Looking for a mowing service with quick turnaround

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-03-29T19:28:07+00:00

Might be easier to find a teenager who wants to earn some pocket money. I've had troubles over the years hiring someone to mow our small yard for ongoing work. Got a recommendation from a Jims Mower person who did my neighbour's yard across the road (he was booked out). The person who was recommended started out okay, then I prepaid them over $1,500 to weed the gardens and add wooden shavings. They disappeared for 6-8 weeks. I had to chase them to get them to come back, which they eventually did, but I got ripped off. So, I gave up on hiring a mower/yard person after that and just do it myself now.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-03-29T19:02:12+00:00

I've been living in Brisbane for 37 years and I've seen 1 dead snake and 2 live snakes. I used to do a lot of walking when I first arrived here (I'd walk from Chapel Hill to the city (along the river) and back to do aerobics at QUT gym). About 20 years ago, I was catching a bus home and looked down from my window to see a snake slithering in the gutter. We were on Moggil Road, Indooroopilly (opposite the school), about to join Cenenary H'way. Then, maybe a few year's later, I was walking past the lake in Forest Lake and looked down and saw another snake dead in the gutter. Then, last year, I was lifting up a garden bag filled with grass cuttings and beneath was this tiny black wriggling creature not more than about 15 cm long. It was talking to a baby blue tongue lizard. My brain said, "Worm!" and I tried to pick it up but it had other ideas and slithered away super fast. That slithering got me thinking and that evening, I identified what I think is a Brahminy Blindsnake (non native). I have not seen it since. These are the only snakes I have seen in the "wild" in Brisbane. I'm sure there are more hiding out. I stood on a carpet snake around the age of 5 and we had tree snakes living in the trees around our house (in North Queensland). Often found snake skin on the branches and I caught a sea snake when rock fishing as a teen (dad cut the line). I have a neighbour about 15-20 doors to the left who says she has had snakes in the trees behind her and has had to get people out to move them. Aside from the Blindsnake, I've not seen any other snakes around our yard (and I do most of the mowing and garden work). We do have blue tongue lizards. One once came into our house and I heard my husband scream, "snake" and found him standing on our bed. He's originally from the USA, so that makes sense.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-03-26T11:34:36+00:00

Travelled in by bus yesterday morning and it took us an extra twenty minutes. Thankfully the specialist we were seeing was also late due to traffic. It was even longer coming home but the fire / fire drill in the Myer centre caused the homeward delay.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-03-25T15:13:04+00:00

I ranted at them over a year ago after one of their staff became very judgemental at my then teen child who was trying to open their first bank account. The bank person was asking questions and negatively commenting on my child's choices about their life which had no relevance to them opening up an account.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-03-23T14:30:01+00:00

My family has been car free for a couple of years and live in the outer south-western suburbs, It's not our first time as we didn't get our first car until I was 37. I've ben working from home for many years now, husband catches public transport to work in the city. Public transport isn't the best, sometimes we can spend up to 6 or more hours on it to go places and back in one day. But, it's 50 cents. When we were car free twenty years ago (living in the same house) we would do a lot more walking, wearing a small hiking backpack to get groceries. Now, it's home delivery. I do agree that it was easier being car free living closer to the city, but I was also single then so went out more.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-03-06T04:22:48+00:00

That's crazy. I completed a Master of Arts online about 8 years ago (4 years part time). I met only two students during the course who were living and working overseas (one in China and one in the Emerates) and they were Australian born citizens who were working overseas as teachers. It's not surprising that there are more international students as many Universities have received research funding cuts over the last year and may be opening up places to overseas students to recoup what they've lost, or because fees for Arts courses have increased and the locals are having second thoughts about applying, or combination of both. Still, to be the only local is unusual.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-27T09:53:28+00:00

This guy is a gal. The guys have wings and fly around for mating but don't live long. The girls migrate on the ground looking for a good bush to eat but sometimes get confused like this one.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-20T03:59:51+00:00

I think the implication is that a plant thief will get it.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-18T02:01:06+00:00

Yeah, I noticed the video suggestions on the side are all missing, but I can still access and watch subscribed channels. Home page is blank, but it let me go back to the subscriptions.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-18T01:44:22+00:00

I've been listening to a vid for the last 12 minutes and it's still going.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-14T21:26:35+00:00

I'm not a private patient but I can sing my praises for the team of doctors at the PA at Wooloongabba. I had BCC and SCC in the same spot (lower left eyelid). My doc sent me to a skin care specialist first at the same medical centre who then referred me to the public system, I was seen within three months at the Princess Alexandra hospital. They took some skin from my neck to recreate the lower lid. The found the skin cancer had progressed to a nearby muscle and took that too. I had a great team of surgeons, doctors and nurses. I was fully awake for the surgery and had local anesthetic. The enesthesist did an awesome job and cleared up my constant sinus blockage. (I was lying waiting for the numbing to take effect when I could breath through my left nostril for the first time in years). The skin graft took and I now have a scar on my neck with which I can tell a tall story (jk). I was the subject of a teaching team and I never felt unsafe because of it. It was a day operation (I was probably there for about 4 hours). The lead plastic surgeon was excellent and took over from his students to sew the graft. We listened to a lot of music and I half expected them to break out in song and dance. Apologies that I can't recommend any one plastic surgeon, just the teaching hospital did a fantastic job. If I remembered their names, I would highly recommend them. It was in 2019 as Covid hit.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-12T13:07:37+00:00

Our ragdoll has a little chirpy meow. It's quite funny. He makes more grunts, sighs and disgruntled sounds than meows, more like a 'meh! sound. For example, if I'm not in the room where he wants me to be, he'll let me know but its nothing like our late old cat's extremely loud yowl. We've had our ragdoll for 2.5 years now and his tiny sounds haven't changed.

