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Yum!
It was my birthday today, headed down to Ballarat to spend it with family. Replacement V/Line coaches did my head in though.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday! π
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Tonight was good. Attempted to sing with a busker. Watched more buskers. Friend sold something on marketplace in the middle of our hangout. Got ice cream. It was a white chocolate peanut flavour but it didn't taste like white chocolate!
One for the books.
Had a great night practising. I have 3 new songs ready which I'm super happy about β€οΈ
Here's my number one fan hiding in the cupboard in the studio
Goodnight everyone, and thanks for listening to my vent :)
Mr Seagoon got me totes interested in Gothic lit again so I'm listening to an oldie on audio a book I read decades ago, The Night Land by WH Hodgson.
Yaaassss! π€
I read so many Goth books in the past , spent a few years reading everything Goth I could get my hands on. I think my faves are WHH and the Mervyn Peake books.
in non pooh news, got a wild hair up my arse yesterday and ripped up half the backyard paving. His Lordship toppled the rest this arvo (I left it for him to go SMASHY SMASHY with the sledge, he so rarely gets to)
IN MY DEFENSE itβs a pathway weβre gonna replace anyway because 1) itβs too narrow for my garden trolleys and 2) the bloody thingβs subsided to the point where itβs at a 40 degree angle and 3) I need the new level for the end point between the food garden ground level and the path for aforementioned trolleys. And I didn't mean to. I set the goal of moving my fruit trees to the other side of the greenhouse, and edging down it so we could plot.
But then I looked at those nice clean edges and thought βI could get a pry under there, I wonder how easy it would be?β
Surprisingly easy as it turned out. Especially with a 2 meter lever. But then I had a meter and a half of 15cm thick concrete with bluestone chips embedded through it at a 90 angle. No point in letting it back down after all that, and I couldnβt leave it propped up. what if it fell down on wildlife? To the sledgehammer! So then I had pieces that will become the crazy paving on the new path.
Then I started wondering if the next piece would come up that easily and, well, curiosity, cats and now we're missing 8m of pathway. Birds are going apeshit on the rolly pollies.
Living vicariously through this
I live cathartically through your epic backyard landscaping adventures, looking forward to the day I can go in on buying a house and bitta land with someone so I can potter around/go manic as needed (well as much as I can, considering I'll probably be arthritic by the time I can afford that).
Already arthritic, embrace the pain!
Smashing shit up in the backyard is very therapeutic, too. Or, at least, some heavy-duty gardening, and you get a bonus full green bin
Fun as hell, too
Lmao just got banned from a shitload of lemmy.ml for calling a certain someone Winnie. Badge of honour
xi?
Ayup. Must upset them terribly they can't disappear people irl
Edit: context was a post about xi proclaiming housing wasn't an investment. I asked why so many mainlander chinese were squirreling their money away in foreigh real estate markets to keep it out of dear winnie's hands then. Oooh they did not like that. I was Racist!. Sksksks
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You weren't being racist, China is not a race, it's a country.
And I was stunned reading this, stunned but not surprised. https://aussie.zone/post/15166017
oh I know I wasn't' being racist. Simply stating a fact (although it's one of many ways people are squirreling funds into international safety nets). They don't like those.
Just back from a lovely walk with my kid. We got to pat 2 very friendly cats, one of which climbed into his lap when he sat down to get closer to it. The other one was called Bruce.
Itβs reignited the βshould we get another petβ conversation, but canβt decide cat vs dog
DO IT
I think weβll have to
Iβm still trying to get a 3rd cat.
It depends on your family and the dog but dogs are lovely. π
Yeah, Iβm a bit keen on a dog and it would be nice getting out for more walks. It would be left alone a bit with us going to work though, and cats are more self-sufficient. So hard to choose!
Ted has woken up and had a little dinner then went back to bed again. aww
He's got the right weekend vibes
He's probably a little more comfortable now that his matted fur has been brushed and cut out.
tell me your secrets, misha is an absolute cunt to brush. I get about three minutes max before she's doing a runner, she's shedding everywhere
The secret to Seagoonβs success was a sedative.
Do you have an equigroomer? Or you could make one with an old hacksaw blade glued into a piece of wood I think. The original one was just that. There are small ones available too for dogs & cats.
Nah, the issue is that misha is a cantankerous old bat who lives to disrupt any and all plans of man.
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