Submitted âšâš5â© âšmonthsâ© agoâ© by âšSeagoon_@aussie.zoneâ© to âšmelbourne@aussie.zoneâ©
I am so excited. Tonight Iâm off to London for a month for a holiday woop woop!!
Pls give recs on things to do! Currently planning on visiting:
Cornwall
Bath
-Oxford
Cambridge
Scotland / Wales
other places in and around London
all Premier League stadium tours in London
hopefully Old Trafford as well
London: Camden Town is a cool place if youâre into markets and food. The usual spots in London (Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, The Mall, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London if youâre into history). I enjoyed a low-key stroll through The National Gallery in London. Southbank is great for a walk too from Tower Bridge down towards Blackfriars or even Waterloo Bridge. Oh almost forgot⊠Ye Olde Mitre pub. Itâs a tiny traditional 1547 real ale pub. I fell in love with hand pulled ales over there.
England: If youâre in the south/the coast I preferred Eastbourne and Hastings to Brighton even though Brighton is the most famous. Also if youâre after white cliffs, Eastbourne has more impressive ones than Dover even though the white cliffs of Dover are the more famous.
Scotland: Definitely try a nice sit-down meal of Haggis if you havenât had it before. I spent a bit of time in Edinburgh just unwinding and soaking it all in. Obviously the castle is a focus point. You canât really go wrong much there. Went to bingo at Meadowbank and that was great if you like bingo.
Wales: I only went to Cardiff and the main thing I went there for doesnât exist anymore (Doctor Who Experience). The streets and Cardiff Castle are lovely to see though.
Iâd keep an eye out for UK brands that get smashed with the Australia tax. Fashion, fragrance, alcohol etc.
If youâre driving to Cornwall because the train is expensive, you can take a lesser motorway for a free squiz at stone henge as you drive by. I was told by family near Exeter that Cornwall is pretty touristy and parking can be a nightmare in season, so maybe a tour bus?
The London museums and art galleries were free. May as well see all the cool shit they acquired from the world.
all Premier League stadium tours in London
hopefully Old Trafford as well
if youâre keen to see a game - tickets to premier league games are expensive and hard to come by. if there are any FA cup games on, it can be a good way to see a premier league team play, tickets are cheaper and easier to come by in the early stages.
Turns out I wasnât across where the FA cup was up to, good luck getting tickets to the final on the 26th of May
Check out Edinburgh! I got recommended it and went in with low expectations but man it was the highlight of the trip. The Churchill war rooms were amazing too. Also get on the millionaires shortbread from m&s!
Have you read The Dark is Rising sequence? Lots of Cornwall and Wales things to go see.
Watch out for âroad menâ, which is apparently what they call eshays
all the museums , the globe theatre, have lunches in tea rooms or pubs , carnaby street, greenwich observatory, you can buy little books of walks to go on
Stone henge
Winchester
I reckon you have to try Greggs, especially their sausage rolls, so you can compare them to ours.
Also fish & chips for the same reason.
I am vego so unfortunately I canât :(
Donât eat Greg! He doesnât like it :(
Kinda just laying here in a stressed out but exhausted state from the week. Had a bite to eat but too tired for much else. Think I am gonna pour a drink and make a list of the work life things that have to happen next week then go to bed. I hate feeling like I left everything in a mess but nothing seemed to get finished this week and I can already feel the wave building up for next . Gah hopefully itâs just grey day blues
Feeling a bit like that except itâs my travel plans thatâs a siren-blaring mess lol. Iâm letting myself park it till tomorrow, canât fix the mess if I donât recharge right now and let my brain heal from all the load itâs been placed under. Lean into the grey I say, get cozy and warm for one night at least.
You are right. Ended up just writing down what I need to do tomorrow morning in case I wake up stressed still. Now listening to the rain. Good luck with the travel plans. I am sure it will come together when you have some rest
Declining a work social event is a great way to get a secret afternoon off if everyone else is going
The words work and social do not belong in the same sentence.
Especially if youâre so not popular that nobody notices youâre missing
The secret is to never be known enough for people to notice
Dins, some music and bed. Going to stick to this 6am wake up thing. Itâll make it easier for when I find a role.
