🥞 Happy Pancake Day 🥞

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    10 months ago

    Good news. My husband managed to talk to the neighbour and apparently they are renting. Got the details now. Still no sign of the wife. I think she might be in the freezer.

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    10 months ago

    My complaint about the heat is being up all night pissing after smashing water all day.

  • bull⚡
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    10 months ago

    Melbourne enabled dark mode and I’m into it.

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    10 months ago

    I wish I could open a window without having to stand guard so someone doesn’t hang from the flyscreen and destroy it.

    Not naming names.

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    10 months ago

    Despite a brief stormy interlude without power and the "assistance "of Miss Meow I have finished today’s sewing project.

    The curtain is for the doorway to my laundry, which is uninsulated and draughty and has just been closed off by an old blanket tacked in the opening for some years. At one stage it had a sliding door, but because there is not enough space next to the door to allow it to fully open it always partially blocked the doorway, and there is not really room for a hinged door there either. So a curtain seems the best solution, and also allows Mr Woof free access to the laundry, which is where his dog door is. The new curtain is thick woven fabric with a thermal lining so should keep the heat/cold out fairly well. It needs some weights in the bottom to sit more evenly, but I think I’ve done enough for one day.

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      I like it, especially the pelmet bit. You’re really quite handy aren’t you, with the gardening and preserving and making things… great skills to have. If the world goes to hell in a haycart I really hope there’s a place for you to subsist and live a simple but rewardingly self sufficient life. I’ll be on the outside with my machete and hunting knife at the ready, keeping to the shadows to avoid the petrol hunting raider gangs and zombie hoards.

    • Pilk
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      10 months ago

      Cut a hole at the right height and you’ve got yourself a gloryhole too. Great work.

  • Taleya
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    10 months ago

    Power is out, south and chesty flooded and no traffic lights, nbn is down, and i saw a cactus fly past at head height.

    Marvellous

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      10 months ago

      The end times are nigh. Flying cacti is a bit of a hint in that direction.

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        10 months ago

        Cacti are deffo part of the sixth seal. Sun goes black, the moon turns red, stars fall to earth and cacti take to the air

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      10 months ago

      I would urge you to duck…

      But my advice for ducks is to be a duck.

      This is very confusing.

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    10 months ago

    Hello everyone, hopefully you’re all ok. We have no power in Burwood, and our phone internet is dial up speed. Our ETA for power to be back on is also 1pm on Thursday. I reeeeeaally hope it doesn’t take that long, I’m not built for sponge baths.

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      10 months ago

      Same situation and suburb, but my mobile internet isn’t slow it just only connects a few seconds at a time per minute

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      10 months ago

      Thursday, damn that’s rough! I saw on the news there was a fallen high voltage tower, that could be why it’s taking so long. Hopefully you can go to another suburb friend/family/workplace to charge devices and have a shower if needed?

      • the_procrastinata
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        9 months ago

        Thankfully we got power back at 5am today! Had a hot bath tonight, which was awesome!

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    10 months ago

    Today was an awful day to be running around the CBD. Despite staying indoors as much as possible, all the sun protection and water, I’ve been thoroughly dessicated in this roasting heat and attacked in the face by aggressive mini tornadoes of dried leaves. I’m so over it.

    Plus side is, the drive went smoothly and my niece is very nicely set up. So glad I remembered the toilet paper. Just gotta stay awake till 8 then go home and zonk out.

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    10 months ago

    Aahhh have a newbie who needs the office because they haven’t got home internet sorted and I need to go in too to be a good team leader and not make them the only team person braving the weather but I DON’T WANNA go out there…

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      10 months ago

      I hope they have good air condiitoning at your work. That’d be the only saving grace.

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        10 months ago

        They do and it’s very pleasant now I am actually here.

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    Our fence is completely down now between us and the fuckwits next door. Every time my husband goes to speak to them they run inside and ignore his banging on the door.

    This time my husband knocked on their back door and they still didn’t answer. The old cunt lives outside like a hobbo for fucksake. I’m going to put a curse on them.

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      10 months ago

      You own? While you can arrange to split costs, end of the day, legally, in vic, you can rebuild a fence whenever you want and your neighbours can gargle your balls.

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      It’s time to get a whole bunch of annoying animals. With the fence down, they’ll overrun his yard and he’ll be begging for a new fence in no time. Goats, geese, Rottweilers (have you seen the deposits they leave?)…

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          Goats will consume most of it, and geese the rest. Also the geese will keep said neighbours pent up inside. They are formidable protectors. I believe you can rent goats for the purpose of clearing weeds from abandoned land - maybe this yard will qualify.

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    Was thinking about hitting the beach but experience tells me that wind will ruin your day.

    It reminds of the time I went to Kalbarri in WA few years back (lovely place can recommend) went to the beach and wind was huuuge. Sand was hitting my shins with extraordinary vigour and it left a mark on them for a few years. Completely destroyed my shin modelling career.

    Sandblasting is no joke.

    edit: and look who decided to look after the chillo patch:

    Anytime I see them there is a squeal of delight. These things whilst pretty are apex monsters of the bug world. If I were an aphid I wouldn’t be buying a long playing record.

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      <3 I do the same whenever I see these friends chilling out with my plants too. Chillos have been aphid free this summer, entirely thanks to my homies I think

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        10 months ago

        So happy to see them here.

        I know people buy them and chuck 'em on but to see them there at their own volition sparks immense joy.

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          A bit like the joy of having a cat become your friend. We have been chosen! We provide safe refuge and food.

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    It’s pissing down out there and the steam is unbelievable.

    I like it when a storm happens then Woolworth’s car insurance texts me to say there’s a storm where I normally park. I park in the garage.

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    10 months ago

    Wind is picking up. And its bin day here, so expecting a lot of incidental rubbish on the street later today. Of all days.