Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
All done!
Didn't end up doing echiums and cherry blossom :(
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And many thanks to my very helpful neighbour
Can you tell us what all the different flowers are? I see a daffodil, cornflower, ageratum, freesia alba ( the perfume must be heavenly 💗) sweet peas?
We can!
From the garden these are sweet peas, giant ageratum, freesias, azelias, blue bells, rhododendrons and helleborus. Only tested half in the fridge eek. Will find out tomorrow heh.
Store bought stuff it looks like daffodil and 3 others that I can't identify.
It's like 90% from the garden which is great timing.
I am all peopled out methinks.
4 years ago could easily have done it but now no go. 5 days in a row of lengthy small talk with so many people is just too much.
So today is just gonna be laying some dripper hose I'm absolutely happy with that.
Also the azelia made it through the night in the fridge. I was told categorically it wouldn't. They were wrong.
Isn't your bro's wedding... tomorrow? Overseas?! Or have I got it mixed up.
Yea tomorrow. They had another one in Indo a few months ago. This is the local one. Double wedding! Double stress, double flowers.
Aha. Yeah my bro had something like that two decades ago. It was a heck of a lot of logistics. Godspeed for tomorrow!
Finally got settlement date on the new house. 23rd. And then 2 days later I'm going to Melbourne. I knew it would happen that week, lol.
Two days sounds totally like enough time to completely unpack in your new house and then pack for a Melbourne trip!
Unfortunately I have to rip up the carpet to put in floorboards
Ha! Don't take me seriously - I never do! We moved in June, and it's still Box Central around here.
Is it ok to physically assault people who walk in squadron formation of 5 people across through shopping centres? I feel like there should be a legal loophole here.
Imagine yourself as a bowling ball and them as the pins. Aim for the middle and walk with determination. Make no move to move out of the way and you should be able smash through them lol
I believe the appropriate response is to join the group and keep walking, whilst playing "Eye of the Tiger" loudly on your phone.
Just rolled out of bed to find I have also left my split system on overnight at 18C 😱 RIP my energy bills.
Sore throat came back overnight. Not sure if it was the temperature or maybe the dust that keeps circulating around my apartment. When I get back from my short interstate trip I definitely will need to do a deep clean of the apt. Air purifier will be in by then too so maybe it'll help..
It most certainly was. Oh well, I'll be away for a fair bit over the next few weeks and I'd been away a lot the last two months so hopefully no additional power surprises.
Standing in line at the Chemist, looking at the assorted fragrances for sale. It seems there are a lot more marketed at blokes than there used to be.
Thing is: I don't understand who wants to smell like an NRL/AFL/soccer/cricket player? The first thing I do after sport is shower and get rid of the smell.
My homeburger
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Homeburger has smokey bacon, burger patty, smokey cheese, fried egg, pineapple ring, tomato, lettuce, onion, tomato sauce, hot sauce and kewpie mayo on a brioche bun.
It was delicious therefore I give it 5/5 yum yums 😋
That is awesome.
I’d make and eat that everyday of the week and knowing me I’d inhale it and choke on it.
It's the best to have on burgers and sandwiches. I wait until it's half price then buy 2 bottles.
That is my occasional night drink for when I miss my 9am appointment and I can't reschedule. So no. Not yet.
That's very regimented.
I shudder if I miss one of my 4 daily movements.
I start the day with a little movement to warm the juices then bang like clockwork I'm in the littlest office having a conference. Best start to the day is to have a good clean out.
I just walked out to the garage and the man's got a sensor light set up and I nearly fucking shit me self when it turned on.
So it works then?! :) We've just had one replaced that's now brighter and more sensitive than the old one, gets me every time, usually greeted with "fuck!" as it blinds me
That's exactly what happened. It was on the opposite wall from the door. When opened the door it shone right into my eyes and I was like a rabbit who dropped its guts. It has been moved now.
The conversation went "you know that light you've got in the garage it needs to leave because that wasn't fun" he said "I'll move it".
Having a look at the cooker rally pages and communities to get an idea of how big the "No to the voice" rally today will be. I don't think it'll be big but it will still be very disruptive to trams along Bourke, Swanston, Flinders, Elizabeth. There are speeches planned under the clocks at Flinders St Station.
I wonder if they can stick to the main subject matter instead of pro Trump, anti wind farm, anti vaccine, anti 15 minute cities, anti UN and WEF, and more... They seem to be quite unhappy that there will be politicians that don't want them talking about the conspiracy stuff in the Sydney rally, too.
Had no idea what 15-minute cities are, and like I know why they're against it now, but like my GOD that's stupid. I just want to be able to get to places without having to uber (my docs are close-ish to work but not close to home).
