The irony that I have a Scottish family name starting with “McL” is not lost on me. Worse than that, the “c” is traditionally in superscript and thanks to Unicode I now use “MᶜL” where ever I can.

Reminds me of an old photo I've got somewhere of our Labrador, Toby scrunched up in one corner of his big dog bed, and the cat Kismet sitting in middle of the bed looking at the camera going, "What's your problem?"

Either of these links of use to you?
reg.bom.gov.au
reg.bom.gov.au/australia/ra...

> I'm almost at the point of locking myself in the walk in wardrobe with a doona over my head

Again?

At least my laundry is dry. It's in next door's yard, but it's dry!

I'm quite fond of the open-ear bone conduction type headphones myself.

Installing Lineageos on the Samsung would have been another option - but it's a fiddly process.

> Now I just need to convince himself that we need a lot more rescue dogs in the house...

Ha. We said, "No cats until we get back from our trip." I think a certain someone is pretty much expecting we stop at the animal shelter on the way home from the airport…

What do you think of the DDG app overall? Browser-wise I use Firefox with Ublock Origin. DDG worht it?

Can you also use this DDG app to restrict which apps can and cannot use wi-fi and/or mobile data? I currently use netguard.me for this, but it hooks the same Android VPN functionality DDG uses.