Going out for fancy breakfast this morning to a cafe near a post office. Nice food and the boys can post our council votes for us.
If I ran a cafe near a mailbox I’d do a post about it to remind people to send off their votes and come enjoy a coffee while you’re at
DEMOCRACY COFFEE
If I ran said cafe I’d have an October long special of some overpriced cafe version of a sausage sandwich for that election day feel
Would you do different versions for each of the major parties or something like that?
People could mention their party affiliation and I could do different options for them. Like vegan for the greens, Mayo for labour, and whatever’s lying around for liberal
The labor sausage, the liberal sausage, independent sausage.
Doesn’t sound too bad to me!
If I could vote I’d definitely get in on this
Oh seagooon
We wish you would come back soon
But hope you are enjoying your vacation
Enforced by internet enshittification.
But come back soon…dear 'goon.
Here here!
I was just checking to see if @Seagoon_ was alright, they haven’t been online in 5 days.
She says she has signed up to aussie.zone and is now waiting for approval. Its now a waiting game.
My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don’t spend that much and it’s great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who’s getting what.
Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!
When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they’d waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I’d been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.
Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I’d get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone’s birthday I’d lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I’ve probably never eaten so well lol.
I think my budget was $50 a week, but that included odds and ends like toiletries and magazines as well as food. It also included meat, although not huge amounts. My staple meal was stir-fry, with lots of rice and veg and a small amount of meat (about 60-80g per meal). I would cut up the meat into strips for the freezer (I had a bar fridge with freezer space designed to hold a couple of trays of ice-cubes!) so something like a single chicken thigh would cover a few meals.
I also had a butcher that would sometime have whole wild rabbits for a couple of dollars, so I’d use the meat from those for a stew & make a soup from the bones.
Budgeting and also knowing good deals and seeing one is an under appreciated skill.
I found a ripping deal on ham this week and bought quite a bit of it and made really nice sandwiches out of them and couldn’t be happier.
It absolutely is - it also needs to be paired with the ability to cook and menu plan well.
A lot of people have the basic skill set of being able to choose a recipe, buy the ingredients and make a meal, but don’t have the ability to reverse the process and create something based on which ingredients are available. Which works well for me, I have often ended up with things like trays of meat left over from events because people don’t have any idea what to do with them (or have a mental block against “leftovers”).
Mix and mash all the stuff together. What could go wrong?
I’m fairly simple so if there were trays of meat you could pair it up with rice, pasta, sandwich, noodles just on a basic level. Nothing fancy or complicated but maybe I just don’t have any good ideas in my head.
Ladies and gentlemen, enbies, kitties and potats…I am going to clean up from dinner and go to bed. I don’t even care how early it is. I am stuffed. Night all
Ninigh. You gotta do what you need to to recharge. That’s often more important than the "should"s we tell ourselves to do.
I’m gonna watch Fisk at 8pm and then call it a night too and do most of the cleaning tomorrow.
Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.
Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:
Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.
Stunning rose, but caused by the bane of all our existences: the slacklustre tradie.
Don’t even need to glue, could just cuff it
okay I’m looking into this thank you :)
omg thank you that’d work.
Goodnight everyone. From the home of the unfinished cat tree ❤️
Lol do you want me to come over and help you this week? I’m great at building IKEA stuff! Half my furniture is IKEA lol
Haha I was going to offer as well though I’m on the opposite side of town.
We’ll go together haha
Can you distract Gibson while I desperately try to finish it?
Can diddly do!
Dude, ikea fail?! Such disapoint.
I’m so ashamed :(
Craft prepping for the big Halloween window. Sure hope the theme isn’t too obscure ☠️
Oh that is just adorable!
I finally got to see GardenWorld in person (been an online customer for years)
...my GOD
It’s farken insane. 10/10 highly recommended
I love garden world!!! It’s amazing!!!
I’ve been a customer for years - online. I thought it was a bog standard nursery, not this wonderful insanity!
Oh it’s a fantastical fairy garden; the geodes and rocks and minerals and fossils and all the cacti and exotic plants. It’s a wonderland!
I love Garden World! The pink orchids there are my phone wallpaper!
No one warned me about the geodes!
It’s fantastic.
I have some work to finish up before tomorrow but I am seriously thinking of just having a shower and going to bed. I am so tired today.
Same. I’m going to eat and read in bed till I fall asleep.
Alright, lamb shanks are in the slowcooker! Excited af about this. Never had them at home before. Well, except for the frozen pre made ones.
Overnight (our night) there have been strange reports coming in from agricultural hubs around the world. Cows and similar bovines appear to have all at once changed their signature “moo” sound, puzzling farmers, biologists, and even physicists. The sound these bovines are now making has been described as follows:
spoiler
GOOOOOOOONseeGOOOOONseeGOOOOOOON
Edit: it appears that birds capable of producing human sounds have also begun what can only be described as a chant
So that’s what woke me up this morning. Good to know so thanks Force. I was beginning to worry.
Cooooooooool!
Nice day to be out & about
This looks identical to a photo I took of the elephants almost ten years ago!
🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘<3
Is this their new digs at the Werribee zoo? 😃Glad they’ve got more room now.
Nah that’s happening next year; this is still just at Melb zoo :D
Big weekend for him, doggo sleep now.
Why do people feel the need to use their most loudest voice possible when they are outside and only a couple of metres away from each other?
I call it loud noise disease.
Widespread solipsism?
Sounds like kids to be honest. They can’t control their voice volumes either.
I have no idea why people do that. Bad hearing?
No, not children. Adults.
Oh sorry I knew that. Just saying kids have the same problem with voice control and how loud they are.
There was outside idiots and inside idiots having a convo.
Mission for the morning. Queue for the closing day sale at the best pie shop ever. ‘Tis an utter tragedy.
Out of curiosity I googled “Melbourne pie shop closing down” and… wow, so many! Too many in the past few years 😢(My local is hanging on, but business rental prices in my area have skyrocketed and a lot of shops that have been there for years have closed. Including my beloved computer repair guy who’d been there since 1986 or something.)
These guys it’s both rent and ingredients. They refuse to use shit and would apparently have to charge $14 a pie to keep as is 😿
That’s tragic but also understandable. Working in elite food environments and having a partner who was a chef opened my eyes to a lot of things. If the integrity of the ingredients is paramount to you then it’s so hard to compromise for the sake of $.
Victory! Well mostly. They are out of almost everything. Anyone not already in the queue will be disappointed.
