Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
Today is St Padraig's (Patrick's) Day. Smiffy looks forward to his annual Guinness, reflects on past visits to Eire and notes that Autumn really does seem to be upon us.
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Today is St Padraig's (Patrick's) Day. Smiffy looks forward to his annual Guinness, reflects on past visits to Eire and notes that Autumn really does seem to be upon us.
The Southern Hemisphere has now slipped into Autumn (Fall), Smiffy comments.

Whilst they can be slow, resource-hogging monstrosities, on a powerful enough machine, software IDEs can be handy. Smiffy has a bash at writing Java using NetBeans and is pleasantly surprised.
After a long drought, it rains. A bit.
Maybe they didn't eat Elvis, but they have eaten just about everything else in Smiffy's vegetable patch.
South Australia is in the grip of one of its worst droughts in recorded history.
South Australia has its second coldest day in 28 years.
Photographs of lightning damage.
Ironic happenings.
Things go wrong on the Winter Solstice.