RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👩💻 Tuesday 15 July 2025 2 hours ago:
Start by checking whether he is talking about actual grapes or the modern internet code-usage of grapes. Once he figures out what you are suggesting he could have been confessing to he will probably never want to speak to you again, and you can avoid getting into trouble by pretending to be traumatised by what you thought he was saying. #unethicallifeprotips
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👩💻 Tuesday 15 July 2025 7 hours ago:
I’d like a stack of potato cakes, topped with a fried mix of onion, bacon and mushroom, sprinkled with cheese and with a dollop of sour cream please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👩💻 Tuesday 15 July 2025 7 hours ago:
If you get the right shaped potato cake so it can catch the air like a frizbee maybe it will work better?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👩💻 Tuesday 15 July 2025 7 hours ago:
I was very disappointed when I tried red fleshed dragon fruit and found it had even less flavour. Looked good, though!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👩💻 Tuesday 15 July 2025 9 hours ago:
Now I’m hungry.
Is that fried dragonfruit? I did not know cooking it was a thing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎳 Monday 14 July 2025 21 hours ago:
The taco plan didn’t work out as I couldn’t find my rolling pin for the tortillas. I made a pulled pork roll instead. It was still very yummy and I have four serves of pork in the freezer for future tacos.
I managed enough sorting in the garage that I can get my van out, and put together a couple more sets of shelves inside so I can get a bit more stuff put away inside.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎳 Monday 14 July 2025 1 day ago:
It’s not a rolly one and no hair was harmed during assembly. It’s an Aerobin, insulated and with an air tube down the middle that is supposed to mean you don’t need to turn it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎳 Monday 14 July 2025 1 day ago:
I have pork on the stove slow cooking to make pulled pork tacos for dinner.
Afternoon activities will be putting together my new compost bin, then a bit more sorting. I need to at least sort out some of the stuff in the garage so I can get my car out to go to work tomorrow morning. At the moment it has a bunch of cardboard boxes stored on top of it as well as boxes pushed right up against it to give me space to put shelves together.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎳 Monday 14 July 2025 1 day ago:
The “feels like” temp has hit 3.3^o^ so I’m heading out for a walk to enjoy the warmth 🤣
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐦🔥 Sunday 13 July 2025 2 days ago:
You need to come to Ballarat. There is a hot chocolate showdown with lots of venues competing to be voted the best.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
Today’s bad news: It started to rain as soon as I hung out my washing
Today’s good news: I got my toaster working again. Lots of crumb removal and playing around with the lever and it started staying down again. Google tells me it is probably a magnet problem, and it could have been interfered with by a build up of crumbs or it could be nearing the end of its life. We will just have to wait and see.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
I’ve found the quality is generally pretty good. The biggest issue I’ve had is with the cheaper ones (Dinnerly & EveryPlate) expecting you to have more ingredients to add in yourself, like mayonnaise or bbq sauce. You also need to make sure you do the recipes with more perishable ingredients first, especially if you are spreading it out over time. The last box I got had salad with everything, and by the time I got to the last recipe it was starting to get a bit wilted.
If you haven’t tried them before you can get free boxes (you still have to pay around $12 postage). They give out the codes to people who buy boxes to give to their friends etc, and there is a regular post in the aussie frugal reddit for people to post codes, which is what I’ve been doing. I got a box from each of the companies before I moved, and now that I’m at a different address I’m doing it again.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
Thank you for the reminder, I was going to do some washing too but somehow got distracted enroute to the washing machine. I somehow ended up vacuuming the house and putting on a batch of yoghurt and completely forgot the washing!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
It was a Ronson. And the heating elements still work, it’s just the clip that keeps the toast down that has stopped working. Much better longevity than it’s predecessor, which was a wedding present that lasted less than one year (which is why I remember the age of the replacement!).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
After 28 years of faithful service my toaster has finally decided to call it quits. RIP little fella.
