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It looks like there might be something wrong with Pictrs. I’ve refreshed the icon, but it isn’t making a new thumbnail. I’m afraid I won’t be able to look closer at this until tonight when I get home.

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Good morning (It’s still Morning in Perth so Nyer)!

Baku is right - the tram is in fact still there. What’s happening here is your phone thinks it has the image cached, and so isn’t loading it from the web server - instead displaying a local version of it. Only there’s a problem with that local copy of the image. If you visit https://aussie.zone/c/melbourne in your browser you’ll see that the tram is there.

What app do you have there? I thought I had all the main Android apps (Boost, Connect, Jerboa, Voyager and Sync), but none of them seem to match this screenshot. Whichever it is, you’ll want to find a setting to clear the local cache. You can clear the cache from Android settings, but that will probably clear your account and make you log in again.

Bit drastic, but I suppose I could upload a new icon. Your phone would recognise that it doesn’t have the new one in its cache and would load it. That would affect everyone though. Then again, maybe its time to upgrade from a W class to a Z class tram? 😀

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This right here is one of the major reasons we left Melbourne. We were on our own there, without any family support.

To answer the question: One of us usually takes personal (carers) leave. Sometimes that isn’t possible, so we ask grandparents or my sister to help us out (if safe/not contagious). What often happens is that one of us is sick also, having caught whatever pestilence the child(ren) introduced to the house anyway.

Don’t send the kids to daycare if they’re sick. You’ll just be lumping this hassle on other families. I was always resentful of parents who did that.

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I am typing this comment on a Pixel 7. I have had it for nearly two years and I have never experienced these symptoms.

The only app I can think of that doesn’t load in under a second is Asphalt Legends - and that’s because the app takes a week to load on anything.

I am very satisfied with this device, and doubt I’ll be upgrading to Pixel 9. I have no reason to upgrade.

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This makes more sense (expensive to run) than butterflies being stressed. Melbourne Zoo has a butterfly house as well, and it shows no sign of going away.

The butterflies themselves land on people and get photographed all the time. They don’t seem to be shy at all.

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I thought the tradition was that people were slapped across the face with a trout? Times have changed.

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I never encountered them outside about a 500m radius of the zoo, but yes - they were very common in the zoo itself. In fact, I was surprised to find they were gone when I first visited the zoo after moving back to Perth about 7 years ago. I’m fairly certain they were still around in 2007.

The squirrels and the butterfly house being missing were the main things I remember from my first visit with the kids in 2017.

People always used to say that Perth never changes, but it really changed a great deal in those 10 years.

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My grandfather was the Anzac. He served in both world wars. He passed away before I was born, though.

He was an absolute larrikin, there are loads of stories about him. He was famous in his hometown, is mentioned in its history etc.

I’d share highlights, but it’d probably doxx me. 😂

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Hearing one of the kids on the hockey team introduce his great-grandma to my son. Totally wild. My great grandmother lived 1867-1952.

I didn’t even really get the grandparent experience as a kid, let alone great-grandparents.

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Rat Poker

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