TheWitchofThornbury

@TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 1 June 2025⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No reason why you can’t have your own bowl, just keep your mitts out of MINE! (it’s too good to share)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 1 June 2025⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t appeared on the abc website yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 1 June 2025⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Have your own bowl of pho! I’m not sharing. Not our chef’s pho anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 1 June 2025⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Bowl of pho please chef.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thin flat batten for the top and for the bottom. About the same width and thinness of a wooden school ruler only long enough to extend a few centimetres wider than the fabric. Or lengths of thinnest possible plastic pipe. Bunnings can help you here.

  Attach in a variety of ways :

  1. Glue picture on to batten/pipe with fabric glue or flour & water (cooked) paste. If using flour & water paste, add a squirt of aerogard to the paste before using to deter insect attack.

  2. Thin strips of neutral coloured fabric to make tabs for the top edge - also glued or stapled to the back of the picture fabric. Tabs should have a big enough loop to put the batten/pipe through at the top. Bottom batten as per 1. above.

  3. Staple the fabric to the battens for both top and bottom. You’ll need an industrial stapler - office staplers aren’t strong enough. One staple every few centimetres. Can be tricky to get right so it doesn’t wrinkle, but the least messy option. Doesn’t work too well for pipe mount.

  Then either tie some string to the ends of the top batten/pipe and hang from a hook, OR

  Drill hole in each end of the top batten to tie the string to and hang from hook. OR

  Run a piece of string through the pipe (if using) and tie ends together to make a loop and hang from hook.

  You can put the hanging hook right up near the ceiling where it’s less obvious and tie a loop of string from that and then tie that to the string on the picture, being careful to centre it so the picture hangs straight.

  Lengths can be adjusted to suit. When you’ve got the placement right, replace the hanging loop and maybe the string on the top batten/pipe with brass picture wire cut to the length you want. Kits at Bunnings and Lincraft and probably Kmart.

  The advantage of hanging a fabric picture on battens/pipe is that you can roll it up when you move. Then you only have to fix up the hole where the hanging hook was before inspection. And you can re-hang it in your new place without much difficulty.

  Also Gibson will enjoy batting at the picture when it moves in the breezes. You can secure the bottom batten/pipe to the wall with a couple of discreet bits of blutack if you don’t want that to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This could be seriously delicious as a party centrepiece on the table. Some of the constituent pieces dusted in chilli powder, some with mild paprika. Russian roulette with chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that be a cluckembouche?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks chef!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🔮 Saturday 31 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ice cream and pretzels please and some coffee chef.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  gratin. This is heresy I know but I actually don’t like fries all that much. Will eat them, but they don’t sing to my soul.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t beat a good capricc. With all the anchovies that the peasants don’t want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Over easy on vegemite toast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Second this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Loincloth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of fruit is a Samsung?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead tree book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Soap!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Statewide Sewing Centre in Coburg does repairs - round about $150 plus parts if needed. I got my old Janome sorted there after my sister stuffed it good and proper and they are good and reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🃏 Friday 30 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  quiz

  1/10 wtf!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 😺Thursday 29 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the breakfast sausage is AMAZING! And not just for breakfast …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 😺Thursday 29 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have mussel envy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 😺Thursday 29 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Party size or Family size? It’s kinda ironic that party pies are small but family pies are large. Like parking on a driveway but driving on a parkway. You’d think a pie big enough for a party number of people would be even bigger than a family size but no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 😺Thursday 29 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Chef, I think all of us hope your new plane of existence is entirely to your satisfaction. We hope you will keep us informed of the prettiness or otherwise of the the ‘sky’ or functional substitute thereof.

  Also, could I have a nice cup of tea and a bikkie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread ⛵ Wednesday 28 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jam a potato onto their exhaust pipe(s). Superglue down their petrol cap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread ⛵ Wednesday 28 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All of which can be bought easily from Bunnings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread ⛵ Wednesday 28 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Scythes are a bit different - really thin blade at the end of a long pole. Very specialised for it’s purpose - mowing grass really low. A machete is a thickish chunk of metal and quite heavy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread ⛵ Wednesday 28 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This has to be one of the least effective and stupidest knee-jerk reactions I’ve yet seen. It would be more to the point to ban shopping centres imo. Or teenagers. Machetes are really really easy to make - long grass slasher machine blades make the best ones. This is traditional in the bush for clearing scrub and butchering deer/sheep and opening Queensland Blue pumpkins if you can’t find the bow saw. Just screw the blade to a handle of some sort and sharpen. And I don’t think they’re going to ban council grass mowers anytime soon. Or Bunnings. Or pumpkins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🚂 Tuesday 27 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The aftermath, with wet socks, can be unpleasant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion Thread 🚂 Tuesday 27 May 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been following this bloke for a while. Interesting analysis of current events in USA. Thoughtful, intelligent and well informed imo. link

  I’m so glad we voted potatoface and all his tribe out.