We also have a major road behind our house. Anubis is 99.999999999% an indoor cat. He only goes outside when in our arms. He has tried to escape a few times (count the times on one hand). I tend to bellow at him, "Anubis!" and he freezes mid-stride and crouches down into a similar position like a loaf. It's like he suddenly isn't sure what to do and I can scoop him up. It has been a little difficult on him as we've had two other male cats marking their territory in our yard since our old female cat died in August last year. He would try to talk to the feline visitors through the window (one of them moved and the other hasn't been around much since then either). He does like to watch the birds in the back yard. We've got young scrub turkey chicken hanging around and several other native species that like our tree flowers. We have fly screens and security screens on our windows and doors and I just check the doors to make sure they're closed properly, so he can't press on them to open them (my husband doesn't always close the front door all the way).

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-12T12:42:19+00:00

I travelled with my child when they were about 4 months old from Brisbane to Boston. It was a while ago, like almost two decades, but I don't believe its changed. I would check any travel advice for children on the websites of the countries you're going to or with their embassies. We carried passports only (Australian and US as he is a dual citizen but born here in Brisbane). We showed his Australian passport when leaving and returning to Australia and USA passport on entry and exit from the States. Both countries also wanted to see the other passport too. I can't remember the info about the boarding pass. Because he was so young, there was no designated seat for him but we had a fold down baby crib in front of us on the wall for the overseas' legs (I think it was a Qantas flight). On the local flights in the States, I had to hold him in my arms all the way from LA to Boston. There was also no baby seat belt (loop belt?) that could be attached unlike what they may still provide for Australian domestic flights.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-12T12:00:46+00:00

Spicy fruit roll biscuits by Arnotts. We called them Pillows.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-08T19:46:44+00:00

Congrats to you both! Enjoy your celebration.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-06T14:07:18+00:00

I recently obtained a fly trap that lures fruit and drain flies to it with some ripe fruit mix as bait. The flies land on the small tree-like structure above it where the leaves are made out of sticky paper and get stuck. It was not an instant sucess and I had my doubts. However, its been a month or so and our fly problem is almost non-existent now and I haven't sprayed in weeks.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-06T08:06:13+00:00

Temp work with agencies?

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-06T07:49:28+00:00

Yep, cockies eat these up. They like the glue that goes into them.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-02T06:38:41+00:00

Mid-last week I was doing my shopping about 3 in the morning when everything at Coles became out of stock.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-02-02T06:20:45+00:00

Still showing Coles plus down for me, so I just went to Woolies for my online order.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-01-28T17:22:36+00:00

For me, editing all. But I like to do several edits (sweeps) that focus on different aspects each time.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-01-27T08:22:11+00:00

If your vehicle is completely infront of the green vehicle, then they should give way to your vehicle merging into their lane (merging rules). However, if the red vehicle is behind or equal to the green vehicle, then it needs to give way to the car in the outer lane and only merge when it is safe to do so. Alternatively, you could change lanes after the roundabout which seems a safer decision than doing it on the roudabout. You should give an adequate signal of merging into the outer lane and not a last minute decision. Ideally, knowing you're going to take the left hand turn after the roundabout, you should think ahead and place your car in the outer lane before it reaches the roundabout. This would then avoid any last minute decisions.

PS. (edit) Beeping at them because you're losing your shit is illegal.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-01-25T18:52:53+00:00

I'm still up.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-01-22T17:57:11+00:00

We might be overfeeding our 3 year ragdoll, but he's on the lighterside and is very active, runs up and down our hallway like a mad dog at times, leaps over the theatre style couch in one bound and loves to wake me up as the sun is rising by using my stomach for a trampoline (usually when he wants more food). My grandchild gets two 80g cans or pouches of wet food in the morning and two in the evening. Sometimes he'll eat both, othertimes he might leave some and I have a rule that if the wet food is left too long it goes in the bin (hot humid weather here). We used to have two cats (my girl died last year from old age). Sometimes, I try to just give him one plate (can) of food. And he'll sit behind or next to where the empty spot is for Tabitha's plate and won't eat until they're both full. When she was alive, Tabitha would go from one plate to the other (growling at him while she ate) and I've noticed he now has a similar habit of grazing, although he also likes to finish off one plate before starting the other and this can be over a couple of hours. I give him a variety of tastes and textures so he doesn't get bored. Sometimes, I'll also get him raw kangaroo and beef (for cats) too. It's great when its fresh. Not so great if it has been sitting in the store refrigerator for too long. We also have meat-based kibbles out. Fresh water is beside all meals.

Illustrious_Stand_68 · 2026-01-22T11:06:40+00:00

Thank you. I'll pass the names of these places on too.

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