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Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨melbourne@aussie.zone⁩

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    On my way to work. Do this meeting, head over to a client for a while, then sneak back home lol

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      "What are you doing? …

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m so tired I’m going to bed early and then waking up too early, and then I’m tired again by the time it’s get up time.

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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      o/

      It’s hard to break that cycle isn’t it? (sent at 3am after waking up half hour ago after crashing at 9pm)

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      • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So hard! I’ve got 3 weeks off after this week and my sleep cycle will probably change just in time for my return to work 😞

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have a turps headache. And this paint job is not looking good.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Huff more turps and paint Starry Night

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      • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Curious choice for a knife block. May attempt after head behaves…

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lower decks ending. Well, time to cancel paramount plus.

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sigh. Just spent an hour past my appointment in the GPs waiting room. Why do they always run so late? Surely they should leave some buffer time or make appointments longer? So annoying. Seriously I would be happier to drive further to a clinic that can manage their bookings rather than sit endlessly at one that can’t.

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    • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a symptom of the system as a whole not working well enough, not necessarily the clinic.

      People don’t book long enough appointments due to cost because the rebate is too low, doctors need more than 15 minutes to properly document visits or fill out paperwork, good GPs will be proactive with things the patient didn’t come in for, people show up late, emergencies come up, etc. etc.

      My GP charges the same gap fee no matter the length of the consultation, so I usually always book a double to hopefully at least give them a few minutes of their time back.

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      • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Mine have recently started charging more based on how long the consult actually takes, on a sliding scale. Which makes sense, and I love how thorough my GP is, but it gets a bit exxy.

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      • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My GP doesn’t even allow you to book double length appointments online. You’re limited to 10 minutes unless you call them up, which is a minimum 20 minute hold time somehow, usually closer to 30/40 mins

        I try not to judge when he runs late, because he’s a good egg, and having been that person who really needed a double length consult, I’m damn glad he didn’t just kick me out half way through

        They’re also fucking expensive and waste their money on fancy artwork on the walls 🙄

        I don’t have to worry about costs RN because they entirely bulk bill under 18s, and once they don’t, I have a little bit of funding to cover medical bills. But once it’s on my own dime I’m gonna switch quicksmart. The trouble is, decent GPs very rarely work in those lower cost clinics which sucks

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why do they always run so late

      It’s a cascade. One appt. goes over, the next does and so on. They pack 'em in tight.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Airhorns and hangovers don’t mix well.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Magpie/dero rambles

    Yet another person going out of their way to go right up to the water dish and gawk… perhaps if I wrote ‘wildlife water’ on the side? Or if I got a proper birdbath and put it more inside the property boundary. (Not sure whether I would have to remove it once I left though.) A bit worried about potential problems though. When he went up to it a magpie kind of flew up to him and hopped after him as he walked off. The other day someone else might have got swooped as he was loudly complaining about the birds being annoying and saying ‘X says some pr-ck in this area is f-cking feeding them’. Now the birds were already here and would be regardless of whether I was kind to them. Plus there are a lot of sketchy randos cutting through the block and a lot of them act seriously alcohol affected/unpredictable so I don’t really care about them getting swooped. I actually wouldn’t mind if these disruptive people were deterred from my place. I’m more just worried about stupid people having issues with the birds and me being blamed for it, or about being harassed to stop giving them water. People here are genuinely the type to do that. To come trying to intimidate you and start dictating what you do on your own property.

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    • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are they going into your property or is it a common area? Any option to put the birdbath where the public can’t access it?

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      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not sure public or private property. I’m trying not to give doxable descriptions but it within easy reach of drop kicks and I might have to move it to a less ideal spot

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dammit. I got whammed. Made it to the 19th December though so thats an honourable showing at least. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon

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    • Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I can’t be whammed due to not knowing what the song sounds like

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think it’s kind of easier these days if one avoids retail spaces. Good work nonetheless.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well done anyway 🏅 wear that proudly.

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Does it count if it’s only in your head?

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      does it count if it’s a cover and not the original?

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      • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I heard a pretty lacklustre cover yesterday that I’d have been happy to be ignorant of for the rest of my life.

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      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well I heard the original then a Mariah song then a cover so I got got twice!

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever heard it. I don’t know what it sounds like so wouldn’t recognise it

      I have however listened to wake me up a few times

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        youtu.be/E8gmARGvPlI

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The NBN box has landed back in the state (though considering it’s taken 3 days each way, I’m guessing they stuck it on a truck not plane). It processed through Melbourne airport yet again last night, and now it’s at essendon fields

    If they would be so kind as to put it in their little van and take it to my local facility, that’s the last thing they’d have to do and I could have it tomorrow

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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Quick question, do you mean the actual NBN box or a router?

