Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
First day of October and we already have a “Prepare to Evacuate” warning for bushfire (Erica/Rawson/Walhalla area). This does not bode well for the fire season to come.
At least we’ve prepared and invested in the Fire Services properly. oh, wait…Edit: currently three major fires: Heyfield, Briagalong and Erica.
Oh shit, Heyfield? Where are you getting that info from, I can only see a record for a fire from yesterday under control in the Vic Emergency app.
Yeah, that one is mostly mopped up now - they have been working overnight and this morning and most of the trucks are heading home now. The other two they are still sending fresh crews to.
Oh cool, thanks for the update. Have a friend staying in that area over the weekend. I don’t think anyone was expecting multiple fires out that way this early. Wouldn’t put it past a bored shitty kid or adult to have maybe started the fires, though obviously the duration and intensity of the burn is due to conditions.
I miss bboi :(
little man ran a tight ship. I was not running his.
☑️ Groceries
☑️ Bunnings for flyscreen and I bought nothing else
☑️ IKEA. Acquired glow in the dark space curtains.We got a stick-on door fly screen from Bunnings recently, and having fewer blowflies in the house has been an excellent investment
Morning everyone 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
Morning! ☕️
Garn the pies.
'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hateI’ll take a hate, please
7-28C tomorrow?!!
Cold, nice, hot, nice, cold - melbourne spring is fun lol
“What lovely weather I could get used to this” Melbourne: “The fuck you will!”
All timer food right there. I would be imprisoned if anyone found out how much butter I put on those.
I will confess, butter was applied which it didn’t really need.
I left Glaze running overnight to get the stronger level of protection… it still threw the ‘incomplete’ error that protection wasn’t strong enough. Even at the medium level it left visible artifacts in the work, which worsen at higher levels. And I’m seeing people say that it’s easily bypassed anyway. :(
It’s smart to try and protect your work from being pinched but having tried it there’s disadvantages. This tool might not be the great solution everyone thinks. Oh well. Here is the painting anyway.
Melbcat the birthday girl! She's 16 today!
I made her tail a bit longer and curlier so it could form the ‘golden ratio’ spiral. Because she’s perfection.
Happy birthday grandma moocat! I like how your drawing is evocative of Japanese block prints
Thanks, that’s actually a cool style to explore. I looked and her coming was foretold.
She thanks you! But she doesn’t know what you’re talking about, she’s only 16! Still just a little girl 🤭
Eeeeee! Happy birthday gorgeous!
She’s got her new collar and tag on, had plenty of treats, spent some time in a sun patch and was brushed for as long as she’d put up with it! If I didn’t fear the hindmost consequences I would have given her a pinch of parmesan sprinkled on her dinner.
The cat reckons I’ve made a mistake and didn’t move the clocks forward enough hours. He says daylight savings means it’s dinner time right now please.
Bushfire evac at my sister’s place. Summer’s here…
Uuuurgggh…
rant about shitty situation with estranged parent
Very much estranged dad has lost all his savings to a scam AGAIN, but he won’t accept help or advice to figure these out. Probably because he’s hiding more instances of giving conwomen heaps of money after their transparently fake sob story and is embarrassed - image means a lot to him (he is not very smart and doesn’t realise most people with a brain don’t have a high opinion of him anyway).
None of my problem - buuut i was just reminded today by someone else that the home country has a stupid dumbshit law that can compel children to provide financial maintenance to their parents if they are able to and haven’t been doing so. Only cases of severe abuse or neglect are exempted (which “sadly” isn’t the case here). He doesn’t even have to do anything, the hospitals can start going after children if he can’t pay the bills apparently.
I don’t want anything to do with that man, I was going to sleep soundly but now I’m restless. Nothing’s happened yet but we have to get on top of this, no wonder he’s been pestering people for my phone number again this year. I’d renounce my home country citizenship as soon as I got my Australian one and escape it all, if not for it impacting my mums housing situation…
Need distraction…
hmm. I don’t have any advice but we are here for you if you need us that sounds awful.
Jesus Christ kitten! That’s shocking. They lose all their money stupidly and then can go after their kids money? Where is the incentive to be an adult responsible for their own actions, like we teach our kids to become in the first place! I’d be fucking livid.
It comes from an attempt to instil traditional values of filiel piety - that as parents support their children, children must return the favour to their parents and support them in their dotage. It is a more communalist mindset and I can see how it could work harmoniously in the past but in our current day and age… I have major issues with this on a philosophical level because no child asks to be born. Every parent should care for their child without the expectation of something in return
“Every parent should care for their child without the expectation of something in return.”
That is exactly how I feel. My children owe me nothing. I expect only the reward of being able to love them and guide them as they grow up, accompanied by the bittersweet paradox of knowing they must embark upon their own life journeys some day. They won’t be around forever and neither will I (in a different sense). I don’t expect my kids to be my carer or my provider and I wouldn’t ask it of them. But I can see how in the past, as you say, things were different and it would’ve worked differently.
That sounds really difficult and very stressful for you. Can you get legal advice so you know where you stand?
My brother’s looked into it; unfortunately most legal advice for these things is useless - unless we can meet the high standard of proof for abuse or neglect we can’t get out of it - and several others have been in a similar situation. We can’t do much legally until he can be medically proven to be incompetent but he’s not there yet either, just phenomenally stupid…
Trying to rearrange our finances to prove that we can’t assist him could also backfire hugely. We’re gonna keep trying to figure out how we can get to him to stop doing this shit in the first place. There is one relative he listens to, it’s the nuclear option and there will be fallout but I’m going to push for it…
Maybe unpopular, but I wish daylight savings started later in the year. Admittedly, I like the idea of a spooky season and it doesn’t work in October with DLS.
It used to start on the last Sunday in October.
I agree. It seems to start a day or two before the Minipeelers go back to school and we’re always a bit befuddled.
Always on the last weekend of school holidays, no matter where those holidays may be :(
In other news I replaced the cats’ collars because they were literally falling apart.
They’re both preening in an ‘aren’t I pretty and don’t I look smart’ fashion. 😂💗😸
Cat tax?
But of course they are both very pretty and very smart. 😻
No denying the fashionistas are at your house!
It’s 23.8 degrees. Ridiculous overnight temperature. This on top of having an hour’s sleep ripped from me does not make for a good day. I think Im going to need to schedule extra coffee.
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Thankyou, much appreciated.
Apropos of reflections on estrangement, obligations to parents etc I came across this excellent satirical tiktok (via reddit) - mirrored here so you can watch the full thing without an account
as if the golden will look after parent 😂
Brilliant, love this.
This is wonderful.
I like the “dad’s” Aussie jumper
Oh shit, nice catch!
Sky pretty.
