My daughter made a new friend today
Ain’t no love like a ginger’s love.
She said it tried to leap into her arms ♥
Muuuuuuum he followed me home - can I keep him?
I’ve been calling him ‘old man’ because it makes me laugh. He is displeased and reminded me he is only 3, going on 4.
He’s still my grumbly, chatty old man though.
He does have an old man face, in a respectful way!
Pretty sure he can be a handsome old man and a little baby kitten at the very same time.
He looks wise
I’d take advice from this wise old man
Apparently, I don’t have enough money in my credit card to pay $0.00 for my kid to go on an excursion:
This is some oldskool software gore content.Hooray! I did not throw up.
Feel for you. Dentists are not fun. Not even close to fun. I have an appointment at the dentist on my birthday next week. The only day available. Poo.
Birthday dentist is mega poo! I’m not scared of them as such, but have a seriously messed up gag reflex which makes it very un fun indeed.
Ditto. Also a needle phobia that just won’t quit. I have to take muscle relaxants before getting vaxed for anything too, or my muscles go into hard spasm and the vaccine oozes right back out. Which is embarrassing and stains one’s t shirts.
Mr Woof has made himself nice and cosy.
There is no dog in this picture
I’ve been walking past the dog’s bed all morning giving him a little pat and talking to him (he likes to bury himself under his doona). I thought “oh you haven’t popped your head up for awhile” so I have a proper look and he’s not even in there. He’s in the kid’s room because they have a time share thing going on.
I woke her up by moving my foot every so slightly:
And thanks everyone for the pantry tips! Going to go stock up this weekend.
You monster. 🤭
Shame on you!
I see a poo in your slipper in your future.
🤮
Pure evil.
The guilt will never escape you.
For anyone needing petrol, this is the time to fill up, a good number of petrol stations have jacked up their price for the long weekend already.
Oh damn, thought about that this morning then forgot to do it and I forgot there was a long weekend. Hmm, do I brave the cold and the reversing back out into the traffic 🤔
I just used 7-11’s fuel lock and I’ll take my time doing it next week instead.
$1.70/L for diesel in Dandenong. $1.79 in Creswick. Probably $2 on Saturday
God dammit, best I saw on petrol spy was 1.86 for diesel in Keysborough, which I bought 50 litres of.
more pain meds have been taken, then a little more sleep and then I’ll be up
There’s a bunch of jumpy Bois in front of my hotel!
They look kinda like rocks or something, but nah, they’re all jumpies!
The train trip included a fancy dinner and drinks with the train crew. Obviously I can’t drink [:(], so I just had a bottle of Pepsi Max to look the part. I also had to learn how to do fancy eating. Dinner and meal manners aren’t something I’ve ever had to use before, so I never learnt them. But I feel under qualified to eat dinner now to be honest. I’ve never put a napkin thing in my lap, or wiped my face with a black cloth, or had 3 different knives + 3 different forks + 2 spoons + 3 glasses before. I was also the only person at my table under 50 (seriously, that’s not a hyperbole), so that makes it harder to know how to act and what to do.
I mean it was a good experience, and I’m happy that I did it, but there’s so many generational differences that it gets really hard to know what to do or say and how to act. 1 lady was super nice, but the dude next to me shouted at me to not play with my food (there was a flower on my dessert and I was trying to figure out if it was edible or not). It was that sort of formal.
That dude was a dick.
I am very middle aged and I still remember my first “fancy” dinner… I kept.forgetting how to hold my knife and fork and my mate’s mum leant over and helped. I still feel a bit out of place at fancy dinners. It’s fun to play and try new things though.
I was at a foster care house for a while and the foster carer and her son both got really, really, really angry at me for not holding a knife and fork right (I held a knife in my left hand and more like a broomstick despite being right handed), but neither of them wanted to teach me or explain what the go was. I only learnt how to properly hold cutlery and knives when I was 14/15. My previous fanciest dinner would probably have been an RSL, but since those tables aren’t really shared, nobody gives much of a shot how you eat things as long as you’re not obnoxious about it and meet their dress code thing.
I’ve actually picked up a lot of my manners and social norms from old Australian soap operas (namely prisoner) + stories from my mum. Just generally speaking, I don’t think much beyond basic manners is really a thing in my generation. Even an expensive sit down restaurant doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fancy or will even have a dress code, let alone any concern about manners or over a dozen types of silverware
There are probably YT videos.