Enjoy your evening everyone â€ïž
Sleep well, MusicMan đ
I have a Velcro kitty this morning. Probably just a function of weather and Iâm wearing wool, but makes me a bit nervy. Both WhiteBoy and Miss Tortie behaved like this when terminal. Stupid brain, just enjoy the hugs!
Miss Meow was velcro overnight. Sheâs happily snoozing in her own bed now the heating is on, so Iâm putting it down to weather.
My velcro kitty just got a health check and came back fine. Deffo something in the air at the moment.
When mine doesnât ignore me completely I get worried, but sheâs always been fine.
Interview was rescheduled. This is fine, I am still fucking drowsy.
I miss feeling awake đ like cotton-wool over my brains and constantly yawning.
Puss has been chewing on my toes, since I took away the wooden fork he was gnawing on lol
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Yeah, have had many coffees, does nothing unfortunately. I think I just need more sleep to pay back the debt I have incurred.
I did play some FTL yesterday, and promptly died on the last sector. So maybe Iâll give that a go again, until I feel able to have a nap
I tried to post on a tolkien site, it was like trying to post on a fundamentalist site where all answers have to be from tolkien scripture đ”
You must read all of his letters, or else youâre not a true Tolkien fan /s
Also, i know his name is pronounced âtok-keenâ but I always say âtol-key-enâ đ
because he never wrote the same thing twice there are different versions of middle earth history and facts
so it really is like scripture with people quoting different facts at each other or quoting from gospels, ie accepted writings about tolkien
i was foolish and wrote something from real life and in my own wordsđč
My favourite tolkein character is Handshoe from one of his draft translations of Beowulf. Checkmate tolkeinheads
Ted bitted me, I held him. You would think I was torturing him the noise he made. đč
I have a dilemma. Boyo will become 40 in the not too distant future. Heâs asked I not do a big thing because not trusting people to turn up. Based upon his 30th this is valid. So WTF do I do? Self fulfilling nothing or attempt a Thing that could end up worse?
Go away somewhere nice for the weekend.
Yeah this is my advice. Pick somewhere super duper fancy or somewhere hes always wanted to go. And just⊠chillax. Maybe organize a small pub meal for anyone willing to rock up the week afterwards?
invite the DT
I used to do open event calls on an an app called Skout. aquired stalker not fun.
Speak to the most reliable friends (the ones that will definitely show up) and maybe oragnise a group pub thing. Send a larger invite so more could show up, but if they donât at least itâs not that awkward with others around, maybe?
Just spitballing here
Yeah, some of the people he may most want are the least reliable.
Maybe a nice dinner date, just the two of you? A movie and food? A daytrip somewhere?
Small thing?
I went to the Gold Coast for my 40th. Spent my actual 40th birthday at dreamworld. Fed the tigers, rode the rides and had a ball with the family. Not everyoneâs cup of tea, but I didnât want a party and the only way to stop my mother from planning one was to go interstate!
I visited the Servals at Werribee for mine. Most wiry fur. Those girls love their cream cheese! đ»
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OH HELLS NO. Iâve barely entered 2024. Geeezzzus
Feeling sick still today from the migraine yesterday so am chilling in bed with fluffy butt. Might get some music done today because the weekend is all IT learning time.
Out of snot, now itâs just blood. Halp
Half my team is out with the lurgy. Week got derailed by random urgent requests and bugs and feels chaoticâŠ
Need a strong coffee and a list I think. Flu season/COVID return seems bad and early this year. And the general level of unhingedness and stress is high out there
Physio visit today to ward off any future migraines this weekend. Need the study time.
Expensive insurance, but hopefully worthwhile in the end!
Re-watching The ExpanseâŠsuch a good show.
Really keen on adding Belta-lingua into my everydayâs vocabulary.
Belta-lingua is the language spoken by those born and raised in space aka Belters, for those who arenât familiar with it.
