Dan Murphys has jars of Italian maraschino cherries for like $6 and they're so good. I've just been eating a few of them each day from the jar even though I'm sure they're meant to go on top of drinks.
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gees, you know you're tired when you fall asleep while sitting up
Went to the office to reimage a laptop but of course that meant that people I know spotted me and came over for a chat. Turns out talking for a bit completely flares up my cough so now I'm fucked again.
Pleasantly surprised that we didn't go over 25c today
Got to 29.4 where I am.
Got the word from the insurance company before - Felicia is a write-off.
Body looked fine so they must have fucked the engine π.
Anyway already talked to my mechanic (who also sells second hand cars, and actually sold me Felicia) and he has another car ready to go, so I'll be having a look tomorrow.
But my poor car...
RIP Felicia. She's had it hard... Good that your mechanic has some cars ready, so much easier than trawling carsales and traveling all over Melbourne.
Fifteen years to the day since I got her, so she's been a good solid workhorse. Not bad for $2500.
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Argh. Got a bit of a situation - interviewed for a role and they have come back and said I am a preferred candidate, but they want to follow up with reference checks. I have provided all my former managers but they said it's company policy to interview a current manager and something they need to move forward in the process.. My current manager doesn't know that I am looking for work and they've also had a few people leave the team lately (they are also kind of the culprit as to why) so I'm a bit stressed about having to bring this up with them. Any ideas?
That seems like a completely unreasonable request. Most people do not want to tell their current employers they are looking for other work and to insist that you do so because "policy" is bullshit. If they are that unreasonable and inflexible in their hiring process I would be pretty concerned about working there - you could end up going from the fire into the frying pan with that move.
You can say that you're uncomfortable in providing that information as the manager has shown a vindictive side in the past and is one of the reasons you're looking to move on.
I probably wouldn't get that specific, keep it more general like "this could jeopardize my current position".
Very simple. Decline the request. It's a stupid request and most sensible organizations don't ask. Say to them doing this could jeopardize your current role. Ask them for alternatives to prove your current role is real i.e. copy of letter of offer, contract etc.
If they don't accept this company is probably shit anyway.
Got my battery replaced for my car today, hooray!
Unexpected expense, boooo. Going to be slim pickings for the next fortnight.
I've actually emerged from my apartment to go into the CBD and it seems like I've caught the cool change. It's rather pleasant out!
80% of my day so far has been meetings. Trying to muster up the will and energy to do some actual work. I'm giving myself till 3 then smashing things out.
Slept suuuper well after yesterday's hard work and my hand is blissfully okay. My thoroughly under-exercised muscles were whining from DOMS so I've pottered a bit on the balcony (sans any sun protection which was incredibly dumb).
garden rambling!
Did a quarter arsed job trussing up the ignored volunteer tomato plant that's been flopping and breaking everywhere; it's been producing anyway so I'll take what I can get with minimal input besides season and Charlie carp.
The copper tape seems to be working as I see the snails moved on to another untaped pot. (and I found one inside the head of my watering can when I noticed the flow was blocked. Ewww.) That pot is now taped.
Keen to see my sunflowers all actually thrive this time. And the borlotti beans that I sowed on a whim earlier this month... they are alarmingly vigorous.
If this tape really does work fully I might even have a go at late season bush beans again. Maybe I'll even have another go at beetroot once the basil is all done?
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by the way, remember the near dead scotch bonnet chilli and salvia?
Check out how lush they are now! Okay, the chilli is a bit TOO lush but there's little flower buds hidden in there so I might yet get some fruit.
([Here's what it was like 3.5 weeks ago)
The salvia is happier recovering in the shade. I'll move it back out when it cools down.
(baby shoots 3.5 weeks ago)
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I also finally harvested all the chillis off the balcony after forgetting about them a bit too long. (The manzanos in the box were harvested 3 weeks ago and kept in the fridge and need to be used asap.)
chillis chillis chillis
I think I'll do another nice chilli and garlic paste for the manzanos and freeze em. They are hot but mellow out with cooking and are very flavourful.
