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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • wscholermann
    8·
    1 year ago

    Almost got run over by a fucking mole in an SUV. Wasn’t even looking at the street she was turning into and instead at the road ahead.

    You’re supposed to give way to pedestrians when turning into a street fuckmuppet!

    • 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.

      • NathA
        2·
        1 year ago

        Moles have notoriously terrible eyesight.

      • wscholermann
        2·
        1 year ago

        Silly me, thinking people should glance at the road they are turning into!

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    8·
    1 year ago

    I had to activate my new debit card. I couldn’t quite do it on the phone so I called them and I failed the security questions so now I have to go into the branch so they can ID me. I’ve been flagged. Lol

    • Bottom_racer
      7·
      1 year ago

      Can’t remember your first pet’s name?

      straight to jail.

      First car?

      also jail

      • CEOofmyhouse56
        6·
        1 year ago

        No. None of those. Where and when did you last use your card and for how much? Idk I can take a guess. Which I did and apparently wrong answer.

        • landsharkkiddEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That is just WILD! How do they expect anyone to remember that? I could possibly give stores but amounts are just, no

          • CEOofmyhouse56
            3·
            1 year ago

            I know right. All I know is I failed that part of the interrogation. I failed adulting. I failed at technology. I don’t deserve a debit card with my own cash.

  • melbaboutown
    8·
    1 year ago

    Eh? I planted the spinach seeds 4 days ago and they’re already sprouting. The cat grass took so much longer.

    I think I sowed them too thickly as well, should have left room for more staggered plantings. Wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing. The carrots were definitely sown too thickly and will 100% need thinning once they’re up which feels like a waste of good plants.

    I might just leave the spinach as is, uproot any that get ratty and reseed the empty spots. Or thin some of them for microgreens. (Might do that for the carrots too as the tops are edible.) It’s possible some will bolt when summer hits unless they’re brought inside.

    I really wish I could plant pumpkins and zucchini or tomatoes but cannot take on that much garden

    • Taleya
      3·
      1 year ago

      zucchini aren’t much harder than cucumbers, tomatos can be pissy but go gang in hydroponics. I’ve grown pumpkins and watermelon in a 50cm pot up a trellis. You only get a couple of fruit, but they’re whoppers

      • melbaboutown
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just wish I had the room and the physical strength.

        I do have a few small patches of soil but they’re covered in aggressive grass runners, I haven’t had the soil tested, a pet was buried there and intruder cats use it as a bathroom.

        I’d do raised beds, huge buckets or grow bags with trellises (I was eyeing off the mini pumpkins) but am trying not to set up anything that would be difficult on moving

        • Taleya
          2·
          1 year ago

          Have you seen these? I’ve raised tomatoes, eggplants, chillis, peas, etc very successfully in these over the years. Too small for melons, but very good for mid-size plants.

          (They do sell singles btw lol)

            • Taleya
              2·
              1 year ago

              We may be actually passing on some of ours, but not this growing season. Still sorting the garden.

  • Duenan
    8·
    1 year ago

    Taking my sun prescriptions right now eating peanut butter toast and having a vanilla latte satchel while listening to a podcast.

    Will have to move soon after as my long pre order is ready for pick up and I’ll get a haircut too at the same time and pick up some coffee supplies, hash browns and maybe some fruit juice?

      • Duenan
        5·
        1 year ago

        First half done. Now need to motivate myself to go out and get the other stuff done!

    • Force_majeure122
      3·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like a great start to a solid R&R break! Please remember your prescription is to be taken once daily

      • Duenan
        3·
        1 year ago

        It was so nice I think I spent way more time than I was meant to.

        Have to get moving now to get my haircut and supplies.