Thornburywitch
@Thornburywitch@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤓 Friday 23 January 2026 3 days ago:
I’ve just typed the word “investment” wrongly three times in a row. I need a holiday. If I end up typing ‘super fund’ incorrectly, it’s time for a medical certificate.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤓 Friday 23 January 2026 3 days ago:
First I’ve heard of it. Piedmonte’s still has it in little plastic containers. Don’t recommend Psarakos as their herbs are always a bit tired.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤓 Friday 23 January 2026 3 days ago:
Thanks chef!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤓 Friday 23 January 2026 3 days ago:
apple turnovers with cream & honey and a cup of coffee please chef. Gotta fill up on carbs before tomozz cos I’ll be living on salad & icecream over the weekend due to weather.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📻 Thursday 22 January 2026 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Wednesday 21 January 2026 5 days ago:
Also defence force and police - services might be limited to them, but they might know of a good counsellor outside of their particular field.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫖 Monday 19 January 2026 1 week ago:
Grilled rabbit haunches with tonkatsu sauce please, and some iced tea.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦎 Friday 16 January 2026 1 week ago:
My apologies. I think I’ve met too many people who definitely were using a no-fodmap diet to basically Karen everyone in sight. I mean, how does one tell the difference between the genuine and the fake? Volume of rhetoric is not a good guide.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦎 Friday 16 January 2026 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the born again vegan. My sympathies.
I have a theory that extreme dietary restrictions (not the allergy sort which is a quite other ballgame) functions as a sorting mechanism to reduce the stress of making choices. Given that we have so many choices of foodstuffs available to us, that some folks experience some form of stress is not all that surprising. I do think that this is one of the more obnoxious methods of doing so though. There’s a power dynamic operating here too.
I am reminded of the folk who chalk climate change action messages on the completely separated bike path near me. Not on the road where the car drivers might see it, but on the bike path where most bike riders are already on board with climate change action. Doing the chalking probably makes them feel good, but it’s not exactly targeting the real problem.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦎 Friday 16 January 2026 1 week ago:
thanks chef!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦎 Friday 16 January 2026 1 week ago:
This is the way. I salute you for doing the right thing.
I am so damned tired of catering ‘special’ meals for the born again whatevers. Keto or vegan or fat free or whatever. It really sucks when trying to cater for a group of people and you don’t know if they do or do not have non-allergenic lines in the sand.
I’m more than willing to cater for allergy restrictions - lactose, gluten, nuts etc if I know about them in advance, but the rabid ‘I’m a special little petal because I’m …’ mob really piss me off.
Us humans are omnivores. Preferences are fine if you’re catering for yourself, but taking the moral high ground over the presence or absence of meat and/or carbs and/or fodmaps just makes me see bright bright scarlet and reach for the baseball bat. With hobnails in it. And this applies double if someone rocks up unexpected like and then proceeds to criticise the menu because their personal preferences aren’t allowed to override everyone else’s preferences.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦎 Friday 16 January 2026 1 week ago:
May I have a medium size bagel with cream cheese and salmon and a medium sized cappucino please?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Thursday 15 January 2026 1 week ago:
10 degC overnight. Daytime 20 degC up to 25 degC. Fine during the day, any rain coming at night. Occasional hot day to 30 degC for laundry purposes. Wind - not bothered except that hot northerly winds should be VERBOTEN!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Thursday 15 January 2026 1 week ago:
Thanks chef!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Thursday 15 January 2026 1 week ago:
Salad of melons and bacon please chef. And some intravenous coffee.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌮 Wednesday 14 January 2026 1 week ago:
My only beef with this is - why buy a garment if you don’t know if it will fit? I would still wash it when I got it home, but I would hope to have some idea if the garment was going to fit me or I wouldn’t buy it in the first place. The fit can change fairly dramatically between ironed and un-ironed - particularly the set over the shoulders, and sleeve length, so I would recommend at least basic ironing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌮 Wednesday 14 January 2026 1 week ago:
If donating uniforms, I’d make them so that a reasonable person could at least try them on to ascertain the fit. I would iron them all where appropriate, including the jackets. Collars and cuffs only on the shirts. Soaking is probably going too far.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 13 January 2026 1 week ago:
Oooh, go hogwild! I would be very tempted to let Grinling Gibbons be my guide (see example) - but Victorian steampunk sounds pretty damn fantastic.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 13 January 2026 1 week ago:
If you are going for baroque, I must insist that there be gilded papiermache cherubs at the corners - preferably blowing trumpets. Some nice scrollwork would be an advantage I feel. Strap & jewel work might not be quite the right vibe, but you can’t go wrong with roundels.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Tuesday 13 January 2026 1 week ago:
Ooh where are these? I’m looking for fancy icing tips/nozzles.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥵 Friday 9 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Comfort food - and nourishing. The high fat level is useful in cold weather.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥵 Friday 9 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Horrible decision, but I think you did the right thing. Think of how the poor kitten must have felt - a serious injury AND getting used to living in a human world AND being separated from mum and the other kittens. Would have been so stressed out. It hurts I know, but with animals, I reckon quality of life is the deciding factor.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥵 Friday 9 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Has to be spuds with the skin still on (vitamin C lives just under the skin and usually gets peeled off), whole raw milk (vitamins A & some Bs and some protein and a lot of fat) OR butter, and a supplemental protein source - such as oily fish (vitamin D) or meat or cheese. If you peel the spuds, you’ll need a supplement such as fruit. The classic Irish diet that the potato famine of 1840s pretty much wiped out and triggered mass migration to USA and here.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥵 Friday 9 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Yass!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥵 Friday 9 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Someone asked Red Symons once what the first superfood was, expecting him to say spirulina or some such. His answer: wheat. And I think he actually nailed it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥵 Friday 9 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
If he’s a boy and much younger, then it may well work out. The real problems are when you introduce two female cats to each other. Especially if they are the same or similar ages. Guaranteed cat fights in that scenario. Has Gibson been spayed?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Thursday 8 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Thursday 8 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Keep an eye on the gutters in the streets - apparently some of them have populations of live koi living in them to eat up all the grot & algae etc.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Thursday 8 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Bagels would be excellent. Thank you chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Thursday 8 January 2026 2 weeks ago:
Iced coffee, and icy pole and an iced doughnut please chef.