Itâs the Klingon of the 2010âs
I seem to have flipped my sleeping around to the other extreme. Now rather than sleeping at 6am, Iâm sleeping at 6pm. God at this point I feel like the only time Iâm happy sleeping is if Iâm bucking social norms and sleeping like a madman. Besides it being an odd time to go to sleep, it hasnât been working too badly for me, especially since itâs dark by those times these days. Unfortunately I forgot to tell Alexa that I took the bins out so she started making noise at 8:30 yelling at me to take the bins out (bin day was yesterday, but the reminder goes off every 24hrs til I mark it complete)
Canât get back to sleep, but Iâm too tired to get up and try again in a couple of hours
I have been looking at a lot of real estate listings recently and was complaining about too much grey. I think I found an antidote.
Cheers cheeky monkeys đșđ
Oh god I tried spicy chicken ramen. My lips! They are ACTUALLY on fire.
I am currently pinned down by a snoring void.
Fuzzy girl is still a bit quiet and was fussing about something unknown last night, but she had a midnight snack and has eaten her breakfast. Sheâs under the doona sharing the hot water bottle
My work week is finally done.
And what a cluster fuck.
While the department that I work in is profitable, overall our organisation is set to lose money this year.
Bad decisions made by the âmanagerâ have been a contributing factor.
The âmanagerâ has gotten it in his head that if only our organisation can send an email to a partner organisationâs mailing list, sales will boom.
A couple of months back, he convinced the partner organisation to send a small segment of its list an email offering them one of our organisationâs products for free.
And to be fair, a reasonable number took up the free product.
This has convinced âmanagerâ that if the partner organisation sends an email to its entire mailing list offering them a discount for buying our orgâs products, thousands of them will take it up. Even though many (most?) of their customers have never heard of us before.
The âmanagerâsâ boss is new in her role (she moved into it after a restructure earlier this year), and trusts what he says.
Hereâs where it becomes a trainwreck.
The past two years, our org has run an end of financial year sale aimed at consumers. Both times, it has increased sales a bit, but nowhere near enough to meet targets.
Marketing have tried different promotions and shown they work better. They want to run a marketing campaign to business customers for the end of financial year, and use a different approach with consumers in the new financial year.
They did a whole preso to âmanagerâ showing that a different approach will generate more sales overall â but a lot of that revenue will fall in the new financial year.
Manager overruled them. His official reason is that he doesnât want to try anything different to last year, because thatâs risky.
(The real reason is he wants as many sales as possible this financial year, so that the losses from his bad decisions are as small as possible.)
So marketing are stuck with a campaign they know wonât work.
âManagerâsâ brilliant plan is to use that campaign strategy that hasnât worked, but then to get the partner organisation to email everyone on their mailing list, which he thinks will mean thousands of people will buy products and that will make it work.
(And yes, partner org mailing everyone on their mailing list is something out org hasnât done before. But this isnât seen as âriskyâ by âmanagerâ because itâs his idea.)
Of course, this pissed off the business salespeople.
So to keep them inside, heâs also making marketing run the business promotion as well, even though they donât have the staff or the budget to do both.
Heâs only just approved all of this now, and both promotions need to start on 1 June, so the graphic designers basically have two weeks to get everything ready.
It gets worse.
The partner organisation has already explicitly told us that e-mailing everyone on their contact list during June is a hard no.
But âmanagerâ has sold his boss on the idea, and sheâs said that she expects partner org to email everyone on their contact list.
Following a string of meetings, my boss is now stuck with making that happen. Even though itâs a hard no from the partner org.
So I was stuck in a string of meetings today where my boss was desperately trying to find a reason to tell her contact at the partner org why they should change their policy other than âManagerâ thinks itâs a good idea (there isnât one). Or some fact or piece of information will persuade âmanagerâ to see reason (Iâm honestly not hopeful).
What a total cluster fuck.
Um. My ducted heating just died. I think itâs the fan part of it.
Mr Woof pushed me into second walkies. It was the right call, but it is definitely on the chilly side tonight.
Whatâs the deal with people putting the lemmy @user in their comments when theyâre replying to that person? I see AJ doing it, and elsewhere on lemmy it seems everyone is doing it.
dammit I have rosacea again, looks like I have red eyes, will be scaring people over zoom and such.
( just shows how tired out iâve been from sciatica )
5 - 2. Holy shit. Canât have that happening. Need hot cuppa in the morning.
I can feel the rain coming, this does not bode well.
In other news itâs nearly clock off time!
