Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.
Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:
Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.
People could mention their party affiliation and I could do different options for them. Like vegan for the greens, Mayo for labour, and whatever's lying around for liberal
Ladies and gentlemen, enbies, kitties and potats...I am going to clean up from dinner and go to bed. I don't even care how early it is. I am stuffed. Night all
My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don't spend that much and it's great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who's getting what.
Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!
When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they'd waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I'd been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.
Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I'd get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone's birthday I'd lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I've probably never eaten so well lol.
I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.
I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I'd use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.
It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.
A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don't have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don't have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against "leftovers").
Mix and mash all the stuff together. What could go wrong?
I’m fairly simple so if there were trays of meat you could pair it up with rice, pasta, sandwich, noodles just on a basic level. Nothing fancy or complicated but maybe I just don’t have any good ideas in my head.
Overnight (our night) there have been strange reports coming in from agricultural hubs around the world. Cows and similar bovines appear to have all at once changed their signature "moo" sound, puzzling farmers, biologists, and even physicists. The sound these bovines are now making has been described as follows:
Very slow start to cleaning today but I've cleared out a lot of junk hiding in the kitchen (years of plastic packaging that I meant to throw at redcycle, old teas and boxes of nuts) and tidied under the sink which is the one set of cupboards I know they'll check with good reason.
Off to meet friend and try to keep spirits up...
I have Monday off, figured I'd do the vacuuming + mopping + mass laundry to get rid of cat hair that afternoon after sox leaves. When I get back today I'll just continue with the decluttering and wiping surfaces so that it looks neat and tidy enough. That's doable.
I've got a few pretty politically conservative types in my extended family. Mostly we've always been able to have decent conversations but more and more it seems like the information they quote is so different from the information I see about the world I don't even know where to start. No ...I don't think Trump helped the American economy last time but I don't even want to start to explain why I think that. And no we are not being held back by Greenies .... I just can't even find common ground.
Imagine if the general public knew you could microwave potato... It would be so destructive to the status quo. Restaurants everywhere would be forced to close, who knows what other repercussions would be
So nice to have Fisk back on as a cozy Sunday night treat. Just lighthearted and relatable and low key. The North Melbourne trams are like their own character. Also: I have been guilty of steaming milk so loudly it sounds like a pig being slaughtered 🙋♀️
Looking forward to Aaron Chen's character's grandma next week.
Speaking of other cozy shows I binge-watched Ludwig over the past two nights; nice little romp as well. Recommended if you like David Mitchell.
Shrinking S2 is on too and I'm looking forward to that on Wed/Thu now that Slow Horses s4 is over.
I am a heavy layers/blanket peep. I tend to find I sleep better with a bit of weight.
I think I prefer the weighted blanket if I’m not feeling great, or maybe for a nap. Even after owning it for a few years, I’m still trying to figure out how it works best for me.
I don't have one but I do layer blankets with a doona for the same effect. It's hot though, so I do want a weighted one as well. I think it will help you if you like the feeling of heavy doonas
Out of curiosity I googled "Melbourne pie shop closing down" and.. wow, so many! Too many in the past few years 😢(My local is hanging on, but business rental prices in my area have skyrocketed and a lot of shops that have been there for years have closed. Including my beloved computer repair guy who'd been there since 1986 or something.)
That's tragic but also understandable. Working in elite food environments and having a partner who was a chef opened my eyes to a lot of things. If the integrity of the ingredients is paramount to you then it's so hard to compromise for the sake of $.
Oh seagooon
We wish you would come back soon
But hope you are enjoying your vacation
Enforced by internet enshittification.
But come back soon....dear 'goon.
Here here!
I was just checking to see if @Seagoon_ was alright, they haven't been online in 5 days.
She says she has signed up to aussie.zone and is now waiting for approval. Its now a waiting game.
Thank you, I miss you all too. 😭😘
Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.
Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:
Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.
Stunning rose, but caused by the bane of all our existences: the slacklustre tradie.
Don't even need to glue, could just cuff it
okay I'm looking into this thank you :)
Voila
omg thank you that'd work.
Non-Compliant.
Going out for fancy breakfast this morning to a cafe near a post office. Nice food and the boys can post our council votes for us.
If I ran a cafe near a mailbox I'd do a post about it to remind people to send off their votes and come enjoy a coffee while you're at
DEMOCRACY COFFEE
If I ran said cafe I'd have an October long special of some overpriced cafe version of a sausage sandwich for that election day feel
Would you do different versions for each of the major parties or something like that?
People could mention their party affiliation and I could do different options for them. Like vegan for the greens, Mayo for labour, and whatever's lying around for liberal
The labor sausage, the liberal sausage, independent sausage.
Doesn’t sound too bad to me!
If I could vote I'd definitely get in on this
Ladies and gentlemen, enbies, kitties and potats...I am going to clean up from dinner and go to bed. I don't even care how early it is. I am stuffed. Night all
Ninigh. You gotta do what you need to to recharge. That's often more important than the "should"s we tell ourselves to do.
I'm gonna watch Fisk at 8pm and then call it a night too and do most of the cleaning tomorrow.
sweet dreams 😘😘
My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don't spend that much and it's great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who's getting what.
Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!
When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they'd waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I'd been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.
Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I'd get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone's birthday I'd lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I've probably never eaten so well lol.
I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.
I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I'd use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.
Budgeting and also knowing good deals and seeing one is an under appreciated skill.
I found a ripping deal on ham this week and bought quite a bit of it and made really nice sandwiches out of them and couldn’t be happier.
It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.
A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don't have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don't have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against "leftovers").
Mix and mash all the stuff together. What could go wrong?
I’m fairly simple so if there were trays of meat you could pair it up with rice, pasta, sandwich, noodles just on a basic level. Nothing fancy or complicated but maybe I just don’t have any good ideas in my head.
Craft prepping for the big Halloween window. Sure hope the theme isn’t too obscure ☠️
Oh that is just adorable!
Cooooooooool!
Nice day to be out & about
Is this their new digs at the Werribee zoo? 😃Glad they've got more room now.
Nah that's happening next year; this is still just at Melb zoo :D
I have some work to finish up before tomorrow but I am seriously thinking of just having a shower and going to bed. I am so tired today.
Same. I'm going to eat and read in bed till I fall asleep.
Goodnight everyone. From the home of the unfinished cat tree ❤️
Lol do you want me to come over and help you this week? I'm great at building IKEA stuff! Half my furniture is IKEA lol
Haha I was going to offer as well though I’m on the opposite side of town.
We'll go together haha
Can you distract Gibson while I desperately try to finish it?
Can diddly do!
Dude, ikea fail?! Such disapoint.
I'm so ashamed :(
I finally got to see GardenWorld in person (been an online customer for years)
::: spoiler ...my GOD
:::
It's farken insane. 10/10 highly recommended
No one warned me about the geodes!
the fella that runs this is a consultant there
I love garden world!!! It's amazing!!!
I've been a customer for years - online. I thought it was a bog standard nursery, not this wonderful insanity!
Oh it's a fantastical fairy garden; the geodes and rocks and minerals and fossils and all the cacti and exotic plants. It's a wonderland!
It's fantastic.
omg omg, I too am an online customer for years.
Looks like a visit is on the cards. 🦕🦖🌵
Overnight (our night) there have been strange reports coming in from agricultural hubs around the world. Cows and similar bovines appear to have all at once changed their signature "moo" sound, puzzling farmers, biologists, and even physicists. The sound these bovines are now making has been described as follows:
::: spoiler spoiler GOOOOOOOONseeGOOOOONseeGOOOOOOON :::
Edit: it appears that birds capable of producing human sounds have also begun what can only be described as a chant
So that's what woke me up this morning. Good to know so thanks Force. I was beginning to worry.
Alright, lamb shanks are in the slowcooker! Excited af about this. Never had them at home before. Well, except for the frozen pre made ones.
Very slow start to cleaning today but I've cleared out a lot of junk hiding in the kitchen (years of plastic packaging that I meant to throw at redcycle, old teas and boxes of nuts) and tidied under the sink which is the one set of cupboards I know they'll check with good reason.
Off to meet friend and try to keep spirits up...
I have Monday off, figured I'd do the vacuuming + mopping + mass laundry to get rid of cat hair that afternoon after sox leaves. When I get back today I'll just continue with the decluttering and wiping surfaces so that it looks neat and tidy enough. That's doable.
Why do people feel the need to use their most loudest voice possible when they are outside and only a couple of metres away from each other?
Widespread solipsism?
Sounds like kids to be honest. They can’t control their voice volumes either.
I have no idea why people do that. Bad hearing?
No, not children. Adults.
Oh sorry I knew that. Just saying kids have the same problem with voice control and how loud they are.
There was outside idiots and inside idiots having a convo.
I call it loud noise disease.
I've got a few pretty politically conservative types in my extended family. Mostly we've always been able to have decent conversations but more and more it seems like the information they quote is so different from the information I see about the world I don't even know where to start. No ...I don't think Trump helped the American economy last time but I don't even want to start to explain why I think that. And no we are not being held back by Greenies .... I just can't even find common ground.
Imagine if the general public knew you could microwave potato... It would be so destructive to the status quo. Restaurants everywhere would be forced to close, who knows what other repercussions would be
The way things are going they'd probably put them in Al foil.
Restaurant lobby groups asking to tax microwaves and give them the money
That would make sense tbh
But why would you want to? Pan fried is so much better
False
For the few pubs that might still be open, counter meals would be sad. Parma
chipsand saladBig weekend for him, doggo sleep now.
Goodnight everyone ❤️
The bass is fucking awesome!
Sunday got unsurprisingly lit, surprisingly early.
Attempt 2 at cat tower to commence shortly.
So the 2nd amp I grabbed to make a stereo guitar setup was a huge win!
Sounds so damn cool with an amp on each side.
Will photograph cat tower later. Pray for me.
Edit: putting in headphones helps drown out the noise of the agonising meows.
I’ve dedicated this thread to your cat tower.
I'll make you guys proud lol
It is time to begin THE GREAT CLEAN.
DT DJ, please to turn the music up
Girls just want to have fun.
