TheWitchofThornbury
@TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 5 hours ago:
It done come out of nowhere too. Garden is loving it.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 9 hours ago:
Work recently ‘upgraded’ to Xero for pay/timesheets/leave etc. Only public holidays don’t load properly. I have let management know just how I feel about that. Requesting leave actually works pretty good though.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 9 hours ago:
Potat is very nutritious. Go for it.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 10 hours ago:
Waaaaahh! Where will I get shoes now?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 10 hours ago:
All good here on my ancient laptop
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 1 day ago:
It’s escaped my attention until now, but next Monday is a public holiday. We have a long weekend coming up!!! Yippee!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
Yumm.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
Team Kelpie. Pissed off that there’s no Team Heeler.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
This is sooooo tempting.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
Yeah, I love dissecting the package to see just what’s in it.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
Piedmonte’s in North Fitzroy does nice fresh home cooked meals packaged for one - ready to heat and eat. I’ve lost count of the number of chicken stroganoffs with rice & veg I’ve bought when I cbf cooking. Their lasagne is meh, but the porchetta with noodles & veg meal is pretty legit too. Also their Italian Rice Salad - which is deeeelicious when heated up a bit in the microwave. They also do a nice roast chook too - bit heavy on the salt for my taste but always well cooked and juicy. They also sell vacuum packs of the ends of the smallgoods rolls all chopped up and ready to go on pizza or whatever. Yummmmm. Very cheap way to enjoy very expensive smallgoods. Like $4 will buy 300g of a variety of amazing sausages like regional calabrese and sopresso and expensive wood smoked hams of various sorts all costing over $30 per kilo and some of them over $70 per kilo. Great way to add amazing flavour to stews and cottage pies and stir fries and things.
Pricing generally is a touch above Colesworth standard but worth it if you cbf cooking. They price their just before due date meat very well, and I’ve had a lot of delicious bargains from them. Particularly the flat iron steak which is a fab fave of mine. I tend not to buy veg/fruit from them as Psarakos Market is better and cheaper, but for ready meals and meat Piedmonte’s is excellent. They also stock 1000 lire pasta as ready meals as well as the usual suspects like Corelogic - these are nice but pricey. Good range of vego and vegan stuff too.
The Miller St IGA has a limited range of fresh stuff, and has a good range of frozen stuff but don’t bother going there for a major shop of ingredients. Good for emergencies when you can’t be arsed going further afield. Their range of speciality chocolate is impressive. Good stock turnover, which makes me think that people are shopping there quite a bit even if I don’t.
I’m missing my local bakery, which is on holiday until late January - their banh mi is superb! Also their tiger rolls. Only 8 days to go until they’re back in business. Can hardly wait.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
Not really. Scientology is far worse than honest Satanism imo. Cos Scientology is based on a fundamental lie.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🏡 Tuesday, 21 January, 2025 2 days ago:
Is Satanism one of the options?
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 4 days ago:
Dwarf lemon would def fit - thanks for the idea!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 4 days ago:
That sounds like a plan - they’re far too heavy to move about so having swappable plants is a brilliant idea!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 4 days ago:
Exhausted. One of my neighbours (a pro landscape gardener) alerted me to one of her up-market clients who was getting rid of two magnificent concrete planters in order to have a new garden design. Spent this afternoon picking them up, cleaning them and placing them in the garden. They’re gorgeous - 60 cm across urns with Pan faces and garlands and fluting on the outside. Very italianate. Made in Brunswick/Coburg back in the 80s and the firm has gone out of business since. They even have a little concrete plinth for each one.
Now the hard part - deciding what to put in them. They’re large enough for a smallish tree, so practically anything except daphne would suit. Am thinking might re-locate the rosemary to one of them, and maybe lavender in the other. Maybe a cumquat …
I am hot, bothered, sweaty, every muscle is aching and I have no fingernails left to speak of, but also seriously stoked that these beauties are not going to end up in landfill. Estimated cost of purchasing a similar item (only made in China/Bali and not as decorated or as sturdy) is $200 plus - each.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 4 days ago:
15 … not my best effort.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👨💻 Sunday, 19 January, 2025 4 days ago:
Waffles with maple syrup & bacon, and a nice cup of herbal tea. You know which herbs …
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
I’ve been homeless too, and drug addicted at the time. And at the time, I would have run a mile from anything even resembling an emergency dorm. You say homelessness causes mental illness? I’d put it the other way around for 90% of people.
Sorry if I seem a bit adversarial about this, but the topic is one that I care deeply about, and I also refuse to tell myself comforting lies and indulge in nice fantasies about the actual effects in the real world. Cos I’ve seen the real thing. It ain’t pretty. And no-one’s grateful until they’re already half way back into ‘normal’ life.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
Come on, let me see you shake your tail feather…
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
Please, add in the Tragedy of the Commons. It’s relevant.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
Fully agree with the Scandinavia solution. However, stop gaps have a horrible tendency to become permanent and this is one that I find truly horrifying.
“Some people have challenges in keeping accommodation or aggressive behaviours and sadly just having services available isn’t enough.” - from Melba’s comment.
There isn’t any good solution though - come to think of it, this fair land we live in was colonised as a way to get rid of a crazy bad urban poor situation. So let’s send them to the other side of the world so they’re NOT on our doorstep and too bad for the indigenous population.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
Using old warehouses as dorms - you’ve just re-invented the flop-house of Victorian times! Or possibly the penny hangs. There’s damn good reason why this solution is just plain not good enough.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
All it takes is one nutter going on a rampage, and the other inhabitants of a dorm would be adversely impacted. Also, keeping people in dorm conditions encourages theft and abuse - source : boarding school with upper middle/upper class kids (guess who the worst thieves were).
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Saturday, 18 January, 2025 5 days ago:
Goooood morning. Such a lovely day. Mega shopping trip for household staples, and maybe a cheeky brunch on the way back planned.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 6 days ago:
Perfect match!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 6 days ago:
Whoowhee! All happening!
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 6 days ago:
An occasional cracker or piece of bread is usually recommended. Or grapes. They go well with brie.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 6 days ago:
Isn’t it going to be visible from next Tuesday? Or have I misunderstood it’s social calendar.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🍝🍟🌭 Friday, 17 January, 2025 6 days ago:
Grrrr. So damn jelly.