Fortunately I have a toaster oven and was still able to cook my toast for breakfast
fancy Saturday breakfast
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
I’ve managed to resolve some payment issues I was having with the meal kit services and have been able to sign up for another couple of free boxes 🙂 This means another few weeks of minimal meal planning.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧛♂️ Saturday 12 July 2025 3 days ago:
A bowl of hot porridge with cream and honey please.
I’d also like to pre-order a slow-cooked balrog stew, with mashed potato and glazed carrots.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Friday 11 July 2025 3 days ago:
Pork roast is in the oven for dinner. I had a big piece so I’ve cut it in half and will do some sort of pulled pork for tacos with the other half. I put it on late so it won’t be ready for a while, I might need to organise cheese and crackers to tide me over until then.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Friday 11 July 2025 4 days ago:
2/10
The gods of random guessing were not with me today.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Friday 11 July 2025 4 days ago:
That’s no good. Try to take it easy if you can.
Chicken soup might help too 🐓🍲
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
They often don’t want it back, especially if it is low cost and you say it is defective instead of just change of mind. They also sometimes offer you a partial refund if you don’t return it, but ask you to send it back if you want the whole amount back. I also discovered tonight that when you put in a bad review for an item it prompts you to return it, and gives you an additional chance to return an item at no cost (normally you have to do all returns in each order in one go). Which was handy, I had something that seemed ok at the start but then didn’t actually work after I used it for a while, but I thought it was too late to return it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
I love how Temu tries to trick you into taking a credit on your account instead of getting a refund to your card. They tell you it will take days to repay to the card, but it actually goes through instantly. Plus they put in an extra pop up to try to get you to change it without realising that clicking on “get refund instantly” means getting an account credit instead of an actual refund.
Oh well, I know their tricks and have the refund in my account and gave a bad review to the dodgy embroidery kit I was sent. I was actually a bit surprised that only one of them was actually dodgy, and because I didn’t have to return the kit I’ll be able to use the cotton on the stitch book I got that didn’t come with any, so that works out ok.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
I have considered making some absorbent cotton slippers to wear after mopping the floor, so I can walk all over the wet floor and call it drying the floor.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
I’ll Fourth it. I really enjoyed it (although I’ve only seen the first two seasons, as I only use streaming services occassionally)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
You can just cancel it now, you’ll still get your 30 days free but won’t have to worry about forgetting and having it auto renew. Just ignore all the warnings about what you miss by not having a subscription, they just put them there to make people reconsider cancelling. You are just cancelling the auto-renew of the subscription not the membership itself.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
I don’t even remember any violence at the start of American Gods. I just remember absolute boredom. I didn’t even finish the first episode the first time I watched it, and then slogged through a few episodes after being assured it would get really good and be worthwhile. Spoiler: it wasn’t. I didn’t enjoy any of it in the slightest.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 4 days ago:
I think Sneaky Pete is on Amazon, I was ambivilent about whether I wanted to watch it at all and ended up really enjoying it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 5 days ago:
I’ve been so successful in weatherstripping around the sliding door the dog door panel is inserted into that now the air pressure is blowing the dog flap open and letting in even more cold air than was coming through the gaps.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 5 days ago:
Some of the groups do go a bit overboard with banning people, and some seem to have quite biased moderators. I can understand some of the removal of posts and comments being a bit heavy handed at time, just because of the difficulty of moderating a large group and the impossibility of stepping on some toes, but going to banning people as a first step is not a good option. Especially if it is people that have contributed to the group in the past, not just a random coming in looking to cause trouble.
I guess it’s the double edges sword of social media though, allowing everyone to contribute tends to lead to trolls and bad actors flooding the group and turning it into shit, but it’s also very easy to destroy a group with excessive moderation destroying the ability to have a free discussion.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Thursday 10 July 2025 5 days ago:
But that’s my go-to whenever anyone argues that veganism is the most sustainable diet. An argument that has also caused me problems on Reddit when I added that for greatest sustainability impact we should start with eating the rich. They got a bit funny about that one.
