Moomba Festival (7 Mar - 11 Mar 2024)
Managed to get a bronze with one of my entries in my first ever mead competition, pretty stoked!!
YAY! Are you doing taste testing for us all?
Haha ive only got 4 bottles of the bronze award one left :( Got lots of other good stuff in the works though :)
will go to asian supermarket this evening for something high sodium and quick to cook in anticipation of the hot weekend
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Morning all. One of my favourite people resigned at work and today is her last day 😢 Elder minipeeler has started therapy but is still not going to school 😕 Miniest has decided today she is joining him, and I didn’t have the time or energy to argue about it 🤬😔 Old friend is in Australia for a week and is coming over for dinner tomorrow night 😃 Managed to get a load of washing done because I wasn’t trying to get kids ready for school 😐
😢+😕+🤬+😔+😃+😐=?
=🤯
Today is le hard, and I am le tired
Ze missiles are waiting
Just saw the forecast. Talk about last gasp of summer!!!
I had plans on Saturday but now it’s gonna be 3 days of air conditioning instead.
Just saw it myself too, holy hell they bumped up the temps on Sun and Mon. I’m meant to be going out to Ballarat on Sunday on the v/line, hope the tracks don’t melt or whatever bs often happens on a string of hot days.
I wonder if this is the hottest streak we’ve had since 2019/2020
Expect cancellations and a very slow trip.
Just looked too. Eeek. Good weekend to wash blankets, pillows and cushions too if you are so minded. Definitely an early shop on Saturday tho, then some heavy duty hibernation.
2nd harvest is in:
Those little ones take faar too long to pick. Dense little shrubs and trying to navigate to the middle with scissors is a PITA. Still don’t really know what they are. Probably birdseye but they taste different to the shop ones.
And finally full sized habs (and hot af) unlike last year.
Ooh spicy. I find that home grown chillos taste different to the shop ones even if they’re more or less the same variety. Got that terroir going on
terroir
TIL a word!
I was reading this today:
https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2023/05/why-jalapeno-peppers-less-spicy-blame-aggies/
And it got me thinking where the little ones above came from originally. I planted maybe 2, 15+ yrs ago just as little hobby (so I’m guessing they were from woolies) and they kept going. Wasn’t buying seeds just saving the ones from those (they pretty much only stocked birdseye then). And from memory they were a lot smaller.
After picking them today, safe to say if I were a farmer I’d selecting for size and I wonder if that’s what happened here too. hrmm.
Dude, I only just got around to reading that article but it was hugely fascinating. I do notice the commercial chillis in .au have much thicker flesh and tougher skins than what I’m used to in Asia - bred for better storage and transport properties but they’re terrible for mashing into paste :(
Beautiful babies
A 22 year old man has been arrested in connection to the disappearance of Samantha Murphy. No charges have been laid as yet.
Oh shit!
I always have hope until bad news is confirmed 😔
He was just charged with her murder. Deliberate attack. No further details.
What a scumbag. It may not be the only time he’s done this.
What’s worse is that he’s not cooperating either, for the moment the family won’t have proper closure.
😢
Disgusting behaviour. A previous woman was attacked on that trail a year ago too so if that was him as well I hope he gets multiple sentences.
Nellie’s first newsletter has arrived. There is a quiz.
7/10 too - we need to up our numbat game to support Nellie. I admit that I had to guess the scientific name (but got it right for all the wrong reasons).
Oh my goodness, the picture of the baby. I got 7/10 and am officially a Numbat Maestro.
soo cute 🥰
8/10. Lucky guesses!
You got 7/10 correct answers Congratulations, Numbat Maestro! You’ve proven yourself as the ultimate champion of Numbat knowledge. Your expertise is truly impressive, and it’s clear that you’ve delved deep into the wonders of the numbat kingdom. You’re not just a quiz-taker; you’re a Numbat virtuoso! Keep spreading the love for these remarkable marsupials!
I am not a Numbat ball aficionado, just sayin’
8/10 not too bad
Hungry hungry Montague. Nom nom nom.
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So how did I end my mundane work day?
By catching a trapped bird in the building and letting it fly out the window.
I think I’ve had enough excitement for one day.
💤
Also bring on the Footy!
A kind act for that bird, you should feel very happy about that! Kindness towards animals is what makes you a good human 💜
Slight headache and drowsiness. But got a few loads of washing done, as well as the dishes. Overall a relatively productive day.
Pasta bake for dinner, which is just leftover pasta in a dish with cheese on top… Which was made from the roast pork and veggies mein liebe made. Not a single scrap wasted in this house.
I made banana bread today because I didn’t want to throw out the dead bananas so the man bought more 😡
freezer
Yeah I normally do that.
Booked a last minute trip to Hobart as it didn’t feel like I was making the most of my leave unless I got away for a bit of it. Got here today and went to the summit of Mt Wellington. So so beautiful. The city is great too from what I’ve seen, feels like a country town in Victoria. MONA planned for tomorrow.
🤦🏼♂️ ffs I was meant to call and cancel that dodgy newspaper thing, but I forgot to and they charged me 18 dollars for it. That’s not that much, but I literally just signed up to read a single article, which wasn’t even a free trial they still charged me like 2 dollars for it. :/
They don’t even give you a heads up, hell, not even a courtesy “wait until days end”, they take their fee at exactly midnight, and that’s the end of it. Absolute scumbags.
On the plus side, if anybody has any articles you want from the Wimmera mail times, hmu and I’ll send you the content. Unfortunately there’s not even that much content in most of them, it’s usually just a couple of sentences about something mundane.
18 dollars Jesus Christ I’m an idiot
You’re not an idiot, you just forgot. Free trials plan on doing that to people.
Ps. Not really relevant but be careful of renting to own appliances or phones too, you end up paying much higher than the actual cost of the item
Nah you’re not an idiot. I kept forgetting to cancel my Xbox game pass sub for months 😅
Idk if it will help, but if you want to read an article that’s paywalled, I use the website 12ft ladder (just Google it). You can paste the article URL into this site and it will remove paywalls and the like. It isn’t 100%, but it works often enough :)
I did try to get the article open with 12ft but it didn’t work. And unfortunately the WMT was the only one with an article on what I was looking for :/
But thank you, I appreciate the rec. 12ft is ♥️
Archive.is or whatever the URL is now is a good one too although again it doesn’t work with everything
Melbcat is going so much better today.
Cat rambles
She was already improving last night and the crying had stopped. But a day after stopping the antibiotic and starting stronger pain relief + ear drops there’s no crying, she’s calm, and her appetite is coming back.
She doesn’t like the ear drops and generously tries to share them with me by shaking her head. But it’s much less traumatic than force feeding her the antibiotics and I know I’m giving her the right care.
The sample the bacteria was identified from was taken right before she got a shot of powerful long acting antibiotics two weeks ago so I’m hoping the uti might have been gone before starting and having to stop the allergenic ones… I’ll still be watching carefully because resistance is no joke.
My house is an absolute tip because I decluttered some areas but ran out of energy to keep tidying. I did collect a bunch of stuff that can go though. Might sort it into leftover Coles bags so I can just ask someone to drop them off at the op shop/food pantry
hugs for you and melbcat
I didn’t have any long weekend plans and now it looks like I’ll have even less with the forecast
Looks like it’s gonna be too hot to do anything. I wish I could just melt on the couch, but alas, I have a cousins birthday this Saturday 😭
