TheWitchofThornbury
@TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone
- Comment on Victorian Pill Testing Service opens in Fitzroy 7 hours ago:
Um, laudanum IS opium dissolved in alcohol.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 8 hours ago:
Home & Away, set in Ancient China’s Forbidden City. Everybody wearing floor length silk bathrobes and enough gold hairpins to stock a medium sized sunburst. The murders, the romances (appropriate & inappropriate), the betrayals, the promises of undying loyalty which promptly get broken. Gorgeous sets. Pregnancies galore. And EVERYBODY has perfect hair & makeup except those that have gone mad and been locked up for life (before the Emperor sends them a dose of poison via his favorite eunuch). This one was the Legend of Zhen Huan.
8/10 politely spiteful catty remarks - the kind that draw blood.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 9 hours ago:
Just watched my very first cdrama episode. Oh my, oh my.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 12 hours ago:
She’s pickin’ up good vibrations …
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 14 hours ago:
Piccy please! Sounds lovely.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 14 hours ago:
Its a fine grained hardwood - very popular in late 1800s for furniture, and again in the 70s & 80s, as both durable and beautiful. Then the supply of that timber (from old growth forests) bottomed out and imports from Indonesia/Malaysia pretty much took over the furniture market. Your pen may well be repurposed timber from old/antique furniture, as new timber of that variety doesn’t often come onto the market now, and what can be cut under the current strict licence conditions mostly goes for musical instruments. Treasure it - it’s beautiful.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 15 hours ago:
Beautiful! What timber was used?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 15 hours ago:
I’ll have what Force is having, but with extra garlic and a bottle of red wine and some 🐛🐜 (lightly toasted and drizzled with honey) please chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 17 hours ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 20 hours ago:
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig - not the whole pig of course. Just enough for dinner and some leftovers for sandwiches. And a jelly croissant.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 23 hours ago:
6/10
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 22 August 2025 2 days ago:
Sky pretty
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 22 August 2025 2 days ago:
chocolate & chilli cake please chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 22 August 2025 2 days ago:
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤯 Thursday 21 August 2025 2 days ago:
What’s a graticule? Never erdovit.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 3 days ago:
For me it works very like Pratchett’s Third Thoughts. I find myself watching my own reactions and speech as if they were happening to other people. And adding footnotes inside my head about what I really intended to mean/say/do (never spoken or I’d be tarred and feathered and run out of town probably). That’s the short version - the longer more accurate version WOULD get me tarred & feathered etc. I think.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 3 days ago:
Yeah. Same. The pictures on the radio are so, so much better than the ones on the tv or movie screen. Also, the revelation I had when I realised that not everyone keeps a history timeline in their head - that really shook me. I’ve read a lot of history over the years, and that timeline just keeps getting more and more detailed and multibranched. I can’t imagine living without it now. It gives me perspective and I really value that. Can’t even begin to imagine what it must be like to not have that context - particularly nowadays.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 3 days ago:
And skulls. Saw a doco about the battle of Tothill Fields (one of the bloodiest in UK history) - the skulls with the square holes punched through them were victims of a war hammer in action.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 3 days ago:
Trust the good ol’ ball peen hammer - best modern substitute for a medieval war hammer. Though I guess you could up the nasty by squaring off the head and putting a point on it if that’s your jam.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 4 days ago:
Hot porridge with honey and cream please chef. A nice cup of tea would be good too if you can be bothered.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 4 days ago:
Should be a nice sunny day once it warms up a bit.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧙♂️ Monday 18 August 2025 6 days ago:
Monday breakfast please. And coffee.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 17 August 2025 6 days ago:
Opera was (and in Italy still is) a popular entertainment. I blame the Victorians for “elevating” it to high art and getting all pretentious about it. Should be sexy, rambunctious and very very funny - like Shakespeare. Sounds like a great production of the Abduction though.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 17 August 2025 6 days ago:
Vinegar also works and I find the cleanup easier. There are descaling chemicals available at Colesworth for use in coffee machines etc. and these are frighteningly effective when used properly.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 17 August 2025 1 week ago:
Fried chicken and a fruit platter please chef.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 17 August 2025 1 week ago:
Tough one today - 25/50
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧝♂️ Saturday 16 August 2025 1 week ago:
Did anyone else get a few hours of a gateway error accessing lemmy???
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧝♂️ Saturday 16 August 2025 1 week ago:
Happy Gotcha Mr Woof!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚙 Friday 15 August 2025 1 week ago:
Pork belly goes good in airfryer. Nicely crackles up the rind. Great way to render out plenty of pork fat for other dishes too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🚙 Friday 15 August 2025 1 week ago:
And here!