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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
I was going to talk about my feelings, but deleted it. I don't care, everything will be fine. Ugh
Hug
which is an anagram of Ugh
Got out all my art stuff today. Finished fixing up the trolley/organiser. Sorted my books. I have a new set of chinese water colours and a dinosaur colouring book I'm going to use to practice brush skills. I have a book on calligraphy page layout ordered and soon to be "pakige". π€ So excite.
At long last after weeks of procrastination I took my haul of manzano chillos from the fridge (and washed off some fuzzy growth...) and a head of good garlic and made this forbidden smoothie
Chucked it into an ice cube tray to make little cubes for wintertime pasta/stir fry.
Also took the uselessly spicy Thai chillis and blitzed it with ginga, garleck and little red shallots plus some lime joos, and dried shrimp, fried it all in oil. THIS thing is almost unusably spicy. I hope it mellows out over the next few weeks. attention @Bottom_racer
hawt hawt hawt
RIP my fingers though, I was doing well until I got some spicy oil on one hand.
Ooh that looks angry.
I know one of those blokes that has gone missing in Sydney... It is not looking good for them at all. :(
hope it turns out ok
Oh jeez. π«
Home from pub. Those margaritas are fully dangerous, even without the coriander. House was 28 deg inside on entry, have opened all the windows and watched the thermometer drop 5 degrees in as many minutes. I may yet be able to sleep tonight. Tho I suspect the margaritas will help.
margs sound nice πΉ
Mango is my favorite. Closely followed by watermelon.
Whatβs everybody watching? Need a new tv show.
Edit: Thankyou all, I now have a list to choose from!
Clark and Beef are both on Netflix and are excellent. Mr Inbetween is probably somewhere (Disney+?) and was awesome.
Mr Inbetween is on Binge.
Finished s1 of Halt and Catch Fire, it's okay but I'll keep watching.
Heard good things about For All Mankind
I'm actually reading something that now I have to try to finish before the series comes out... Shogun
I read those books as a teen. I think a few of the political subtleties in Tai Pan and Noble House went over my head due to my age but they were all very good
omg omg, that's a total blast from the past. I read all the Clavell books in my teens.
Far from new, I'm watching Blakes 7.
Cool. ( my home server is called orac )
The English. Amazon.
Griselda was good. So was Boy Swallows Universe. Both on Netflix.
Yellowjackets on paramount, am enjoying. Plane of girls soccer team crashes in Canada wilderness 30y ago. It's like 50/50 between then, and present time. Girls go nuts in wilderness, girls in present time deal with consequences.
Prime minister on the radio basically admitting he would never force Coles or Woolworths to divest, but said oh we've got an inquiry, oh we are looking at mandatory code of conduct with penalties.
Cut the shit that is fiddling around the edges. And breaking up large companies is not a Soviet policy. If anything it's a pro capitalist policy by returning to a more balanced market with greater competition.
I am so utterly disappointed with Anthony Albanese
Unlikely the inquiry will change much. Best thing to do is vote with your wallet if you can. (I know not everyone has access depending on where you live). Shop at Aldi, green grocer, butcher, markets, Costco.
I wish I could. If physical inability to shop (and particular needs around kitty's litter/wet food) weren't a factor I'd possibly be happy buying exclusively at Aldi
That's basically what I do. I have a Coles, aldi, a butcher and saccas in close proximity.
I don't see what an inquiry is going to accomplish, just confirm what we all knew all along and make them do nothing to help?
It's to make it look like they are doing something without doing anything.
Heh...
dins
Chives are $5 extra at a restaurant easy.
That's a $15 plate right there sans chives.
Cool change is here π
Are everyone's pets basically puddles of fur from all this heat?
Nah because the air con is on but when it's not, my dog will dramatically flop down on the carpet like those fainting goats. We call this "dead dog".
I'm so sweaty π