Submitted 3 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
beach pictures
very few shells have washed up
the current has swept at least 10 cm deep of sand away leaving the stony layer exposed
went the long way home , up to the small river at the end of my street and took a photo of the mangrove swamp
and past the park at the railway crossing there is a small memorial for the person who passed a few weeks ago😔
It’s just a very little swamp but this is only 11 km from Melb CBD
Dammit, annoying neighbours have not gone overseas for the next few weeks. That amount of luggage gave hope
whispers
Put them in the luggage
Apply stamps
Not sure I have enough rip saw blades
I was not able to take Melbcat out today. I genuinely don’t like being out there or feel safe in my yard. (Genuine and still relevant reason for not wanting to do it.) I try to tolerate it for my cats happiness. But this morning I just couldn’t face it. So she cried and banged on the door while I had an anxiety attack. FML.
Gonna see if I can salvage the rest of the day with unkaos but I am so tired.
Hugs
Is there some way she can see outside a window or door safely?
Yeah, I put the blinds up on one window so she can see out and lie in the sun when it reaches inside. And she gets to look out the screen doors.
Meetup event yesterday exposed the whole East/West divide amongst the locals in the group. I noticed that a lot of us stick to “our sides” of the Yarra and the CBD or just rarely venture across. e.g. there was a guy who lived in Surrey Hills and a guy who lived in Yarraville, and neither had heard of each other’s suburb. I found this so fascinating. Even inner suburbs people don’t really seem to venture much? Which makes sense because public transport can be inconvenient at times. I know we have people like Seagoon who have been the exception to this “rule”. I have to say though, the CBD makes it a bit inconvenient to get from one side to the other. Also Melbourne is quite big, with places like Pakenham and Sunbury being far out from the CBD but still being part of metro Melb. So a bunch of us are thinking of swapping sides and taking notes. We are starting in the west, with the west-siders wanting to take everyone to Yarraville as it’s one of the best suburbs in the west according to them. Admittedly, I have never been there, but I hear there is a cool theatre. Now to find the Yarraville equivalent not in the west. We are thinking of doing inner north as a buffer and then going to the east or south east.
I agree that people seem to mostly stick to their area - my boss rarely ventures outside of 5km from home. I’ve had a friend who wouldn’t cross the Yarra to see me, even when I lived in Southbank. Once I had a bunch of IRL PokemonGo friends while living in the South East and we’d all hang out, have dinners, visit each other, but as soon as I moved towards the city that stopped unless I went to visit them.
Now I live in a Southern suburb that no one’s heard of.
I have no issues with going to the other side of the city to go to a market or shop I want to visit. I grew up in Country Victoria so have no qualms driving an hour+ to get somewhere - I used to drive from my hometown to Shepperton because they had a Cold Rock and a JB Hi Fi before my town.
I grew up in the south east (think The Basin, Croydon, FTG, and Knoxfield areas), and have never been out west except for a few times. I’m pretty well versed with the suburbs though, having worked in call centres servicing Victorians, but there are still suburb names I hadn’t heard of before (Dallas for one, but that’s more north than west).
I have one friend that lives west, but other than that I don’t know anyone that side of town.
I think it comes down to size and travel time.
Size: Melbourne is really big. It’s urban sprawl is huge, there are new housing developments everday, new small suburbs being names and built up.
Travel: because of it’s size, it can take a while to get anywhere in Melbourne. Driving can take ages because of the roads and traffic, and PTV takes ages inherently. It takes me an hour and a half to get to Ringwood for Sunday lunch from Brunswick (train/tram into melb central, train out). Travelling across the city can be anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours.
I think both of those factors, and others, are major contributors to many Melbournians not mingling often with areas outside of the immediate area of their homes/work.
The divide has been there in my whole memory. The prejudice is deep.
The idea is the West is a scary working class place that you don’t want to even visit.
Now swathes of it aren’t even working class, they are underclass with a poverty I have never seen in Melbourne before.
Yarraville/Seddon is nothing special, old factory town near Coode Island, badly polluted by heavy industry, with worker’s cottages that have been renovated. But it’s trendy with the young because it’s more affordable than the much nicer Williamstown.
Visit Williamstown for nice or Altona for non trendy nice working class.
The running joke in Melbourne is about crossing the Yarra (so a north / south divide), but east / west divide makes sense too. Crossing from west/north suburbs to east/south suburbs with PT or a car is a pain in the ass so that’s a huge barrier to travelling across all sides of metro Melbourne easily. The Metro Tunnel will change that somewhat from a PT standpoint.
