RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Wednesday 31 December 2025 2 minutes ago:
I have tested my cake and it passes the edibility check. I can now pass it around at work without fear of embarrasing myself. The attempt at fruit swirled though it didn’t work quite so well, I have yet to master that, it’s more evenly sunk to the bottom creating a slighly sticky fruity bottom layer, which is not quite what I was envisaging but tastes good.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Tuesday 30 December 2025 11 hours ago:
The new beaters arrived, so I had to make a test cake (which is now in the oven). They worked well, although Mr Woof was concerned about the noise of them hitting the side of the bowl and evacuated to the backyard for safety. But he does that for just about everything 🤣
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Tuesday 30 December 2025 17 hours ago:
Pakige! My new beaters are waiting at my front door for me. That was a really quick delivery, I wasn’t expecting them to arrive for a few days.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Tuesday 30 December 2025 17 hours ago:
Nice. The second one is my favourite, and I always like the ones that show repeating patterns, like the sand and mussels.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Tuesday 30 December 2025 21 hours ago:
Dogs don’t do spite. Not feeling safe to go outside when no one is there is much more likely.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Tuesday 30 December 2025 21 hours ago:
A platter of sliced fruit, 3 scoops of frozen yoghurt and an iced mocha please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
It’s an LG, 9x ultra2. I upsold myself quite a bit when I saw the auto emptying feature, I hate cleaning and then having to deal with a canister of dust and hair which invariably makes a new mess.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
Vacuum cleaner really sucks. 10/10 would vacuum again.
It does a much better job than the old stick, possibly better than the plug in vacuum too. The auto emptying feature is amazing, you just hang it up on the charging station and it automatically vacuums the dust out into a bag in the tower without you having to do anything. I let it get to 90% charge before I tried it out and it didn’t have enough power to do the whole house, but I didn’t figure out how to put it on the low power mode (which is all it needs for the hard floor areas) until I’d nearly finished, so it shouild be fine to do the whole lot in future. And it has the second battery if I want to use the handheld to do other bits or to use the mopping attachment too. Once I get enough charge in the battery again I’ll try the mopping head out. It’s just damp spinning microfibre pads, so I can’t see how it could not work ok.
You can get a version that has a robot vacuum that docks underneath the tower, but after the nasty tail-tangling incident where a robot tried to eat my dog’s tail I don’t trust those things.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
I suspect it’s more useful for the robot vac where you are not actively using it yourself. They seem to like to put wifi into everything these days though.
The only other appliance I have with wifi is my rice cooker. The wifi is very useful for me because I bought the cooker cheap and it is Chinese, so I can’t actually tell what any of the buttons do. The app has an English version, so without that I can’t do anything except basic rice starting right now. With it I can set the timer and make youghurt and other things.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
My vaccuum cleaner came with a voucher for 10% of it’s purchase price, so I’ve just ordered a fancy red pair of Kitchenaid beaters. I’ve been resisting buying a pair when mine broke because I knew mum would have some she doesn’t need when she moved into the serviced apartment, but it turns out I really hate the ones she had - the beaters keep coming out while you are using it! I don’t know if they are faulty or really badly designed.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
Thanks for the kind offer, but I think I’ve got enough space to try it out here 😁
I’ve just installed the app - it is wifi connected so I can check on the battery charge level without leaving my seat, it will remind me when I need to clean filters and it monitors how much time I’ve used it for. Hopefully not in a creepy way.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
The vacuum cleaner has been unboxed and put together ready to go. Now I have to wait for the battery to charge so I can actually try it out.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Sunday 28 December 2025 2 days ago:
I was unable to stay awake longer than 10:30 last night and only just woke up now. I guess I needed a major catch up sleep!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐈 Saturday 27 December 2025 3 days ago:
Cosy. Plus with room for more sprawl in warmer weather if required too, very nice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐈 Saturday 27 December 2025 3 days ago:
I had my family Christmas today. I was given some yoghurt treats for Mr Woof and a kitty bag of left over salmon for Miss Meow. They were very well received.
Westgate Bridge roadworks added over an hour to the trip heading east, but only about 10 mins coming back the other way. I am definitely glad to be out of the car now.
I picked up my new vaccuum cleaner this morning, but I don’t think I can be bothered unpacking it tonight, that can be a tomorrow thing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Friday 26 December 2025 4 days ago:
Dog has been walked, lawn has been mowed. There are leftovers in the fridge ready to go for dinner. I think it might be video game time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Friday 26 December 2025 5 days ago:
Satisfying and sad at the same time. Leftovers are always a good thing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 5 days ago:
I’m trying to buy myself a Christmas present and the LG website is not being very cooperative. Happily autofilling the address but then telling me the postcode is invalid. Very rude.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 5 days ago:
Even better, I tell other people to fight fires while I sit comfortably in the office 😁
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 5 days ago:
Santa brought me seven whole hours of sleep for Christmas! Now I’m well placed to stay up all night eating. Hopefully he’ll also bring us a peaceful night free of any major Christmas disasters.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 5 days ago:
Working night shifts is great for Christmas jumpers, there have been lots at work. My thermostat’s running a bit hot these days so I’ve stuck with the t-shirt/antler headband combo myself.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 5 days ago:
By avoiding going to shops (or anywhere, really!) I have completely avoided all Christmas music.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 6 days ago:
All the sugary things please. If you have them a couple of candy canes that I can ignore while I eat everything else, before giving in and sucking on the end and slowly turning it into a hard point while I contemplate the feasibilily of terrorists hijacking a plane with a sharpened candy cane.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎅 Thursday 25 December 2025 6 days ago:
Merry Christmas everyone.
With a special shout out to YarraByte, you’ve been doing a great job. Enjoy your day off!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 24 December 2025 6 days ago:
So the Santa story is just your cover for trying to rob the place and steal all the expensive Christmas presents? Clever.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 24 December 2025 6 days ago:
That sounds good, stuck on couch is usually an ambulance job. Unless you are really heavy and need some burly firefighters to hoist you up I won’t need to do anything.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 24 December 2025 6 days ago:
Just do your best, that’s all we can ask for. But if you do decide to do something try to at least make it interesting. Get stuck it the chimney pretending to be Santa or something.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 24 December 2025 6 days ago:
Damn, it’s time to get ready for work already. Hopefully it will be a cruisy shift and I don’t have to work too hard. So if you guys could do your best not to set things on fire, crash your cars or get your cat stuck up a tree that would be great.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 24 December 2025 6 days ago:
The main things self seeding here are bindii and mallow.
I’ve never actually grown or even used tomatillos. In my last place I did have wild seeded cherry tomatoes, plus a few things like parsnips, parsley, lettuce and bok choy. By the time I have enough plants built up to do that here I’ll probably be moving again, hopefully to my own place where I can keep the garden long term and get the benefit from that sort of thing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 24 December 2025 6 days ago:
No viking rampages today, I went on a poisonous rampage in the garden instead. All the naughty grass that has snuck its way through the cardboard in the garden beds has now been sprayed. The worst bindii infested patch of naturestrip has had selective poison put on it, and the worst of the broadleaf weeds there have been sprayed too.
I was happy to see the climbing bean seeds I thought had failed have now sprouted. Some of the tomato plants didn’t cope with the hot days and have died, but I have a few more seedlings that are still ok to replace them with and all the cherry tomatoes look to have made it. It doesn’t look like any of the cucumber seeds have managed to sprout though, so I don’t think I’m getting any of those this year.