Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
BE WITNESS TO MY TWO SNAP PEAS:
I think they’re snap peas can’t actually remember which ones they are.
A bountiful harvest. I can see another one coming along in the background too.
My snow peas have started to die off already, although there are a couple of later planted ones that just started flowering and are looking good. Hopefully they will keep producing long enough to get me through until the beans start producing.
Mine are dying too, and the second run never came up. Zero tomatoes also. F this weird weather.
I’m still planting tomatoes, and have quite a few backup seedlings coming along to replace any that die in the garden. I’ve got quite a few cherry tomatoes of various colours too, which tend to be a bit hardier. I have 10 different varieties of tomato all up, across four different locations in the garden, so if I don’t manage anything I will be very disappointed!
I might try again. I’ve seed from one that totally engulfed the hills hoist before, but also wanting to move, so planting is 🤷🏻♀️
Most of my cherry tomato seedlings are just taken from a supermarket mixed punnet. They all sprouted well.
Been staving off the tiredness with chores for most of today, busy doing some laundry, unpacking, washing the coffee grinder, sticking up command hooks, and mopping the house like it’s never been mopped before (the mops got two rounds of machine washing and line drying to get the dirt completely out).
I confess over winter I’ve neglected mopping for far too long because I was wearing slippers the whole time - and I HATE mopping with the microfibre finger thing tho it does a good job when you do squeeze it out properly. There’s areas that might need a fifth go over tomorrow because they still feel oddly sticky. The house definitely feels energetically (?) lighter and better now though. I have one of those spray mops now to (hopefully) make regular mopping easier.
Reheated my defrosted dinner, g&t is made, kicking back for the evening and then catching up on sleep. Don’t like overnight flights for this reason…
Just remember less is more with floor cleaner - too much can make your floors sticky.
I’ve only been using warm water - I think the stickiness is from dirt or dust that’s gotten smooshed around everywhere…
Maybe you do need some cleaner then to release the grease.
I had an egg suicide while making breakfast. I showed Mr Woof, who was completely disinterested. My old dog would have cleaned it up for me in about 5 seconds. Instead I had to use paper towel. Mr Woof is great in his security alarm role, but not good as cleanup crew.
I’m not sure what happened to the showers and/or thunderstorm that were predicted this afternoon. It’s blazing hot out there (in direct sun) with blue skies in all directions. I just put some shade cloth over my outdoor seedling area - there is a difference between “hardening off” and murder. I’ve also added some shade over the newly transplanted seedlings in the garden which are looking a bit traumatised. Hopefully we get some cloud cover soon or I might have to put some cover over the zucchinis too, they are already looking quite wilted. They will have more shade over summer once the beans grow, but at the moment are in full sun and this is a bit much for them.
Got all the mowing done in a hurry thinking there would be rain and storms…. Sigh. The snipping can wait for another day. I’m wrecked.
I’m seeing clouds, NW burbs. They don’t look very ominous though.
There are a few white clouds over east and the wind has picked up a bit, but I don’t think there will be much rain coming. I might have to put a bit of water on some of the seedlings this afternoon and hope for a bit of rain tomorrow.
Job interview tomorrow! I really want a new role asap. Hopefully before my birthday in 2 weeks! 🤞🏾
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Ha! I just found out that the neonazi Lemmy instance shut down. In August. We were defederated from them, so I don’t expect anyone will have missed them.
I feel like I missed out on something. There was a Neo-Nazi instance? Not surprising I guess, but whoa.
They were blatantly racist, abusive and obnoxious. Then they were surprised that the rest of the Fediverse disconnected from them.
Something something free speech mah rights.
I love it when people scream free speech. Like yeah buddy, you do have free speech. But I also have free speech to tell you you’re being a cunt!
God damn it. Little dog did bomits on the carpet. Looks like old puke-o has an angry guts. Thank God for the wet & dry vac. Anyway it’s a morning problem.
Absolutely nobody just ate their body weight in cheesey mash in a post panic attack pms comfort attempt….”
You can kiss my ass RBA
Did they raise the rates again?
I hope not as it could cause a recession this time around.
No holiday for us again this year. Missed out for a few years due to Covid, now it’s interest rates. Need a break ffs. My bad for buying a house at the wrong time and not having time to fix rates
Assuming you had a reasonable amount of money, where would you go?
