Melbourne

Horse riding tenth birthday party tomorrow. Gotta say I'm pretty happy with the cake.

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WRAIN! Just a little bit. Maybe more to come I hope.

Sweet blessed rain. The garden rejoices.

I picked another snow pea, the first zucchini is looking good, I will pick it tomorrow. The pumpkin vine has produced its first (male) flower and the button squash has a few female flowers, but I think I'll probaby need to hand pollinate them, I just need to get the timing right.

argh, i tried to fry the steamed gyoza and they stuck to everything

time to look up YTs on how to cook

Went to the gym to reset myself after yesterday's failure of a workout. Spent more time in the massage chair than anything, but hey, I went and it was still better than yesterdays!

I left Adelaide almost 11 years ago to come back here. No real plan.

After fucking around on the street for about 2 months, I found a place to live in a share house with an alcoholic who did more for me than my own family.

I stayed there for a year. When I first rocked up I slept on a mattress on the floor wearing all my clothes because there was a gap between my wall and the world at large so it was quite cold.

This is the place.

It's renovated now. I haven't been back here since I moved out. I walked in gaunt, covered in track marks and walked out with an office job and a plan to study IT.

Time flies.

Guess who has had an outside excursion?

Big power outage here, only just now came back on

If a web page pops up asking for my email I usually just close the web page. Don't bother me.

One of the reasons I love the market is that I can, if I don't buy the extra nice things as well, feed myself for a week for about $30

A random remark about macrame has reminded me of the existence of Squashed Pickled People. What other disturbing old craft trends to you recall? Toilet dollies, bread people, dead cat doorstops etc......

Sky was very pretty this evening. It was very pretty this morning too. I really like having this open view of the sky where I am at the moment, I wish I could afford something with this sort of view permanently.

The sound design on some old games is so good. Rare knew you'd be collecting things hundreds of times over in Banjo Kazooie so they made the sound of everything so good. They'd only have space for one sound for each item so it needs to be good

had a professional moist man come out and we're good, even with all this humidity. yaay.

In other news, scammers are calling again after a wonderful christmas hiatus, so the first entry on this page is a wonderful way to fuck with them if you're so inclined

Nearly home time. Just as well, my brain is no longer braining properly and my words keep coming out in the wrong order.

Shopping done, banh mi acquired. Time to pour out a cold one and chill for the balance of the day.

By the way, I was recently gifted a dressmaker's dummy - but its in medium/large size, and I'm only a small/medium. It's a Singer 151 if you're interested. Does anyone care to swap for a Singer 150 or equivalent? Full working order. If no-one wants it, I'll probably dress it up provocatively and put it where it can be seen through the front windows. Heh heh.

Hey hey hey, I’m doing a market run for the week with fifty whole dollars

That’s weird. My bad knee was painfully clicking as I walked which is a thing, but my hip and ankle now hurt as well and the pain has spread up my lower leg.

Also there’s a ~~new~~ mutated flu strain causing an early season and easier transmission so I’m going to have to get a flu shot

Forget to change the daily emoji

"A Paddlin' "

I got a lift today so was able to get a tube of flea and worm drops, also got to Bunnings and bought some shadecloth and pinch clamps. I’ll have to wait until someone is with me though to put it up.

If this helps anyone - I mentioned that I needed to buy for a stray so was unsure of the exact weight, and was told that every shop (not sure if it’s in general or only Petstock) has recently expired flea and worm treatments that they’ll give for free.

Edit: I’m silly… I’m using a new spot on for Melbcat now that might be a bit high for this cat’s weight, but had a single tube of the old one left. If I’d remembered in time I could have just used that.

self care day

colour hair

mani pedi

do some relaxing hobby stuff and some garden 🙂

also, 3 weeks with no anti-inflammatories and my fingers are starting to ache , looks like I have a touch of arthritis that I didn't know about

So anyway, back to the story.

I enjoyed climbing as a youth, as most of us do. I was alone at a park and decided to climb to the top bar of a swing set, make my way to the chains holding the swing seat, and shimmy back down the chain. Brilliant.

Except, the black plastic seats are held to the chain with a type of “s” shaped hook.

When I slid down the chain, that hook embedded itself into my nether region and I ended up sort of hanging there; impaled..

Oh shit. Adrenaline kicked in and I had to climb back up the chain to un-hook myself.

I knew something was seriously wrong but I was alone and proceeded to walk home while holding my bike. There was no way I was going to sit on a bike seat and ride.

Mum freaked out (and rightly so) and drove me to hospital where I received several stitches. No permanent damage, but the story continues to make people sick in the stomach many years later 😀

Enjoy your weekend!

Hey everyone, just checking over there and it looks like Melbourne cops have joined Sydney cops and started getting around with sniffer dogs at train stations. So, if you consume restricted drugs, be sure to carry a copy of your prescription (the sticker on the packet) to avoid any legal hassles. If you consume illegal drugs, it might be worth avoiding public transport all together. Someone mentioned that a sniffer dog detecting counts as reasonable suspicion for a stop-n-search. I can make my dog indicate things with the tiniest clicks of my tongue.

What a bunch of bullshit.