The hot Thai chillis OTOH stay mouth-punchingly hot even after cooking. What should I do with them?! Any ideas? One full sized chilli is enough for a stock pot worth of stew. The plant is very productive - last season I just chucked most of them.
I think I'll freeze the small ones as is, but the bigger ones... Get the gloves out and deseed them before making a chilli paste to freeze, maybe?
Nice. None of my chilis, capsicum, tomatoes etc. are actually ripening - plenty of green fruit, but that's it. I planted a few borlotti beans this year and noticed the first pod on one of the plants, they are nice and decorative.
Hopefully this week's sun will tip them over into getting nice and ripe. The tomatoes only started ripening about last week.
The chillis have been ripening through Dec and Jan, they're bonkers.
Hopefully, if they don't ripen at some point I will have to make a lot of green tomato pickles! I have tons of green tomatoes, and lots of green chillis too, but nothing is ripening βΉοΈ
If you're making green tomato pickles I'll gladly take some off your hands ;)
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Hot sauce!
https://www.feastingathome.com/fermented-hot-sauce-simple-and-delicious/
Lasts forever in the fridge. Still rocking some from 3 yrs ago and no botulism yet.
OR
Chilli powder. I usually just cut them in half chuck them skin side down on baking paper. In the oven (middle rack) @ 60-70 degrees for 5+ hours keeping the oven door open a bit with a wooden spoon then blend.
OR
Chilli salt.
edit: nice haul though! mine aren't nearly ripe yet :(
Mine started flowering in like late October so they've been very happy aside from the brief interlude of neglect. I think it's the northeast facing aspect and being (relatively) sheltered from wind, the chillos are always wat ahead on my balcony. There's more flowers appearing on the manzano and a few buds on the Thai, which is crazy... would be nice to get some late autumn chillos if possible.
Anyways. Hot sauce!!! I have been scared of doing it because I've never fermented anything in my life. I've considered sauce cos I have this delicious bottle of homemade rocoto sauce from a friend, but I'm not a huge hot sauce user and I'm going through it slowly...
Maybe I'll do half (deseeded) as a paste with ginger and garlic, and half as a small bottle of sauce, blended with some milder chillos to round it out...
I also got a banging rempah receipe from a cousin but I'll need to get some dried shrimp π€
Ended up at Mr Grubb @ Oakdene in Wallington for dins last night for the first time.
Really nice relaxed place. Had the parma (they called it a parmie tsk tsk) which was really good.
Apparently the place is owned by an eccentric older lady who collects rusty.. everything. Big open shed out the back dedicated to rusty farm equip, bikes (maybe 50 of them), a rusty tram(!).. huge hoarding gene there.
9/10, not cheap but great atmosphere if you're ever down that way.
Was your meal served on plates or pre-loved hub caps?
Heh. I probably still would've eaten it if they did.
Not many chips although the thing was huge it was a struggle.
Miss Meow has been helping me sort out my sewing room and is firmly of the opinion that I should throw out more stuff and keep the empty boxes.
pretty confident I got a stomach bug. 0 outta 10, would not rate.
Hydralyte and/or Gatorade (or similar)
Good luck homey
smashing the teas which seems to be helping so far. Oats for lunch was a strange call, but made me feel heaps better.
Oats are good. Fairly neutral on the digestive system, filling and can absorb stuff (maybe, I dunno)
Mental health day today. We had a whirlwind trip interstate for a family wedding over the weekend, and the hot weather has made sleep difficult this week so Iβm super tired. I was very anxious about the wedding because it was very Christian and I was worried about how much singing/hands in the air/blatant misogyny might be in it. In the end it wasnβt too bad. Just minor amounts of 'the man leads and the woman submits' and that our niece "hadn't been able to find someone yet" (at the ripe old spinsterly age of 21!) Still, she hadnβt even met the guy a year ago and theyβre already married π¬ I worry that sheβs rushing into things and I donβt think thereβs anything I can do about it. Just hope that Iβm wrong and they live a long and happy life together.