Don’t even have Uber 45/50km from the cbd. Auspost doesn’t deliver parcels at all. Post office is closed Saturday’s. Local Doctors aren’t taking new patients so it’s a 40min drive to the one I was seeing. Train is 20 min drive away. Bus stop is a 4km walk. Dirt road. No sewerage service.
Local things would be a luxury.
I had to sacrifice a lot when I used to live on the peninsula. Like, I lived really close to the shops, so I could go and get groceries whenever I wanted, especially like if we ran out of milk. And also within decent walking distance to the doctors I was with at the time too, and when I used to go to high school I could walk home and back (it was still maybe a 20 or 30 minute walk give or take, but it was also when I wasn't so physically disabled). However, the closest train station was Frankston and that was an hour and a half bus ride, while I was close to the bus stop, I had to always leave whatever I was doing in the city so early. Also when I was studying it was hell -- especially 9am starts.
Now I live closer to a train station, but Coles is something we have to drive to, work is a drive, and so is my doctors. Though I am lucky that our Post office is open Saturdays but I think it's only the parcel pick up maybe?
I am always amazed at how people can think something that would benefit them is a conspiracy.
Seriously! I mean holy shit, look at the people who cry about socialism whenever someone says that healthcare should be free and not privatised. Or that hey, maybe people should be paid a liveable wage. It just doesn't make sense whenever people are so against something that, yeah, could benefit them. It reminds me of that moment where Fry from Futurama is asked why he's cheering against poor people because he's not rich, and he replies saying "Someday I might be rich, and people like me better watch their step!"
They make it so obvious they are part of the Kremlin conspiracy movement. They just keep repeating the same talking points that you hear from the Russian trolls. Not sure what the aim is, maybe to drive a wedge between our long alliance and friendship with America and NATO.
I think that many people voting no are doing so because they are indifferent, disinterested, don’t care about politics. So the rally won’t be a good indicator of the size of the no vote. The ‘if you don’t know vote no’ was such an easy win for the no campaign. Everybody is entitled to their vote but I feel people living in democracies shouldnt waste their votes because ‘meh’. I think there a moral obligation to participate, whatever your decision is it should be an informed one with real reasons.
Oh for sure, the size of the No vote in Victoria and especially inner Melbourne will be quite small just based on demographics, voting patterns and reports from pollsters.
I was thinking no vote will be much larger than what the polls are saying.
I need to do better with groceries. I get lazy and forget to cook and sometimes need to throw some away cuz moldy 😒
The bag of two-year old Woolies seedlings that I found in my house have started to sprout! Soon will be time for potting
10pm is a terrible time to drunkenly decide to have Thai for dinner, FYI
There is no bad time to have Thai,. especially when drunk.
Enjoy and Maazel tov
All these other biscuits are full of pea protein, lentils or beans, all of which give my cat stomach pain. Chickpeas are about tolerable but I can’t find that without the others.
It’s giving me the shits. I have a just opened bag and a full unopened bag of expensive food but because the factory made the pieces too hard it’s inedible.
Would it work to put them in a ziplock bag and give them a bash with rolling pin to crush into smaller pieces? Not as much chewing needed?
There’s a bowl of biscuit powder from using a mortar and pestle but she isn’t eating it.
Good suggestion though, she ate a bit of biscuit dust the last time they messed her dry food up
I’m considering it. Physical energy is a factor unfortunately (the reason for having dry food out as insurance)
Thank you everyone for your support today.
I’m sorry I didn’t respond to each one of you as I fell asleep listening to the radio and podcasts this afternoon.
They are all valid points and I’ll make an effort to take it all onboard.
I’m not great at reflecting on things as I’m so harsh on myself for mistakes made.
I guess the biggest thing on my mind is that I can’t rectify the problem. I’ll try in the coming months if I can.
Anyway I have to forgive myself first and that will be hard to come to terms with in the current situation as it may make my life harder in the future.
Life is like a cricket match. Sometimes you take the catches. Sometimes you get stung with the ball and it hurts but you shake yourself off and you keep playing.
Speaking of which I heard we lost by 5 wickets. Hope you didn’t watch it till the end.
The blues did so well to start off as well then the Lions just dominated after that for the rest of the game :(
It was about messing up my car yesterday.
Dented significantly on my back rear door and caused enough damage to open it up to rust issues after I scraped it on the corner of some brickwork.
Don’t want to lose my car anytime soon.
you'll be fine, it's just a car 🤗
I was worried that someone was seriously harmed
It'll be okay, friend. Things will get better; you are strong and amazing! 💜
My financial position is what worries me the most as well being too harsh on myself.
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