Thornburywitch
@Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Thursday 22 October 2026 2 days ago:
Crossing all available digits for you.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Thursday 22 October 2026 3 days ago:
Coffeeeeeeee please chef. And a selection of pastries with chocolate in them.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 4 days ago:
I believe amuricans make a dessert out of the tinned stuff. I bought a tin and will try it out and report back.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
Cheaper Buy Miles has tins of pumpkin puree rn. Probably due to upcoming Fanksgiving.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
Talk to her doc - there are once a week pills for vitamin D (I use these), but they need to be recommended by a doc. Gel capsules, that can be dissolved in something like soup. Talk to the doc as there may be other options.
The osteo pills I use are once a week and a bit of a pain and probably won’t work for your mum. I have to get these pills through an endocrinologist too. But there are alternatives, including a six-monthly intravenous infusion that has it’s own risks & benefits but doesn’t require any kind of pill.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
Meow.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
It’s damn difficult to communicate, that you really really want to see your friend, but not necessarily that friend’s extended family. Any chance of meeting up someplace where the kids can play on the worksafe hazards (supervised by their parents) leaving you (+friend) in peace? My first choice would be the cafe in the Botanical Gardens as the tables are really really small and there’s plenty of space for the replicants to run riot. And possibly drown in the lake, which should occupy the minds of their respective parents and keep them out of your hair.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
And sardines!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
Yup. And I have it, thanks to cancer treatment a few years ago. The good news is that there are pills you can take that will increase bone density, and these have worked for me. I now have the same bone density of someone my own age, rather than the bone density of someone 20 years older which is where I was at just 2 years ago. The pills are horrible, but better than the six-monthly intravenous infusions of the same drug. My doc tells me I’ll never have the bone density of a 30 year old male again, but he is hopeful of getting me back to the bone density of a 50 year old female. Thoroughly approve of eating lots of cheeee. And sardines, which add Vitamin D which is also a requirement for treatment. And there are now targeted exercise programs for osteoporosis which do a LOT to reduce further bone density loss.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 20 October 2026 5 days ago:
Where do you find these celebrations?
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⛵ Friday 16 October 2026 1 week ago:
Yeah, proxy means that there’s no rational resolution possible. Next time, I wouldn’t apologise - she needs to be called out for being aggro to you when you WEREN’T the problem. Yell back - about blaming the victim of her lack of info sharing. This isn’t childish - it’s confronting a bully. And we know what happens when you cave to a bully.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⛵ Friday 16 October 2026 1 week ago:
Had she told you ahead of the transport that she was stroppy at that person? If not, then it’s on her if the incident was unacceptable to her delicate sensibilities. You still don’t deserve to be yelled at. Informed, yes - in good time to make appropriate arrangements. Yelled at, no.
She may also be yelling at herself for forgetting to tell you the reason, or maybe thought she had told you when she hadn’t. She still shouldn’t have done it. - Comment on Discussion Thread ⛵ Friday 16 October 2026 1 week ago:
Indeed you do NOT deserve to be *anybody’*s punching bag. Does she think she’s ‘sharing’ or ‘venting’ or some such, rather than what is actually happening? I appreciate that she is probably not ready to hear that what she’s doing is over the limits of the acceptable. Can only suggest some kind of therapy - for her. But that could be a very delicate negotiation.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕ Wednesday 14 October 2026 1 week ago:
Do we actually need a special day for that?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪐 Monday 12 October 2026 1 week ago:
They don’t do damage, or not much. Just looking for a cool place to sleep away the summer. If you don’t want them in the house, you may need to call a pest controller as dealing with that many moffs can be difficult.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌶️ Thursday 8 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Me too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌶️ Thursday 8 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Owners usually know their own dogs best, but do have a bit of a blind spot when evaluating other people’s responses. She may have had problems in the past with unwanted strangers coming up and petting the dogs without invitation. And this could have led to trouble. But if the doggo came up to you of it’s own accord and interacted, I can’t see the problem. Unless the doggo had a bite history but you didn’t and don’t know that though she probably did.
Could also be paranoid about strangers so prefers an empty beach (and big scary doggos for companions).
Bitiest doggo I’ve ever come across was a little white mini-poodle - who was clearly completely over having complete strangers rush over and smoosh it or wallop it over the head while gushing ‘oh how cuuuuuute’. Very lengthy bite history, which I reckon was not at all the doggo’s fault. Particularly the face bites. Belonged to a past neighbour who ended up putting on a muzzle and a placard round it’s neck reading ‘I BITE - LEAVE ME ALONE’ whenever it was taken on walks or to the shops, which reduced the problem but didn’t stop it. Nice enough dog in it’s home environment, but not nice at all outside it’s home. And it had learned to be that way from other people’s complete lack of respect for boundaries. It wasn’t afraid, rather it was quite willing to be pro-active to protect itself.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌶️ Thursday 8 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Chips & dip & tea please chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😀 Wednesday 7 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t surprise me if you found that after a while that your allergies reduced a bit in intensity due to removal of stress.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😀 Wednesday 7 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
All the coffee please chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Tuesday 6 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
They are fricken WUNNNDERFUL for bread and rolls. But where they really shine (as much as a clay pot can) is for a whole chicken. Or pork knuckles. Or whole fishies. Just bung everything in the soaked pot on a bed of vegies, no need for extra liquid. Put pot in cold oven, turn on the heat and leave for a couple of hours. Drain off the juices if there’s too much. Serve from the pot. Cooking gets no easier.
They were the fashionable thing of the late 70s to mid-80s, and really only available secondhand now. They break if you put them in a hot oven, or put a hot one down on a cold surface, so lots got ruined because people didn’t know how to handle them. Clean up is the only tricky bit as they are not dishwasher friendly.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Tuesday 6 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Well! In the category of “Finally It’s Happened”. Have just received the replacement Schlemmertopf that my elder son broke at Christmas. He promised to replace it, and now it’s finally happened. I had just about given up hope. He must have searched every op shop in Sydney.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Tuesday 6 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Crab cakes and coffee please chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Monday 5 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Mine came back over the weekend too, I think it’s the weather. We have some sunny days coming up so hopefully that will help. I too am tired of coughing up silly putty.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Monday 5 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
There’s been quite a few others but this one was the first and best. Back in the 90s there was a book published (I had a copy once) that gave exact instructions for ordering a burger at Maccas and other everyday contemporary tasks - in Latin. Can’t find it now more’s the pity.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Monday 5 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
This might be a fun way to practice that isn’t an ‘exercise’ as such. Freely available online.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎒 Monday 5 October 2026 2 weeks ago:
Daylight savings strikes again. The automatic door to my workplace is still set on god’s time, not AEDST. Fortunately the boss rocked up 10 mins ago and let me in. The one time an app actually makes sense to control the timing …
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 1 October 2026 3 weeks ago:
If they leave furniture outside, sprinkle it with cockroach eggs.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 1 October 2026 3 weeks ago:
Not a good idea. Are these the same ones as before?
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⛵ Wednesday 30 September 2026 3 weeks ago:
Check out Appliances Online - I’ve had good results from them and they take away the old machine for recycling. Next day delivery. Yes they have top loaders small and large and you can sort for that on their website. My current top loader came from there and has been good for 4 plus years.