Is anyone here a teacher/recently completed their education degree? I have a question about practicum placement.
This may be only applicable to Swinburne Online but figure Iâd ask anyway.
Currently, I do 2 units a trimester and find that comfortable enough with balancing a full time job and a part time child. Iâm planning the next few years to get an idea on course work, which units are available in which trimester, etc, and in between all that I have the practicum placements.
Regarding the placement, Iâm looking at the unit info and its a full 12 week unit, with 20 days placement and 2 assessments (with 0% weighting - makes no sense, typo or whatever) and was wondering how intense this unit might be because I was thinking if I can squeeze it into a trimester and have 2 units plus the placement unit I can shorten my study plan to get my degree from mid-2028 to early 2028 or even end of 2027.
Hopefully this makes sense.
(also no idea how I am going to get 20 days off x 4 placements with work but thatâs another matter.)
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Hereâs to the end of a pretty ordinary week. Mr P had to give bone marrow sample and has had appointment at Peter Mac. Weâre waiting to find out if he has blood cancer, leukaemia or whatever they call it now. Elder minipeeler is still having major issues with anxiety and school refusal. My MIL offered to pay for him to go to a private school she thinks would be better for him⊠wouldâve been nice to offer that last year, when I was having to enrol him in the only (really big) public school in our catchment and I was saying that I didnât have a good feeling about it, that I felt that thereâd be problems for him given the issues heâd had in the past, but had no choice financially. I was equally anxious and bummed out about it and she knew that back then. Now she wants to sweep in with her money and save the day, by uprooting him and plonking him into a new school✠I feel bad for being ungrateful. Miniest is going through a very testing rebellious and wilful stage. Iâm trying to give her as much of myself as I can and my patience, as she is jealous of Elder and her dad being home all the time, which is perfectly understandable. She is academically gifted but puts in a bare minimum of effort and is wasting her awesome potential and itâs hugely frustrating, but she doesnât give a shit. I am feeling older and more tired in my body and itâs depressing. Iâve been bingeing dystopian shows on Netflix and find them comfortingly awful. I gave up on the âcomedyâ category⊠maybe Americans just laugh at different stuff, but I found little humour there. Thankyou for reading my grumbles.
StudChud@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Girl, you have so much on your plate. Like, youâre the only one holding it all together. Your strength is admirable. Iâm sorry youâre going through all of this, itâs hard! If you ever want to, or able to, catch up for a coffee and a debrief, Iâm available. It sounds like you need some serious âme timeâ. Sending you all my love and postive energy đ
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thankyou spud đ«¶
Eagle@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
It sounds like youâve got an awful lot on your plate. Just keep swimming mama, your strength is a beacon for your family.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thankyou eagle đâ
SituationCake@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Sounds like itâs gonna be rough for a while. You can vent here anytime. We gotcha. I very much hope the tests all come back negative. But shit happens. And if it does, there are very good treatments these days and Peter Mac is world class, no better place to be. Youâre doing brilliant with the minipeelers. Other people will always have opinions, but you know their needs best. And if you decide the offer of money is helpful, take it without hesitation, do whatever you think is best for the minis. The politics can be worried about later. As for Netflix, I can recommend 3 Body Problem for the dystopian genre. For comedy thereâs heaps of older movies on there sometimes old school comedy is a good remedy to modern American humour. Although The Good Place is an exception, thats one of my favourite shows of recent years.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Older comedy, of course! Thanks for your thoughts and for the recommendation đ
melbaboutown@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâm so sorry to hear it. Please, if you can handle doing it get in touch with carers supports right now. If someone could help you with it that would be great.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâll keep it in mind thanks Melba đ
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
so many hugs to you all
use all the social workers at the hospital
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâll keep that in mind Seagoon đ
ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
That is a nightmare week đ
Wishing Mr P all the best for the test results, I canât imagine how stressful that would be đ
Youâre totally justified in being frustrated at MILâs belated benevolence. Itâs nice sheâs offering to help, but not helpful when sheâs offering!
I went through a phase like Miniest and grew out of it â mostly anyway.
Before you know it, sheâll be 40, and youâll laugh as you recount a story about a crazy thing she did when she was a teenager.
Take care đ
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thanks AJ đ«¶