Trampoline park not fun. Awkward with new friend. Wouldn’t be surprised if I never hear from him again lol.
I need sleep. Sorry to be a downer.
It can’t have been that bad! Surely the trampoline park had its ups and downs.
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Heading back to Melbourne after 10 days in the tropics. Pray for me 🙏🏻
Just had a look at the AFL ladder after tonight’s games. There are 6 teams on 32 points. If Hawthorn wins over West Coast tomorrow, they’ll join them for 7 teams. Even though they’ll have a crappy percentage. Next few rounds will be interesting.
Apart from Sydney being well clear it’s a logjam down below and it’s been a rather strange season as well with teams dropping off badly and some teams coming back from nowhere like Hawthorn.
Going to make the next few wins or losses very important for those teams.
@Duenan @Thornburywitch Hawthorn is currently on 7 wins, with games still to come against West Coast, North, Adelaide, and Richmond.
On recent form, percentage aside, I could definitely see them ending up in the finals…
I’m looking for a tea caddy spoon and fell down a rabbit hole of T2 fancy teas and infusions and weighing and timing and i’m just like…dude i’m too fucking poor white for this shit. I shovel it into a giant pot, fill it with boiling water then strain out the gooblies with a sieve as my ancestors did.
Has anyone got a nice simple puff pastry recipe they use and can recommend? I made homemade sausage rolls today and my filling was delicious, but I’m annoyed at the bought pastry I used. It was awful! I’ve tried every brand of readily available bought puff and it’s all awful, I’m over it.
You can’t go wrong with Julia Childs’ recipie - many heaps of vijos on youtoob. This is the old school classic, and takes a fair bit of work and time. The good side is that the raw pastry freezes well, so making a large batch and only using the portion you need for one use, and then for the next use 90% of the work is already done - at least until the stash is used up. Recommend using unsalted cultured butter for the authentic flavor. The original and best.
For quick pastry, I like using the Womens Weekly Rough Puff for savory recipies - so quick and easy and the results taste just fine though the texture is not quite as flaky. Again, one zillion recipies on youtoob. You can play a bit fast and loose with the proportions for this recipie depending on what you have available, so it’s a very user friendly method. The only real secret is using chilled water to mix and resting the dough before rolling out and using. This weather is perfect for pastry - it’s a pain to make in hot weather.
It’s the grand opening of the new dinosaur exhibition at the museum this weekend.
One of my boys is a bit scared of dinosaurs but we’ll check it out anyway. He can join the dino dance at the end if he needs to get away from things
Naaaw that’s so cute
Your boy who is scared is smart, if I saw a dino in real life I think I’d wet myself, and I love dinos. I get nervous with hissing cats
fust, bwa ha ha
Hehe.
husband’s folks are coming for dinner, I checked with him, i called them “your folks” , first time I ever called them that. Thing is they treat me like crap, always have, they truly are not my folks
treat me like crap
Get them to do the washing up, sit there silence judging them :) With your eyes “that’s not where that goes”.
I will do it, they break things accidentally on purpose. Also, after that I can just ignore them and do some embroidery. Tired of entertaining them.
Got any toddler bowls and cutlery around?
Oh wow. That’s unreal that they break things on purpose.
I’d never have them over for dinner in that case. Sounds like it’s just going to be an unpleasant time.
izza job is how I look at it
Can you outsource things and go to a restaurant when you have to see them, instead? At least they wouldn’t be in your house that way
wind’s howling
God, it was so strong last night! Thought the tree was gonna fall over…
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A nice salmon and cream cheese bagel would do the trick, plz chef. And a latte, because Melbourne. 😂
A pigeon pie pls.
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A bowl of delicious vegetable soup with crusty bread and a nice ripe camembert to smear on it. With coffee please Bacon.
🧅🌽🫛🥦🥕🥔🍅🍲🍞🧀☕️
Yum. Thank you.
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RISE AND SHINE 🐛🪱
the birds are still in bed
Blinis & sour cream please
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ugh, had a nasty nightmare about anxiety. I was packing to travel and husband was impeding me, making me late, making me anxious. I got angry.
lurv recaptcha. Does anyone in the tropics wear shoes when riding a motorcycle and I keep singing “I like traffic lights” by monty python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRyH6fkee0
…although my names not bamber…
Because my name’s not Bamber …
one of the all time great monty python lines
( at the time Bamber was a famous name, he hosted uk university challenge )
Why is it always motorbikes or traffic lights? Occasionally busses. Surely there are other suitable subjects?
Maybe because they sell the results to auto driving car databases?
Pigeons are my favourite bird, of all the birds. I love their coo-ing sound they make, and how derpy they look.
Plus, Australia has a bunch of native ones. My favourite is the Crested Pigeon - they have little mohawks and squeak when they take off.
Look at these beautiful pigeons! https://www.australiaswonderfulbirds.com.au/pigeons
Look at the superb fruit dove and see the beauty of pigeons lol
Wow, I didn’t realise we had so many pigeons, and pretty ones too!
I will never forgive the pigeon that stole my whopper junior (with cheese) at fed square at 3am many moons ago. I wasn’t in the best state so it wasn’t a fair fight.
The resident magpie down here takes them out for sport which I fully support.
crested pigeons have taken up nest at the Carlton Gardens , they love the areas with gum trees best
I love the crested ones, aka Punk Pigeons. So squeaky!
SQUEE squee squee ^squee squee squee^
Interesting. Apparently the city of Melbourne use Ninite
For all we know a City of Melbourne employee installed a free trial 10 years ago using their work email. That tends to be how these logo showcases work.
I think that’s how Slack and Atlassian got so many logos for their websites. Look through the free tier for recognisable brands and download the press kit
That reminds me. I saw the other day you were saying your PC isn’t that great. I’ve got a spare i7 board and CPU you can have. Can send it to you via mail if you want it.
It’s pretty much gathering dust. Not too old either. I just can’t remember the exact model of CPU.
I’m an AMD guy now lol
Anyone got any of that rain that was supposed to be bucketing down on us this morning? Dry as a bone outside, I see the forecast was reviewed to “late morning”… Looks like most of it’s gonna fall into the bay :/
Yeah, it’s just spotty though, no buckets.
I take what I said back. Moderate rain now and Southland parking was full by 10am. Argh
Apparently we’ve had 0.8mm since 9 here. It’s a little damp outside, and I can hear a few drops falling but it’s very light. It actually looks like the worst of it is hitting (and will hit) between Wallan and shepparton. Hope they don’t flood again
I thought I just heard some fall here but it was light. About to go out for some groceries , yucky and grey outside :(
Oh yeah, is wet
Windy and grey in the northern suburbs, but no rain yet
