Queen
So regal!
She’s beautiful 😊
Everyone is settled in.
“oh hai, you’re awake! Is it too early for a treat?”
Edit: too early to be awake. Back laters.
This photo was taken at 4am lol
Off to a gig tonight at the croxton. 3 hand built nose bleed decibel speaker systems. Two playing in synch in one room which will be dub / reggae, another system playing DnB / jungle. Don’t normally fork over $40 unless it’s a DnB international but these guys spend an inordinate amount of coin and time on these things so it’s worth it just to keep the scene alive.
Also hambams on his walk / run today ran into a mum and her kid (probably 3yo). He was so gentle w/ her. He might not be all there upstairs at the dog park but around the very young kids he changes and is very mindful. So credit to hams.
Have fun at the gig!
And don’t forget to wear earplugs (speaking as someone with tinnitus)
Enjoy!!!
Just a few more hours and I’ll be finished up working in my current office. Twenty years with some of these people, it doesn’t feel quite real yet to be leaving.
There has been a lot of food and some lovely gifts. All warmth themed, as befits a move to Ballarat. Plus an ice scraper for the car windscreen!
both happy and sad
champers and hugs
The donut festival has a stall where all the offerings are missing essential attributes of donut.
No sugar, no dairy, no gluten, no YEAST, no…basically, no donut
Did they just pour sugar into the shape of a donut 😂
Not even. These are seemingly sugar free!
I get why - allergy free offerings are good - but the absurdity tickles me
I did not read it properly lol, you did say they were sugar free 😂🤦♀️
Oh yeah no harm in offering it, everyone should be able to enjoy donuts! I’m just trying to picture what they could have been made from? Air??
They sold an impressive variety of flavoured air, if so. I counted…fifteen?
I wonder what the texture was like!
I was there today as well. Loved the churro icecream bowl
I appear to have misplaced the cat. She woke me up for food at 6 and now she must be snoozing in a hidey hole but I can’t for the life of me find where. I know she can’t get outside. I heard a random meow in response to me before but she’s not answering now. I am mildly concerned and VERY curious…where is kitty??!
In a pile of jumpers. Or under/inside the recliner.
Found her. Under a little bit of raised floor. Didn’t think she would fit but she had a nice cubby going.
They’re pretty good at fitting in small spaces. 🐱
Impeccably dressed toddler has matched the tractors on his gumboots to the tractor on his jumper, and matched both to the exact shade of yellow on his bucket hat.
Mum says he chose it himself. If so, kid’s got style!
I finally bit the bullet and got an ebike. Velectrix Adventurer. It’s pretty much a step through mountain bike, so it has front suspension, dropper post, fat tyres, and a stronger motor.
It also comes with mud guards, a rack, and integrated lights wired to the battery. Plus it has hydraulic brakes, which feels like the necessary minimum for an ebike.
There are higher spec bikes out there, but this is all I need for a 15km trip to work that I’ll do a few days a week in between regular bike rides.
I could have gone even more basic with the Velectrix Brunswick, but I thought my girlfriend could ride this one because of the frame and dropper post. It seems a little big, but I’d like to get her on there
I want my next bike to be a step through mid-drive.
I think it’s the best use case for an ebike. The step through frame makes it comfortable to use and the mid-drive has a bit more power than a hub motor
Very cool, sounds like it’ll be fun to ride! Enjoy!
I’m looking at the trails near home to see if I can make the most if its mountain bike DNA to get to work faster
My wife surprised me with a bottle of whiskey. Peated from England. Also cask strength, nearly 60% strong.
Is nice
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I’ve been reading more books! In between working, doing laundry and going to the donut festival I’ve been reading a couple of Lin Anderson books, a Joshua Moehling book called And There He Kept Her, and started a couple of others I didn’t like so I didn’t persist with those. Loving the internet archive and Libby, free entertainment to offset the cost of taking the Minipeelers out!
yay 😊 that’s wonderful
do you have a favourite?
I loved the style and characters of the Joshua Moehling book and wanted to read others but there weren’t any more I could borrow from my library. The Lin Anderson books are set in Scotland and are very gritty forensic detective novels. Luckily for me she’s a very prolific writer. The one I enjoyed the most so far was probably The Wild Coast, but I also really enjoyed Driftnet. I seem to be really enjoying the whole crime suspense thriller thing. It’s just pure page turner enjoyment for me.
I ended up reading all of the Helen Forrester autobiographical books last week. I’ve gotten back into that old habits of mine where if I wake up during the night I’ll read for a few hours in the quietness (or what passes for it around here).
I read them too. Sad to say I understand first hand most of her experience.
There’s plenty of options if you want to sus out a decent Z-lib mirror or get on tor to find the official deep web version.
The baseline kobos go pretty cheap too, or you could get a second hand kindle, jailbreak it - which is meant to be really easy, and install KOReader.
That’s the eBook app I use on my phone and it’s great. The interface is a bit intimidating at first, but it’s good once you get used to it
Beach. I got quite close to a spoonbill today.
it looks 100 miles away in the pic
I experimental with the horizon, I usually do a low horizon or high horizon
Shopping done. Time to zonk in bed.
Decided I couldn’t be bothered with wet bathers, so taking a loooong bath this morning in the hotel before breakfast instead of a swim. Usually I love to get out and about in the city but have really enjoyed a proper staycation, including room service last night.
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🎂Happy Oldday!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, Force 🎂
I’ll have popcorn chicken stacked like croquembouche, drizzled with BBQ sauce and honey mustard mayonnaise, please. A big tower for everyone to share.
Would that be a cluckembouche?
cluckenbouche it is! The new trend in party food. I feel like I need to make this happen in real life.
Hello, I would like an invitation to the cluckenbouche party please.
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This could be seriously delicious as a party centrepiece on the table. Some of the constituent pieces dusted in chilli powder, some with mild paprika. Russian roulette with chicken.
I’ve been trying to work out how you would hold the thing together. If serving cold melted cheese would work. For hot all I can come up with is a special mold and a really big deep fryer that can fry it all in one piece.
I was thinking on toothpicks like a grapefruit hedgehog, but mounted on some kind of large foam cone.
This is the way.
Actually, quite do-able. Foam cone from Lincraft (make your own xmas tree sort), or cardboard covered in tinfoil. Pipe thick stripes of mayo or other sauce in spirals over the cone. Stab each chicken piece with a toothpick, and stack around the cone, glued in place with the sauce with the toothpicks facing outwards. Pipe over more sauce or not as preferred. Maybe lop off the top of the cone to fit a small bowl and put melted cheeee or another sauce in the bowl for serving. Provide plate/bowl for used toothpicks.
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Ice cream and pretzels please and some coffee chef.
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Thanks chef!
A bento box and a surprise drink, please chef
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Delicious! I’ve been craving Japanese food, and the surprise drink is very refreshing
some fresh crumpets with jam and a cup of tea please
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