No doubt, but I think I’m mostly set now. I mean I guarantee I’m going to forget everything I learnt tonight, but I have never needed them before so I don’t think it’s likely I’ll need them again any time soon. The only reason I really cared about them is that it was 10 person shared tables with older people, and the innate urge to try and fit in ear overpowering
I went through a similar thing. I’ve had to teach myself how to do pretty much everything. Like how to shower properly, use cutlery etc. You get the idea.
If it makes you feel better, you’re not the only one having to deal with this crap 🙂
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Baku, I would’ve played with the flower too 🤷♀️
After he yelled at me I decided to just eat it. I think it was intended mostly as decoration, but it didn’t taste like anything so I assume it was intended to be safely edible. I was the only person that are it at my table though
For future reference. Yes, it’s edible. No, you don’t need to eat it.
Ignore the guy, he had very bad manners. The best good manners are a smile, please and thank you and a kind heart like greeeg’s friend’s mum.
And that train trip looks really awesome, so jelly. 🥰🚂🦘
That was something that stuck out to me. Nobody was even really acknowledging the waiters at all, and I was the only person saying thank you to them each time they brought food and took plates and drinks and stuff. The only time I could justify not thanking them is if I was in a conversation, but even then I’d at least acknowledge them with a head nod, or duck to the side to make it easier for them to get the plates
So you had the best manners there after all.
Apparently 🙄🤣
100%
We stopped at Maroona station, which closed back in the 80s which was pretty fun.
I never quite realise the sheer size of these things until I’m standing at the same level as one and I’m about the same size as a wheel. Just like planes
Love me a good N-class. Used to take these a lot between Gippsland and Melbourne growing up. Shame they’re all V’Locity’s now :(
They are good trains. I also saw one that had been debadged and was hauling a freighter, which looks… Interesting.
Yeah that seems to be where they’re all heading, without so much as a proper re-paint
https://wongm.com/2024/04/retired-vline-locomotives-hauling-freight/
Jelly. I like that trip on a train - did it a few times years ago.
Really? They were saying it’s the first time a passenger train has run to Mildura since it was axed in '93.
I’m talking 80s here. I am an ancient monument.
Agreed ;)
Just joking, I’m actually super jealous. Mildura is my favourite place in Vic, and I would give a kidney to be able to regularly catch a train there
My late partner came from there - well, a farm outside of town. Until about a decade ago his parents still lived there, they’ve now passed on. When my partner and I took up with each other, I spent a bit of time going up there.
Nellie’s update has landed.
This time we get an encyclopaedic life cycle description. https://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/a-year-in-the-life-of-the-numbat?
… and females receive an augmented termite diet for optimal breeding conditions.
I wanna augmented termite diet!
Is there anything we can do to support Nellie?
Other than give the zoo money? Not that I am aware of. Are you artistic? You could do a Thing for $ with a donation pledge ?
That looks like a good idea. I could do a watercolour of her. 🖌️
Fixable finished off the coaching and most of the packing. Usually I wake up 4 hours before I’m due to leave and then pack from then, but I have to leave by 5:45 so that ain’t happening. I’ve tidied up the house and cleaned out the new kids half of the fridge and freezer. Also packed so my clothes and most of my backpack, but I’ll have to pack a few odd ends when I wake up. I’ll also have to wake up around 4:45 or I won’t get be able to get up until 5:30.
Although it’s kind of a heritage train, the heritage is more about where we’re going than what we’re going in (which is the opposite of regular heritage specials). These carriages are the same ones that were on the Albury line before standard gauge vlocity trains like elsewhere displaced them. So I guess they’re technically heritage now. But it feels weird calling something I rode in regular service like 3 years ago heritage, even if the stock is old. If anybody wants to keep up with what’s happening, I’ll post wrap of photos of the day in c/MelbourneTrains when I get a chance, and share whatever funny/weird/annoying experiences stand out to me here
God I was tired when I typed this lol
“Fixable finished off the coaching” was meant to be “finally finished off the cleaning”
Sometimes I read back on a professional email I’ve sent and think - wow I actually sound like I know what I’m talking about. Get me on the phone though and I become a mumbling mess sometimes.
I love the phone. I have a “professional” voice I put on. It’s fun lol
Look what I got on my bin
I hope the prize is cash cos that would come in handy right now.