I’d love to do a train trip around Japan - the coast, the mountains etc.
Oooh yes sounds good but sadly not at all cheap. I guess you’ll have to do it on YouTube.
ee up we go.
We are still a few basis points below long term average :) and that sucks but at the time it’s mean reversion.
I’m not fun at parties.
The significant change though is the level of debt. So it only takes very small changes in interest rates to make big impacts.
i walked 7885 steps in this glare
Pfft gotta pump those numbers up Bacon. I have walked a massive 138 steps 😎😎😎
(I’m still in bed 🤪)
Good work shuffling back and forth between the toilet and your bed
Hee only got up to feed the cats and grab a snacky snack, then crashed for another few hours myself.
you must not rest until you hit 8888, only then will the rain gods be appeased
Still nothing. Now what?
Maybe 8888 was to stop the rain. Try for 9999?
Like this? It’s not working. I want water. Not just breeze and shade.
Hmm, divine intervention just doesn’t seem to be working today. Maybe the gods have the day off too?
OK, I’m going to try extreme measures. I’ll water the garden. If that doesn’t work, someone needs to wash their car.
My car does need washing. I’m hoping I could ask the gods to do that tomorrow. Either way I just showered and I will not sweat anymore today.
The ePassport queues at MEL appear to be fuxxored. Massive queues, almost no officials… poo.
Public holiday rates not enough to staff the joint adequately I suspect. (Cries internally in comparison to the efficiency of Changi.)
E: okay it looks like they’re in the middle of upgrading the gates and it’s progressing at q snails pace…
E2: I got in the one queue where the kiosk broke down lmao
E3: it’s broken down twice now and there is a constant stream of confused passengers who don’t know where they’re supposed to go
E4: the machines keep breaking down lmao this is the worst entry experience I’ve ever had in Australia 🥲
E5: nearly
two hours1 hr 45 mins after landing I’m finally on a cab out of this blasted airport. Gee it’s warm isn’t it? But infinitely better than the sauna of Singapore. I’m starving, will have to break out the instant noods when I get back…It’s crazy how lucky I must have been when leaving and coming back through MEL for my last trip. Absolutely seamless experiences both ways for me, yet on other days things like this happen.
Welcome back to the country though!
Honestly, most times I’ve had a seamless experience, leaving was a breeze. Today was just a coordinated clusterfuck. several swears were let loose when the smart Gates repeatedly broke down for no reason. I think a whole heap of people all arriving at once including a huge plane from Indonesia didn’t help. They do make you declare if you’ve been in Indonesia in the last 7 days and sometimes computer does not like that and has a tanty.
Yea coming back from Indo a few months ago they (at MEL) really hounded everyone if they’d been on a farm. FMD I think was the thing.
Welcome back!
And somehow for us, despite declaring we’ve been to farmland, we’ve brought meds and all, we got directed straight to the exit.
welcome back 😊
Marketplace really came through this weekend, lots of things out the door with limited annoyances. I had a few portable heaters and dehumidifiers I don’t need now the reverse cycle is in, and I wasn’t sure how much interest there would be in heaters at this time of year, but everything is gone. Nice to have that space back again.
Hi, is this still available? Do you deliver?
Delivery within 5km is available, at a cost of $80. Payment must be made in advance as this only covers the “yeet it out the window as I drive past” level of service. No returns or refunds available.
Can I get a discount if I pick it up?
I am unable to discount free items. If you require a discount I will need to charge you for the item first.
In regards to the items that do have a cost, I would agree to pretty much anything if you come and take the blasted things away ASAP 🤣
Tonight for dinner I am cooking truffle fettuccini in a creamy garlic chicken and mushroom sauce with some broccolini as a side
two slices of beef, one boiled egg, one indomie, and grapes
Thanks for the inspo @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone !
Sausage and Egg McMuff using spicy pork sausage shaped into patty.
Yummo. I’m glad you picked that cheese because it does make a difference. I had run out of them.
It was astonishingly good.!
Now you can upgrade to the filet-o-fish
Hmm maybe on Good Friday
This morning I broke my record for quickest commute to work ever, including during the harshest lockdowns. It’s like the apocalypse happened overnight. 40 minutes door to door. Wish the roads were like this every day.
