Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 12°C, max - 30°C. 100% chance of no rain
I put a cheap Kings Gazebo on the north side of the house yesterday morning.
We didn’t need to put on the AC at all!
Despite the builders best efforts, our Zero Energy designed house is doing pretty well.
We have an 80th Birthday Party here this arvo with 50ish guests. I think that we may need to turn the ACs on.
Yay!
Your furniture is saved!
Er no. Mine have plenty of proper scratchies but the couch isn’t safe.
Our couch is tasmanian oak and they still try to claw it lol
Mine is fundamentally IKEa, but I covered that sucker in all kinds of silk & velvet so would really rather they didn’t. Some success with a spray ‘herbal’ deterant
Scratching posts, cardboard etc everywhere. Punkin was really the only one who tried the couch and that was for Ginger Reasons
I did a great job of making sure the bin was full and ready for collection, then fogot to actually take it to the curb. Now I have a bin full of such delights as chicken bones, cat litter and dog poo bags ready to marinade in the scorching heat of the weekend. 😭
On a positive note I have layer 1 of my lime and strawberry jelly jars poured and setting in the fridge.
The pest control man parked in front of my bin the other day. I had to run outside and move it down the street before they missed me
Call the council and claim they didn’t empty it
When the man goes out to scoop the dog shit up for fun he’ll take the kitchen rubbish out with him first to put them in. Sometimes he forgets so he’ll put the scooper in the red bin. Unsuspecting me comes out, flings open the lid and cops a whiff. Kill a black dog on a rusty chain that.
Cheers fellow degenerates 🥂
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Cheers! 🥤
Cheers!!
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Screw you and the popularity of your local community, I don’t need reminders that you’re in summer while we haven’t seen the sun in over a month 🥶🌧️☁️
We have a bit too much sun this week, can we send you some?
40°C tomorrow 😛
To be fair when it’s 40 you’ll find me in the shade ideally with a nice breeze or otherwise a fan, but still right now that sounds amazing… Pulls up blanket
Take some of this overnight heat away with you while you’re at it.
Skin cancer or chillblanes? Mmmm, decisions
The grass has turned yellow from the heat. The peaches on my mini-peach tree are ripening, as are the tomatoes. The fig harvest is coming in the next couple of weeks, the nectarines are swelling and have turned a beautiful dark ruby colour. And I’ve just bought a replacement 1 litre bottle of spf-infinity skin lotion …
such a beautiful day today and yesterday, not a single cloud in the sky, and the night is clear with twinkling stars
and huge bats flying over head , I can hear their big wings flapping when they come close.
Cheap telescope was predictably disappointing. My dad’s old binoculars did a much better job, we could clearly see the dark side of the moon and the edges of craters! This old nerd was very excited 😊
I have some pics from Castlemaine. Not touristy pics, just stuff I found interesting. 🙂
a gun captured from the Germans in wwi. There are so many war trophies and memorials from wwi it makes me think the war greatly effected this far from Europe town .
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cute aussie planter at the entrance to the art gallery
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awesome painting by Drysdale
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my fave entrant in the Fox art competition. By Joel Arthur. Trees on a lake? I just love the colours and perspective.
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A weird church. This town was full of distinctive architecture
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old wwi ambulance parked on the main street
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in case anyone needs to send a telegraph
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a very weird flower in the botanical gardens . agave gigantea
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the old train station . We heard kookaburras here. 🙂
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Nice pics!
Thanks, beautiful Castlemaine makes it easy. 🙂
If you compare the surnames on the war memorial of nearly every country town with the surnames on the land ownership records of the time, the lists are nearly identical. Yes, country towns contributed far more than their share of young men to WW1. There’s a reason so many have an Avenue of Honor of oak trees or similar. Even though a lot of these are damaged by time they still survive.
My grandfather was on the commission that set up the war memorials for Vic & NSW country towns and the papers in his estate are grim reading. So many young men that never came back. Including his 4 older brothers. He was the only boy in his family of 9 sibs that came back. My grandmother - of her 5 brothers only 2 came back, one so badly disabled that he could not work. Which in those days was saying something.
so sad 😔
Very cool. I love how well preserved the telegraph station is, also kinda cute how it’s tucked in there
telegrams were still a thing until 1993.
Were there dinosaurs back then too?
yes
I forgot to add I watched the vline bendigo train go by on a level crossing, I waved and the driver tooted. Trains are cool. 🚄🙋♀️🎺
Have made it to Tokyo!! A visit to Donki and I’ve made my first Mofusand purchase of the trip and set up an in room snack bar because we are wrecked. Overnight flight with lie flat seats, but less than 3 hours sleep.
If I buy energy jelly, does that count as me joining this cool crowd?
It sure does 🪼🍓🍇🍊🍋🟩
Gonna play gin rummy with the man. Place your bets.
You’ll probably win I reckon.
2 - 1 me in the lead.
have you been in secret training for a while?
Shhhh. Noooo.
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You will win, backgammon champion.
I am winning so far 4 - 3
Cats are nap magnets.
Ahhh i love the sound of junkies screaming all day. Probation ends on the 23rd of Jan. I’ll be gone within 2 weeks of that date.
it’s been bad around here 😖
Must be the time of year.
I messaged the landlord and let him know. I don’t have a lease and am paying month to month so at least i won’t have to pay anything to leave.
I simultaneously fear them and pity them 😞
It’s so bad. Once a guy was screaming day and night so you couldn’t get a rest
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I literally didn’t see this that’s why I did my own 😬 cheers!! 🎉🥂
All cool man 🍺
I’ve had a bowl of tortellini and I think it’s time for bed
I’m thinking along the same lines.
my furry boi i love him so much
Those two tone beans 😄
I call them neopolitan ice cream beans; white for vanilla, pink for strawberry, black for chocolate. He’s just scrumptious. I know I shouldn’t kiss his beans but I doooooooo idc 😂😂
shouldn’t kiss his beans
eww I would too though.
I clean his litter box… But I can’t help it, LOOK AT THEM! Why are they that shape if they weren’t meant to be kissed‽😭
Adorable toxoplasmosis. Worth it.
Chronic toxopawkisses
Very cute and squishy 💕
Getting a nice long walk in now seeing as I won’t be leaving the house for the next 2 days. Except for cat duties.