✅ Breakfast
✅ Groceries
✅ Post breakfast nap
🔳 Cook
🔳 Meal with friend
🔳 World Domination
🔳 Maybe laundry
So nice to have Fisk back on as a cozy Sunday night treat. Just lighthearted and relatable and low key. The North Melbourne trams are like their own character. Also: I have been guilty of steaming milk so loudly it sounds like a pig being slaughtered 🙋♀️
Looking forward to Aaron Chen's character's grandma next week.
Speaking of other cozy shows I binge-watched Ludwig over the past two nights; nice little romp as well. Recommended if you like David Mitchell.
Shrinking S2 is on too and I'm looking forward to that on Wed/Thu now that Slow Horses s4 is over.
I really need to watch Fisk.
I Love Kitty Flanagan.
💛 Fisk. We just watched a heap of season 2 episodes to get the OH up-to-date for S3
Does anyone here own a weighted blanket?
Was thinking of one with the idea that it might help me sleep at night.
yeah but instead we call it existential dread. Still weighs heavily but it's free.
I might give the dread a pass.
Does seem to come with a few negatives I’d love to avoid.
No, but I have a cat that likes to lie on top of me in bed. Does not help me sleep. Especially when purring loudly into my ear.
I can see the upsides but I think having a cat tends to put your body into an immobile state.
Miss Meow is remarkably good at balancing while I roll over.
she is singing you a lullaby
used to have one but it felt too heavy, ended up with melatonin
Oh ok.
I do like the additional weight. More worried that it might get too warm or something.
You can buy weighted ones that are designed for hot weather, they woven out of massive threads with large holes for air flow.
Edit: but I think there are some now that are cooling too, if you search for 'Australia hot weather weighted blanket'
Like this?
Yeah like that!!
That sounds like what I have.
It’s woven like thick rope in a cross code pattern and there’s large holes with the way it’s woven as well.
I do. It has worked at times, but not always.
I am a heavy layers/blanket peep. I tend to find I sleep better with a bit of weight.
I think I prefer the weighted blanket if I’m not feeling great, or maybe for a nap. Even after owning it for a few years, I’m still trying to figure out how it works best for me.
Oh ok. I feel like I kick the light ones off too easily sometimes.
If I was going to get one it was going to be one of those Kmart ones.
I don't have one but I do layer blankets with a doona for the same effect. It's hot though, so I do want a weighted one as well. I think it will help you if you like the feeling of heavy doonas
I’ll give that a shot. Got this bottom knitted cotton blanket which is surprisingly heavy.
I’ll chuck that on top tonight and see how it goes.
My winter doona is very nice on really cold nights but too warm to use in spring and summer mostly.
Morning. I’m contemplating making a big breakfast
Morning! I just got back from the cafe, where I ate a big breakfast. Would recommend
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIHl8Rw6W8
I knew what this was before I clicked it 😂
My sister says: don't you fuckin ruin mother's day again 😂😂
🥳🙌
I could do with a big breakfast today. I think it’s somewhat decent outside as well to boot.
Argh. Woken up late and have to make the transition back to early wake up tomorrow.
Save me!
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I’ll have one order of that for 6am tomorrow.
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I’m reorganising my National Geographic collection, and I’m missing random ones
Mission for the morning. Queue for the closing day sale at the best pie shop ever. ‘Tis an utter tragedy.
Out of curiosity I googled "Melbourne pie shop closing down" and.. wow, so many! Too many in the past few years 😢(My local is hanging on, but business rental prices in my area have skyrocketed and a lot of shops that have been there for years have closed. Including my beloved computer repair guy who'd been there since 1986 or something.)
These guys it’s both rent and ingredients. They refuse to use shit and would apparently have to charge $14 a pie to keep as is 😿
That's tragic but also understandable. Working in elite food environments and having a partner who was a chef opened my eyes to a lot of things. If the integrity of the ingredients is paramount to you then it's so hard to compromise for the sake of $.
This is true. It costs money to use good and real ingredients.
The other issue is falling real value wages, we get 1/3 in real value of 1970s wages.
Victory! Well mostly. They are out of almost everything. Anyone not already in the queue will be disappointed.
🐇🐕
I need to buy some shoes and vote. Righto
In what order though? That’s very important.
I voted, posted the ballot and bought shoes in more or less a straight line
Not bad. Nice and efficient!
Now earwigs want a piece of my seedlings… unfortunately for them I employ an organic pest control system called ‘yeet’
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Cheesy garlic naan and vodka, please!
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You're the beeeeeest!!!
Spring rolls? Thanl you 🐱
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A complicated pineapple rum thing please
🌀🍍🍌🐟
Wheee! Thanks
Hawaiian pizza please Chef.
🍍🍖🍕
Thank you Chef!
Sleeping pills and a ham please
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quiz
30/50 could easily be worse.
10/50
I got one wrong. Just happy I got the animal ones correct haha
Tin arse: 20 with some very lucky guesses.
Exactly the same. 30/50 about half were lucky guesses
15 🥲
20/50 today. About average for me.
has anyone seen my new dinosaur necklace, can't find it anywhere 🙄 Found it!!