I wouldn’t. I honestly don’t believe evicting someone in order to move in yourself should even be legal, there is absolutely no way I would buy a tenanted property unless I intended to keep it as a rental.

I’m just getting lots of short showers here. Absolutely perfect for the garden. I don’t have anything much get into the gutters these days, there used to be a tree against the house that would drop lots of stuff but that died a few years ago and keeping the gutters clear has been simple since then.

Fourth time’s lucky - I finally sold my tent! This is the fourth offer I’ve accepted, the others all ghosted at some point between making the offer and actually picking up. This sale was true to form for sales that actually get followed through, being quick and easy. My tent is going to be heading off to Pambula for the holidays, lucky fella.

Smoky?

Edit: oh, wet. It has just arrived here. I did not realise we were expecting wet.

Last day of work before Christmas is over, yay! Due to my work schedule my family is celebrating a day early, so tomorrow is Christmas Eve for me. Then back to work for real Christmas Day. It always feels slightly odd to be on a slightly different timeline from everyone else, but it is the time spent with family which is important, not which day it is on.

🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪 🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪

Looking good. May apricot tree was easy this year as it has apparently died.

I’ve been trying to get AI to create a potato beauty contest picture. This was the best I could do.

Apparently AI has trouble differentiating between a potato modelling and a model of a potato. And one just gave me a photo of a topless woman on a catwalk, I have no idea where the potato came into that one.

I forgot to take my good travel mug to work. Which means coffee in a dodgy plastic keep cup. ☹️

Was there taste testing, or was is more of a potato beauty contest?

Water and any type of biscuit you like. I have eaten so many biscuits over the last couple of days I am definitely a biscuit assortment.

Ooh, fancy foreign butter. Many thanks.

I thought a bunch of cheese on my mini pizza hadn’t melted yet. Turned out to be pineapple.

If you could pick me up a block of butter that would be great. Mine mysteriously dissapeared while I was doing all that baking

I have nasturtiums rambling around under the raspberries for that reason. Although the raspberries seem to have a lot of other bugs this year - which the currawongs are enjoying.

I’ve been enjoying watching the young currawong, it’s still a bit uncoordinated in its attempts to snare bugs. It is also quite fascinated by the kinetic sculpture - it spent a bit of time pulling at it to make the whole thing move.

I will be far away from the cricket, but the second problem is a concern. Oh well, at least I get public holiday penalty rates. And I just talk to the firefighters, I don’t have to go out there and fight the fires myself. I’m pretty sure my heat tolerance is so low I’d die of heat exhaustion just putting on the turnout gear.

40 near me 😭

I just saw the forecast for Boxing Day. Oh Dear.

Much as I like my penalty rates I do miss those times when Christmas meant time off and a proper break from work/school. Squeezing a family Christmas dinner into my normal two days off just doesn’t have the same feel.

I remember after the heatwave before Black Saturday there was a day in the high 30s and I was really happy to have finally have some cool weather.