🥞 Happy Pancake Day 🥞

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    9 months ago

    Good news. My husband managed to talk to the neighbour and apparently they are renting. Got the details now. Still no sign of the wife. I think she might be in the freezer.

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    9 months ago

    Despite a brief stormy interlude without power and the "assistance "of Miss Meow I have finished today’s sewing project.

    The curtain is for the doorway to my laundry, which is uninsulated and draughty and has just been closed off by an old blanket tacked in the opening for some years. At one stage it had a sliding door, but because there is not enough space next to the door to allow it to fully open it always partially blocked the doorway, and there is not really room for a hinged door there either. So a curtain seems the best solution, and also allows Mr Woof free access to the laundry, which is where his dog door is. The new curtain is thick woven fabric with a thermal lining so should keep the heat/cold out fairly well. It needs some weights in the bottom to sit more evenly, but I think I’ve done enough for one day.

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      9 months ago

      I like it, especially the pelmet bit. You’re really quite handy aren’t you, with the gardening and preserving and making things… great skills to have. If the world goes to hell in a haycart I really hope there’s a place for you to subsist and live a simple but rewardingly self sufficient life. I’ll be on the outside with my machete and hunting knife at the ready, keeping to the shadows to avoid the petrol hunting raider gangs and zombie hoards.

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      9 months ago

      Cut a hole at the right height and you’ve got yourself a gloryhole too. Great work.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    I wish I could open a window without having to stand guard so someone doesn’t hang from the flyscreen and destroy it.

    Not naming names.

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    10 months ago

    Power is out, south and chesty flooded and no traffic lights, nbn is down, and i saw a cactus fly past at head height.

    Marvellous

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        9 months ago

        Cacti are deffo part of the sixth seal. Sun goes black, the moon turns red, stars fall to earth and cacti take to the air

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      9 months ago

      Meanwhile all good on Kingston Rd from the Dingley bypass and around Centre Dande and Warrigal.

  • the_procrastinata@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Hello everyone, hopefully you’re all ok. We have no power in Burwood, and our phone internet is dial up speed. Our ETA for power to be back on is also 1pm on Thursday. I reeeeeaally hope it doesn’t take that long, I’m not built for sponge baths.

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      9 months ago

      Same situation and suburb, but my mobile internet isn’t slow it just only connects a few seconds at a time per minute

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      9 months ago

      Thursday, damn that’s rough! I saw on the news there was a fallen high voltage tower, that could be why it’s taking so long. Hopefully you can go to another suburb friend/family/workplace to charge devices and have a shower if needed?

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    10 months ago

    Today was an awful day to be running around the CBD. Despite staying indoors as much as possible, all the sun protection and water, I’ve been thoroughly dessicated in this roasting heat and attacked in the face by aggressive mini tornadoes of dried leaves. I’m so over it.

    Plus side is, the drive went smoothly and my niece is very nicely set up. So glad I remembered the toilet paper. Just gotta stay awake till 8 then go home and zonk out.

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    10 months ago

    Aahhh have a newbie who needs the office because they haven’t got home internet sorted and I need to go in too to be a good team leader and not make them the only team person braving the weather but I DON’T WANNA go out there…

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    9 months ago

    Our fence is completely down now between us and the fuckwits next door. Every time my husband goes to speak to them they run inside and ignore his banging on the door.

    This time my husband knocked on their back door and they still didn’t answer. The old cunt lives outside like a hobbo for fucksake. I’m going to put a curse on them.

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    10 months ago

    It’s pissing down out there and the steam is unbelievable.

    I like it when a storm happens then Woolworth’s car insurance texts me to say there’s a storm where I normally park. I park in the garage.

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    10 months ago

    Everybody has had their brains cooked. An asleep boyo informed me he need to go walk the crayfish.

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      10 months ago

      Channelling the Mock Turtle’s song in Alice in Wonderland. Given that lobsters and crayfish are pretty much the same.

      “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail. "There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle — will you come and join the dance? Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?

      “You can really have no notion how delightful it will be, When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!” But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance— Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance. Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance.

      “What matters it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied. "There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. The further off from England the nearer is to France— Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance? Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?