Kaput Kinforest kf550.

Nearly 2 years old and finished, still plenty of tread but it's out of round, the tread has come away from the belt and rendered it useless unless you're in the Philippines where vulcanizers (their spelling) can weave magic on anything.
A real shame as I've absolutely loved these tyres until now, they handle fantastic wet or dry and have a more civilised feel than the original Goodyears which I hated, as well as wearing vastly less.

Daisy looks very ordinary with the spare fitted.
I've ordered a pair of Kingrun T150 to sort out this murky mess, I'll fit them as a pair on an axle and I'll mount one of the current Kinforest onto the spare rim so then all tyres will be 175/65-14, whereas stock was 185/60-14, but I'm not a fan of the current fashion for skinny sidewalls.

 Not mine but my Mother was driving on this until I changed it today. I can really say anything due to triggering tears but I might set this as an example of the effects of smoking, which are more than a dollar a stick in Australia.

A sad look for a champion.

My favourite camera, which is usually the one that sits in my pocket whenever leaving home is gravely ill ATM, it took a tumble into the floodwater when I tripped over the other day and it flew out of my pocket into the drink, took ages to find too but these things are not designed to be drowned.
I've given it much drying and it needs more, but I feel I'll have to disassemble the lens to clean it, until I get my eyes done that will have to wait.
This Olympus SZ-16 has been a real budget champion that gets results above its budget, I took it to the Philippines in 2013 and was extra happy with the choice, I've fixed it over the years as it's been such a joy to operate, just enough control to do the job but little of the complex extra stuff that only massages egos. Things like a flash that won't work until you raise it are a thing that's helps to like it, other stuff like Olympus's computer interface which unlike the other brands gets it right.

Another angle that shows I've undone the back in order to help it dry. In the past I've replaced the viewing screen which broke after a tumble, and I've cleaned the sensor a couple of times due to dust specks, all cameras gather dust specks but Jimby is the type who'll endeavour to fix issues like that.

This is a trial shot after it was dried a bit, more work ahead for Jimby, or if lucky just time, but at least there's still hope for life.

Soggy bottom Daisy.

After a mainly fine day with a mere 20 mm of rain until five in the afternoon, the sky started to rain and it didn't want to quit, it dropped another 450 mm until about one this morning, we seem to keep dodging bullets with flooding but this was a very close call and we now must have a bit of a dry patch. A very solid wet season here so far, December 1000 mm, January 800, and so far three days into February 750+ mm, all of it flowing to waste in the Coral Sea because there's no dam on the Herbert River, which is usually (but not this time) the cause of our floods.