses the same battery packs is pretty damn cheap so doing the hedges can either be done by buying one, or just letting the garden services know that hedges are all they need to do.

Thanks for taking the time to let me know it's still working. That actually all that matter to me these days, sick and tired of products that review well then die a year or two in.
 
B-1 said:
Those grow like weeds so it will outgrow that pot pretty quick.
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Yeah, those roots even at 1.2 Meters were monsters.

It's a gorgeous tree though, the parent tree is just 30 meters from where I found this one, it's quite a motherf**er.
I'm just going to leave it in the pot, or a pot for the next 2-3 years and see what happens. Will likely donate it then to someone who wants a lekker shade tree and has the space.... or maybe if there's a corner in the complex that opens up far enough from walls we can plant it there.

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Here's the parent. Two storeys.
Even it is still small but has an entire shaded ecosystem below it.

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Wandering around the southern Kruger this morning. On dirt roads mostly. Mammal sightings were good but sparse. Plenty of impala, which I love (plenty of new borns from their birthing in November, stunning).

It was mostly great bird sightings. A couple of new ones for us.

This evening we took a short drive to a nearby waterhole and saw three lion cubs playing in the bush next to the road.

On the way back, a lone hyena sauntered across the road. What a special day.
 
We arrived back home safely today. Our time in the KNP was amazing. So many memorable sightings (birds, mammals, reptiles and bugs).

Our 12 km trip out of the park this morning gave us 8 mammals. Two big 5. Two different lion sightings. One of the lion sightings (close to the gate) was with a giraffe kill overnight (next to the road, we knew there were lions in this area, as we were there late yesterday afternoon). Sad to see such a great creature like the giraffe go down, but in 15 years we have never seen anything like this.
 
After half a lifetime of being used to tenderpreneurs, and infrastructure projects being massively over time and over budget with associated massive disruption, to see the following update about the main motorway in this area:

**M27 J10 update - Friday 2/1/26**

MOTORWAY TO RE-OPEN 24 HOURS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

Great news to start the New Year.

The M27 between Junctions 9 and 11 will now reopen a full 24 hours ahead of schedule, at 4am tomorrow, Saturday 3 January — an extraordinary achievement after one of the most complex engineering operations Hampshire has ever delivered.

Over the past ten days, around 130 people have worked day and night through the Christmas period to install a brand‑new underpass at Junction 10 using an innovative “box slide” technique. A 60‑metre concrete structure — weighing 8,500 tonnes — was slid 65 metres into place with millimetre precision, avoiding months of lane closures and disruption.

I want to pay particular tribute to:
• Our outstanding Hampshire County Council highways and engineering teams
• The main contractor, VolkerFitzpatrick
• The many skilled local subcontractors who brought their expertise, machinery, and sheer determination to the job

Their professionalism, teamwork, and relentless effort — in all weathers, at all hours — are the reason the motorway can reopen earlier than planned.

This phase of work is a major milestone toward the new, free‑flowing, all‑moves Junction 10, which will support the Welborne Garden Village development and strengthen Hampshire’s infrastructure for years to come.

Thank you to residents and drivers for your patience during the closure. And an enormous thank you to every member of the team who made this possible. This is Hampshire engineering at its best — public and private partners working together to deliver for our county.


TL/DR: closed the road on Christmas eve, demolished a section, dug out the embankments, installed an underpass and reinstated everything in time to open ahead of schedule on 3 January.
 
Microsoft localisation / regional settings laziness.

Just global search and replace

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I've autumned and I can't get up!
 
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