Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • lemondrop
    21·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for checking in on me and standing up for me re the Reddit post, pals.

    Rough times over here but everyone’s alive so it can’t be that bad. Miss you! ❤️

  • Mittens_meow
    15·
    1 year ago

    This year just keeps giving. Got some bad news at doc today and being sent for scan on Monday. Currently panicking about cancer.

  • Seagoon_
    13·
    1 year ago

    😭😭😭 just got an email from the palaeontologist guy I sponsor on patreon, he was contacted by Make a Wish who asked him if he could take a little kid on a dino dig. The kid just loves dinosaurs. He and the foundation seeded a beach area with bones and megalodon teeth and the little kid had a great time finding them all .

    • calhoon2005
      5·
      1 year ago

      Must’ve blown that kids mind!.. Fast forward 30 years to this isn’t as easy as I remember…🤣

      • Seagoon_
        4·
        1 year ago

        um, it’s from Make a Wish. The little boy might not even make it to ten. 😭 But I hope he lives a long life. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 ----------->>>

          • Seagoon_
            3·
            1 year ago

            no matter, I hope your joke comes true. 🤗😘

            but really, when I got the email and photos I cried and cried. I just help out this amateur paleo and he shares his trips and his finds and I have learnt a lot ( and he has even found new species ) but to help with Make a Wish, I never imagined

  • ReadEverything
    12·
    1 year ago

    Garden is looking good today, I really should be doing some weeding. Image is a magnolia with a hot pink rhododendron in front on a sunny day

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’m going through all my papers and I found this

    spoiler

    And I’m keeping it. Forever.

  • Rusty Raven M
    11·
    1 year ago
    My miniature garden aqueduct is working well. I have an old sink near here that I use for garden stuff which is not plumbed to drainage, so I put the green tub under it to collect the water, which I used to just empty directly onto the garden. I have a bunch of concrete spoon drain pieces and bricks from old paving around the house, so created this to take most of the water across to the base of the apricot tree. A fair bit leaks along the way too keeping other plants watered.

    • CEOofmyhouse56
      6·
      1 year ago

      This reminds me of an invention that a friend’s dad made at a party. He cut a large pvc pipe long ways, suspended it on bricks and had a bucket at the end to collect the waste for his lemon trees. It was a homemade urinal around the side of the house.

      • Catfish@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        I went to a week long event where a few guys put handles on potted lemon trees and carried them around as personal pissoir

    • TinyBreak
      4·
      1 year ago

      If it ends up being El Nino I’m gonna do a similar thing with buckets and watering the garden. The budget didnt go as far as a water tank this year.

  • melbaboutown
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’m not up to running around doing guerrilla gardening myself.

    But how cool would it be to seed bomb abandoned lots with native wildflowers for native pollinators? (Not only bees - though they’re important).

    You can make seed bombs as clay-soil balls, soil bound with flour, dried paper pulp, or soil filled eggshells.

    Legality is dubious so check beforehand if you want to do it. And don’t use anything poisonous or invasive.

    Edit: Scratch that. This video is saying not to use regular wildflower mixes as some species may be invasive. The natives may be a much better choice until I look at what’s in the bee/butterfly mix

    • Rusty Raven M
      7·
      1 year ago

      I have considered lobbing a few into my neighbour’s back garden (which is basically abandoned), but I’m not sure they would get enough sun or be able to compete with the weed growth.

    • Taleya
      3·
      1 year ago

      alyssum are generally good, coriander and dill as well.

  • Duenan
    9·
    1 year ago

    Well Dymocks has now confirmed that the basic contact information has been stolen and published on the dark web.

    That might explain the barrage of calls I’ve been getting and ignoring since Monday.

    Don’t like that my date of birth is out there now with my name.

  • bull⚡English
    8·
    1 year ago

    STORM WON!!! Gotta get behind our only Melbourne NRL team, @MELBOURNE I DON’T KNOW HOW TO OR IF YOU CAN TAG A CHANNEL OR WHATEVER IT’S CALLED IN LEMMY

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 💜 ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ ⚡

  • ThornburywitchEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Piedmonte’s has $5 choccy mud cakes. Pray for me (and my waistline).

      • ThornburywitchEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Not ME doing the praying. I’m hoping some better endowed person (soul wise) will be motivated by a charitable impulse and do some praying for me.

        • Duenan
          3·
          1 year ago

          I can be proactive and help you with the cake.

          • ThornburywitchEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Umm, confession time. I bought some cream to go with it … I do like the dollop cream - so unctuous.

            • Duenan
              3·
              1 year ago

              I will silently offer you a prayer 🙏

              My your soul be saved. 🕯️

              • ThornburywitchEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Thank you. Although compared to mud cake and cream, soul saving starts to diminish in importance in the overall scheme of things.

    • Duenan
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh damn. You just reminded me that I have donuts hidden in the cupboard

  • Bottom_racer
    8·
    1 year ago

    So I’m going axe throwing tm for a bucks and it was a very confronting waiver.

    I don’t have a beneficiary or executor :(

    • Duenan
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s only if they see you in the first place and from what you described she wasn’t even looking.