Robert Fairhead

Cheered, cheered the Swannies onwards to what seemed an unlikely victory over the Saints yesterday, sticking to #HeapsNormal ales at the #TudorHotel, and then I bought a carton of #Guinness 0.0 for August on the ride home. #DryJuly may be over (thanks again for the donations and support 🙏), but I'm staying dry ... for now! 😉

Ha! Won the toss on my 3rd guess today! 😊 #Wordle #Wordle1870 3/6

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Deduction, Watson, deduction! 🔎 #Wordle #Wordle1871 5/6

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Daft 3rd guess but it focused my options for today's 4-guess #Wordle win! 😉 #Wordle1873 4/6

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Aha, that's today's word! (Some par 4 #Wordle winners feel better than others.) 🥳 #Wordle1872 4/6

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Close, but not my day! 🙄 #Wordle #Wordle1864 4/6

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I like my greens, but really! 🙄 #Wordle #Wordle1869 5/6

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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. ~ #GustaveFlaubert #quotes #grief #friendship

It was a coin toss on the 3rd line between my 3rd and 4th guesses! 🙄 #Wordle #Wordle1867 4/6

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Ha! Can't say why, but the relationship between my 2nd and 3rd guesses had me chuckling! 🤐 #Wordle #Wordle1865 3/6

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Dogs are miracles with paws. ~ SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) #quotes #dogs #miracles #DogsOfMastodon

From the ridiculous to the sublime. Struggled all day yesterday to claw out a 5-guess win. And solved today's 3-guess #Wordle in under a minute! 😂 #Wordle1863 3/6

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A lucky escape from the Elvis trap today! 😬 #Wordle #Wordle1866 5/6

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We know we cannot live in the past but the past lives in us. ~ #CharlesPerkins #quotes #indigenous #aboriginal #australia #history

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an openmind. ~ #EBWhite #quotes #life #humanity #openmind

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~ #BenjaminFranklin #quotes #life #writing

This year's theme for National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day is "Living Our Truth", honouring the power of truth-telling, the sharing of knowledge across generations and the importance of telling their stories! 🖤💛❤️ #Indigenous #Australia #history

Link to the SNAICC website: https://www.snaicc.org.au/our-work/campaigns/childrens-day/

Double woohoo! 4 weeks dry and I've achieved my revised #DryJuly fundraising target of $750. How will I celebrate? By revising my target again to $1000! Why not join in the celebration and shout me a donation to help support people affected by cancer. 🙏

Link to my Dry July profile blog and donations: @robert-fairhead-2@www.dryjuly.com

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It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full; be grateful that you have a glass and there's something in it. 🥛 #life #motivation #quotes

Proof #Trump has no grip on reality or history! 🙄 #USPresidents #obama

My last #DryJuly post for 2026. I'm so grateful to family and friends for their donations that encouraged me to stay dry in July and helped me achieve my $1000 fundraising target. Since 2013, I've raised $8,313 to support people affected by cancer. I couldn't have done this without donations. 🙏❤️

Wow! More generous donations today (including a VERY generous one) mean I've achieved my #DryJuky fundraising target. And the best part is that the money I've raised by simply staying dry for 31 days will help support people affected by cancer. 🙏❤️

"On Monday, August 6th, 1945, a new era in human history opened." ~ Hiroshima by John Hersey (Penguin Books 1946) 😔 #Hiroshima #Japan #HiroshimaDay

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ~ #NelsonMandela #quotes #humanity #rights

Despite generous donations from family and friends, I fell short of my (twice-revised upwards) fundraising target of $1000 this year. But I lasted the 31 days of July dry, and I've enjoyed sharing my posts with the Dry July Community on Facebook, and reading their stories and seeing the success of other Dry Julyers. Whether I hit the booze again or stay dry, I'm savouring how good I feel today compared to the end of June. And reminding myself, it was all for a greater cause! ❤️ #dryjuly

#Anthropic says its #Claude AI model hacked systems of three external companies during safety tests. ~ ABC News. I'm reminded of Colossus in the 1966 novel of the same name and 1970's film The Forbin Project! 🙄 🤖 #AI #humanity #risk

Link to ABC News article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/anthropic-claude-ai-model-hacks-external-systems-during-test/106980640

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ~ #WyntonMarsalis #quotes #humanity #technology #progress

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen. ~ #KofiAnnan #quotes #climatechange 2014

I had a busy weekend, cheer-cheering the Swannies to victory and writing a Yin and Yang story for the Not Quite Write Prize. I chose yang over yin for the theme of my story, but Team Yin was tempting! ☯ #writing #notquitewriteprize #flashfiction #shortstory

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~ #AlbertEinstein #quotes #technology #humanity

Good grief, only 2 sleeps to go until August and the end of my #DryJuly fundraiser! I'm still $250 short of my twice-revised upwards $1000 target for 2026. But I've crossed my fingers that I'll get there. One thing's for certain, I will still dry for 31 days! 😉

Link to my Dry July blog and donations page: @robert-fairhead-2@www.dryjuly.com

Fellow Aussies, don't forget #AusAlert test today at 2PM AEST. 📱⌚ #australia

Link to Australian Government's AusAlert website: https://www.ausalert.gov.au/alerts-explained/national-test

Can't complain because I got today's word almost at the end! 😉 #Wordle #Wordle1874 5/6

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Spectacular and very, very lucky! 😉