Thornburywitch
@Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 3 days ago:
There is such a thing as chelation to reduce lead levels in the blood. Check for compatibility with any current medication though, as it may remove that from the bloodstream too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 1 July 2025 3 days ago:
Bleat.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 3 days ago:
Hung jury. All 12 jurors have to agree and come to a unanimous verdict for not guilty or for guilty. So I think it likely that there’ll be a hung jury and a re-trial at some later date. Which will be even more of a shit show.
Such a pity the Scottish law verdict of ‘not proven’ is not available here in Victoria. Which basically means We know you done it but there’s no evidence.
I do think the r/deathcapdinner mob (and I chose that word deliberately) need to be reminded of the basic human right of being innocent until proven guilty.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 3 days ago:
Yass!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 3 days ago:
Worcestershire sauce would be my go to rather than chilli. Complex, tangy and not heavy on the tongue. But then I am going through a love affair with worcestershire sauce rn so don’t mind me.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 3 days ago:
Thots & pears. Think of all that lovely overtime - and all the Gibsontreats you can buy with the money …
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 4 days ago:
Probably not equal amounts - ingredients are generally listed in descending order of quantity.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 4 days ago:
2% spices is quite a lot - might actually have a punch. Haven’t ever tried it though. If looking for a very mild sauce, try the Chicken Tonight range or similar with added spice (by you). That is, fry up protein, add spices to taste or not, then add sauce from bottle and simmer as per instructions. If doing something like this, I use garam masala rather than chilli and that works very well. Plenty of taste but you still have tastebuds after eating it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 4 days ago:
There will not be time to celebrate. Just sayin.
Have been saving a very upmarket choc bunny from Easter to eat tonight when all the shenanigans of EOFY are over (FINALLY!!!). May indulge in a few champers too.
Then all the stuff that our clients have been saving up ‘for the new FY’ will hit on Tuesday/Wednesday.
Pray for me.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Monday 30 June 4 days ago:
Safe travels! Weather not looking good here for next few days so jelly you’re going to NZ!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪀 Thursday 26th June 1 week ago:
You are the sunshine in our lives.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 1 week ago:
Happy Birfday!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 1 week ago:
As it should do! Our food truck is the BEST!!!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 1 week ago:
Bowl of seafood pho please, and some extra energy.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 2 weeks ago:
Remember to jump over the bonfire with your partner holding hands. Preferably before too many mulled wines have been consumed. Alternatively, drive your cattle and other livestock between two bonfires to protect them from disease etc.
Bearing in mind that a bonfire is newly kindled, that is, you can’t just borrow some fire from your neighbours to start it, you have to make it from scratch.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 2 weeks ago:
The one down at Monash? Oooh jelly! It’s quite fascinating. Basically a big tunnel circle underground, with machines that can squirt atoms/molecules etc. at very high speeds at items in each target zone. Like a very big roundabout with high speed atom cannons instead of roads leading off it. This helps people find out what the items in the target zone are made of and their internal structure. Super useful for mining, engineering, medical stuff and a host of other stuff.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 2 weeks ago:
The kit is fine. The problem here is actually turning the kit into food. Hot liquids, stove elements etc. suck a big one when vision/balance/grip strength is impaired. Remembering my mother when she started her final decline - all the elbows of her cardies were burned through where she’d brushed them too close to the stove element … it amazed us all that she didn’t get seriously burned but that was the point where she had to go into residential care to keep her away from the stove.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 2 weeks ago:
Local council might have assistance available - especially if it’s only for meals. If money’s no object, then hiring someone to come in and cook every couple of days might be a useful way to deal with this.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Friday 13 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Well done! Celebration this weekend???
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Friday 13 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Friday 13th its bad luck to walk under a ladder, bad luck to see a black cat - so I think walking under a black cat would sorta kinda cancel out …
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Those shells could be mussel spat. Keep an eye on them to see if they grow to harvestable size …
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Is that the Niu Gini one that’s recently been re-discovered? I know they’ve got long beaked echidnas, but I think there’s been some developments on the short-beaked side quite recently.
He he, the actual word echidna is NOT an indigenous word - it comes from greek mythology and is the name of a goddess of chaos. quote below from theoi.com
“EKHIDNA (Echidna) was a monstrous she-dragon (drakaina) with the head and breast of a woman and the tail of a coiling serpent. She probably represented the corruptions of the earth–rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease.
Ekhidna was sometimes equated with Python “the Rotting One”, a dragon born of the fetid slime left behind by the great Deluge. Others name her the Tartarean lamprey, and place in her to the dark, swampy pit of Tartaros beneath the earth. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes.
Ekhidna was the consort of Typhoeus–a monstrous, multi-headed storm-giant who challenged Zeus to the throne of heaven. Together they spawned a host of terrible monsters to plague the earth including the Khimaira (Chimera), Kerberos (Cerberus), the Hydra, Sphinx and the Drakon Hesperios (Hesperian Dragon).
Four other closely related she-dragons were the Argive Ekhidna and Poine (Poena), the Tartarean Kampe (Campe), and the Phokian Sybaris.”
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 11 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried Lonesome Dove - books and/or miniseries?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐢 Wednesday 11 June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Coffee please chef, with a side order of motivation and some energy.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 6 June 2025 4 weeks ago:
Dammit, that sucks the big one. Bowel cancer got both my maternal grandparents too. Many many hugs.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Thursday 5 June 2025 4 weeks ago:
Do we get to smash a piano with sledgehammers?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Thursday 5 June 2025 4 weeks ago:
Hoppy birthday! All the beers you could want are coming your way.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏆 Tuesday 3 June 2025 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Still do when I can. However, the big white ones that spring up in people’s lawns have 2 different sorts - one is edible & delicious. The other sort looks identical, but if you lightly score the white top with a fingernail and the mark turns yellow, they may give you a tummyache but won’t kill you. The yellow staining ones have a mild toxin that really upsets some people’s stomachs, but doesn’t affect others. I know a few spots that are reliable for goldtops too, but don’t always get there before the locals.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚲 Monday 2 June 2025 4 weeks ago:
Thanks chef. A little ray of sunshine is what I am not rn.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚲 Monday 2 June 2025 4 weeks ago:
This has happened to me before. I felt blessed by the jigsaw gods.