We finally got some rain! Hopefully there was enough at home to get a decent amount into the water tank.
No one happens to hava a lathe I could access by any chance? I want to turn to tanq10 bottles into cups and lathe would be great to get them spinning true while I apply the glass cutter.
I’ll check the workshop tomorrow!
My body is being a massive jerk and I feel so sick.
gentle hugs
So I accidentally double booked Friday.
One of my clients IT dudes band is playing at stay gold at 8:30pm and so I bought a ticket.
Then this dude I want to make industrial with is going to a gig at the workers club at 10pm for which I also have a ticket.
Big night coming up lol
You’re gonna be cooked mate 😂
Oh fuck yeah. But worth it lol
Had to nick out again because I forgot a couple of critical things on the first shopping run. It is inappropriately humid out there folks. 1/10 do not recommend
Took the girlfriend to a burlesque show last night and I swear the women in the crowd screamed louder than anyone at any of the metal shows I’ve been to recently
That whole octave is brutal
The art is learned from the Bay City Rollers.
I was there in 1974!!! We all wore Roller Strollers and scarves.
I watered all the orchids on the balcony, much heavy carrying of watering can was done
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I am rewatching BBC Mansfield Park, it’s on in the background while I do some beading
the rich family are utterly awful , judgemental snobs who have little in the way of morality and they own slave plantations
I’m cringing the whole way through
this is Austen’s big political novel
This book is her anti-slavery novel imo - and it packs a punch. One of my favorites of her oeuvre.
I remember the day I realised that Mr Bingley was not the innocent that he is held out to be in modern adaptations of Pride & Prejudice - that was a real wake up call. Even Captain Wentworth was basically a pirate licensed by the state … albeit a successful one. Much like Francis Drake. You really do have to watch the back story of Jane Austen’s characters - she’s wicked good at exposing social and economic hypocrisy. Mr Darcy’s dad, too, was probably a bit of a mongrel and definitely not a good parent. So it didn’t surprise me that Mr Darcy had some issues with emotional honesty.
Would loooove to see her take on current politics …
She would eviscerate the Kardashians.
Storm coming…
If that was it I’m disappointed :(
Had about 2 min of rain and a bunch of rumbles. Already gone.
same 😒
I think Ballarat’s being missed. 😭
Yeah it’s coming through to the south of you 😢 I will try to blow it back!
We got it but it was brief
Nothing in my suburb either. It’s my fault, it’s because I didn’t put washing out.
Didn’t wash the windows either - so I have to take some of the blame.
Threatening looking clouds approaching, pleeeeaase let it be rain. My grass is crunchy yellow and the plants are very thirsty.
I really hope so too. I have lots of new plants that I’ve needed to keep watering and my water tank ran dry weeks ago.
big chores done, shopping done, olive bread mixed and rising
now to watch a movie and do some handcrafts 👍
Rescheduled today’s meet. I was up all night with GI symptoms after consuming pork. This is something my mother has and now I think I’ve got it too.
Alright. All the house cleaning was done yesterday. Just have some washing to do and that’s it.
Music time!!!
Well done. It has taken me many years (ok, decades) to fully appreciate the benefits of doing chores first thing instead of putting them off to the last possible minute.
Enjoy your music.
This was my first time, and honestly, I was having guests so I didn’t want them to see the reality lol
A common pattern. I have wondered whether a service that had someone visit on a regular basis to do a house inspection would be feasible, it’s the motivational trigger for most people to clean. It’s either people visiting or a deadline approaching on another task you want to avoid.
Isn’t this dating with extra steps? lol
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I got asked in my elevator the other day “how long have you been here?” I replied “I moved to the building almost 6 years ago”.
They said: “no I mean in Australia”.
“…I was born here.”
I’m the whitest femme, so, so very white, almost entirely German, French, and English. I thought I sounded Australian. Now I’m questioning my accent.
Same question, similar deal. Not sure what it is
I have been asked this question so many times it’s become a meme amongst my friends. I was born in friggin burwood.
It’s a combination of preciser than aussie normal diction and a broader vocabulary.
I put my preciser diction down to a vast amount of BBC comedy as a kid. Goodies, Ronnies, Good Life, Are you being served Etc etc Gets stronger with a couple of drinks, don’t always realise I’m doing it
For me it was crossed teeth that meant wearing a plate through primary school, working very hard to overcome talking like thish and then five years of italian lmao
I’ve always put it down to the same thing, but I now think an autistic tendency to avoid abbreviations and idioms could also be a part of it.
A definite possibility also
Nope. Accent is well within the standard deviation for Aussie accents. The questioner is the one with the tin ear. And needs to learn some manners.
Having met you, my first impression was that you were a large black male from south Sudan. It took a while until i realized that wasn’t true
When I worked in bars I got asked where I was from all the time. Melbourne. I was born in Melbourne. I’ve lived ~three months in NZ, India, Amsterdam and Thailand. My grandparents are all from UK places that hate England. Well one gran was 5th gen Aussie from Ireland.
Welcome to my world lol
I kinda had this when Sydney had the Olympics. I was expected by tourists to be and speak Russian, Spanish, German and a bunch of other things. Nope! I can mangle a bit of some of the languages but really don’t think I especially look any of those things 🤷🏻♀️
Hearing his lordship putter in the brewery with his automated pot filler and the resulting massive hammer slam from the solenoid and ohhhh that’s what happened to the washing machine hoses…