I live in a middle/outer NW suburb so travelling to only things close to me isn’t really an option, most of my work and social activities take me to inner north / western suburbs and the CBD. Rarely do I travel to the east/south unless I visit a few friends that live in the Bayside area, or if I want to visit a bay beach. Anyway, I think it’s a great idea for your Meetup to cross over and experience places in Melbourne you haven’t visited. Yarraville / Seddon is a great pick for those from the east side.
It’s some weird snobbery thing I guess. Like Melbourne vs Sydney which I also never saw the point of.
There are rough suburbs in the West which is where the reputation comes from but there are other perfectly fine suburbs. Fashionable inner city suburbs also have their own rough spots.
Getting around can be a pain because some areas are not walkable or have less good public transport, some areas of the city are divided by extremely annoying traffic sections, and the existing train lines are a hub arrangement that requires going into and then out of the city.
I hope there’s going to be some improvement because our population is set to grow even more with recent developments.
Back from shopping, got everything on my list. Daiso have all kinds of cleaning wipes big enough to use on my floor wipe mop. Makes it easy 😀👍
And had my once yearly Honey Chicken with fried rice lunch from the mall food court. It’s nice once a year.
Honey chicken reminds me of my husband many years ago asking what was in the bain marie in a food court. He thought the Asian lass said “horny chicken” and he replied “how does that work exactly?” He’d never heard of honey chicken before.
Congrats to that guy on his new cat
I am super beat
Good night everyone, sweet flying ironing board dreams 😽
And first tumble of paddle boarding season goes to meeee… and I was sitting…
I don’t know if anyone has had any particular problems with Logitech but I’ve been using this Rapoo mouse I got off Aliexpress for a while and I’d be quite willing to sell my soul and swap ecosystems. It’s not quite as good, but for a bit over $50 for a Master series replacement you really can’t complain.
I need a new mouse. Will give them a go.
You can get their stuff so much cheaper on Aliexpress than the regular stores around here. I got the rapoo mt760l and it has been perfectly serviceable. They also do a keyboard/trackpad combo like the Logitech one I really like. I may get one of those later just for the heck of it
I brought in some bluetooth speakers and played christmas music at work yesterday, and people said it was boring. Now other people were playing music when I got in today. How about I play Slimelord’s debut album and see what they think? If you’re into sludge it’s really good and will retroactively be on your 2024 best of
I woulda Whamageddoned everyone then played Mariah on repeat.
We played Mariah once a few years back and one of my coworkers, who is normally quite placid, absolutely flipped his shit and threatened to walk out. It was amazing. Yes, he’s been teased about it since but still no one dares to put Mariah on again.
I was trying to play ‘good’ christmas music but the all horn quartet of Ghengis Barbie seemed to be too relaxing. They came by the recommendation of David Byrne!
Dreamt of escaping a volcanic eruption with Gordon Ramsey on a flying ironing board. Wtf brain.
Also, have discovered mice in the backyard.
My boss charter a helicopter to save me from people that were bombing the train I was on, but then made me write an apology letter to the Train Clansman of the region even though I did nothing wrong. I also had to hide in this (admittedly beautiful) grotto while I waited for their forgiveness. Fuckin’ brains.
That sounds cool 👍
I had a quasi nightmare. Dreamt I expelled a bad spirit from the house. an amorphous demon shaped spirit, I chased it out repeating, Leave, this is a house of good. And it did leave.
Were you trying to destroy Gordon Ramsey in the source of his power?
This deeply confuses me. But that whole show does.
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Rode the kids over to a park to see Santa then up to a fish and chip place for dinner. It felt like what I used to do with them more often when they were younger, I need to make time to do this sort of thing with them more often
Pretty light
There is a bit of spider web waving around in my garage and the camera thinks it is a person and keeps alerting me about it.
Off to Daiso before the weather gets warm. 🙂
and I think I will buy all the kid’s presents from Miniso, that place was a hit last time with them.
I love Miniso and am not so patiently waiting for the day their Mofusand collection comes to Melbourne. It’s currently in their Sydney flagship store and I have the compulsion to check every Miniso store I see just in case there’s something Mofusand in there.
Have fun with your shopping!!
I got so much done yesterday. I can sit back today and watch the cricket, maybe with a beer or 2.
beach 🙂
And I had the weirdest chance encounter today. I ran into the former singer of Twelve Foot Ninja where he currently works. I got to tell him how my kids are obsessed with ‘Sickman’ as we’ve dubbed him from their Sick music video. Although I felt like it needed a bit of context as to why we were showing 3 year olds (who were younger at the time they first watched it) the Sick music video.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I went and filled up the strays water and accidentally woke them up.
That was incredibly adorable lol
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
At this point they’re not strays anymore, they’re yours lol.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I’m too young for 9 cats lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
😻