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      • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The “connection device”

        Context: aussie.zone/comment/13618475 aussie.zone/comment/13686928

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      • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Right? I’m confused too 😂

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:

    • pfeffenusse
    • Scottish shortbread
    • coconut macaroons
    • cranberry-coconut oatmeal
    • embossed lemon shortbread
    • Pizzelle (wafers)
    • Chocolate Brownie Cookies
    • "Oma’s biscuits" - another shortbread variation

    I’m focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I’ll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I’d like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mice!

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is the first time in years I haven’t made lebkuchen (like pfeffenusse) so I vote for the pfeff… coconut macaroons are so easy and yum too.

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lemon shortbread!

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Picked up some of these earplugs recently and highly recommend them. A nuclear bomb could go off down the road and you’d die of radiation poisoning before you ever woke up. Great for tuning in to the harsh inner critic while travelling this holiday season, so if you ever want to be trapped in your head with only the voices to keep you company, pick yourself up a box.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      they don’t drown out the louder tinnitus I got from my covid vax 😖

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      • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I imagine they would have made tinnitus dramatically worse

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      • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Did the vax do that? My tinnitus has got worse over the last couple of years and I can’t work out why

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      how good are they at blocking occlusion? 'cos I’m an absolute bastard for that.

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      • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m not sure I’ve experienced occlusion effects so I can’t say with confidence

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s that time of year again

    Why don’t they play THIS in the shops. Instant customer identification is very high indeed.

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    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I keep getting a server error 😕

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sorry, fixed it now I think. Let me know if I didn’t.

      Another underknown gem

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It worked. How about this one?

        youtu.be/s0NoalRsk5w

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    this pic I took of a snake at the Royal show

    Image

    I think it’s a northern death adder iirc. So cute!!!

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    today’s randomness:

    Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650’s chained together. I have a chainsaw one that’s actually just a buncha nicads. They don’t do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?

    (I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin’ soldering lithiums)

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am not fuckin’ soldering lithiums

      I’ll do it for you. All I ask as payment is a will kit, a fire extinguisher and a prosthetic hand.

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        no eyebrows? Great deal!

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      • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fuckin eh! I’m not keen on doing surgery on the cats’ twitty bird because I expect it to be a soldered coin battery. Fuck anything bigger.

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    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Battery world in Greensborough prides itself on having every possible battery in stock. And they do same day delivery. www.batteryworld.com.au/stores/battery-world-greensborough

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        nah, they don’t tend to do tool batteries. There’s one not far from me in mentone - I’ve recycled a UPS there, gotten a new battery for my 2009 ebook…not so much on the tool front.

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have a random deposit in my bank account this morning of $45.67 as Direct Credit ATO 🤔 feels incredibly scammy

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just saw on the news the ATO has issued a reward to those that have paid their HECS debt on time.

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      • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh that might be me. I finished paying off my HECS this year (was for like one semester study lol)

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s nearly enough for a slab.

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      • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My mind went to: approximately 3.3333 Coles roast chickens.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve had those before and usually followed with a mailed letter. Might be some tax adjustment or similar.

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      • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hmm ok good to know. Thanks

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Anything in ya mygov about it?

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      • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nope first thing I checked

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      • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If not, there probably will be soon

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Merry Xmas from the ato lol

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Check on myGov or call them. I got something similar ages ago for a couple of dollars, thought it was a scam, but turned out to be a refund because I paid my tax debt early

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Beep Beep 🚚
    🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A pescatarian Cantonese banquet, please

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      • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        🐟🦀🐙🦞🦐🍤🦑🦪🥒🥦🥕🥬

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Green chooken curry please, hot not deadly

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      • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        🥬🐥🥘

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Random thoughts that prevent sleep. I have no idea what a chickpea plant looks like. To the interwebs!

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, TIL that annoying classical hold music song that sounds truly dreadful, and has that high pitched bit that ALWAYS crackles out is an actual song that was released on CD as part of an album in the 90s. It’s actually not as annoying as it is on the phone. If it wasn’t hold music and I still stumbled across it, I would probably actually put it on for a bit of a chill vibe. As it stands, I think I’d just get war 6 hour hold time flashbacks from it

    Dream Quest - In The Twilight

    (High pitched bit that sounds like it’s melting the phone lines starts at 2:50)

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those extra 4 mins looking up the weather meant I was too slow * deletes other thread*

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good night everyone 😘

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I spent the morning browsing biscuit packaging ideas and printing some bags. So I didn’t actually start on biscuits until after lunch. I have made the cranberry coconut oatmeal biscuits & have the pfeffenusse dough chilling in the fridge.

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Onya Renegades 🏏 🔴🔴🔴

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Outside has descended to 30, and inside has climbed to 28.7. I reckon it’ll be cooler outside than in soon, so I might put one fan at one end of the house sucking in air, and the other at the other end blowing it out once it gets there

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